Information Broadcasting - need for additional Licensing?

One of the key features that is prompting us to upgrade to BW 3.5 later this year is the Information Broadcasting functionality.
This will allow us to easily push reports directly to our user base rather than the traditional method of manually emailing workbooks. However will this generate a need for additional licences? From the testing we have performed so far in order to broadcast a report the receiving user needs to have an account in BW together with the email in the address book.
We will have a considerable number of users whose only interaction with BW will be to receive a report that has been broadcasted. Does anyone have any experience of this same issue?
any help/advice appreciated.
thanks
Mike

Hello Michael,
One possibility is to create an email alias that is a distribution list of the users that you want to broadcast to. Create a broadcast setting, in step 2 of the broadcaster wizard specify the distribution list. You shouldn't need to create SAP logon IDs for these users.
I hope that this helps.
Cheers,
Scott

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Hi,
I'm on BW 3.5 and have created a scheduled Information Broadcasting setting for a query, that is emailed. This has been working fine for some weeks.
I have now changed the query, removing two key figures and replacing them with two formulas.
The output from Information Broadcasting does not show the new key figures, nor does it show the old key figures (!). I have maintained the IB setting, edited text in the message and saved it. The text has changed, but not the query content.
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Hi
I have a workbook with one query which displays different information on two tabs. This query has a controllable variable (customer exit) on "Material" from a query in another info cube.
Everthing is fine when you execute the workbook as you can select the variable from another info cube. However, when I set up information broadcaster job for this workbook, the controllable variable only takes effect on the report in one tab and runs for everying for the report on the other tab.
I tried to change the query slighly but keeping the same controllable variable and insert the new query into the other tab, it still doesn't work for me.
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When we are trying to change the Information Broadcasting settings for some queries. We are not able to edit the existing settings as the message pops up saying system is not ready for change and asking us for the modifiable system. Is it possible to change the information broadcasting settings with out making the system modifiable?.
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In which system you are trying to do this?
I understand in DEV system, there should not be any problem of doing the system modifiable and then do the Broadcasting setting and then transport it to Qly and Prod.
However Qly and Prod system are not supposed to be modifiable.
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Information Broadcasting Authorization at Query Level

Hi,
I would like to know, is there any way to authorized a user at query level in information broadcasting?
For example, there are three plant P1,P2 and P3 showing in Query, now i want to broadcast this query to E-mail to two user U1 and U2 in following manner.
1.) User U1 get only Plant P1 Data.
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Yes, you can do that. For that;
Plant should be authorization relevant info object
(ii) you must have roles to give access to users at Plant level
(iii) Users U1 and U2 must be SAP user IDs and should have required role for Plant access
(iv) Query to be broadcasted must have auhtorization variable for Plant
Once the basic setup is ready, you can test it by executing the report for individual users U1 and U2 and they should see data only for respective Plants.
Now in the broadcasting setting, specify the users U1 and U2 in User box seperated by semi-colon and tick the checkbox "User Specific" - this will make sure that data is executed as per the data aurthoziation and also format will be selected as per the user profile (date format etc).
If U1 and U2 are not the SAP users, you will have give their email addresses and will have to create two different broadcast settings to send data for selection plants.
I hope it helps.
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Can you please explaint the problem/requirement in detail again?
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If you don't want to display the footers in the broadcasted email then you can hide or remove it with settings. Please follow the below path and select for no footer.
SPRO -> SAP Reference IMG -> SAP Netweaver -> Business Intelligence -> Setting for Reporting and analysis->Settings for Information Broadcasting-> Settings for Distributing E-Mails.
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Hi,
In Information Broadcasting, it only showing two Distribution type one is Broadcast By Email and another is Broadcast to portal, How can i enable all information Broadcasting function for example Broadcast according to exception, Alert, etc.
is it require any setting or path or note?
Edited by: ravisinha95 on Aug 21, 2011 7:38 PM

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There is no separete license required for BEx Broadcasting.
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Check OSS note :760775 - Settings for Information broadcaster (BW 3.5 Version)
Check the attachment in the OSS note 917950 - BI 7.0.
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Our customer is interested in installing the Information Broadcasting feature in their BW system. The BW version they have is SAP BW 3.5, data is fetched from different Legacy systems into the BW systems. No R3 is involved.
We are in the process of preparing the Requirement documents for installing the Information Broadcasting. What are all the information do we need to get from the customer? What are all the questions do we need to ask them?
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Would you please assist me to know all required components needed to get Bex Broadcaster via Bex analyser. I need to assist my system admin to get this.
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Patch level - 5
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BI Add on 7.X(based on 7.10)
Support Package 10
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The Precalc server is only needed if you want to use Information Broacasting to create and distribute Excel workbooks.
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Just found on SDN (http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/7c2a7c65-0901-0010-5e8c-be0ad9c05a31?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true#q-13)
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Simply speaking, the Open Hub license is an alternative to the user-specific license. If you extract data from your SAP NetWeaver BI to a non-SAP system, you have to license this scenario - no matter which tool use for the extraction, e.g. Open Hub Destination, listcube, any BI API, Analysis Process Designer or Excel download. Note that a licensed BI user may download to Excel for her/his own analysis purposes without any further license costs. Distributing Excel workbooks to non-SAP BI users for personal reporting purposes requires Information Broadcasting license, not Open Hub license.
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To my mind, the sentence "Distributing Excel workbooks to non-SAP BI users for personal reporting purposes requires Information Broadcasting license" refers to using BEx Broadcaster, which is distributing periodically precalculated reports to end users by email, for instance.
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Please refer to following links these may b helpful for setting IB
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Also Note 917950 - SAP NetWeaver 2004s: Setting Up BEx Web
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Sonal.....
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