Business Objects New & Old Versions

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Speaker’s Name/Department (delete if not needed)
Month 00, 2011
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
Andreas Forster, Presales
May 17, 2011

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Agenda
The Need to Optimize
Value Proposition of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Solution Components
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Demo
Summary

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HERE

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What is new in BusinessObjects 4.0? (Extract)
HANA Event Insight BI Workspace Text Analysis Integration
Mobile BI Information Steward Data Quality Visibility
Multi-source Universes Modern Styling New Charts Cross-client
Interoperability Common Menus Visualizations Query Panel
BI in Business Suite Amazon Web Services Analytic Applications
BI and EIM Integration BI and NetWeaver BICS Integration 64-bit
Virtualization More Supported Environments System Monitoring,
Audit, and Diagnosis Lifecycle Management IQ Data Migration
Analysis OLAP BI Launch Pad Information Design Tool …

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Agenda
The Need to Optimize
Value Proposition of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Components
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Demo
Summary

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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
EASY
REAL-TIME READY
OPTIMIZED

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REAL
TIME
REAL-TIME
In-Memory Computing
Event Insight
Sybase IQ

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EASY
End users
Analysts
Administrators

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OPTIMIZED
64 bit | Virtual | Cloud
Monitor | Diagnose | Audit
Best for SAP

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Agenda
The Need to Optimize
Value Proposition of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Components
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Demo
Summary

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BI Platform
Dashboards
(formerly
Xcelsius)
Crystal
Reports
Web
Intelligence
Analysis
(formerly
Pioneer)
BusinessObjects
Explorer
Trusted Data via the Enterprise Information Management
One Unified Business Intelligence Suite

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New Visual Experience Across The BI Suite
Modern styling and look
• New ribbon bar look and
feel
• New charting options
• Improved workflows

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• Easily create, navigate & share key
business views
• Highly personalized & dynamic
experience
• Leverage investments including
Explorer, in-memory & semantic layer
• Smart visualization with auto adapting
views on mobile devices
• Interact and analyze make informed
business decisions
Mobile Devices

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Two Flavours of BusinessObjects Analysis
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
OLAP
SAP BusinessObjects
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP
In-Memory Appliance only
Excel-based OLAP analysis
Live PowerPoint presentations
SAP NetWeaver BW
MS SQL Server Analysis Services
Web-based OLAP analysis

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Simpler and More Intuitive User Experience
for Fast Business Insights
Modern and familiar
Microsoft Office
user experience
Simplified drag-&-
drop to filter, and
slice-&-dice
Few simple clicks
to fast business
insights

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Uncover Deep Business Insights with
Web-based Self-Service Analysis
Pervasive web-
based analysis
Modern look-and-feel with
intuitive drag-and-drop
Few simple clicks to
fast business insights
SAP BW and
Microsoft
Analysis Services

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New Authoring Environment
Information design tool
• New authoring paradigm
• Teamwork enabled
• New security management

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Data Profiling and Scorecard with
SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward
Data quality
score metrics
Latest quality
score
Quality trend
Scorecard to
measure DQ from
a Data Steward’s
perspective
Key Quality
Dimensions (KPI
for data)
Drill into scorecard
details

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One Runtime
Architecture
One User
Interface
One Metadata
Repository
One Administration Environment
One Set of Connectors
Data Services 4.0
Cleanse
Deliver
Transform
Access
Easier Access to Unstructured Data
Process Data from Structured and Unstructured Sources
Runtime
Architecture
Metadata
Repository
Development
User Interface
Administration and Connectors
Runtime
Architecture
Metadata
Repository
Development
User Interface
Administration and Connectors
Data Services XI 3.2
Text Analysis
StructuredDataUnstructuredData

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One Unified Platform for Easier Deployment
Information
Steward
CommonPlatform
Data
Services
Event
Insight
Business
Intelligence
Suite
Business
Intelligence
Suite
Common platform for
BI and EIM
• Single repository
• Granular control over
administrative tasks
• Enhanced scalability with
virtualization and 64-bit
support

