Business Intelligence with SAP BusinessObjects - Analytics Roadmap Venkatesh Vaidyanathan SAP LABS Thomas B Kuruvilla SAP LABS SESSION CODE: 0808

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1 Business Intelligence with SAP BusinessObjects - Analytics Roadmap Venkatesh Vaidyanathan SAP LABS Thomas B Kuruvilla SAP LABS SESSION CODE: 0808

2 LEARNING POINTS Trends impacting the Business Users and the workforce SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solution overview SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence solution roadmaps

3 User Engagement How Analytics need to evolve to deliver collective insight Collective Insight Raw Data Cleaned Data Standard Reports Ad Hoc Reports & OLAP Generic Predictive Analysis Agile Visualization Self Service BI What happened? Optimization Predictive Modeling Why did it happen? What will happen? What is the best that could happen? Maturity of Analytics Capabilities End-to-end Easy adoption Fast implementa tion Business focused Enable storytelling

4 Unleashing the power of collective insight ENGAGE VISUALIZE PREDICT Imagine the potential Predict demand or supply across your entire Supply Chain immediately Provide exactly the right offers and service levels to every customer Understand what your customers & potential customers are saying about you, right now Instantly predict market trends and customer needs and innovate new product and services quicker

5 Analytics Solutions from SAP Cloud Mobile Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Big Data Enterprise Business Intelligence Collaboration

6 SAP s Strategic Focus on Analytics Solutions Enterprise BI Ubiquitous BI for all users and landscapes Collaborate across the organization Scalable, secure, and mission critical Agile Visualization Unleash user s creativity Agility for the business Able to leverage IT s expertise Advanced Analytics Gain the competitive advantage Predict & act faster Share insights Cloud Faster & more accurate decisions Broaden deployment options Drive lower TCO Big Data Explore new opportunities Build on SAP HANA strengths Embrace new emerging data sources Innovation without disruption

7 Enterprise BI - Vision & Strategy Ubiquitous, collaborative, scalable Enterprise BI Ubiquitous Collaborative Scalable Ubiquitous BI for all users and landscapes BI on mobile, cloud, on-premise Ready for global operation Flexible access to Enterprise governed data Collaborate across the organization For anyone across the organization - individuals, teams, or department Active sharing and collaborative decision making Consistent and engaging experience Scalable Scalable, secure, and mission critical Open platform to extend and embed For any size business, deployment, or organization

8 Agile Visualization - Vision & Strategy Agility for the business Agile Visualization Creative Agile IT Friendly Unleash user s creativity Unlock hidden patterns in data Build beautiful, custom visualizations and stories Bring together corporate and personal data Agility for the business Download and use quickly no IT involvement needed Access and work with almost any data source independently Personal edition for free both desktop and cloud Able to leverage IT s expertise Connect back to, and leverage, IT infrastructure View, publish and synchronize desktop data and visualizations from SAP Lumira, fully leveraging SAP HANA Optimized for big data

9 Advanced Analytics - Vision & Strategy Predict and Act! Advanced Analytics Adaptable Open Everywhere Increase ROI, Minimize TCO Gain the competitive advantage Get up and running quickly, low learning curve Predict to solve difficult business problems Application in every industry or Line of Business Intuitive for business users, yet robust enough for data scientists Predict and act faster then ever before Predictive solutions built to leverage big data and SAP HANA in-memory platform Open and extendable - leverage custom code or 1,000 s of open source predictive workflows Deploy Predictive solutions anywhere, anytime Leverage existing data sources, from local to the enterprise data warehouse Share predictive insights easily within your LOB or with the entire enterprise Integration with SAP HANA-based applications and LOB solutions

10 Cloud - Vision & Strategy Exceed Your Business Expectations Cloud Simple Fast Flexible Faster and more accurate decisions Leverage on-premise pre-aggregated data anywhere, anytime and on any device View, publish and synchronize desktop data and visualizations from SAP Lumira, fully leveraging SAP HANA Broaden deployment options Amazon Web Services Partner Solutions; Your own hosted environment SAP Lumira Cloud; SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud Drive lower TCO Turn-key BI Packages Native to SAP HANA Multi-tenant private and public cloud support

11 Big Data Analytics - Vision & Strategy Real-Time Insight with Big Data Big Data Explore Speed More Data Explore new opportunities The variety of big data also means new formats, new paradigms and new opportunities. Our research projects are driven by the objective to mine big data for more value, quicker and at a lower cost Build on SAP HANA strengths Thanks to in-memory, predictive, federation and more, SAP HANA offer unpreceded opportunities for big data analytics. We will keep driving innovation end-to-end, from data to analytics in order to help customers get the most value out of their big data Embrace new emerging data sources SQL-like access via *DBC drivers offer opportunities to embrace emerging big data sources with existing investments We will selectively extend the support to big data sources based on their technical maturity and market demand

