business intelligence 4.0

Ingo Hilgefort, Solution Assembly & Packaging

September 2011

BI160SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 and SAP Landscapes in a Single Session

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1 Workshop….. 4 Mentors….

Greg Myers, SEITammy Powlas, Fairfax Water

Derek Loranca, Aetna Ingo Hilgefort, SAP Canada


Agenda

Crystal Reports – Hands-On

Web Intelligence – Hands-On

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards – Hands-On

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, OLAP edition

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – Hands-On

Additional Material

Solution Manager Integration, LCM Integration, Best Practices

SAP Crystal Reports for

Enterprise


SAP Crystal Reports in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

With the release of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0 , there will be two

versions of Crystal Reports available for use with the BI Platform.

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Major update & re-design of the Crystal

Reports Designer and associated

processing servers

Focus on the needs of the Large

Enterprise & customers with SAP

deployments

Provides the foundation for all future

releases of Crystal Reports

SAP Crystal Reports 2011

Incremental update to CR 2008 with a

few new features

Focused on serving the needs of

standalone customers (Partners and

Volume customers)

Continue to deliver existing functionality

with no regressions


SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Create Stunning Documents faster than ever before

Easy-to-use, new design environment for novice and professional designers

Create simple reports to represent complex data within a few minutes

Streamlined experience across the suite

Tabbed Tool Bar

WYSIWYG

Point and Click

Easy-to-use

Navigation Panel


SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Intuitive User Experience

Insert groups

Insert totals

Manage

groups and

sorts


SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Smart Formatting

Smart Guidelines

Guidelines for easy column resizing

Drag and drop to reorder column

Automatic resizing and column shifting for

object and column insertion

Smart Default Formatting

Designer detects patterns in formatting and

adjusts automatically


Crystal Reports for Enterprise and SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW Query Element Crystal Reports Designer Element

Characteristic Separate fields for key, and description per characteristic

Hierarchy Hierarchies are presented as real external hierarchies

Keyfigure Measure element in a grouping called Keyfigure.

Each Keyfigure can have up to three elements: numeric value, unit, and formatted value.

Calculated Keyfigure Measure element in the folder Keyfigure.

(Information about the details of the calculated Keyfigure is not available in Crystal Reports.)

Restricted KeyfigureMeasure element in the folder Keyfigure

(Information about the details of the restricted Keyfigure is not available in Crystal Reports.)

Filter Filters will be applied to the underlying query but are not visible in the Crystal Reports designer.

Navigational attribute Separate fields for key and description per navigational attribute

Display attributeEach display attribute becomes one field in the field explorer. The display attributes are grouped together with the

actual characteristic.

SAP variables Parameters


Crystal Reports for Enterprise and SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW Query Element Crystal Reports Designer Element

Conditions Not Supported

Exceptions Exceptions are not supported. You can leverage conditional formatting, highlighting, and alerting in Crystal

Reports.

Keydates Keydate variables are fully supported

Display settings Most display settings are supported with the exception of local calculations


Crystal Reports in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0SAP Data Connection Options

Crystal Reports 2011

Improved Direct Access to SAP BW Query via MDX

Migration path for existing BW Query Crystal Reports 2008 reports

Set database location to Crystal Reports 2011 BW MDX Driver

Crystal Reports for Enterprise XI 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 suite consistent Data Access to SAP BW

Access SAP NetWeaver BW via dimensional universes

Direct Access to BEx Queries via transient universes (BICS)

Functionality planned for future release

Direct access to SAP ERP for Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0


Crystal Reports in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0Lifecycle Management


Crystal Reports objects managed by BW Publisher and transport integration with SAP NetWeaver BW


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Suite approach

Leverage one solution for all Lifecycle Management via integration between SAP BusinessObjects Lifecycle

Manager and SAP CTS+

Functionality planned for future release

As Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0 reports are no longer saved to SAP NetWeaver BW repository, the

following features are not available:

Support for Report Report Interface

Support for variable personalization


Crystal Reports in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0Prompting


Functionally identical to Crystal Reports 2008


Support for SAP variable concepts natively in Crystal Reports Designer and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

– Key date

– Hierarchy / Hierarchy Node

– Hierarchical LOV


Crystal Reports in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0SAP Integration – Summary

SAP Crystal Reports 2011

Continues the same direct connectivity to SAP BW as in Crystal Reports 2008

Continues the same direct connectivity to SAP ERP as in Crystal Reports 2008

Lifecycle Management integration with SAP NetWeaver BW

Multi-lingual capabilities for SAP-based reports managed via SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP prompting support via online prompting feature including Report Report Interface and Personalization

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0

Leverages improve suite wide connection to SAP NetWeaver BW

No direct connectivity to SAP ERP in the SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 release

Integrated with suite wide integrate between Lifecycle Manager and CTS+

Multi-lingual capabilities via SAP BusinessObjects Translation Manager

SAP prompting support handled via common semantic layer

SAP BusinessObjects Web

Intelligence


SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceEmpowers End Users to Do Their Own Analyses

Business Metadata

Access heterogeneous

data sources

Easily navigate through

hierarchies


Analyze with few clicks

Analyze with few clicks

Context related right

click menu

Rich feature set

Drag and drop

Organized tool bar

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceInteractive Analysis Combined with Free-Form Reporting


SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0Productivity & Usability Improvements

Significant productivity & usability improvements

Access to most common features are prioritized and logically grouped by user activity

(Report, Format, Analyze, Access Data)

– Workflows built to reflect the natural flow for ad-hoc analysis and reporting users

– Modern look & feel and cleaner organization

Immediate access to most frequently used features in an activity

General user experience – icons, look & feel, terminology – is harmonized across the suite

Seamless integration within InfoView for better access to common workflows & services



Series of functionalities provide a first level of

interactivity for more casual users

No training required to use

Answers to most common questions are a click away

Relieves power users from most common requests to

personalize reports

Various Improvements

– New User Experience for Input Controls (Slicing/What if)

– Fold/Unfold of Report

– Navigation in hierarchies to find the root causes.

