SAP BusinessObjects BI Clients

(1)

Use this title slide only with an image

SAP BusinessObjects BI Clients

April 2015

^Customer

(2)

BI Use Cases

High Level View

Interoperability

Sharing

Security

Scalability

Agility

Standards

Analyze and visualize data from multiple sources Data analysis and visualization in Microsoft Excel

Self Service exploration and analysis of corporate data

Self service composable dashboards

Interactive BI applications with a highly visual, interactive user experience Interactive, professionally authored dashboards for executive consumption

Self service query and reporting

Publish reports to a dynamic list of recipients

Highly formatted reports like invoices, purchase orders

Data Discovery

Dashboards and Apps

Reporting

(3)

Dashboards

and Apps Reporting

SAP Analytics Solutions

Optimized for Different Use Cases, Yet Interoperable

Agile Visualization

§  Where there is a significant complexity to the BI content

§  Standardized formats, sophisticated design, complex data mashups, or high levels of governance.

§  Separates the creation environment from the consumption environment.

§  Not a product, but a way of working with software

§  Business user, analyst, or executive answering their own questions

§  Mobile or web based self service

§  Combines the creation and consumption environment into a single seamless experience Data

Discovery

Self Service

Professionally Authored

Self Service

Interoperability

(4)

Data Discovery

(5)

Data Discovery

Mashup, Explore, and Analyze

Agility for business analysts and users

§  Access, cleanse, and combine data from multiple sources

§  Discover patterns, trends and outliers

§  Tell your story with visualizations and analytics

§  Answer any business question from a browser or mobile device

§  Optionally provide a layer of security and governance for added trust

Portfolio

§  SAP Lumira™

§  SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

§  SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

*SAP Predictive Analysis details are part of Advanced Analytics

(6)

Data Discovery by Persona

§  Data acquisition and mashups from multiple heterogeneous sources

§  Supports Universe semantic layer and SAP Business Suite

§  Data preparation and manipulation – cleansing and grouping.

§  Data exploration, rich visualizations, storytelling, infographics

§  Desktop, Web, Cloud, and mobile deployments

§  Data acquisition from HANA and BW

§  Data mashups via BW Workspaces (requires BW 7.3+ on HANA)

§  Excel based visualizations

§  Rich hierarchical data functionality. Full access to all BW metadata.

§  Excel and PowerPoint Add in

§  Data acquisition from HANA, BW, MS Analysis Services, Oracle OLAP, Essbase

§  Rich hierarchical data functionality

§  Web based deployment

§  Simple, consistent UI

§  Enables broad based data access with little training

§  Exploration views enables self-service dashboards

More Capability

D eci si on Ma ke r An al yst SAP Lumira

Analysis for Office

Analysis for OLAP

Explorer

(7)

Data Discovery Solutions – Data Access Matrix

As of Lumira 1.23, Analysis OLAP in BI 4.1, Analysis Office 2.0, Explorer in BI 4.1

BW Access

Data Preparation

Universe Access

Mashup Flattened BW

Data with Other Data

Access Flattened

BW Data

Access BW Data Hierarchically

Mashup Hierarchical BW

Data using BW Workspaces

SAP HANA

Essbase, MS Analysis

Services, Oracle OLAP SAP

Lumira

Desktop

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

SAP Lumira Server

Browser

✔

^{View only}

✔

Analysis OLAP

Browser

✔ ✔ ✔

Analysis Office

Excel and PowerPoint Addin

✔ ✔ ✔

Explorer Browser via

Flash

✔ ✔ ✔

For additional details and limitations on BW data access by client, see https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1869560

(8)

Analyze and Visualize Data from Multiple Sources

SAP Lumira, Desktop edition

Accelerate your analysis by visualizing all your data to tell a compelling story

  Download and install on your desktop in less than 5 minutes

  Access data, combine it with other datasets, cleanse and enrich the data.

  Create visualizations from the standard graphs, or use the D3 engine to invent new visualizations

  Combine visualizations into simple dashboards or infographics

  Share with others in your team or organization

  When combined with the BI Platform, secure specific data sources to certain individuals for Trusted Data Discovery.

Overview

(9)

Analyze and Visualize Data from Multiple Sources

SAP Lumira Server

Share, secure, and modify Lumira visualizations and stories.

Applies to Lumira Server for BI Platform, Lumira Server for HANA, and Lumira Server for Teams

  Browser based access to existing Lumira visualizations and storyboards.

