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

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

2 Legal Disclaimer 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 2

3 Agenda Overview Convergence of Office Clients SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 3

4 Overview

5 Analytics Solutions from SAP Any Device Agile Visualization Advanced Analytics Cloud Social Enterprise Business Intelligence Trust Big Data 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 5

6 Interoperability Planned Simplification of the SAP BI Client Portfolio Crystal Reports Web Intelligence Desktop Intelligence Crystal Reports Web Intelligence Reporting Set Analysis Lumira Desktop/Cloud/Server Explorer Analysis OLAP Lumira Discovery and Analysis Design Studio Dashboards Design Studio Dashboards & Applications Analysis Office EPM Add-in Converged Office Client Office Integration 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 6

7 Convergence of Office Clients Analysis Office and EPM Add-In

8 Analytics in Microsoft Office Today BPC (Planning) EPM Add-In SAP BW Analysis Office SAP HANA Microsoft Power BI Universes Live Office 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 8

9 Analytics in Microsoft Office Mid-Term BPC (Planning) Unified Office Client SAP BW SAP HANA Microsoft Power BI Universes Live Office 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 9

10 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office Multidimensional Analysis of SAP BW and SAP HANA Create live PowerPoint presentations Modern and familiar Microsoft Office user experience Build powerful Excel workbook BI applications Support BW-Integrated Planning and BPC Embedded Model 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 10

11 SAP EPM Solutions, Add-In for Microsoft Office EPM 10.0 Applications Office Client Target User Groups: Finance Business Users Cross data sources reporting directly performed on client side Offline mode and collection capability Reports Copying/ Pasting between MS Excel, Word and Powerpoint Mixing powerful and dynamic cell-based formulas and navigation in a single mode Direct typing capability Dynamic formatting based on Excel worksheet templates 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 11

12 Strategy Unified Planning BPC Embedded (fka unified) Model Combines traditional BW integrated planning with flexible LOB scenarios Unified Excel Client Superset of Analysis Office and EPM Add-In Protected investments Gradual convergence Analysis Office EPM Add-In BW Unified Excel Client HANA MDX EPM 10.x 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 12

13 Use Case Examples for Analysis Office Interactive, analytic requirements Switch hierarchies Work with hierarchies and hierarchical measures (including flat member selector) Variant support Ad-hoc currency conversion 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 17

14 Use Case Examples for EPM Add-In Flexible Reporting Asymmetric reports Join data from different data sources by axis sharing Easy Formulas Input Local members Grouping & Sorting by Properties Custom Members Connectivity Standards Support MDX Connections support 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 18

15 SAP Product Road Map for Converged Office Client Key themes, capabilities, and planned innovations Analysis Office & EPM Excel client as separate clients First Convergence Release: Co-existence of both clients in one workbook Single installer, single license Separate ribbon tabs for Analysis and EPM usage No shared entities (filter, report definition) First UX harmonization Refresh Continued Integration Ribbon configuration UX Harmonization Open/Save Undo Settings Common task pane Today Planned Innovation Future Direction Planned Release: Q This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 19

16 Analysis, Edition for MS Office

17 Scheduling in Analysis Office 1.4 Feature Pack BI Platform Central Management Console Schedule Precalculation Server (on Windows node) Send to or inbox Scenario and Features Schedule reports for oneself or others (requires admin authorizations) Send or to inbox Formats: xlsx, xlsm Filtering via authorization or exit variables Prompt support available as of BI 4.1 SP5 and Analysis Office 1.4 SP10 History panel available as of BI 4.1 SP5 Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office GA since Nov 2013 Requirements BI Platform 4.1 (at least one node on Microsoft Windows) Analysis Office 1.4 Feature Pack Add-On Installer on BI Platform SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 21

18 News in Release 2.0 Architecture Ready for convergence with EPM Add-In New Settings Framework Table Design Flexible crosstab handling still interactive crosstab Add empty lines for structuring reports & highlight specific cells Enhanced Design Panel Property View Set properties for one or several measures or dimensions New HANA Access http access replaces ODBC/JDBC access (requires HANA SP9) In Ramp-up since Nov 2014 Continuous Improvements Quick Ribbon, Smart Copy&Paste, Save Query view 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 22

19 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) and BPC embedded model Combine local and corporate data (via BW Workspaces) Conversion support for BEx workbooks Transformation into web and mobile apps (via Design Studio) Scheduling on BIP Table Design Common client for Analysis Office and EPM Add-In Formula Editor (BW and HANA) Restricted Measures in HANA Table Design Enhancements ( Style Handling, API) Precalculation 2.x Continuous Improvements Message Handling (hiding messages, adding messages to end users) Log On/Off API (e.g. for reading new master data) System remapping (local and BIP connections) Further Convergence with EPM Add-In HANA Platform Continuous Improvements Comments Enhanced PowerPoint support Enhanced Table Design Today Planned Innovation Future Direction Planned Release: Q This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 23

20 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office Prerequisites Client Prerequisites MS Office 2007, MS Office 2010 or MS Office 2013 (on MS Windows Vista and higher) SAP GUI installation not required But local SAPLOGON.INI file required if you don t use BI Platform for connection management Server Prerequisites SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 or higher Recommendation: use BW 7.0 EHP1 or SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 as there are significant TCO and integration improvements between BusinessObjects Enterprise and NetWeaver Queries defined in SAP BEx Query Designer 3.5 (within SAP NetWeaver 7.0!) or 7.0+ ; also: direct access to SAP NetWeaver BW InfoProvider and query views o No need to migrate queries, no change in BW data models necessary o The SAP BEx Query Designer stays as it is and can continues to be the semantic modeling level for SAP NetWeaver BW data. Some new features might require patching your BW system Optional SAP Business Objects BI Platform 3.1 or higher (can run side-by side with SAP NetWeaver BW) 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 24

21 Thank you Contact information: Alexander Peter Director, Product Management SAP SE 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.