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Selling Expenses Growth

5%0% 10%



Reuse report elements across documents (charts, tables, queries, variables)

Enhanced Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V and Drag & Drop

Complex formatting is maintained

Target document gets updated to include necessary query data and variables



You can create a chart and associate dimensions and measures in Edit mode

No need to use Structure Mode

Incomplete chart are displayed as ―ghosts‖.

You can drag and drop objects into the chart – they are automatically dispatched to the relevant chart area

– You can also preselect objects prior to the insertion workflow.



Dimensional concepts

integrated into rich reporting

model

Navigate directly into the

report hierarchies to find root

causes

Dimensional charting


SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0Data Connectivity


Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW Query Element Web Intelligence

Characteristic Separate fields for key, and description per characteristic

Hierarchy Hierarchies are presented as real external hierarchies

KeyfigureMeasure element in a grouping called Keyfigure.

Each Keyfigure can have up to three elements: numeric value, unit, and formatted value.

Calculated Keyfigure Measure element in the folder Keyfigure.

(Information about the details of the calculated Keyfigure is not available in Web Intelligence.)

Restricted Keyfigure Measure element in the folder Keyfigure

(Information about the details of the restricted Keyfigure is not available in Web Intelligence.)

Filter Filters will be applied to the underlying query but are not visible in Web Intelligence

Navigational attribute Separate fields for key and description per navigational attribute

Display attributeThe display attributes are grouped together with the actual characteristic and are shown as subordinates in the

query panel


Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW Query Element Web Intelligence

SAP variables Parameters

Conditions Not Supported

Exceptions Exceptions are not supported. You can leverage Alerts in Web Intelligence

Keydates Keydate variables are supported

Display settings Most display settings are supported with the exception of local calculations

SAP BusinessObjects

Dashboards 4.0


SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsBI Platform Integration

BI Platform back-end optimized for dashboard flash front-end

Dashboards Processing server

Provides a thin processing layer between data source and dashboard front-end

Dashboards Cache Server

Caches query result set per security profile

Query caching policy define in management console (CMC)

Web

Application

Server

DashboardW

eb Services

Flash

Dashboard

CSL

Connector HTTP

Business Objects Enterprise

DashboardsPro

cessing Server

Dashboards

Cache Server

CSL Connection Server

WebI

Processing

Server

CMS Security and SQL

generation

SQL execution and

cache results

CORBA New


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0User Auditing and System Monitoring

Audit events

Dashboard User: View, refresh, prompt, logon, logout

Dashboards Designer: create, delete, modify

Server monitoring metrics include

Processing time, cache size & hits, requests (served, queued, failed),

connections, threads, data transfers,...


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0Multi-lingual dashboards

Publish a dashboard to the BI platform to allow Translation expert(s) to create localized text

for the dashboard

The Translation expert(s) use the Translation Manager to localize:

– Component Text Properties: Titles, subtitles, series names, category names

– Ranges in Excel marked as translatable by the dashboard designer

– Note: Text in Excel formulas is not translatable

They publish the text translations to the BI platform

The platform combines these translations with

the dashboard to create a localized dashboard

At runtime the platform displays the

localized dashboard that matches the

user Preferred Viewing Locale (PVL)


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Query Panel

Improved authoring via query integration and direct access to semantic layer

Define a query by dragging and dropping relational universe objects, dimensions and measures

Query sorting

Create filters or single or multi selection query prompts with or without List of Values than can be used with

a Prompt Selector

Query data preview

Query data

preview

Drag and drop

to create a

query


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Query Browser

Quick access to Query Panel to add and edit queries

Query summary view to see result objects, filters and prompts

Delete and refresh queries

Drag and drop prompts to the canvas to create a Prompt Selector

Query summary

Pin to auto-hide

drag prompt to canvas

Region Prompt

Selector

Optionally insert into the

spreadsheet


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Direct Data Binding

Bind directly from chart and selectors to query result objects

– The component will show more or less values depending on the number of rows returned by the query (no

need for Ignore End Blanks)

– Optionally bind query results to the spreadsheet

Live data preview at design time when using query data

Multi column components allow you to bind directly to multiple result objects


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Prompts

Auto prompt based on the prompt data type and whether is single or multi value prompt or cascading list of

values

Directly uses the available List of Values

Search or page through list of values as well as show or hide selected values

Single value showing list of values

Single valueMultiple select (in list)

from list of values

Search or page

through list of

values


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0Data Connectivity


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP NetWeaver BW

BW Query Element Xcelsius Designer Element (Direct Connection to SAP BW)

Characteristic

Each characteristic in the actual dataset is being retrieved based on the settings in the BW query. Settings in regards to

elements like key, short text, medium text, and long text are being leveraged from the BW query. In addition each

characteristic is also available with a list of members which can be used for filtering or provide a list of values for

variables.

