SAP BO Analysis Office Release 1.4. David Richert

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1 SAP BO Analysis Office Release 1.4 David Richert

2 W E L C O M E

3 Agenda 1. Overview 2. Added Value 3. How to work with Analysis Office? 4. Demo 5. Prerequisite, Report Report Interface, Launcher 6. Data Connectivity 7. Analysis for Office Roadmap 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 3

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office OLAP Analysis for SAP BW and SAP HANA (Office + Web) Target User Groups: BI Professional Business User Create live

4 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office OLAP Analysis for SAP BW and SAP HANA (Office + Web) Target User Groups: BI Professional Business User Create live PowerPoint presentations Modern and familiar Microsoft Office user experience Build powerful Excel workbook BI applications Support BW-Integrated Planning 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 4

5 Added Value

6 Analysis Office: Added Value 1. Design/Task/Navigation Panel, like Excel Pivot table 2. Drag and Drop 3. Undo button and Pause refresh button 4. PowerPoint Integration From Excel to PowerPoint, or a new analysis within PowerPoint 5. Easy insertion of multiple data sources 6. Add multiple Bex queries (Data Sources) to one workbook 7. Formula Editor (Finance Reports example) 8. Integrated BW-IP (Planning Functionality) 9. Smart Copy -> Copy Source to Design Studio 10. Broadcasting (Next Release of SAP BO Platform) 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 6

8 8 SAP BW Business Content 2 10 Manually:

7 Manual saving of workbooks 5 formatting 4 6 Copy / Paste Example process: 3 SAP Frontends 7 P&L SAP BW Business Content 2 10 Manually: consolidation in ppt 1 Manager Management R/3 Non SAP

8 Solution: Live PPT Presentations Live analyses embedded into PowerPoint presentations Export current analysis from Excel Insert BEx query results directly Analysis embedded as live object 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 8

9 How to work with Analysis?

10 End user Pivot table look and feel Drag and drop within panel Drag and drop on result set Access to display attributes Move the hierarchy on to the grid without going back to Query Designer Define Conditional Formatting (BEx: Exceptions) was only available before in Query Designer Define Filter by Measure (BEx: Conditions) Define basic and dynamic calculations Excel comments on data cells 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 10

11 Deeper Analysis from advanced user Actor: Business Analyst Description: Ad hoc Analysis Successful criteria: Ad hoc data analysis, slicing/dicing in Excel Share data by embedding BI data in PowerPoint presentations Using Report-Report Interface for Business navigation logic No training required since it is an Excel-like Interface Creating Office Workbooks using SAP Queries as a DataSource: On the fly calculations May create filters for consumption of consumer Uses Display panel Uses Pause/Refresh button Combines multiple sources Creates charts 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 11

12 Report Developer Actor: Report Developer Description: Develop Workbooks, Style Sheets Successful criteria: Create Workbooks Create BEx Queries Create Custom Style Sets General Troubleshooting May wait to migrate more complicated VB workbooks, or simply recreate in Analysis Use API to build sophisticated workbooks Set up default template 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 12

13 D E M O

runtime Enhancemed BI Platform Support Single Sign-On and LCM (requires BI 4.

14 New in Release 1.4 ipad App Analysis Suite Interoperability with Design Studio Automatic transformation from Analysis Office apps to ipad apps Using Design Studio runtime Enhancemed BI Platform Support Single Sign-On and LCM (requires BI 4.1) Innovation Waterfall Charts Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office GA since May 2013 Continuous Improvements Broadcasting via BI Platform 4.1 (Feature Pack planned for Q3 2013) Launch Query Designer Access Mode, Versioned/time-dep hierarchies, de-/activate hierarchies, Data Refresh, Member selector for mass data (note ) 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 14

15 Pre-req, Report Report Interface Launcher

Report Report Interface (RRI) Jump to several

18 Data Connectivity options in Analysis Office

19 Data Connectivity Options in Analysis Office 1. Recommendation: SAP Bex Query No need to change (Migrate) Bex Queries or BW Model 2. SAP Bex Query Views 3. InfoProvider directly 4. HANA (Calculation and Analytical views) 5. SAP ERP (InfoSets with transisent InfoProvider) 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 20

20 Roadmap for Analysis for Office

21 SAP Product Road Map for Analysis, edition for MS Office Key themes, capabilities, and planned innovations Highly interactive multidimensional analysis on SAP sources (BW & HANA) MS PowerPoint Publishing Excel-based application design via powerful API Analysis Excel write-back on BW-IP (integrated planning) Combine local and corporate data (via BW Workspaces) Conversion support Scheduling and publication HANA SSO Continuous Improvements for BW Dynamic Grid, i.e. enhanced formatting options in analysis mode Comments Enhanced PowerPoint support Native HANA & HANA platform Lumira Integration Access to 3 rd party sources (via DSL/Universes) Today Planned Innovation Future Direction Planned RTC: Q This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time SAP AG. All rights reserved. 22

22 Thank you Contact information: Plahl, Guenter Mohamed Abdel Hadi David Richert Business Development Senior Solution Advisor Senior Solution Advisor

Analysis Office and EPM Add-In - Convergence Alexander Peter, SAP SE SESSION CODE: BI70

Analysis Office and EPM Add-In - Convergence Alexander Peter, SAP SE SESSION CODE: BI70 Legal Disclaimer 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 2 Agenda Overview Convergence