BW Reporting Database in BW

Has anybody ever seen BW Functionality used to create an application which can then be used by business users to identify reports in BW, based on Input Parameters ( eg. Sales Org, Material, Division etc. ) and / or Key Figures ( eg. Shipment Value, Order Quantity etc. ) ?  In effect, a report detailing available reports.  Any insights would be appreciated !
Thanks

Hello ,
You want to store the report name are the Key Field to identify the reports and other Key Figures are Nav. Attribute. Hmm thinking beyond SAP, sounds very good.
First we cannot keep a Key Figure as a Nav attribute...but as per your requirement...
I just want to share my thoughts....
SAP has already provides various intergration to various 3rd part applications and tools such as BO, Ascential, Microsoft, Java so on and so forth.
Only thing is we need to use or customize its service as per our need.
In you case, we can develop a .Net application, even an web based to fullfill your requirement.
We need to design the DB so that the BW Report name will be the key identifier and Chars and Keyfigures are the table fields.
But its not possible to bring all the keyfigure in SAP, so we have to restrict it to the InfoProvider level.
So we can have all the InfoProviders queries (Can be a multiprovider also).
The structure would look somewhat like this,
PK              Field1 .....Field N
PRTID         CHARS  ... Keyfigures
The main thing is we need to identify the Intergration between these two system to have a communication framework, so as to exchange data.
This is just my view. As you said it requires lots of skill set
Anyway I will keep you posted with any new updates on this topic.
If someone has a view to share on this is always welcome.
Thanks
Chandran
Edited by: Chandran Ganesan on Feb 9, 2008 7:03 PM

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