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BI4.1 Value PropositionSAP BI GTM

August 15, 2014

Customer

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Market conditions and customer expectationsare changing rapidly

Volatility

Globalization

Cost conscious

New generation

The reality of the Internet of Everything

1 billion Facebook

users

4 billion YouTube views

per day

Data

doublesevery 18

months

15

billionweb-enabled

devices

5 billion in emerging

middle class

10%

75%

Use Analytics

Today

Need

Analytics

by 2020

Nucleus Research, Gartner, Fortune Magazine

Unlocking the value of Big Data

Ability to manage and

consume all data is getting

harder

Not utilizing all the

information out there

Not leveraging the power of

collective insight

Missing new insights

IT is not agile enough and

the business wants to get

involved

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Nucleus Research, Gartner, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Forrester

The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

Key Trends shaping the future of BI

33% 80%

of BI consumed on handhelds

in 2013

of information needs handled

by end users

$1

$10.66

Spent on BI Return

>10x ROI

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Top Reasons to upgrade to SAP BI 4.1

Enable Answers

on the Go

Deliver Trusted Data

Discovery to the Entire

Team

Get the most out of

your BI Solution

Analytics solutions from SAP

Agile

Visualization

Advanced

Analytics

Big Data

Mobile

Collaboration

Cloud

Enterprise

Business Intelligence

Value Drivers of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1

Native

SAP

HANA support

Designed to

support

futureinnovations

Mobile

UpgradeReady

Reduced

TCO

DeskICompatibility

Native

SAP

BW support

Focus on

Quality

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Native SAP HANA support

• Support of HANA by every BI Client of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Suite

• Platform Integration with Native HANA supported BI Clients as Design

Studio, Analysis Office and Lumira

• Combine SAP HANA data with any other data source using Multi Source

Universes

• No performance degradation


Mobile

• Embedded within installer & Central Management Console

• Support of ALL SAP BusinessObjects Client tools

• Integrated Explorer support including Exploration Views

• Support of SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server

• Support for every Web Application Server and OS as recorded in PAM for the

BI Platform

• Removal of legacy Third Party Communication Layer


Native SAP BW support

• SAP BW Business Intelligence Consumer Service (BICS) connection

embedded in BI Platform

• No need for BW JAVA deployment to SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Clients to

SAP BW

• Improved performance for reporting against BW*

• Query Stripping and Auto Refresh by BI CLients

* Depending on BW Version


Reduced TCO

• Available as Cloud Deployment in public and private cloud options

• Ability to generate Multi Source Universes

• Leverage any investment made in SAP BW for reporting by BI4.1

• Backup without Down Time

• Embedded Monitoring Functionality including integration to SAP Solution Manager, IBM Tivoli

and JMX clients

• Embedded Promotion Management

• Improved Auditing Engine

• Enabled for parallel patching and on-going improvements for Near Zero Downtime

• Support of ALL SAP BI Clients in a single platform

• Enablement of Self Service Support


Designed to support future innovations

* planned

• 64 Bits Server Architecture to support modern Hardware

• Building up for Near Zero Downtime

• Full support for Virtualization

• Platform Integration with Analysis Office, Design Studio, Lumira* and LumiraServer*

• Support for Big Data sources as Hadoop Hive and Amazon EMR

• HTML 5 Clients and Mobile Content

• Common (extendable) Chart Engine for BI Clients

• Universe Support for the Latest and New Databases


Focus on Quality

• BI4.1 is better in quality compared to XI3.1

• Complete new Quality Process to ensure quality driven development and

software delivery

• Ramp Up Target completion within 4 months

• Best Practices Solutions Embedded

Customer FeedbackFedEx: "in the 15-yrs I’ve worked with BOBJ -- 4.1 is the best code

release ever”…


Upgrade Ready

• Upgrade Management Tool is a dedicated product to upgrade XIR2 and XI3x

content to BI4.1

• Improved upgrade performance

• Support for Incremental* and Full upgrades

• Available as Command Line or by GUI*

* Windows Only


Desktop Intelligence Compatibility

• Ability to upgrade Desktop Intelligence Documents into BI4.1 CMS

• Ability to manage and secure Desktop Intelligence Documents in BI4.1

Central Management Console

• Ability to connect Desktop Intelligence Client to BI4.1 CMS*

• Improved Report Conversion Tool for higher conversion success

* As of XI3.1 SP6 Fixpack 6.1

Customer FeedbackArun District Council: “DeskI compatibility is exactly what we needed. It

worked nicely”…


BI Innovation Value Calculator

Calculate your own Return on Investment when using SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1

SAP BI Innovation Value Calculation

http://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2013_09_bi_innovation/BI_InnovationValueCalc.html

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Completeend-to-end analytics

solution

#1 leader in analytics*

65,000+analytics customers

7,000+ partners with proven

track record of success

The SAP Difference


Key Links

sap.com/upgradebi

sap.com/learnbi

sap.com/bivirtualization

sap.com/bisizing

service.sap.com/roadmap

How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment

SAP’s Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI

http://sap.com/upgradebi

http://sap.com/LearnBI

http://sap.com/bivirtualization

http://sap.com/bisizing

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981

http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/2011/07/27/demystifying-standard-sap-support-for-major-releases-of-sap-businessobjects-bi/


Where to get these slides?

The slides are publicly available on the SAP Community Network (SCN)

BI4.1 Value Proposition Level 0 : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55412