Hierarchies Each level of the hierarchy will be presented but all levels are put combined into a single column in the data set. The

depth of the hierarchy depends on the configured number of levels in the BW query designer.

KeyfiguresEach keyfigure can be shown as plain numeric value or as formatted value based on the user preferences. This choice

can be made for each SAP NetWeaver BW connection configured in the Data Manager.

Calculated / Restricted KeyfigureEach calculated / restricted keyfigure is treated like a keyfigure. The user does not have access to the underlying

definition in the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards designer.

Filter

Filters will be applied to the underlying query and the user has access to the configured filter values and can use those

values for display purposes. In addition the user can set additional filter values for characteristics from the underlying BW

query during the runtime of the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards object.


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP NetWeaver BW

BW Query Element Xcelsius Designer Element (Direct Connection to SAP BW)

Navigational Attributes Navigational Attributes are being treated identical to a characteristic.

Display Attribute Display attributes can be used for a list of values and can become part of the overall dataset. In the actual dataset a

display attribute can only be shown in combination with the actual characteristic.

Variables Variables from the BW query are transferred to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards as part of the connection and will be

shown as variables in the Input Values area of the SAP NetWeaver BI connection settings.

Structure A single item with several rows

Conditions Fully Supported

Display Settings Fully supported

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,

Edition for Microsoft Office


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeSimpler and More Intuitive for Fast Business Insights

Modern and familiar

Microsoft Office user

experience

Simplified drag-&-drop to

filter, and slice-&-dice

Few simple clicks to

fast business insights


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeMore Powerful with Live Presentations

Live analyses embedded into PowerPoint

presentations

Analysis embedded as live object

Export current analysis from Excel

Insert BEx query results directly


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeMore Powerful with Pervasive BI Applications

Powerful application design

Combine multiple data sources

Free formatting of text elements

New APIs as Excel formulas

Support of BW integrated planning

High-performance run-time

Immediate response time regardless of data volume

Tight integration with in-memory acceleration

technologies


Analysis, Edition for MS Office:

Design Panel

Views

Analysis: Allows navigation, filtering, and so on

Information:

General information on the embedded data source or the workbook itself (i.e. last

data refresh, created by, and so on)

All relevant information (filters, variables, and so on) at one glance, in one place

Components: Structural information view either from the data source or the

worksheet perspective

Navigation

Simplified drag&drop within panel or into grid to filter, drill-down, slice&dice, replace,

and so on

Finger-tip access to hierarchies

Access to display attributes


Analysis, Edition for MS Office:

Context-Sensitive OLAP Functions

New options for the end-user

Excellent integration into the overall Office look & feel

Define conditional formatting (formerly ―exceptions‖)

Define filter by measure (formerly ―conditions‖)

Define basic and dynamic calculations

Excel commentary on data cells (kept in right place if crosstab changes)

New hierarchy features

Collapse into hierarchical structures (―display hierarchy‖)

Show/hide hierarchy levels

Sort breaking hierarchies


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeAdvanced Workbook Design & Sharing

Workbook Design

Easy insertion of multiple data sources (from multiple BW systems)

Improved overview of used elements in an Excel workbook

Free formatting of text elements (cells with meta data retrieval

formulas)

New APIs as Excel formulas (via VBA)

Add Excel-based charts

Easy consumption of Workbooks

Add information on the data sources (name, last update, …)

Add filter status and integrate filter dialogue

Sharing XLS Workbooks & PPTs

Save workbook/PPT presentation directly in BOE (if deployed) or on

3rd party repository (BW storage is not supported)


Edition for MS Office – High-Level ArchitectureScenario 1: Client/Server Deployment

saplogon.ini

Local file folder

and/or

3rd-party file server

BW

BI Consumer

Services (BICS)

1

2

3

1. Connection management

2. XL workbook / PPT management

3. Data access

1

2

3


BW

BICSSAP BusinessObjects

BI Platform

1

2

3

4

HTTP

Edition for MS Office – High-Level ArchitectureScenario 2: BI Platform Deployment

Connection management

XL workbook / PPT management

Data access

Batch publishing (future)

1

2

3

4


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeData Connectivity


Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office and SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Query Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

Keyfigure Measure

Characteristic Dimension

Variable Prompt

Characteristic Values Member


Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office and SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW Query element Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office

Characteristic Separate fields for key and description per characteristic.

