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BI200

What's New in

SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.0 for

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

Derek Wang, BI Platform, IDDC

October 2010

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Goal

What will you learn in this session

Major new capabilities in the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

platform

Key things to know for planning a successful deployment

How to leverage the platform capabilities to increase operation effectiveness

Other information of interest beyond this session

New capabilities in BI client tools

Lifecycle management in mixed SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

platform and SAP backend landscape

Event Insight

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Agenda

1. BI portal

2. Search

3. Alerting

4. Monitoring

5. Auditing

6. BI content lifecycle management

7. System upgrade

8. Right scale deployment

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Access to BI

BI content can be delivered to users via different channels

MobileMS OfficeDesktop WidgetWeb Browser

BI Launch

PadSharepoint

SAP

NetWeaver

Portal

Java Portal


BI Launch Pad

Intuitive web interface

Up and running out of the box

Next generation Infoview

The Business Intelligence launch pad allows users to find, access, manage

and work with BI efficiently and securely

Better user experience and optimized workflowReducing the time required to learn to use the tool and increasing user productivity

Easier administration and supportabilityDelivering BI content in a way tailored to the role of the business users

What’s New

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BI Launch Pad Usability Improvement

Home page widgets give

users easy access to the

most common features

Quick access to BI

applications and search

Recently viewed reports,

scheduled documents, alerts

notifications and more

Start location configurable

Bring Important

Information Forward

Quick access to

reports, dashboards

and applications


BI Launch Pad Usability Improvement (Cont.)

Schedule and Send to action

from document viewers

Ability to create new folder

on save

Clean up all documents in

Inbox in one click

Auto-refresh in history page

Reduce Manual Steps

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BI Launch Pad Usability Improvement (Cont.)

Multiple tabs allow opening

several documents at the

same time

Pinning keeps document

opened in a permanent tab

New layout saves more

screen real estate to BI

content

Access to More BI

Content Efficiently

Easier to work with

multiple documents at

the same time

Work with several

documents at the

same time


BI Launch Pad Customization

Custom home page

Preference set by user or

administrator

Role based personalization -

preference setting and custom

home page for user group

Application fine tuning with

property files – preserved

during maintenance

Customization and

Administration

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BI Launch Pad Deployment

Single WAR file

Smaller total footprint

Better performance

Consistent session management

Simpler patching

Application container

Java Application Servers

Web Application Container Service (WACS) in SAP BusinessObjects Business

Intelligence platform

URL

http://<server:port>/BOE/BI/

Customizable


WAR File Simplification

InfoViewApp.war

InfoViewAppActions.war

PlatformServices.war

CmcApp.war

CmcAppActions.war

CrystalReports.war

AnalyticalReporting.war

PerformanceManagement.war

Xcelsius.war

SAP BOE XI 3.1

Dswbobje.war

LCM.war

Oracle_auth.war

Peoplesoft_auth.war

Sap_auth.war

Siebel_auth.war

Jdedwards_auth.warAdd-ons

BOE.war

SAP BusinessObjects BI

Platform 4.0

Dswbobje.war

Infoview & CMC

Web Services Web Services

BI launch pad & CMC

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SAP NetWeaver Portal and Java Portal

Integration

SAP NetWeaver Portal : iView

Java portal servers : JSR168

Document listing portlet – enable

rapid deployment of BI frontend

application in portal

Feature parity with BI launch pad –

all BI contents, all actions

Document viewing portlet for building

custom portal application

Single Sign On

Portal Integration


SAP NetWeaver Portal and Java Portal

Integration Deployment

Web Browser

Portal Server BI Launch Pad

(BOE.war)

Portal deployment depends on BI launch pad

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Deployed as a SharePoint Site template IOMS provides instant access to content stored in

BusinessObjects from SharePoint

IOMS is the integration option for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform

& Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 64 bit

Integration Option for Microsoft Office

SharePoint Software (IOMS) Overview

IOMS allows users to search, manage, view and interact with BusinessObjects content from

the SharePoint environment

IOMS Includes webparts for extending other

SharePoint sites with BusinessObjects

reports, dashboards & more

* Not available at initial 4.0 release. Planned for enhancement release soon after.


Integrating into the SharePoint

Environment with IOMS

Multi-lingual Interface is driven

by users locale settings.

Ships with a starter home page

that can be quickly

customized by SharePoint

administrators

IOMS deploys as a SharePoint site providing instant access to BusinessObjects content from

SharePoint

These mockups only for the purposes of communicating the proposed future capabilities of IOMS 4.0. Final screens may vary.

Familiar SharePoint look, feel ,navigation,

menus and breadcrumbs

accelerate user adoption

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New enhanced search

engine

Search document attributes

and content

Unified and optimized

search UI in BI launch pad

Facetted navigation on

search results makes it

easy to filter and refine

results

Search Enhancements

Faster search on all

document attributes

Search

Refine search

result easily


Search Openness

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Repository

Microsoft SharePoint

BI Platform Search Java SDK

Open Search v1.1 API

BI Platform search (BI Platform) Search Service

BI Content 3rd Party Content BI Platform System Objects

CR WebI . . . PDF .DOC .XLS Discussions QAAWS ...