12 Key Capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 One Suite for All Insight Unified and Highly Personalized Powerful Visualizations Faster, More Accurate Decisions Improved interoperability and usability across the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite Deliver engaging information to users when and where they need it Create custom experiences with embedded analytic extensions Monitor your business with specialized charting and geospatial analytics Empower end users with industry focused visualizations and spatial analytics Detect outliers and discover areas to optimize your business Create and consume BI content from any mobile device Empower teams to deliver collaborative decisions Simplified deployment to accelerate time to value

13 Key Capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 One Place for All Information Big Data Ready Scale and Power Speed to Deliver Support for Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Hive Improved access to Oracle Exadata, Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase Enhanced workflow features in conjunction with the SAP HANA platform and the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) application Immediate response time regardless of data volume Improved usability to build pervasive BI applications Integrate with monitoring functionality from SAP, lifecycle management, search, and user management Enhanced design experience with new creation wizard and integrated data federation Automated universe deployment and lifecycle management

14 Key Capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 One Standard for Enterprise BI Professional Grade BI Platform Quality Focused Superior Breadth of Ecosystem For any size business, small to large For any type of deployment, on-premise or on-demand For anyone across the organization, individuals, teams, or department Increased efficiency to enhance decision making capability and productivity Non-disruptive production delivery and information governance across the organization Simplified architecture for increased IT responsiveness Open and agnostic suite of products that can leverage existing BI investments Supported by global best practices for enhanced adoption Enable speedy deployment with shortened time to value

15 Analytics Solutions from SAP One Suite for All Insight Build Engaging Experiences Deliver engaging information to users where they need it Track key performance indicators and summary data Build custom experiences so users get what they need quickly Dashboards and Apps Agile Visualization Reporting Discover. Predict. Create. Discover areas to optimize your business Adapt data to business needs Tell your story with beautiful visualizations Distribute Information Securely distribute information across your organization Answer related questions by interacting with pre-defined reports Build printable reports for operational efficiency

16 Agile Visualization Discover. Predict. Create. Agility for business analysts and business users Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your business Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and enriching data Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics Forecast and predict future outcomes Portfolio SAP Lumira SAP BusinessObjects Explorer SAP BusinessObjects Analysis SAP Predictive Analysis* *SAP Predictive Analysis details are part of Advanced Analytics

17 Dashboards and Apps Build Engaging Experiences Build engaging, visual dashboards Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealing analytics Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down, crosstabs, charts Portfolio SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise) software Use custom code to extend and build workflows

18 Reporting Share Information High productivity design for report designers Quickly build formatted reports on any data source Securely distribute reports both internally and externally Portfolio SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence SAP Crystal Reports Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users to easily create and modify their own reports Enhance custom applications with embedded reports

19 BI Platform Professional Grade Mobile Devices Browsers On Demand Services Embedded Content MS Office Enterprise Portals Agile Visualization Dashboards and Apps Reporting Business Intelligence Platform Universe Semantic Layer ERP EDW Oracle, IBM DB2, SAP HANA platform SAP Business Suite SAP NetWeaver BW Microsoft SQL Server Oracle E-Business Suite TeraData and other relational data PeopleSoft Other data warehouses sources JD Edwards MS Excel Unstructured data in Social Media and Hadoop Essbase Microsoft AS Oracle OLAP

20 Road Map for Analytics Solutions from SAP Overview Enterprise BI Enterprise BI Enterprise BI Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data

21 Release information Roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects BI as of July 2014 Software that has already been released: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1 SP3 SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.0 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis 1.4, edition for Microsoft Office SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2 SAP Lumira 1.15 Due for release within 6-18 months No specific release timeframe (>18 months)

22 SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What s different about this release? 4.1 First point release of SAP s market leading Business Intelligence Suite Focus on quality and innovation deserving of a professional grade BI platform Core stability and capability improvements from new innovations to incremental product advances from 4.0 to reintroduced features from XI3 All existing XI R2 and XI3 customers can migrate to this newest platform of SAP s BI Suite New capabilities around selfservice, dashboarding and mobile BI Support of both net new and updated platforms For detailed information on Current Solution for BI 4.1 see the What s New in BI 4.1 and BI 4.1 SP3 documents on SCN.

23 Road Map for Analytics Solutions from SAP Overview Enterprise BI Enterprise BI Enterprise BI Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data

24 Enterprise BI Developer and BI Platform Key innovations Developer extend / integrate / customize Embed custom visualizations with the CVOM extensions SDK Extend SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards using custom components Developer enhanced visualization Common visualizations across nearly all BI clients Customizable and extensible library of chart types Support for 3rd party GIS and geo map providers: eg. ArcGIS from ESRI BI platform semantic layer WebI free hand SQL Additional BW support: manual prompts, variants, etc. Complete authoring and consumption SDK Linked universe coverage by SDK Transform single source universe to multi-source universe BI platform Near Zero Downtime when applying software updates Allocation of system resources to specified content Content validation tool Reportable system metadata Planned Innovations

