0909 asug sap businessobjects web intelligence influence council
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September 9–11, 2013 Anaheim, California
#909 ASUG SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Influence Council
Gregory Botticchio ([email protected])
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Introduction to the Web Intelligence influence council
Web Intelligence in the BI4.1
Open discussion and feedback
Agenda
Introduction
Gregory Botticchio, Solution Manager Web Intelligence
Jason Olson, BI Architect, Kimberly-Clark
Web Intelligence IC leadership
Introduction
IC’s Objectives …
What we’ve heard about during 2011/2012:
DeskI catch-up features (WebI applet on Excel; FHQL;
Grouping)
BIMobile consumption
BI4.1 feature backlog
Introduction
IC’s Objectives … What we did in 2012/2013 :
Scope was BI4.2
Get prioritization and implementation feedback on: New visualizations types & options
Web Intelligence features in Mobile BI
UX/UI improvements
New interactive capabilities
Comments/annotations for a Web Intelligence report
Discussions on : What’s new in webI 4.1? ; Best practices ; …
Get additional feedback on the highest priority, outstanding other Web Intelligence capabilities
Customer Connection for Web Intelligence
Introduction
Customer Connection for Web Intelligence
In Total 98 Improvement Requests (IRs) were submitted
49 IRs with at least five “subscribed customers” qualified for further evaluation:
22 IRs scoped for 4.1 RTC or 4.1 SP02
49 IRs missed subscriptions – 4 of them are available with 4.1 RTC
Introduction
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Key themes …
Focus on quality
Support the developer community
Simplify and enrich reporting
Enhance integration with SAP applications
Simplify global deployments
Migrate Desktop Intelligence deployments
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Focus on Quality: Increase Stability Massive engineering focus on BI 4.0 customer feedback
Forward fit BI 4.0 patches to BI 4.1 GA to include SP04 up to Patch 4.13
SP05 up to Patch 5.7
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Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Focus on Quality: Increase Performance
Create/edit reports on BW/BEx queries 4.1 faster than 4.0 to open query panel Up to 80% (1) faster with BW 7.30
Up to 60% (1) faster with BW 7.01 / 7.0
Refresh reports with BW/BEx variables
4.1 faster than 4.0 to refresh reports with variables Up to 20% (1) faster to display variable screen
Up to 50% (1) faster to execute queries
Launch of the Web Intelligence Rich
Internet Application
(1) data collected in specific development lab conditions; may not be representative of production deployment conditions
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Support the developer community
Embed Web Intelligence functionality with RESTful Web services API Create/consume/schedule documents
Create/edit data providers
Personalize Web Intelligence user experience Control UI elements and functions
User-based settings in CMC
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Simplify and Enrich Reporting
Freeze table headers
Create custom color palettes
Merge objects in keeping hierarchies
Edit merged objects
Select members in lists of values in formula editor
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Enhance Integration with SAP Applications
SAP BW Select members in Hierarchy Node variable
based on depth
Select members in Hierarchy variable based on levels
SAP HANA Single-sign-on through SAML Accelerate queries with query stripping
SAP ERP Set optional parameters with no default value in
universes
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Simplify Global Deployments
Deploy to Arabic countries Right-to-left user experience
Arabic locale triggers right-to-left user interface (1)
Document created in Arabic locale reads right-to-left
Arabic support
(1): Rich client and applet interface only
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Migrate Desktop Intelligence Deployment
Desktop Intelligence Compatibility Pack (DCP) Desktop Intelligence users can log in to BI 4.1 with Desktop
Intelligence Compatibility Pack
Desktop Intelligence users logged in to BI 4.1 can
open/edit/save Desktop Intelligence reports
BI 4.1 CMC lists Desktop Intelligence reports only for
administration purposes
Desktop Intelligence report scheduling limited to Windows
scheduling functionality
Availability with XI 3.1 Fix Pack 6.1 and above
BI 4.1
DCP
DeskI
XI 3.1 SP6
Server
Client
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Convert Desktop Intelligence Reports to Web Intelligence Planned availability of Desktop Intelligence features in Web Intelligence
Desktop Intelligence features Planned availability in
Web Intelligence
Free-Hand SQL 2014
Custom grouping Late 2013
Excel data provider Late 2013
Export to HTML Late 2013 via REST API
Scheduling with export to HTML Late 2013 via REST API
Scheduling with export to TXT Late 2013
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Customer Connection for Web Intelligence :
Qualified requirements in scope for execution: 17 (1/2)
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Improvement Request Subscribed
Customers
Planned availability /
Release (1)
14208 - Create Excel or text data providers from BI launchpad 15 4.1 SP02 (2) (3)
14178 - Grouping values 12 4.1 SP02
14596 - Template to apply consistent fonts/formats 11 4.1 RTC
14174 - Chart Series' Colors Selector 9 4.1 RTC
14580 - Insert Pre-Defined cell - Prompt 9 4.1 SP02
14591 - Icon % (to format as percentage in one click) 9 4.1 SP02
14322 - New functionality to freeze pane like in excel 8 4.1 RTC
14579 - Input Controls - Filter on All values 8 4.1 SP02
(1) only planned – no commitment concerning release dates (2) In Java clients only (3) Switchable feature
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Customer Connection for Web Intelligence :
Qualified requirements in scope for execution: 17 (2/2)
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Improvement Request Subscribed
Customers
Planned availability /
Release (1)
14603 - Run a single query from within the query panel 7 4.1 RTC
14194 - Display universe element description 6 4.1 SP02 (2)
14197 - autosize for Prompts summary 6 4.1 SP02 (2)
14199 - report name truncated in tab name 6 4.1 SP02
14201 - Cursor key tab does not work within the prompt box 6 4.1 SP02 (2)
14380 - Copy tables or variables from another report 6 4.1 RTC
14399 - Option to hide "All Values" entry for Input Controls 6 4.1 SP02
14610 - "Show List of values" when editing formula 6 4.1 RTC
14190 - Allow parameter order to be specified 5 4.1 RTC
(1) only planned – no commitment concerning release dates (2) In Java clients only (3) Switchable feature
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Customer Connection for Web Intelligence :
Requirements not qualified but available with 4.1 RTC (4)
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Improvement Request # of subscribed
Customers
Planned availability /
Release (1)
14182 - Freeze table headings when scrolling 4 4.1 RTC
14407 - CSV export: should give choice between query data or report content 4 4.1 RTC
14183 - Limit user's requesting large volumes of data (Server memory issue) 1 4.1 RTC
14594 - Hiding report elements (Already implemented) 1 4.1 RTC
(1) only planned – no commitment concerning release dates (2) In Java clients only (3) Switchable feature
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
High Level Timeline
BI4.1 (RTC) •Start Ramp-Up
•10th May 2013
BI4.1 RU x •x > 1
•Planned Q2 2013
BI4.1 SP1 (GA) •End Ramp-Up
•Planned Q3 2013
•KPIs dependent
BI4.1 SP2 •Planned Q4 2013
Ramp-up
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Web Intelligence in BI4.1
Future direction
FUTURE DIRECTION This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Developer support:
Additional RESTful APIs web services
Extension points
UI customizations
Mobile support enhancements:
Ease creation of reports for mobile consumption
Core capabilities enhancements:
Functional parity in HTML client compared to Java client
Report and charting interactive enhancements
Desktop Intelligence features (FHSQL)
Optimization for SAP data sources (BW/HANA):
Direct access to SAP HANA with hierarchies
and variables via transient universes and MDX
Parallel data provider execution
Open discussion and feedback
Open discussion and feedback
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