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Tips and tricks using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 on
top of SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse data. (#512)
Gregory Botticchio / Patrice Le Bihan
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client
Why SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence ?
Implementation Best Practices for Web Intelligence on SAP NetWeaver BW
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Selecting the Right SAP
BusinessObjects BI Client
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions provide business users with access to unified information
through a broad suite of BI tools for confident decision making and alignment across people and
teams on a single, scalable BI platform
Dashboards and
Visualization
How do I visualize
data for better
decision making?
Dashboards
How do I answer
ad hoc questions
and interact with
information?
Interactive
Reporting
Web
Intelligence
Data Exploration
How do I find
immediate answers
to business
questions?
Explorer
How do I determine
trends from
complex historical
data and possibly
make better
forecasts?
Analysis
Analysis, Edition
for Office & OLAP
How do I access
and transform
corporate data into
highly formatted
reports for greater
insight?
Reporting
Crystal Reports
BI Application
Design
How can IT create
centrally from
simple to complex
BI applications for a
larger audience ?
Analysis, Edition
for Application
Design
Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Portfolio
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Different Needs Require Different Experience
Executive
Individual Contributor
Middle Management
Business Analyst
Information
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[ Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Different Needs Require Different Experience
Analysis, edition
for OLAP
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office Web Intelligence
Business
Analyst
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
Crystal Reports
Web Intelligence
Individual
Contributor
Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards
Analysis, edition
for OLAP
Middle
Management
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
Executive
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Your consumer is driving the business requirements
We will focus on the consumer of reports and analytics in this presentation
IT will always play a role as part of your BI deployment to build the foundation
Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Different Needs Require Different Experience
Setting up BEx Queries
Creating pre-defined workbooks
Building BI & Planning Applications
Dashboard Design
Setting up BEx Queries
Setting up connections
Report Design
IT Crystal Reports
Web
Intelligence
Dashboards
Analysis
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Why SAP BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence ?
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ The Solution: Business Intelligence (BI)
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text Access Format, layout
add context
Share,
distribute Analyze
Business User
Information
usage
Life Cycle
Understand aggregates, details and
relationships & interdependencies
with other content
Communicate content to a
small or broad audience.
Users can start at any point in the cycle, interacting even with highly
formatted content created & shared by others
Interact with formatted reports to explore
and answer new questions
Ask questions on existing analytic
content or based on corporate
and personal data sources
Other users access/personalize
to their contexts
inside/outside their work
environment, Push and pull
information
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Why Web Intelligence ?
Report Design
Report Consumption
Share and re-use
Web Intelligence 4.0 and SAP NetWeaver BW
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Self-Service Access to Data Empowers End Users to Do Their Own Reports and Analyses
Business Metadata
Access heterogeneous
data sources
User-defined
Queries
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Streamlined access to all corporate data sources Unique options for bringing BW and 3rd-party data together
Best access method for each specific data source: SAP, RDBMS, OLAP
Multi-source universes with built-in data federation for SAP and RDBMS
Dimensional universes for 3rd-party OLAP data sources
Reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc, data
exploration
3rd-party
Data
Warehouse
Analysis
SQL
Universes (Unv)
3rd-party
OLAP
Server
MDX
MDX
3rd-party
OLAP
Server
SAP NetWeaver BW
BEx Query
InfoProviders
Multi-Source Universes (Unx)
SQL BAPI
BICS
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Access to heterogeneous data sources Combine multiple data sources within a report
Synchronize different BEx queries with a
common dimension.
Merge BEx queries with other data
provider such other RDBMS or Excel file
Merged
dimensions for
data
synchronization
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Unified experience across all data
sources with new semantic layer
For OLAP sources:
Query Stripping: Improved
performance by
automatically removing
unused objects
Integration of hierarchical
concepts into query panel
user experience
Common User Experience Across All Data Sources
Selection in
value-based
hierarchies
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Analysis Your Way
Interactive Analysis Combined with Free-form Reporting
Analyze with few clicks
Analyze with few clicks
Context related
right click menu
Rich feature set
Drag and drop
Organized tool bar
Analysis Your Way Interactive Analysis Combined with Free-Form Reporting
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Heat maps, tree maps
New look Tag Clouds
Bubble charts
Adaptability, Stunning Visualization
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Dimensional concepts
integrated into rich
reporting model
Navigate directly into
the report hierarchies to
find root causes
Dimensional
charting
Navigate and Report Hierarchical Data
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Why Web Intelligence ?
Report Design
Report Consumption
Share and re-use
Web Intelligence 4.0 and SAP NetWeaver BW
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Why Web Intelligence ? Gain Business Insight with Interactive Reports and Analysis