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Web Intelligence 4.0 FP3 What’s new? Gregory Botticchio / Solution Management, Web Intelligence
January 2012
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Agenda
Product description
What’s new ?
Quality, Usability and Stability Improvements
Hierarchies and BW integration
Charts improvements
Interoperability, security and integration
Product description Positioning Web Intelligence in BI Suite
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Web Intelligence in the Suite
Dashboards
Reporting
OLAP
Analysis Data
Exploration
How do I visualize
key performance
indicators for
better decision
making?
How do I answer
ad hoc questions
and interact with
shared
information?
How do I find
immediate
answers to
business
questions?
How do I uncover
trends from
historical data and
make possible
better forecasts?
How do I turn data
into pixel-perfect
formatted reports
for greater
insight?
Web
Intelligence
Self-service interactive
reporting product
• Intuitive, easy to use for
business users and
information consumers
• All in one, with wide
coverage of use cases
• Any data sources &
combined data sources
• Share trusted insights
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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Product description
With SAP® BusinessObjects™ Web Intelligence® software, companies can perform sophisticated ad hoc
reporting and analysis. Powerful functionality and an intuitive user interface enable your people to turn data
into insights, improve decision making and productivity, and share knowledge across the enterprise.
Access to heterogeneous data sources
Combine multiple data sources within a report
Flexibility and control
Create new reports or modify existing reports
Interactive and intuitive interface
Use the organized toolbar, menus, drag-and-drop features,
and charting options
Online and offline reporting and analysis
Ask questions, analyze data, and identify trends no matter
where you are
Consistent, familiar metadata
Leverage semantic layer and common business terms
View definitions of document filters, report objects,
variables, and formulas and keep track of data modifications
Leverage reports in BI Mobile
What’s new? New features in 4.0 Feature Pack 3
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Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Quality, Usability and Stability Improvements
PLANNED INNOVATIONS
Continuous improvement is our first focus. This deals with global application stability, performance
enhacements for most used interactions and, customizable document style to avoid formatting each report
elements individually.
Application performance
Reduced delay after each modification done in the report
Reduction of server CPU load
Better perception of fluidity; especially on big documents
Rich Client quick launch
Keep application loaded after last document closed
Reduce launch when reopening a document.
Report Style Management (CSS)
Import/Export of a WebI cascading style sheet file
Reset to the default style supposed to define the
company’s corporate style
Available on Rich Client and Applet only
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Rich Client quick launch
Goal: reduce time to open WRC
WRC Quick Launch, adds a new icon in the system tray
Basic menu interactions possible : New Window / Quit
When closing all WRC Windows/documents, then the application continues to run in
background, unless the user specifically ask for its closure
Then when opening a new wid from file, or asking for a new window, the response is
immediate with absolutely no delay
Note : User session is kept when closing the window. Only closing the application discards user session What it means?
Once authenticated to the CMS, user can close the WRC Window, he will still use the enterprise session next time he wants to open a document from the CMS – until session timeout
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Report Style Management (CSS)
Easily defined your Corporate
report formatting
Clear the formatting already applied
Import/Export the Cascading Style
sheet
Modify the Cascading Style Sheet
Can be promoted to all end-users
Available in Rich Client or
applet
In the document property dialog box,
select “Change Default Style”
Then import/Export or reset the CSS
Note : Default CSS can also be set for all reports on the server
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Other enhancements
Simplified Sorting
Apply directly a Sort to a Dimension or Measure
Access the Sorts without having to select the “Manage Sorts” option
Available for Table and Charts
Complex Sorting is managed via “Manage Sorts”
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Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Hierarchies and BW integration
PLANNED INNOVATIONS
Hierarchies are now supported in the all workflows : from interactive input, navigation to display. This allows
also to better support OLAP data sources & BW integration.
