The 2012-2013 Roadmap to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards: What's Here, What's Coming, and What's Planned

The 2012-2013 Roadmap to SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards: What’s Here, What’s Coming, and
What’s Planned?
Adam Binnie
SAP

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“It’s all about the data this year and _______ has that. When a competition
Obama
is as close as this one promises to be, any small advantage could
absolutely make the difference,” says Andrew Rasiej, a technology
strategist. “More and more accurate data means more insight, more money,
more message distribution, and more ______.” votes

Analytics Is About People

I need the latest
I need to
business
collaborate with my
information on my
partners and
mobile device
suppliers

I need to be more
Executives responsive to Supply Chain
future business
trends

Operations
I need to put
I need to know the together a quick
impact of the data view for my
latest campaign management team
on our brand via
social media

Marketing Analyst


Analytics Is About People (cont.)

I need the latest
business
% Users I need to
collaborate with my
information on my
mobile device 75% partners and
need access suppliers.

2020
I need to be more
Executives responsive to Channel 50%
need access
future business
trends.
trends

2014
Operations
I need to put
I need to know the together a quick
impact of the data view for my
latest campaign 2012 management team.
on our brand via 15%
have access
social media

Marketing Analyst
2014/2020 Estimates from Gartner Inc.


Agenda
What is a DASHBOARD?
Dashboard Use Cases – Are you driving or reacting?
Mobility and Dashboards – What is going to change?
SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite – The Standard for Dashboards
Wrap-up

The BIG Four Dashboard Use Cases

I want my critical information in an I want to be able to create amazing output
attractive, accessible format that I can so that people are excited, impressed, and
quickly review every morning react to information
Executives
Analyst

EXECUTIVE VISUALIZATION
MONITORING PACKAGE

INTERACTIVE INFORMATION
APPLICATION WALL

I need to be able to articulate what we are I need to get information quickly about the
planning, allow people to change task I am about to perform; information
Marketing assumptions, and review alternatives that may impact how I perform that task Operations


MONITORING

 Constant Updates
 View at a Glance
 Exception Highlights
 Drill Down to Detail
 Task and Action


PACKAGE

 Beautiful Evidence
 Highlight Message
 Tell a Story
 Local Data
 Limited Interaction


APPLICATION

 Designed UX
 Targeted Users
 Browse Vast Data
 Interactive Controls
 Action and Process


WALL

 Designed UX
 Constantly Updated
 Unattended Operation
 No Interaction
 Limited Data


Mobility Is Not in the Future, It Is Now

Smartphones and tablets
are the dominant
computing device
45%
of companies, as a priority, will
implement mobile enterprise apps
Enterprises in 2012
are building mobile
applications today
58%
expect to support up to 4 different
mobile operating system platforms

Businessweek, 2011


US Online Consumers will be using a tablet by 2015

Mobility

Did somebody say “ubiquity”?!


Analytic Solutions

Mobile Predictive

Intelligent
Data

Collaboration Cloud

Enterprise Information
SAP HANA Data Warehousing
Management


We Are a Worldwide Leader in Analytics

Gartner Group recognizes SAP as a Leader
in all four solution areas
SAP
BI platforms 22.4%
Corporate performance suites 14%

Data integration tools 14%

Data quality tools 12%

Drive higher performance at lower cost Customers and partners trust SAP’s
with SAP BusinessObjects analytics for their business

#1 Lowest TCO > 40,000 > 7,000
In real-time functionality Some 12% measured on a per seat Customers worldwide Partner organizations
(dynamic data movement) deployed basis

Sources L to R: Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, G00173700; Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites, G00172934; Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, G00207435; Magic Quadrant for
Data Quality Tools, G00300603. Gartner Market Share Analysis: Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management Software, Worldwide, published May 2010. Bottom L to R: IDC, “Worldwide Data Integration and Access Software 2009
Vendor and Segment Analysis,” Doc.# 225992, Dec. 2010, Dynamic Data Movement defined on page 4. Nigel Pendse, The BI Survey, 2009. SAP internal data, as of January 2011
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure
against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant.
The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose.


SAP Analytics in Action
Delivering Remarkable Business Results

9% $1.3 ~7.4M
reduced late deliveries to 1%, ROI per plant realized through higher
and spoilage to < 1% efficiencies and superior compliance

60% 66% 55%
faster reporting less time to forecast reduction in time to
cycle time monthly revenue allocated product costs


Introducing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
One Unified and Complete BI Suite Addressing the Full Spectrum of BI

Discovery and Analysis Dashboards and Apps Reporting
Discover. Predict. Create. Build Engaging Experiences Share Information

 Discover areas to optimize your  Deliver engaging information to users  Securely distribute information across
business where they need it your organization

 Adapt data to business needs  Track key performance indicators and  Give users the ability to ask and answer
summary data their own questions
 Tell your story with beautiful
visualizations  Build custom experiences so users get  Build printable reports for operational
what they need quickly efficiency