  Create new visualizations and storyboards from existing Lumira data.

  Supports any deployment model:

n  SAP HANA deployments

n  Integrated into SAP BuisnessObjects BI Platform

n  Standalone, unintegrated with SAP HANA or the BI Platform

Overview

(10)

Data Analysis and Visualization in Microsoft Office

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

§  For multi-dimensional analysis scenarios

§  Leverage your existing OLAP investments with support for BW, HANA

§  Integrates with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

§  Create compelling Excel based analytic applications

§  Create data ‘sandboxes’ when used with BW Workspaces

§  Instantly create Design Studio applications for broad distribution

§  Premium alternative for BEx Analyzer customers

Overview

Enable Business Analysts to analyze multidimensional BW and HANA data in Excel and PowerPoint

(11)

Explore and Analyze Corporate Data

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP

§  For multi-dimensional analysis scenarios

§  Leverage your existing OLAP investments with

support for BW, HANA, Essbase, Analysis Services, and other OLAP sources

§  Fast to rollout with browser based interface

§  Instantly create Design Studio applications for broad distribution

§  Premium alternative for Bex Analyzer customers

Overview

Enable Business Analysts to analyze and visualize OLAP data over the web

(12)

Explore and Analyze Corporate Data

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Provide business users with a simple experience to ask and answer business questions on the fly

§  Little to no end user training

§  Easy to setup – nothing to author other than a thin semantic layer

§  Quickly and easily explore your data using search

§  Easily visualize your data

§  Geographic and Time awareness

§  Build simple, interactive views (Exploration views)

§  Mobile ready

Overview

(13)

Dashboards and Analytic Apps

(14)

Dashboards and Analytic Applications

Build Engaging Experiences

Build engaging, visual dashboards and analytic applications

§  Build interactive and visually appealing analytics

§  Have IT author the application, or empower the business to compose their own dashboards from prebuilt components

Portfolio

§  SAP Design Studio

§  SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

(15)

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

for building analytic applications on Universes, BW and HANA

  Supports Universe data sources, BW, and HANA

  Empower end users to compose their own dashboards

  Create input-enabled planning applications against BW- IP or the BPC Embedded model

  Native support for virtually all BW metadata types

  Deploy Design Studio dashboards to all 3 platforms: BI Platform, BW, and HANA

Overview

Build Analytic Applications, professionally authored dashboards, planning applications, and self-service composable dashboards

(16)

Enable End Users To Create Their Own Composite Dashboards

SAP Design Studio

Application designers determine the degree of

re-use of individual components

Users are empowered to create and recreate

their own composable dashboards

Agility benefit: End users can quickly create the

dashboard layout they want.

Governance benefit: IT provides reusable,

trusted dashboard components.

Smart Object Gallery

(17)

Build Interactive Dashboards and Analytic Applications

SAP Design Studio

When used with the BPC Embedded

Model, Design Studio can be used to

build comprehensive input-ready

planning applications

Individual values can be locked while

building a plan for other values.

(18)

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

for building custom dashboards on any data

  Build rich, interactive dashboards and visualizations

  Broad visualization library to support KPIs and executive dashboards

  Leverage Universe semantic layer

  Recommended for use on 3^rd party data sources

Overview

Provides a rich set of visualizations and controls to build highly interactive dashboards on third-party data sources

(19)

Guidance for Dashboard Projects

Customers using SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP HANA as a data source should adopt SAP Design

Studio as their primary tool for creating dashboards and applications, for both Web and mobile

deployment.

Existing customers of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards should continue with Dashboards and

leverage the HTML5 functionality for mobile dashboards.

Customers starting a new project on any data source should strongly consider building new

dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio.

See SAP’s analytics blog for more detail on our dashboarding strategy and direction

(20)

Reporting

(21)

Reporting

Create, Format, and Distribute Information

High productivity design for report designers

§  Quickly build formatted reports on any data source

§  Securely distribute reports both internally and externally

§  Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users to easily create and modify their own reports

§  Enhance custom applications with embedded reports

Portfolio

§  SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®

§  SAP Crystal Reports

(22)

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

for self-service query and reporting

§  Market leading solution to enable business

users to create and modify their own reports.

