Components of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 An Overview Adam Getz Practice Manager, Business Intelligence
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BI Products: Value vs. Product Complexity Traditional BI Answers Known Questions Product Complexity Operational Reports Ad-hoc Reports Dashboards & Scorecards OLAP & Mobility Exploration & Visualization Advanced BI Answers Unknown Questions Predictive Modeling Organizational Value and Impact 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com
What s Included in the SAP BI 4.0 Suite? Suite of Business Intelligence Products BI 4.0 Platform Crystal Reports Predictive Lumira Dashboards Explorer Web Intelligence Mobile Data Services, Text Analysis HANA Database 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 4
What s Included in the SAP BI 4.0 Suite? Web Intelligence Visual Intelligence & Predictive Dashboards & Mobile BI Crystal Reports BI Platform BI Launch Pad, CMC, Universes Data Services, Text Analysis, HANA (Database), Explorer & OLAP 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 5
BI Launch Pad 4.0 End User Portal BI Launch Pad Home Tab Highly intuitive web environment for end-users One point of access to all BI tools and information Home Tab contains most relevant content in 5 modules: My Recently Viewed Documents Unread Messages in My Inbox My Recently Run Documents Unread Alerts My Applications BI Launch Pad Documents Tab Document Tab provides access to all BI content: Left Hand Navigation Divided by 4 Drawers My Documents Folders Categories Search Details Panel (View and Open BI Documents) 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 6
Central Management Console (CMC) Web-Based Administration Tool Central Management Console Configuration and Management of BusinessObjects Environment Control of System Elements User and Groups Folders and Personal Folders Settings and Preferences Server and Services Security, Access Levels, & Authentication Objects, Rights, Permissions License Keys Universes and Data Connections Calendars Events Management of User, Group, and Object-Level Rights 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 7
Universe: Semantic Middleware Layer / Metadata Information Design Tool (IDT) with.unx Universe Business representation of a database Translates databases into business terms Resides between a database and reports/queries Provides an interface to create ad-hoc queries Legacy versions of BusinessObjects (Prior to BI 4.0) Legacy universe format (.unv) Universe design tool called Designer Starting with SAP BI 4.0 New universe format (.unx) New universe design tool called Information Design Tool (IDT) 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 8
Crystal Reports: Operational Reporting Create high-fidelity, pixel-perfect reports Advanced development environment Ideal tool for developers Ideal solution for canned or published reports Multiple deployment options: Crystal Reports 2011: Provides a incremental update to Crystal Reports 2008 with some new features. Crystal Reports for Enterprise: Newly designed version of Crystal Reports, with a major redesign of the Crystal Reports Designer, but with some limitations. Crystal Reports 2011 Crystal Reports for Enterprise 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 9
WebI Designer Web Intelligence (WebI): Web-Based Query & Analysis Business users develop reports / charts / ad-hoc queries Generates answers to business questions Ideal for business users and analysts Drag and drop fields, prompts, and filters to develop queries and reports within the WebI Designer View and format data within the WebI Report Panel Uses BOBJ Universe as a source WebI Report Panel 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 10
SAP BI 4.0 Dashboards Formerly Called Xcelsius (prior to SAP BI 4.0) Display Interactive Visual Models with charts, dropdown menus, and sliders SAP BI 4.0 Dashboard Display Enterprise KPIs Visually Stunning Presentations Integrated with SAP BI 4.0 Platform New Features / Integration Direct connections to universes New query panel to rapidly generate queries Live data preview at design time New formatting options 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 11
SAP BI 4.0 Mobile App Business Intelligence on the Go SAP BI 4.0 Mobile App For Use on Smart Phone or Tablet Device Real-time Access to Data Leverages Existing BI Infrastructure Download Mobile Apps from the itunes Store Enables personnel to make time-critical decisions even when disconnected from the enterprise network Access to Data on 24x7 Basis 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 12
SAP BI 4.0 Explorer Guided Data Exploration SAP BI 4.0 Explorer Unparalleled Query and Analysis Capacities Quickly Explore and Visualize Very Large Data Sets Key Word Search Experience Similar to Google, Yahoo, or Bing Rapidly Drill Down and Drill Up Pervasive Searches with queries directly to data without the need for a predefined report or query Utilizes Existing BOBJ Universes 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 13
SAP BI 4.0 Analysis, Edition for OLAP Analyze multi-dimensional data with an intuitive web interface SAP BI 4.0 Analysis, Edition for OLAP Conduct what-if analysis Accessed from the BI Launch Pad portal within a web browser Successor product to SAP BusinessObjects Voyager Data sources Include: SAP NetWeaver BW version 7.x MS SQL Server Analysis Services 2005/2008 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 14
SAP BI 4.0 Analysis, Edition for MS Office Analyze multi-dimensional data from an MS Office interface SAP BI 4.0 Analysis, Edition for MS Office Conduct what-if analysis of OLAP data in MS Excel Develop MS PowerPoint presentations with embedded, live data Alternative to the Excel analyzer tool of the SAP BEx suite (SAP BEx Analyzer). Data sources include: SAP NetWeaver BW 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 15
SAP BI 4.0 Lumira Formerly called SAP BI Visual Intelligence SAP BI 4.0 Lumira (Visual Intelligence) Highly-interactive visualizations of data Instant visualization on large volume of data Visually conduct data analysis Attractive analytics to convey and share knowledge View data from many different visual perspectives Choose from breadth of visualizations including Geo & Trellis charts Chart manipulation with trends, forecast, rank, sort & calculated measures 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 16
In the past, Predictive Analysis has been an island. There is a wide disconnect between the BI and Advanced Analytics world. 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 17
But Now, SAP brings BI and Advanced Analytics together. 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 18
SAP BI 4.0 Predictive Analysis SAP BI 4.0 Predictive Analysis Most Advanced Business Intelligence Capabilities True Data Mining Ability Exploits useful patterns in data that may have otherwise been difficult to determine Leverages statistics, advanced techniques, algorithms, and sophisticated data search capabilities Forecasts and projects future results Calculates levels of correlation between data elements 9048 John Sutherland Lane, Lorton, VA 22079 P: 703.690.5730 info@dcsfederal.com www.dcsfederal.com Page: 19
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