Hierarchy Each available hierarchy is shown

Keyfigure Each Keyfigures is shown as a measure object (no separate fields for Unit)

Calculated Keyfigure & Restricted Keyfigure Treated like a keyfigure

Filter Filters will be shown in the navigation panel

Navigational attribute Treated like a characteristic

Display attribute Each Display Attribute is shown as subordinate for the characteristic

SAP variables Turned into prompts

Structure Structures are shown in the navigation panel and structure elements can be filtered / selected

Exceptions Are turned into ―read only‖ conditional formatting

Conditions Are turned into ―read only‖ Filter by Measure

Display settings Fully supported, for example scaling, rounding, …


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeIntegration with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1

Central provisioning of BW connections

Client-side Single-Sign On

Saving and sharing workbooks centrally (common xls / ppt info object)

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 4.0 (as of ramp-up start)*

Support system-type connection

Server-side and client-side Single-Sign On

Saving and sharing workbooks centrally (common xls(x) / ppt(x) InfoObject)

Interoperability with other clients: WebI, Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Web

edition based on Analysis View


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeTechnical Pre-requisites

Client Computer

Windows XP or higher

MS Office 2003 or higher / MS Office 2007 or higher for PowerPoint / MS Office 2010

No requirement for SAP GUI

Sizing: See SAP note 1466118

SAP NetWeaver BW

Version 7.0 or higher

No requirement for BI Java usage type

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform (optional)

SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 or SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0

Windows or Unix OS supported by the BI platform

SAP NetWeaver J2EE 7.1 or any web server supported by the BI platform


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeInnovate without Disruption for Immediate Benefits

Run with existing InfoProvider and queries

No need to migrate BEx queries

No need to change BW data models

Support BW 7.x and BEx queries 3.5/7.x

Transition BEx analyzer users now

Most BEx features already supported

Short-term plan for remaining gaps

Scheduling and variants planned for future

Adopt new BI platform at your own pace

Direct connection to BEx queries (BICS)

Deploy new BI platform only when needed


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeSAP BW Business Explorer (BEx) Maintenance

Existing BW / BEx objects

BEx queries, query views and BW info provides can be re-used within Analyis, edition for MS Office (BEx 7.0 & BEx 3.5 on top of BW7.x)

No need to migrate queries, no change in BW data models necessary

The SAP BEx Query Designer stays ‗as is‘ and can further be used for managing BEx queries

Business Explorer 7.0

Delivered and compatible with all current BW 7.x releases

Continues to be delivered with future SAP NetWeaver BW releases

Currently no planned end of life, however, no major feature enhancement will happen

Renewed maintenance with every major BW release according to SAP‗s support policies

Business Explorer 3.5

Delivered with BW 3.5 and maintained according to the policy of this release (see SAP note 1410878).

BEx 3.5 is also compatible with a BW 7.0 backend and has been delivered with BW 7.0. SAP will maintain BEx 3.5 functionality within BW 7.0

and subsequent releases until the end of BW 7.0 maintenance cycle.

Maintenance of BEx 3.5 is NOT extended with BW 7.30 or other future releases.

Note that full PAM support of BEx 3.5 cannot be granted by SAP – as Microsoft has removed, e.g., support for some components within

Windows 7 that are used by BEx Web Application Designer 3.5


Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeCo-existence of Analyis, Edition for MS Office and BEx Analyzer?

Coexistence of BEx Analyzer and Analysis, edition for MS Office

You can install BEx and Analysis, edition for MS Office on a single PC.

Only one add-in can be active in an Excel session (in other words, either BEx or Analysis, edition for MS Office

can be active)

Opening a BEx workbook activates the BEx add-in.


OLAP Edition



Edition for OLAP

Uncover Deep Business Insights with

Self-Service Analysis

Self-service analysis

Deep business insights

Leverage all your investments

Interact with multiple dimensions and hierarchies

Run deep analyses with advanced analytical

functions

Break data silos to enrich analyses and

visualizations



Edition for OLAP

Pervasive web-

based analysis

Modern look-and-feel with

intuitive drag-and-drop

Few simple clicks to fast

business insights


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Capabilities

New user experience

Task panel

Layout panel

Sheets

Quick Access & Tabbed toolbars

New data presentation

Positioning of members

Asymmetric drilling

Member reordering

Swap axes

New analytical capabilities

Sorting

Search

Conditional formatting

Calculations

Null and zero suppression

Multiple data sources

Deferred query (auto update)

New information sharing

Interoperability

Export to Excel and PDF


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Enhanced User Interface Designed to Optimize Workflows

Workflows such as filtering, conditional formatting, and adding calculations can all be achieved without hiding

your data (no more pop-up dialogs)

The Task panel enables conditional formatting to preview results


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Defining layout without dragging onto the crosstab or chart

Quickly view the orientation of the selected crosstab or chart

Add hierarchies to an existing analysis

Drag & drop hierarchies between the column, row, and background filter axes

Define filters and action other features on the hierarchy/dimension

The Layout panel is optional and can be hidden to increase the available real

estate in the workspace


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Sheets

A Sheet can contain a mix of up to four crosstabs and charts

In the Task panel, the Outline tab gives a holistic view of the workspace


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Simple and Direct Access to Complementary Features

Quick Access toolbar

Tabbed toolbars


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Conditional Formatting

Unlimited number of exception ranges can be created

Highlight cell background, cell value or add a symbol

9 levels of priority

Results can be previewed


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Deferred Query – Layout Data Without Running Queries

1

23


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP Export to Excel and PDF

Enhanced exporting to Excel

Number formatting and conditional formatting is

retained

Charts are exported

Analyses or sheets can be exported

Flexible printing as PDF

Print visible data or all data

Fit to page width

Specify headers and footers including custom text


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, OLAP EditionHigh-Level Architecture

Zero-client Web-based architecture

Analysis workspace management with the SAP

BusinessObjects BI platform

Data access with MDX queries to MS Analysis Services

BWMS Analysis

Services

BICS

AJAX & HTTP

SAP BusinessObjects

BI Platform

1

2

Web Browser

1

2


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, OLAP EditionData Connectivity


Analysis, OLAP Edition and SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW Query element Analysis, OLAP Edition

Characteristic Separate fields for key and description per characteristic.