NetWeaver Enterprise Search

Google Search Appliance

OpenSearch API enables integration with other search systems

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Alerting

Goal: management by exception

Provide the right information at the right time

Reduce time spent on examining recurring reports that do

not convey new information

Alerting in 4.0

Unified and extendable alerting framework

Simple subscription based workflow eases user adoption

Notification email or message in BI launch pad

Alert generated by real time event (Event Insight) or scheduled data checking (BI

documents – Crystal Report in initial release)


Alerting Framework

Triggers of Alerts Reactions to Alerts and Events

Real time event (Event

Insight )

Data condition (processed by

BI document)

BOE schedule completion

ETL completion

System monitoring

Send notification message

Schedule report to run

Run custom application

SAP BusinessObjects

Business Intelligence

Platform Alerting

Framework

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Alert Subscription

Alert consumers

subscribe to alerts easily

All subscribed alerts

managed in one place

Administrators and power

users can also subscribe

for others

Consistent workflow for

any alert source

Alert Subscription


Monitoring Applications

System Heath

• Identifying anomalies

• Supporting maintenance

• System failure prevention

System Performance

• Work completion

• Average completion time

• System resource utilization

Rules and Alerts

• High availability

• Same day response

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Monitoring Capabilities

Server metric and probes

Custom probe

User defined watch

condition

Visualization Dashboard in

CMC

Alert email

Integration with SAP

Solution Manager, Tivoli,

and JMX compatible tools

Monitoring Capabilities


Auditing

Auditing Usage

Regulatory compliance

Risk management and internal control

Capacity planning and system maintenance

Complete and consistent

audit events

Simplified system wide

configuration

Auto purging of old data

Enhanced audit data store

schema simplifies

reporting and application

development

Auditing Enhancements

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BI Content Lifecycle Management

Lifecycle Management Console

replaces Import Wizard

Connection override in bulk

automatically

Version control, rollback

Scripting facility

Auditable

Integration to standard SAP LCM

tool for combined landscape, via

CTS+

LCM Enhancements

Test Production

LCM Job

version control

Lifecycle Management Console


System Upgrade

New optimized tool, easy of use

Combine the best of Import Wizard

and Database migration tool in

XI3.x

Big performance improvement over

Import Wizard

One click full upgrade or selective

incremental upgrade

Direct upgrade from XI R2 SP2 or

later, and from XI3.x

Upgrade Management Tool

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Upgrade

Management Tool

Database Copy Lifecycle

Management

Console

Federation

Upgrade Switch to another

RDBMS type

Promote BI contents

from test to production

Replicate contents to

remote site

Previous versions to

4.0

Same SAP

BusinessObjects BI

version

Same SAP

BusinessObjects BI

version

Same SAP

BusinessObjects BI

version

Repository Tools Comparison


Right Scale Deployment

Multilingual BI delivery

across geographic locations

Enhanced scalability with

virtualization and 64-bit

support

Continued heterogeneous

platform and database

support

Global Readiness

and Scalability

Servers and web application tier run on 64-bit operating systems only

Thick client tools run on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems

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Further Information

SAP Public Web:

SAP Developer Network (SDN): www.sdn.sap.com

SAP BusinessObjects Community (BOC): boc.sap.com

Related SAP Education and Certification Opportunities

http://www.sap.com/education/

Related Workshops/Lectures at SAP TechEd 2010

BI160, Hands-on Tour of the SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution [hands-on]

BI161, Leveraging SAP Crystal Reports with SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP

ERP [hands-on]

BI201, Best Practices and Methodologies for Upgrading SAP BusinessObjects

Enterprise to SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.0 [lecture]

BI203, How to Design and Deploy High Performing SAP BusinessObjects

Dashboard Design (Xcelsius) [lecture]


Further Information

Related Workshops/Lectures at SAP TechEd 2010

BI265, Best Practice for Using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence with

SAP NetWeaver BW, Today and Tomorrow [hands-on]

ALM108, How to Manage the Lifecycle of SAP BusinessObjects systems in

SAP Landscape [lecture]

ALM120, Efficient Monitoring of SAP Business Warehouse and SAP

BusinessObjects with SAP SolutionManager 7.1 [lecture]

ALM210, CTS: It’s One Tool to Control Your Changes [lecture]

PCM106, Event Insight: SAP’s First Complex Event Processing Engine for the

Business Users [lecture]

PCM164, Correlate Events and Create Business User Event Subscriptions

Using SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight [hands-on]

http://www.sdn.sap.com/

http://boc.sap.com/

http://www.sap.com/education/

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