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Low TCO BW Access in BI 4.0
The Weight-Watcher Test
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
Crystal
Reports
Web
Intelligence
Xcelsius
Universe
InfoProviders
BICSBAPI
MDX
Before: Silo’ed connectivities
in SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1

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Low TCO BW Access in BI 4.0
The Weight-Watcher Test
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
Crystal
Reports
Web
Intelligence
Xcelsius
Universe
InfoProviders
BICSBAPI
MDX
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence,
Dashboards, and Analysis
InfoProviders
Before: Silo’ed connectivities
in SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
After: Unified direct BICS access
in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0
BICS

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Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW
Meeting Customer Expectations
Low TCO High Performance Fully Dimensional

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BI for SAP
Key Touch Points to SAP Landscapes SAP BI 4.0 Third Party BI
BW Access
Direct BICS access
SQL (Universe access)
MDX (XI 3.1 OLAP universes)
ERP Access ALV (embedded analytics)
Platform
Integration
Solution Manager
Change & Transport System +
BEx Web template hosting
Unified Java stack

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Embedded Analytics Within the Business Suite
Actionable insights like
never before
• Directly in SAP Business
Suite 7
• Best practice content ~100
preconfigured reports and
dashboards
• Embedded in ERP Financial,
CRM, and HCM applications

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Agenda
The Need to Optimize
Value Proposition of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Components
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Demo
Summary

27. Live Demo

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Agenda
The Need to Optimize
Value Proposition of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Components
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Demo
Summary

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SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
Decision-ready information for everyone

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Feedback
This new release can help us in convincing our users to use this product. We
appreciate the new design, charts, and ergonomics in Web Intelligence.“
Easy to use toolset, no formal training required.
“
Thanks to the new user experience harmonization across the BI 4.0 solutions
the number of end-user calls to our internal help desk is dropping by 25%.“
One of the advantages of BI 4.0 is the new ergonomy: tools are integrated with
a logical approach.“
Very powerful OLAP and ad hoc analysis tool. SAP has now a comprehensive
set of BI tools for all use cases. The complete portfolio of SAP
BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions is THE quantum leap in the SAP BI world.
“

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More Information
Classroom Training
Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/ug/podcast/mastering-sap-businessobjects/
Blogs
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/profile/Ingo+Hilgefort
BusinessObjects BI Solution Architecture
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/bi-solution-architecture

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Measure your Company’s Performance Now
Strategic IT
Measuring Performance and Best Practice Adoption
against Industry and Size (Example)
Best Practices make the performance difference
(Example Insight)
• Free of charge participation
• 5-8 hours total effort usually
• 5-7 days total cycle time
• All questionnaires public available
• Jump Start possible at anytime
• Landing page www.benchmarking.sap.com/emea
SAP Strategic IT Benchmarking has been leveraged
by over 1’000 companies, and covers the following studies
(Example KPI’s)
Business Intelligence / Enterprise Information
Management
• BI Spend As % of Total IT Spend
• Usage of BI/ Analytics To Manage Business Processes
• Average BI Query Wait Time
• Level of Data Governance and Architecture maturity
• Data Process Cycle Time Reduction
Total Cost Of Ownership
• IT Spend as a % of Revenue
• Support Cost per User
• Support FTE per User
Centre of Excellence
• Maturity of Relationship Between Business & COE
• Level of Business Process Standardization
Key information for participation
Best Practice Question:
“To what degree is Data management
embedded to company’s program & project
identification, approval, design, build and
deploy methods for all projects”
(1=Low, 5=High)
29%
25%
20%
15%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
1 2 3 4
% of IT Projects that are Over
Budget :

33. Thank You!
Contact information:
Andreas Forster
Senior BI Platform Expert
SAP Switzerland
andreas.forster@sap.com

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