Hierarchy Each available hierarchy is shown

Keyfigure Each Keyfigures is shown as a measure object (no separate fields for Unit)

Calculated Keyfigure & Restricted Keyfigure Treated like a keyfigure

Filter Filters will be leveraged but are not visible to the end-user

Navigational attribute Treated like a characteristic

Display attribute Display Attributes are not supported for Analysis, OLAP Edition in release 4.0. Planned for the 4.1 release

SAP variables Turned into prompts

Structure Structures are shown in the navigation panel and structure elements can be filtered / selected

Exceptions Are turned into ―read only‖ conditional formatting

Conditions Are turned into ―read only‖ Filter by Measure

Display settings Fully supported, for example scaling, rounding, …


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, OLAP EditionHigh-Level Architecture

Client Computer

Internet Explorer 7 or 8

Safari 4

Firefox 3.5

OLAP Source

SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 SP 23 or higher, SAP NetWeaver BW 7.01 SP05 or higher

No requirement for BI Java usage type

MS Analysis Services 2005 SP1, 2008, or higher

SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0

Windows or Unix OS supported by the BI platform

SAP NetWeaver J2EE 7.1 or any web server supported by the BI platform

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer


SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerWhat is SAP BusinessObjects Explorer?

Access any data

Type in business terms to start exploring data

Access data exposed by IT, or personal data

No report or data model knowledge required

Visual exploration

Look at top N values, sort or filter the data

Automatic chart generation

Interact with the data

Share Insight

Send link by email or bookmark

Use as starting point for further analysis

Access from iPhone or iPad


Finding and analyzing corporate information should be this easy

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Everyone is using Search

To instantly find facts

Weather

Stock Prices

To access information not readily available

New York city traffic map

Restaurant reviews

To investigate or do research

Ticket prices, hotels

Curiosity about a subject


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Everyone is using Search

Intuitively explore on data

No data model or data knowledge required

Web or Mobile

Automated relevancy of results

Most relevant information is displayed first

Best chart type auto generated

Share insights with others

Export to CSV or image

Save it locally as a browser bookmark

One-click send to email


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated

SAP BusinessObjects – Accelerated

Delivered as an appliance

Using BWA or SAP HANA as the data engine

Load from BW or any source (through data services)

Scale to terabytes of data

Index 200m records / hour

76

10 million

records

100 million

records

1 billion

records

At the speed of thought

In-Memory Acceleration

Response

Time in s


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What‘s new in 4.0Integration with BI Launchpad

1. Information Spaces appear in the

Document list

-Actions: “View” and “Properties”

3. Allows to launch

Explorer

2. Infoview search can

find Information

spaces


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What‘s new in 4.0Integration with BI Launchpad

1. Exploration performed in

Infoview tabs

2. Integrated Toolbar


Disk based

indexes

Explorer

Universes

UNX

Excel

Files

Any Relational

Data SourceDesktop

In Memory indexes

BWA Hana

SAP BW SAP ERP

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What‘s new in 4.0Supported data sources

UNX support

Multi source universe

New relational sources

Performance improvements

UNV to be converted to

UNX for use in Explorer

SAP HANA 1.0 support

Support for Analytic views,

and calculation views

BWA 7.2 support

Support for Microsoft Excel files


SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerData Connectivity


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – InnovationExploration Views

Empowers business users to easily create, navigate & share key business views.

Highly Personalized & Dynamic Experience

Leverage investments in Business Objects Enterprise, Explorer, in-memory data sources (HANA, BWA) &

Semantic Layer

Smart visualization with auto adapting Views on mobile devices.- Interact and analyze make informed

business decisions.

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APPENDIX

Planned features for SAP

BusinessObjects 4.1


SAP BusinessObjects 4.1Planned Improvements for Data Connectivity towards SAP Systems

Semantic Layer

– Data Connectivity towards SAP ERP

o Classic InfoSets

o ABAP Functions

o SAP Queries

Full Support for Scaling Factor

– Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Web Intelligence, SBOP Dashboards, Analysis OLAP Edition

Support for Level based Selection of Hierarchies

– Crystal Reports for Enterprise, Web Intelligence, SBOP Dashboards

Analysis, OLAP Edition

– Compact Display (Display as Hierarchy)

– Focused Navigation (Chart / Table)

– Support for Display Attributes

– Support for SAP HANA

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

– Leveraging the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise based OLAP Connections based on BICS

Data Connectivity and

Meta-Data Support


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Direct Access via BICS or Multi Source Universe

Re-uses your existing BEx Queries

Connectivity is shared across all BI client tools

Provides hierarchical meta-data

One Connection can point to multiple BEx Queries ( ≠ Multi-

Source)

Allows to connect to SAP ERP via Transient Provider (ECC 6

EhP05)

Support for BEx Query elements, such as structures, variables,

restricted and calculated keyfigures

No Customization of objects possible

No option to create your own objects outside the BEx Query

No connection limits possible (for example, timeout after 5 min)

Direct link to Infoprovider level

Allows to combine multiple source in a single connection

Allows you to customize the objects

Allows you to create your own objects and calculations

No support for external BW hierarchies

No support for restricted keyfigures

No support for calculated keyfigures

Direct BICS Connection Multi-Source Universe


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP LandscapeMeta-Data Support for BEx Queries

