This document provides an overview of Birst, an analytics platform, and its integration capabilities with SAP HANA Cloud Platform. Birst allows users to build dashboards and reports across multiple data sources accelerated by SAP HANA. It has over 10,000 customers and can automate the creation of a data warehouse in HANA Cloud Platform. The demonstration will show Birst dashboards, live access to HANA, and building a warehouse in HANA.

1. Instant Analytics with Birst and
SAP HANA Cloud Platform

2. 2
Topics
• Introduction to Birst
• Integration with SAP HANA, SAP ERP and BW
• Demonstration
– Birst dashboards
– Hana Live Access
– Building a Warehouse in HANA

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Birst Momentum
• 10,000+ organizations use Birst
• HQ in San Francisco
– Offices in UK, Australia and
Singapore
– Partners in NL, BE, SE, FI, DK, DE
and UK
• Experienced leadership team
2014 Business Intelligence and Analytics
Magic Quadrant
– Developed Siebel Analytics (OBIEE) “ No. 1 in product functionality and customer
(that is, product quality, no problems with
software, support) and sales experience.”

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Birst in a nutshell
• True cloud multi-tenant BI platform
– Also available as a software appliance (VM)
• Complete BI platform
– ETL capabilities to automate building of star schema
– Driven by the logical model
– Business Model (semantic layer)
– Multiple ways to consume information including dashboards, data discovery, enterprise reporting and mobile
– Broad range of connectivity options
– Predefined content for sales and marketing analytics
 Pre-built connectors to Marketo, Google Analytics, salesforce.com, Netsuite
 Pre-built data models and semantic layer, Reports, & Dashboards
• Patented 2-tier data architecture

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Birst Supported Data Sources

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Birst and HANA
• Partnership
– Birst is only Analytics partner of SAP HANA Cloud Platform
– Birst is certified on SAP HANA and the SAP HANA Cloud Platform
• Functionality
– Birst automates the building of a User Data Tier (DW) in HCP
– Patented two-tier architecture combines your HANA data with other
data sources like Salesforce and SAP
– Birst delivers data discovery, dashboards and enterprise reports across
a single business model, accelerated by SAP HANA Cloud Platform.
– The combined offering means a faster time to value than traditional
approaches

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SAP HANA Integration

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Additional options for Birst and SAP HANA
Live Access to SAP HANA Automated HANA data store
On-Premise
Multi-Tenant Cloud
BI Layer
Multiple Analytic Styles
Business Model and
Data Navigator
On Premise
… or Cloud
On Premise
BI Layer
Multiple Analytic Styles
Business Model and
Data Navigator
…
Automated HANA One data
store in AWS (and BYOL)
Amazon Web Services
On Premise
… or Cloud
Automated
Analytic
Engine
User Data
Store
Automated
Analytic
Engine
SAP
HANA
Automated
Analytic
Engine
SAP HANA
ONE
BI Layer
Multiple Analytic Styles
Business Model and
Data Navigator
SAP HANA

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SAP ERP and BW Integration
SAP ERP
DB
Attribute
Views
SAP BI/BW
Birst SAP Connectors
Birst Connect
Data Store Objects
DSO
SAP BW
DSO
InfoProviders (InfoCube,
DSO, InfoObject)
SAP
XMLA
SAP Bex
Queries
Birst
RFC
Open
SQL
SAP
Query
BAPI
Birst
RFC
SAP
Open
SQL
SAP
Query
SAP
BAPI
SAP
HANA
SAP HANA
DB
BIRST HANA
CONNECTOR
Analytic
Views
Calculation
Views
BIRST Live
Access HANA
CONNECTOR
Tables
Powered by SAP HANA

10. 10
Demonstration
• Birst dashboards
• HANA Live Access
• Building a Warehouse in HANA

11. 11
Dank