25 Enterprise BI Reporting Key innovations Web Intelligence interactive reporting Free Hand SQL (Desktop Intelligence delta) Charting engine open for customization Direct access to SAP HANA with hierarchies BW variants and manual prompt input DHTML and Java client functional parity Crystal Reports for Enterprise production reporting Crystal Reports for SAP HANA built specifically for HANA BW variants and manual prompt input Improved RESTful SDK and embeddability of the HTML Viewer Waterfall and geographical map support and 3rd party charting extensibility LiveOffice MSFT Office integration WebI report part support for.unx Planned Innovations

26 Enterprise BI Dashboarding and application building Key innovations Design Studio dashboards and applications Native HANA deployment Consume applications from Lumira launchpad Lumira CVOM SDK integration Enhanced charting and visualization: Geo, large data Bookmarking, commenting, personalization Report to Report Interface Advanced crosstab formatting and customization WYSIWYG printing Advanced scripting: loops, arrays, sorting BW integrated planning and planning application kit Unified model in BW 7.40 (Xcelsius) Dashboards - data visualization Continued Mobile BI enhancements: Additional components Improved performance New device support Planned Innovations

27 Agile Visualization Trusted data discovery, exploration and visualization Planned Innovations

28 Agile Visualization OLAP Analysis Key innovations Analysis, edition for OLAP OLAP analysis on the web On the fly currency conversion for SAP NetWeaver BW Drill through for SSAS Enhanced Essbase support with Alias Tables, DTS calculations, and Single Sign On Continued integration improvement with Design Studio Analysis, edition for Office OLAP analysis in Excel Cell-level annotations Creation of customized hierarchies Relative positioning of charts and cross-tabs on an Excel worksheet Broadcasting HANA repository: store workbooks on HANA Planned Innovations

29 Advanced Analytics Predictive analysis Key innovations Predictive Analysis HTML 5 edition in conjunction with SAP Lumira Algorithm and Partner SDK KXEN integration SAP Business Suite applications integration SAP Fraud Management SAP Real-Time Offer Management Precision gaming Unified demand forecasting Planned Innovations

30 Cloud Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service Key innovations Lumira Cloud - powered by SAP HANA HANA Cloud Integration (HCI) to access on premise data Author storyboards Group user security Row level security BI platform multi-tenant provisioning Dynamically manage resource allocation to tenants Enhanced provisioning tool for universe management BI for HANA Enterprise Cloud SAP hosted BI Private BI Suite instance paired with HANA Completely hosted and managed by SAP BI on AWS Amazon hosted BI Deploy BI Suite on SAP certified Amazon EC2 instances OS managed by Amazon BI managed by customer Planned Innovations

31 Mobile Extending the reach of analytics Key innovations Mobile BI extending the reach of analytics Support of SAP Lumira Enhanced offline functions for Web Intelligence, Design Studio and SAP Lumira Support for SSO and importing of policies and configuration for SAP Afaria mobile device management Authoring of dashboards from the device Embedded into operation and transactional workflow apps from SAP and third party Planned Innovations

32 SAP BI roadmap Overview Enterprise BI Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data Enterprise BI Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data Enterprise BI Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Big Data

33 SAP s Future Strategic Direction on Analytics Solutions Enterprise BI Ubiquitous BI for all users and landscapes Consistent experiences Scalability, security, and integration Agile Visualization Compress information to insight Empower analysts Empower IT Advanced Analytics Analytics first experiences High resolution BI Low latency extreme data performance Cloud Publish and synchronize data and visualizations Native to SAP HANA Multitenant cloud support Innovation without disruption Big Data BI project enablement on big data Directly connect to SAP HANA Use Hadoop

34 Analytics Solutions Enterprise BI Reliable BI Platform RELIABLE PLATFORM Build TRUST with users by operating a platform that is non-stop and always available. With proven 99.9% uptime, near zero-downtime upgrades and enhancements and continuous monitoring. RELIABLE ACCESS Ensure that users can trust that all their BI content is in one place by bringing BI content from non-sap software into the BI management environment and accessible via BI Launchpad. RELIABLE MANAGEMENT Ensure that trust by leveraging the suite of BI management tools built into BI to ensure smooth operations with continuous user feedback. Future Direction

35 Analytics Solutions Enterprise BI Open BI Network OPEN ACCESS TO DATA Any BI tool can now leverage the business knowledge in your Enterprise BI Solution ensuring consistency of information without limiting the experiences OPEN VISUALIZATIONS Leverage the community to access and utilize any visualization for any information in any tool. New visualizations can be deployed and leveraged across the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite like never before. OPEN DATA MANIPULATION Expand the range of functions for the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite with community developed models and data functions, no matter the source. Future Direction

36 Analytics Solutions Agile Visualization for the Enterprise AGILE VISUALIZATION EXPLORATION Ask questions from corporate data more easily on larger collections than ever before by leveraging the power and speed of SAP HANA AGILE VISUALIZATION SEMANTICS Develop and extend semantics and business views of data locally with personal or departmental versions. AGILE VISUALIZATION DATA For the first time users can share new information via their corporate analytical infrastructure with a single click and IT remain able to manage and govern what information reaches who. Future Direction

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