The following slides are based on SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

The listed support for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (former Xcelsius) is based on the direct connection

to SAP NetWeaver BW (not to confuse with the newly offered BI Consumer Services connection in SAP

BusinessObjects Enterprise)



BEx Query Element Crystal Reports

for Enterprise

(BICS)

Web Intelligence

(BICS)

Dashboards

(former Xcelsius)

(Using Direct

connection to

SAP BW)

Analysis, edition

for MS Office

Analysis, OLAP

Edition

SAP Business

Objects Explorer

Universe

(Relational)

InfoProvider Dimension

Characteristic

Characteristic with Hierarchy

Structure based on Characteristics

Navigational Attribute

Display Attribute

Key Figure

Unit / Currency

Calculated Key Figure

Restricted Key Figure

Compounded Characteristics (!) (!) (!)

Defaults in the BEx Query

Constant Selection




for Enterprise

Web

Intelligence

Dashboards

(former

Xcelsius)

(Using Direct

connection to

SAP BW)

Analysis,

edition for MS

Office

Analysis, OLAP

Edition

SAP Business

Objects

Explorer

Universe

(Relational)

Single Value Variable -

Multi Single Value Variable -

Interval Variable -

Selection Option Variable (!) (!) -

Hierarchy Variable (!) -

Hierarchy Node Variable (!) -

Hierarchy Version Variable -

Text Variable -

EXIT Variable -

Single Key Date Variable -

Multiple Key Data Variable -

Formula Variable -

Default Values for Variables -




for Enterprise

Web

Intelligence

Dashboards

(former

Xcelsius)

(Using Direct

connection to

SAP BW)

Analysis,

edition for MS

Office

Analysis, OLAP

Edition

SAP Business

Objects

Explorer

Universe

(Relational)

Scaling Factor (!) (!) (!)

Number of Decimals

Display Result Rows (top / bottom) - -

Suppress Result Rows - -

Calculate Result as… (local calculation)

Display as hierarchy

Sorting

Hide / Unhide

Reverse +/- signage




for Enterprise

Web Intelligence Dashboards

(former Xcelsius)

(Using Direct

connection to

SAP BW)

Analysis, edition

for MS Office

Analysis, OLAP

Edition

SAP Business

Objects Explorer

Conditions in rows

Conditions in columns

Conditions on selected characteristic

Exceptions

Empty / non empty


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP LandscapePossible workarounds

BEx Query Elements Relational Universe

Calculated / Restricted Keyfigures Define calculated measures as part of the Universe

Variables Define prompts as part of the Universes or Web Intelligence Query Panel.

Not possible for EXIT variables or variables filled through authorizations

Currency and Unit Conversion Possible with manual modeling of tables with conversion rates in the SAP BusinessObjects Universe Designer and joins in Data

Federator.

Display Attributes Possible with joins from InfoProvider to the master data tables in the Universe.

External BW Hierarchies No Workaround

Conditions Use filters on measures.


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP LandscapeCompounded Characteristics

Compounded Key Values

– Combined Key Value for the ―compounded‖ characteristic except

for Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office

Cascading prompts for compounded characteristics

– Supported by Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office only


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP LandscapeScaling Factor

Scaling Factor is supported, but the information about the

actual scaling factor is missing

… with the exception of

– Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

– SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP LandscapeLocal Calculations

Local Calculations

– Items like a Ranking configured in the BEx Query

Key Figures configured with a local calculations are

filtered out for

– Crystal Reports for Enterprise

– Web Intelligence


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP LandscapeConditions

Conditions can be configured to be

– …applied in the rows

– … applied in the columns

– … applied on fixed characteristics

– … applied independently

As of SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 only

– Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office and

– Analysis, OLAP Edition f

fully support Conditions

Hierarchical Reporting

Capabilities


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical CapabilitiesCrystal Reports for Enterprise

Support for hierarchical member selection

Support for hierarchical parameters

Support for hierarchies in charts and crosstab

Support for ―delegated measures‖

Support for hierarchical report design

Not part of Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0:

Switching between hierarchies on the fly

Level based member selection


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical CapabilitiesWeb Intelligence






Not part of Web Intelligence 4.0




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical CapabilitiesAnalysis, Edition for Microsoft Office & OLAP Edition






Support for Level based member selection

Support for exchange of hierarchies


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical CapabilitiesDashboards

Support for hierarchical member selection via BEx Web Runtime

Support for hierarchical parameters via BEx Web Runtime


Not part of Dashboards 4.0





Support for Level based member selection

Support for exchange of hierarchies

Hierarchical visualizations are planned for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – Hierarchical CapabilitiesCommon Items

Hierarchical Member Selection

In SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 for Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and Dashboards the selection is based on

members and it is a fixed selection (not on levels)

Hierarchical charting

Hierarchical charts are not offering a drill down in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

Migrating XI 3.x BI Content to

SAP BusinessObjects 4.x


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationMigrating BI Content from XI 3.1 to 4.0

The following steps are purely focusing on migrating the BI content

… for Crystal Reports 2008 (BW MDX Driver) moving to Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0 (BICS Connectivity)

… for Web Intelligence XI 3.1 (OLAP Universe) moving to Web Intelligence 4.0 (BICS Connectivity)

