Why Exporting still Matters in the Digital Office

The modern digital office is paperless. Data can be better and more flexibly organized, structured, analysed and consumed when it is presented in an intuitive app than printed on paper.

We all agree on that. But there are two mistakes that are often made when it comes to exporting:

Export = Printing

Export is not just printing! You may want to store an analysis track in a PDF to share with your colleagues or store on your disk for later reference. You may also be obliged to store signed PDFs to document projects for the authorities. You may frequently create presentations (PowerPoint), briefing books (Word) or lists (Excel) with tables and charts based on data from your BI systems.

Conclusion:

Even in the paperless office you need an export function from your (BI) applications!

Export is simple and always the same

You may be tempted to say exporting data is no big deal. You just want to export what you see on your screen.

Are you really sure? At bi excellence we have 8 years of experience with exporting from SAP systems.

What we have learned? Each customer, each department, each user has his own requirements on exports – and most of the time, it is based on what they see on the screen, but different: Exclude content from the export, add information, add a logo, export in a template with the corporate design, delete scrollbars to show whole table contents, add the layout of the table!

Conclusion:

As export requirements are plenty, the best solution is an export toolset!

How we can help

With the 8 years of experience that we have here at bi excellence in the field of analytics and exporting, we are very aware of this fact. This is why exporting a data view to other formats in an awesome fashion is an integrated part of our open bi framework.

Moreover, the export toolset is so flexible, that it can also help you to export from SAP ABAP / Web Dynpro / BSP, SAP BW, SAP DesignStudio or any other HTML source!/p>