Getting Started with Running Reports

dspMonitor™ is the analytical component of the DSP® that facilitates reporting on and maintaining high quality master data. dspMonitor™ is delivered with a set of over 500 reports to help clients report on the quality of their data in SAP and to find errors, inconsistencies and referential integrity issues in master data. In addition, dspMonitor™ supports the ability to add custom reports.

NOTE: SAP is a highly configurable application that is implemented in a unique manner for each client. To allow for the required flexibility, many of the reports are built upon configurable tables that must be maintained in order for the reports to run properly.

To get started with running reports in dspMonitor™, verify the following steps have been completed.

  1. Set up security to Collect and dspMonitor™.

  2. Create a database for the source. Refer to SQL Server documentation for detailed information.

  3. Create and register a report repository, which is referred to as a data source in Common, for the database. This step is performed by an Administrator.

  4. Create report view(s) in the database.

  5. Register the Report Repository in dspMonitor™.

  6. Set up group owners and user filters in dspMonitor™.

  7. If necessary, download the delivered .zip file for Information Steward registrations and load those into IS. Refer to SAP Information Steward Integration for detailed information.