IMPORTANT:

Remember that the new connectivity does not allow for customization or custom objects

>> Means all needed objects need to be part of the underlying Bex Query


Migrating XI 3.1 OLAP Universe to BICS Connection

– Step 1: Open the Web Intelligence report in Edit Mode

– Step 2: Use the Change Source Menu




– Step 3: Change the source to the new BICS Connection




– Step 4: Map the existing fields to the new list of fields

Issues in 4.0

– Unit / Currencies & Hierarchies



Migrating Crystal Reports 2008 to Crystal Reports for Enterprise

– Step 1: Open the Crystal Reports 2008 report to Crystal Reports for Enterprise




– Step 2: Change the connection to the new BICS Connection




– Step 3: Map the fields to the new meta-data


SAP BusinessObjects

Integration with Solution

Manager


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager

SAP SOLUTION MANAGER

Component-

Specific Tools

End-to-End

Root Cause AnalysisLower mean

time to resolution

End-to-End Change Analysis

End-to-End Workload Analysis

End-to-End Exception Analysis

End-to-End Trace Analysis

C(++)ABAP Java .net

Technical

Monitoring, Alerting &

AdministrationOptimize operations

Technical

ReportingProve value to business

MANAGED SYSTEMS

SAP EarlyWatch Alert

Service Level Reporting

Standard IT Reporting

Customer BW Reporting

Technical Monitoring & Alerting Technical Administration

Unified Alert Inbox

Alert correlation & propagation

Open monitoring infrastructure

IT Calendar

Task

Management

Runbook

Tools

Explorer

Central planning and tracking

Standardized and guided operations

Open automation infrastructure

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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager

Supportability Integration Points

CTS + Integration

SAP Passport and Unified tracing

Solution Manager Configuration

SLD (System Landscape Directory)

Central dynamic Trace switch

Activity / Resource Monitoring

AppSight Instrumentation

Introscope Instrumentation

Single user trace

Administration read only role

Remote Access


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – System Landscape Directory

Problem:

Several employees have complained that the system has not worked correctly for several days.

The company support organization is informed about the problems and is starting root cause analysis

using SAP Solution Manager.

To begin the analysis of the problem, the end-to-end change analysis application will be used to check

if configuration changes might be the root cause.

Solution:

Information stored as part of the System Landscape Directory allow for End to End Change Analysis

Examples of available information:

SAP BusinessObjects web tier configuration data

SAP BusinessObjects Services layer

Platform Services Configuration


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – System Landscape Directory

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Compare Configuration of QA and

production landscape

or production landscape at two

different point in times

Select Configuration store

group

Select Configuration

store(e.g. configuration file

stored in file system)

View configuration

Enable History Filter

(Display of changed

configuration

parameters only)

Change timestamp to be analyzed


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – Exception Analysis

Problem:

An employee reports errors using the Web Intelligence application.

To analyze the problem, the End-to-End Exception Analysis application will be used to isolate the

component that causes the problem and to analyze error messages written by the component.

Solution:

End to End Exception Analysis integrated with SAP Solution Manager allow for alerting and analysis of

thresholds for SAP BusinessObjects components

Examples:

SAP BusinessObjects web tier

– Java Application Errors (from Web Application Server Log)

– Event Log Errors (Windows only)

SAP BusinessObjects services layer

– Server error Logs

– Event Log Errors (Windows only)


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – Exception Analysis

Number of error messages per BO

server component

When did most of the error messages

occur

Change timeframe to be analyzed

Switch to detailed views with error

message details per software

component




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – Workload Analysis

Problem:

Several employees of a company have complained about slow system response during the generation of Web

Intelligence reports over the last few days.

To begin the analysis of the problem, the end-to-end workload analysis application will be used to analyze which

component is responsible for the long running requests and whether resource bottlenecks occur.

Solution:

Central monitoring and End to End Workload analysis using SAP Solution Manager is providing alerting and

monitoring functionality for the SAP BusinessObjects environment and the SAP environment in a single

environment

Examples:

SAP BusinessObjects Services

– Average Response Time per Request

– Number of Requests

– CPU & Memory Util.

– Calls to Data Source


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – Workload Analysis

Most important performance KPIs per

server component

Check performance in time profileChange timeframe to be analyzed

Switch to detailed views with

performance metric details per BO

Server




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – Tracing

Problem:

An employee complained about high system response time while refreshing an Interactive Intelligence report.

End-to-end trace analysis will be used to determine whether the high response time is mainly caused by client or

server processing or network and which request and component accounts for the highest part of the response

time.

Solution:

Using the central trace integration with SAP Solution Manager provides access to tracing and log files

Examples:

SAP BusinessObjects web application layer

– HTTP Request Analysis

– Server Analysis

– Log Viewer

SAP BusinessObjects server layer

– Server Analysis


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – Tracing

Check which parts of response time

are spent in Client, network, server

Check HTTP status codes of requests

Detailed Analysis

Filter only most expensive requests

Check which parts of response time

are spent per applications server host

involved




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Solution Manager – Remote Support

Remote Support Component for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

Focused on SAP customers who only use SAP BusinessObjects (without SAP NetWeaver / SAP BusinessSuite)

allows customers to better manage, monitor and evaluate their SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system

Functionality Available

SAP Early Watch Alert: This report provides a summary of the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system landscape

and its configuration.