§  Support for the multi-source Universe

semantic layer brings together different

sources of information – without having to

know the DB structure or SQL

§  Content accessible from anywhere: Mobile,

Web, Desktop

Overview

Quickly build ad-hoc queries and reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data structure

(23)

SAP Crystal Reports

for formatted reports

§  Access nearly any data source directly or

via the Universe semantic layer

§  Create invoices, purchase orders, receipts

§  Create data-driven publications to burst

personalized report books to internal and

external users

§  Content accessible from anywhere:

Mobile, Web, Desktop

§  Embeddable into custom applications

Overview

Build pixel-perfect formatted reports for printing and operational reporting

(24)

Landscape Guidance

(25)

SAP Analytics Solutions

For Specific Personas

Reporting

Data Discovery Dashboards and

Apps Reporting

A n al ys t Designer

(26)

SAP Analytics Solutions

For Third Party Data Sources

Reporting

Data Discovery Dashboards and

Apps Reporting

Professionally Authored

Self Service

Design Studio

Dashboards

Lumira

Analysis for OLAP

Explorer

Lumira

¹

Explorer

²

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

A n al ys t Designer

(27)

SAP Analytics Solutions

For SAP BW

Reporting

Data Discovery Dashboards and

Apps Reporting

Professionally Authored

Self Service

Design Studio

Lumira

Analysis Office

Analysis for OLAP

Explorer

Lumira

¹

Explorer

²

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

A n al ys t Designer

1)  Lumira Edge, Lumira Server or Lumira Cloud

2)  Exploration Views

(28)

SAP Analytics Solutions

For SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA Integration

Reporting

Data Discovery Dashboards and

Apps Reporting

Professionally Authored

Self Service

Design Studio

Lumira

Analysis Office

Analysis for OLAP

Explorer

²

Lumira

¹

Explorer

²

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

A n al ys t Designer

(29)

Interoperability

(30)

Overview of Interoperability in the BI Suite

The Importance of Interoperability

It enables a persona switch – insights created by analysts can be broadly distributed in reports,

dashboards, and analytic applications

It creates leverage – analysis clients are often too complex for casual users. However t

There are 4 Primary Ways of Creating Interoperability In the BI Suite

Direct Export from Analysis Office, Analysis OLAP to Design Studio

Interoperability using Analysis Views

Integration using OpenDoc formatted hyperlinks

Using the Report to Report Interface to integrate with SAP applications

(31)

Interoperability in the BI Suite

Direct Export from Analysis Office, Analysis OLAP to Design Studio

Analysis Office Workbooks and Analysis OLAP Workspaces can be exported to equivalent

Design Studio applications.

These are automatically generated applications which can be further edited by a designer for

broad deployment.

This technique allows the insights of a few analysts to be broadly shared and secured.

Analysis OLAP to

Design Studio

(32)

Interoperability in the BI Suite

Analysis Views

Data

Discovery

Dashboards

and Apps

Reporting

Analysis OLAP Analysis Office

Crystal Reports Web Intelligence

Analysis Views are saved navigation states of analyses, including filters, hierarchies, and available metadata.

It represents the data definition, not how it is visualized.

1. 

Create an Analysis View in Analysis OLAP or Office

2. 

Open an Analysis View in Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Analysis OLAP, Analysis Office

Open Analysis Views in Crystal Reports & Web

Intelligence

Create

and Open

Analysis

View

(33)

Interoperability in the BI Suite

OpenDocument links

OpenDocument formatted links pass context as parameters to other BI Platform documents:

• 

Enables drilling down from summary level dashboards to report level detail

• 

Or drill-across from one dashboard to another

• 

Any BI Platform document can be a source and target for an OpenDocument link

Drill down to a

report

(34)

Interoperability in the BI Suite

Taking Action on Insights

The report says that inventory is low.. Now what?

Use the Report to Report Interface to jump directly

to a SAP transaction to order new inventory.

Other jump destinations include:

  SAP Queries

  Transactions

  Reports

  Applications

  Web Addresses

The target action can be parameterized using the

cell you’re jumping from to maintain context

Jump to a SAP

transaction

(35)

Resources

(36)

Key Links

sapbusinessobjectsbi.com

Getting started with SAP BI

sap.com/upgradebi

sap.com/learnbi

sap.com/bivirtualization

sap.com/bisizing

service.sap.com/roadmap

Replay of the SAP BusinessObjects Client Convergence Webcast

SAP BusinessObjects BI Support Matrix for SAP BW

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

(37)

Thank you

(38)

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company.

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. Please see http://global12.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx for additional trademark information and notices.

Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors.

National product specifications may vary.

These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP SE or its affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP SE or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty.

In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future

developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward- looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.