SAP BI Technology UpdateFebvruary 2015

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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 – Technology Platform

EnterprisePortals

Microsoft Office

On Demand Services

BrowsersMobile Devices

ERPSAP Business Suite

Oracle E-Business Suite

PeopleSoft

JD Edwards

Unstructured data in

Social Media and

Hadoop

OLAP Cubes

Embedded Content

Microsoft

ExcelOracle, IBM DB2,

Microsoft SQL Server

and other relational data

sources

Universe Semantic Layer

Business Intelligence Platform

EDWSAP NetWeaver BW

Teradata

Other data warehouses

SAP HANA Platform

Self-Service Dashboards and apps Reporting

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• Multi-Source Universe (unx)

• Information Design Tool

• Hierarchical Prompts, LOVs, etc

• Multi-user Support

• Solution Manager Integration

• Identity Manager Integration

• CTS Integration

• Native BICS Access to BW

• Single BI Infrastructure

• Copy & Paste!

• Simplified UI

• Charting Engine

• Native SAP Connectivity

• Consume Analysis View

• Legacy DeskI Features

• Exploration Views

• Improved UI

• Create Measures

• Support for HANA

• 64 bit, No 2 Gig limits

• Real-time Monitoring

• Alerts, Probes, Watches

• Third Party Integration

(Wiley Interscope, etc)

• BI Launchpad

• Multi-Tab View

• BI Workspaces

• iOMS for Sharepoint

• Support for iPhone, iPad

• BusinessObjects

Mobile App (WebI, CR)

• Explorer, Exploration Views

• Augmented Reality

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0

Summary of new features

• Crystal Reports

for Enterprise

• Universe & BW

Connectivity

• Usability &

Charting

• Embedded Universe (unx)

• HTML5 Support

• Design + Content = 1 File

• Design Studio for SAP BW

• Data Visualization

• Connect, Visualize, Share

• Trellis Charting

• Publish to HANA

• Publish to Explorer

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• SUP 2.2 & SUP cloud support

• QR Code & Barcode Scan Support

• Android for WebI & Dashboards

• Single Sign-on

• Automatic universe generation

on HANA views

• RESTful Services, SL

Authoring, WebI,

Mobile, Mobile

Dashboards, etc.

• Offline mobile

and desktop

dashboards

• More visualizations

• Simplified deployment

and migration tools

• More Multi-tenancy

features

• RTL in CR, WebI,

Launchpad & Mobile

• Oracle Exadata,

Oracle OLAP, Oracle

Essbase, Hadoop on

Amazon Elastic

MapReduce, Teradata

14, Teradata OLAP,

OData, XML, Web

Services

• Variable Variant

Support (A OLAP,

Design Studio)

• Publishing (A Office)

• Convert analysis to

Mobile (A OLAP, A

Office)

• Combine Universes

with BEx Queries to

abstract the field

names

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1Summary of new featuresSAP BusinessObjects 4.1Summary of new features

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SAP BusinessObjects Business IntelligenceOne unified and complete BI Suite addressing the full spectrum of BI

Self-Service

Discover areas to optimize your

business

Adapt data to business needs

Tell your story with beautiful

visualizations

Discover. Predict. Create.

Dashboards and apps

Deliver engaging information to

users where they need it

Track key performance indicators

and summary data

Build custom experiences so users

get what they need quickly

Build engaging experiences

Reporting

Securely distribute information

across your organization

Give users the ability to ask and

answer their own questions

Build printable reports for

operational efficiency

Share information

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SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerEnable business users to quickly access information on their own

Provide business users with a simple experience to independently ask and answer

business questions on the fly

Quickly and easily explore your data

using search

Easily visualize your data

Geographic and Time awareness

Build simple, interactive “dashboard”

views (Exploration views)

Mobile ready

Overview

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Predictive Analysisto gain an extremely deep understanding of your business

Provide Business Analysts with sophisticated algorithms to take the next step in

understanding their business and modeling outcomes.

Perform statistical analysis on your data

to understand trends and detect outliers

in your business

Build models and apply to scenarios to

forecast potential future outcomes

Breadth of connectivity to access almost

any data

Optimized for SAP HANA to support

huge data volumes and in-memory

processing

Overview

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Information Design Tool4.x Universe Designer

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Desktop Intelligence Compatibility

Scope

Consumption of DeskI content in BI 4.1

using DeskI 3.1 client

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1

SP6 FP6.1 will provide the DeskI client

the capability to connect to a BI 4.1 CMS

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1

EoL timelines are still applicable on

Desktop Intelligence

Key Benefits

Important and critical DeskI documents

can be stored in BI 4.1

Customers gain additional time to

convert DeskI documents while on BI

4.1

Reduced TCO, as customers can retire

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1

completely

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Desktop IntelligenceSAP Community Network (SCN)

http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-bi-legacy-products/desktop-intelligence

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Desktop IntelligenceConverting Deski to Webi

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41571

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Desktop IntelligenceReport Conversion Paths

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41571

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Desktop IntelligenceDeski-Webi Feature Comparison

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Conversion+from+Desktop+Intelligence+to+Web+Intelligence

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Esri Mapping Integration for Webi and DashboardsGaligeo

http://www.galigeo.com/products-overview/location-intelligence-products/sap-business-objects/

http://www.galigeo.com/learning-center/demo/

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Webi Cmaps IntegrationCentigon Solutions

http://centigonknowledge.com/tutorial/configuring-cmapsextensionv2//

SAP BI Demonstration

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Upgrade Resourceswww.sapbusinessobjectsbi.com

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SAP BI Online Tutorialshttp://www.sap.com/LearnBI

Questions?David Bargh