Examples are; system and hardware configuration, software versions, key performance indicators, detailed

service settings, and SAP BusinessObjects technology checks.

Root Cause Analysis: A systematic top-down approach to determine where and why a problem occurred, as well

as defining how to perform a root cause analysis across different support levels and different technologies.

Auto update: If SAP create new functionality or bug fixes for remote support component the software downloads

updates for itself and installs them automatically.

Which SAP BusinessObjects solutions are supported?

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 SP2 and future versions

Further details: http://service.sap.com/rsc

http://service.sap.com/rsc

SAP BusinessObjects LCM

Integration with CTS+


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationLifecycle Management

CTS

Change and Transport System

To synchronize content in SAP ABAP deployments

CTS+

Enhanced Change and Transport System

Used to transport non ABAP objects

TMS

Transport and Management System

Transaction STMS

Define transport domains and transport routes

Transport all changed objects from one system to

another.

Transport organizer

Transport routes



LifeCycle Manager is a Web-Based tool that enables you to

Promote Business Intelligence resources from one BusinessObjects system to another BusinessObjects system

Manages dependencies of BI resources

Rollbacks a promoted resource to restore the destination system to its previous state

Manages different versions of BI resources

No additional licensing required

Available now at the SAP

Service Marketplace extranet


BOE Systems


TMS System-Landscape Configuration – Representation of BOE Systems

TD1

(DEV System)

TESTTD2

TESTTD1

TEST

XYZ

TD2

(Test System)

XYZ

(Prod System)

Promotion of

Jobs

Application

Type

BOLM

Transport

RequestTransport

RequestTransport

Request

ZIP

Application

Type

BOLM

Start the import in

TMS to process the

job

Collect

objects

Promote via CTS

Job

Transport

RequestTransport

RequestTransport

Request

ZIP

Transport

Organizer

Web UI





1. Change(s) made in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Development system

2. Lifecycle Manager used to:

Collect changed objects & any required internal dependencies into ―Promotion Job‖

Associate any external dependencies with the promotion job (e.g. BEx Queries)

Assign Promotion Job to Transport Request

Export to CTS+ consolidation environment

3. Transport Request is being released. CTS+ transports objects via Transport Routes to various

Transport nodes (destination systems)

4. Lifecycle Manager import plug-in called at destination & changes committed to destination system

(>> SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 4.0)

All objects committed with administrator credentials

Overrides to database connections are applied based on override table at destination system

Related objects (e.g. BW) committed to appropriate destination as well



Home page shows status of promotion jobs

Jobs can be organized and secured by folders

Click ―New Job‖ to create a new promotion job



The destination is ―Promote via CTS‖ option.



Objects are selected



Selected Objects depends on a BEx Query

The BExQuery can be selected and a reference

added to the job



2nd Level SAP BW Dependencies are shown



Default Transport Request is

assigned.

BW dependencies may be in different

Transport Requests.



The job resolution status is

displayed.



The request can be

released from LCM.



Content Overview in

CTS+



Request Import in

the target system



Option to release

directly available

SAP BusinessObjects

Integration of BEx Web

Applications


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationIntegration of BEx Web Applications

Integration of SAP BEx Web Application Java

runtime into SAP BusinessObjects BI platform

No additional SAP NetWeaver J2EE stack

required

SAP NetWeaver BI 7.01 SP08 required

BI Launch Pad

BusinessObjects BI Platform

BI Consumer Services

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Queries /

InfoProviders

BEx Web

Templates

Adv. Analysis

(Web) Runtime

BEx Web

Runtime

BEx Web

Applications

BEx Web Application

Designer 7.x


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationIntegration of BEx Web Applications

Existing BEx Web Applications can be executed from BI Launch Pad


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationOverall Landscape

Current deployment option Additional option in combination with SBOP 4.x


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationOverall Landscape

SAP Netweaver Java stack is not required for BEx WAD running in BI Platform

SAP Netweaver Java stack is not required for using the direct BICS connection towards SAP

NetWeaver BW

With the exception of Xcelsius 2008 / Xelsius 4.0 (>> planned for4.1)

Due to the missing SAP Portal component there are limitations on functionalities in SBOP 4.0

No Knowledge Management, i. e. no operations involving documents are possible

Adobe Document Services (ADS) is not available (PDF generation is done via own SAP library)

Report-Report-Interface is not possible

On the BI Platform, the BEx WAD Runtime does not support Information Broadcasting

Multiple Backend (ABAP) BW system is not supported

Single Sign On is not supported (planned for SP02)

SAP BusinessObjects

Integration with SAP Enterprise

Portal


SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP IntegrationSAP Enterprise Portal Integration

Portlet providing BI launch pad features – enabling

rapid deployment of BI frontend application in portal

Feature parity with BI launch pad – all BI contents, all

actions (view, edit, create, schedule)

Viewing portlet for building custom portal application

UI driven workflows to display documents

Supports browsing the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

repository


SAP Community Resources

SAP BusinessObjects Community

SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution Architecture

www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/bi-solution-architecture

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business intelligence 4.0

Documents

sharing workbooks centrally

ms officemore powerful

crystal reports designer

grouping called keyfigure

system landscape directory

ms office high

hierarchical parameters support

delegated measures support