Supports of Hierarchies
Member selection based on levels
Input Controls on Hierarchy
Charts with hierarchical dimensions
Drill Up, Drill Down, Expand, Collapse, Show/Hide
parents on Charts
Additional BW Integration
Scaling Factor: Expose scale factor value as a key figure
attribute
Prompt on Hierarchy
Select Europe to drill down
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Supports of Hierarchies
Enhancement in the member selector dialog box of the query panel
Select all the members by name or by level
Implicit member selection from a node until a specified depth
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Supports of Hierarchies
Input Controls on Hierarchy
(1/2)
UNX OLAP or BICS
Type simple or multiple
selections
Used to apply a filter operator
« Equal To » or « Not Equal
To » to a report element
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Supports of Hierarchies
Input Controls on Hierarchy
(2/2)
Presentation in tree list instead of
flat list like with report filter in Filter
bar
User can see selected member by
clicking « Selection »
Keys can be displayed after display
values
After checking items of the tree list,
user must validate by clicking
« OK »
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Supports of Hierarchies
Charts with hierarchical
dimensions :
BICS or OLAP UNX
Hierarchical labels in category
axis for most charts
Hierarchical navigation
Based on contextual menu
Expand or Collapse
All/Children/Descendant
Drill Focus down/up
In contextual menu
Drill focus down with simple
click on chart element or label
when a sub level exist
Drill Focus up otherwise
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Additional BW Integration
Bex Scaling Factor Support:
• Expose scale factor value as a
key figure attribute
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Additional BW Integration
“Merge dimension” by details
Zero suppression (not specific to BEx queries)
Prompts on member selection
Disable member selection when Hierarchy Node variable exists to prevent data
inconsistency
Prefix Key and Name attributes with parent name
Hierarchy variable exists: remove hierarchies from query panel other than default hierarchy
Enhance change source from a OLAP BW universe (UNV) to BICS – Enable free mapping between source universe (UNV) objects and target BEx objects
– Some mapping constraints are maintained: filters from source can only map to filters in the target
source
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Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Charts improvements
PLANNED INNOVATIONS
Chart improvements are done in all directions: extension of the library, ease of reading (same colors
through sections) and ease of customization.
Color Assignment of series
Apply a color using the Toolbox to the selected series
Series colors are synchronized through all sections
SAP standard palette
Enhanced chart library: Waterfall
Flat vs. hierarchical Waterfall
Options to display totals
Chart Edition
Selectable Areas for direct formatting in toolbars
Contextual toolbar enhancements
Improved Sorting Context Menu
Fig 2. Waterfall chart
Fig 1. After setting a color palette, changing High priority to red. Applied to all pies.
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Color assignment of series
Better Color Management
Color Synchronization across sections
Color can be chosen by the user to a legend item
Color is maintained during “turn into” operations between charts with equivalent data assignment
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Enhanced chart library: Waterfall
New Waterfall Chart
Simple Waterfall chart
Hierarchical Waterfall, with Treenodes and intermediate or final totals
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Chart Edition
Zone Formatting
All the zone composing a chart can be formatted individually
Note : DHTML Limitation no series selection feedback, Formatting chart areas using the toolbox
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Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Interoperability, security and integration
PLANNED INNOVATIONS
In 4.1, the Web Intelligence DHTML closes the previously 4.0 gap with the applet and Rich Client by
providing the ability to create documents and add or edit queries
Query panel on DHTML
Query panel for UNV and UNX
SharePoint Integration
Publishing
Integration and Security
New export format “save as txt”
SEC 144 security standard
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Query panel on DHTML
DHTML Query Panel
100% HTML, no download
UNV & UNX universes
No BEx support yet
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Integration and Security Find locally critical info stored in wid and unv/x
Critical Security Issue Solved with SEC144
Context
Web Intelligence Rich Client (WRC) = Desktop tool, storing resources locally (wid, unv & unx)
WID & UNV contain DB connexion string, login & pass
Critical Weakness usable to hackers
Architecture Change in 4.0 Feature Pack3
Wid & Unv do not contain critical info anymore (Only a connection id)
Access to database is delegated silently to the server backend
WRC only receives a dataset from backend, without seeing critical info at anytime
The delegated refresh is triggered by a new security right added at connection Object Level
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Thank You!
Contact information:
Gregory Botticchio
Solution Management / Web Intelligence