Dashboards and Apps
Build Engaging Experiences

Build engaging, visual dashboards Portfolio
Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealing
analytics  Design Studio

 Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)
Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, dropdowns, crosstabs,
charts …

Use custom code to extend and build workflows


Solution Highlights

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SP5 design tool
 Author once, publish to both Desktop and Mobile (iPad)
 Focus on most commonly used controls
 Mobile Compatibility Report and Mobile Preview
 BI Query panel connectivity
• Universes (Relational .UNX, third-party OLAP .UNX)
• SAP BW via BEx Query (BICS)

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI
 Download and view mobile dashboards (via BI platform)
 Support offline dashboard
 Annotation: Text, draw, crop, or blur sensitive information
 Collaborate around your Dashboards with SAP StreamWork

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Workflow

Authoring with
mobile
Create a new
components
dashboard

Modify component
properties for
mobile
Open an
existing
dashboard

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Workflow (cont.)

Publish to the BI Platform for Mobile and
Desktop
Publish for desktop
(Flash)
 BI Platform
 Microsoft Office
 Adobe PDF

Download with SAP
BusinessObjects
Mobile

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

DASHBOARDING Convergence

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

 Dashboards for Mobile  Expand component  Hybrid of Dashboards
initial release with library in Dashboards and Design Studio in a
support for iPad for Mobile and Design converged architecture
Studio
 Design Studio initial  All data sources in both
release with support  Third-party tools
for iPad on BW and component support in
 All components in both
HANA Dashboards for Mobile
tools
and Design Studio
 Common viewing in
SAP BusinessObjects  Support other tablets
Mobile BI (MoBI) (Android, Windows)

FUTURE DIRECTION

Discovery and Analysis
Discover. Predict. Create.

Agility for business analysts and business users Portfolio
Discover trends, outliers, and areas of interest in your business
 Visual Intelligence
Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and
enriching data  Explorer
Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics  Analysis
Forecast and predict future outcomes  Predictive Analysis*


Reporting
Share Information

High productivity design for report designers Portfolio

Quickly build formatted reports on any data source  Web Intelligence
Securely distribute reports both internally and externally  Crystal Reports
Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users to easily create
and modify their own reports

Enhance custom applications with embedded reports


Dashboarding Statement of Direction (SoD)

Eamon Ida, “The Future of Dashboards –
Strategy and Direction” (SAP Community
Network blog, April 2012).

 Mobile first

 Focus on professionally authored
dashboards

 http://goo.gl/RPN7u


Resources, Links, and More …

SAP Public Web
 SDN forum about Dashboard Design (Xcelsius): http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-
dashboards
 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Visualizations for SAP (integration resources):
http://bit.ly/dU0UZM
 Dashboards WIKI (including best practices): http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/x/wQVlE
 BI 4 on HANA: http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-web-
intelligence/blog/2012/07/23/faq--sap-bi4-webintelligence-on-hana
 SAP Developer Network (SDN): http://scn.sap.com/community/business-intelligence

Further technical information from the SAP Technology RIG
 Webinars: www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/ipnw-khnc
 How-To guides: www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/howtoguides
 Podcasts: www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/sap-how-it-works-elearning
 SAP Education: www.sap.com/education


Social Media Links and More …

Public Web/Social Media

 Xcelsius Gurus Community Links

• Blog: http://bit.ly/eg3iLA

• Twitter: http://bit.ly/eCBqTL

• Facebook: http://on.fb.me/gaPQqa

• LinkedIn (2,000+ Members): http://linkd.in/hVTudc

• SlideShare: http://slidesha.re/fSR4SN

• YouTube: http://bit.ly/i4NRhf

SAP-Sponsored Xcelsius Community Links

 SAP BusinessObjects Facebook: http://on.fb.me/gMiuoC

 SAP BusinessObjects Twitter: http://bit.ly/hVvHzq

 SAP BusinessObjects YouTube Channel, SAP Analytics: http://bit.ly/gk2YCv

 SlideShare: http://slidesha.re/hkIqpg

 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Tutorials: http://bit.ly/gdgoBj

 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard E-Learning Catalog: http://bit.ly/epNTdc

 Dashboards and Data Visualization Webinar Series Archive: http://bit.ly/hnWJy8

Key Points to Take Home

Dashboards can be a great vehicle to EXCITE your users and have them begin to
engage with Business Intelligence

There is a lot of DESIGN required for Dashboards, so do not over use them

As we transition to a MOBILE paradigm, Dashboards will expand from the Executives to
all layers of the organization as a primary mechanism for fast Mobilization of Information

The SAP BI Suite provides the complete range of BI solutions that can accommodate
Departmental BI, Enterprise BI, and combine them to deliver truly intelligent data


Thank You!

Adam Binnie
Global VP & GM Business Intelligence
adam.binnie@sap.com
Twitter: @adam_binnie

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