Leveraging BI Tools & HANA Tracy Nguyen, North America Analytics COE April 15, 2016
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HANA is helping customers sell more beer helping to solve world peace going to be the next Moneyball 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 3
Using SAP HANA as a Data Source
Value of SAP HANA as a Data Source for BI Capabilities Columnar data storage In-memory storage In-memory computation Embedded calculation engine and languages Integration with live replication No need for pre-aggregated tables Data compression Customer value Faster data retrieval and aggregation Faster calculation time Complex algorithms pushed down to the data source Reporting on real-time data Simpler BI modeling 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 5
Why SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x is the Best BI Suite on SAP HANA Capabilities Plug & play support of information models No data caching outside of HANA and no need for a specific schema for BI optimization All BI4.x client tools push calculations to the HANA engine HANA specific UI in universe development Direct usage of HANA predictive functionality in SAP client tools No need to build universes to access HANA models (direct connection from all client tools) Data discovery, enhancement and re-publishing on HANA from BI4.x Customer value Immediate benefit from all HANA optimizations Non-disruptive acceleration of existing BI scenarios Quicker development of new BI projects Plug & play BI4.x on ERP and BW accelerated data on HANA Low IT cost to implement a BI4.x solution on top of HANA 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 6
HANA Connectivity Features
SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA - Analysis Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities Analysis Office Direct access to HANA analytic & calculation views Hierarchies, variables and input parameters Calculated & Restricted measures in HANA SSO support Analysis OLAP Direct access to HANA analytic & calculation views Hierarchies variables and input parameters SSO support HTTP connector Analysis Office Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities Analysis OLAP Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities Analysis Products Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities Scheduling enhancements Convergence of Analysis for Office, EPM, and Live Office add-ins Today (Release 4.2 SP2) Planned Innovations Future Direction This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 8
SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA - Discovery Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities Explorer Direct access to HANA Analytic and Calculation views Support of variables and Input parameters Multilingual data SSO support Lumira Direct access to HANA models Online visualization of HANA data Publish data to HANA as an Analytical View SSO support Explorer Support of BW cubes exposed as HANA views Lumira Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities Level based hierarchies Support of variables and input parameters Support for SAP HANA managed connections from BI platform Explorer Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities Lumira Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities Today (Release 4.2 SP02) Planned Innovations Future Direction This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 9
SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA Dashboard & apps Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities Dashboards Support for HANA functionality exposed via Semantic layer Design Studio Direct access to HANA analytic & calculation views HANA application building including mobile support Navigation on crosstab Hierarchy support Input parameters, exceptions, conditions Language dependency SSO support Dashboards Support for additional HANA functionality exposed via Semantic layer Design Studio Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities InfoChart conditional formatting Dashboards Direct access to HANA views (no universe required) Support for additional HANA functionality exposed via Semantic layer Design Studio Enhanced support for native HANA capabilities Today (Release 4.2 SP02) Planned Innovations Future Direction This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 10
SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA Reporting Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities Crystal Reports Enterprise Support for HANA functionality exposed via Semantic layer Direct Access to HANA tables, models, and views Web Intelligence Support for HANA functionality exposed via Semantic layer Direct access to HANA views (no universe required) Query parallel execution Crystal Reports Enterprise Support for additional HANA functionality exposed via Semantic layer Web Intelligence Query stripping HANA access via SDK Hierarchy support for HANA Online Crystal Reports Enterprise Support for additional HANA functionality exposed via Semantic layer Embed Crystal Reports in HCP applications Web Intelligence Reduced TCO when accessing HANA Parallel queries for HANA Online Today (Release 4.2 SP02) Planned Innovations Future Direction This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 11
Web Intelligence HANA Direct Access Connect directly to SAP HANA Views Works on both OLAP connections and relational connections Create new documents directly on top of the SAP HANA View Available in both HTML and Java Support for parallel queries Support for SAP HANA Hierarchies using OLAP Connection Member Selector Hierarchical Filters Fold/Unfold with Levels Hierarchical columns and graphics Hierarchical formulas on reports 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 12
Web Intelligence HANA Online Connect directly to SAP HANA Views Works with relational connections Create new documents directly on top of the SAP HANA View Available in both HTML and Java Leverage the full performance of SAP HANA in Web Intelligence Delegate to SAP HANA whenever possible No query panel, just drag and drop in the report No Microcube, only visualization of data 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 13
Where to Define the Connection to SAP HANA Local connection Shared connection Universe ODBC JDBC OLAP Relational Lumira Analysis for Office Analysis for OLAP Crystal Reports 2011 Crystal Reports for Enterprise Web Intelligence * Dashboards Explorer * Available in BI 4.2 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 14
Thank you Contact information: Tracy Nguyen North America Analytics COE tracy.nguyen@sap.com