extending the self-service capabilities of sap bi with sap businessobjects explorer 4.0 fp3 and sap...
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http://spr.ly/SBOUC_VP - SAP continues to extend how its customers enable self sufficiency of the business with SAP Business Explorer and the recently-introduced SAP Visual Intelligence. Learn how customers are leveraging these solutions to deliver value and agility into the business. Presenters: Pierre Leroux and Saskia Battersby, SAP. Try SAP Visual Intelligence free today: http://spr.ly/VisiFreeDownloadTRANSCRIPT
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September 10-13, 2012 Orlando, Florida
Extending Self-Service Capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects BI
SAP Visual Intelligence and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
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IS BI ADOPTION STILL A CHALLENGE?
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Among Knowledge Workers, Is It?
25% 50% 75%
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Very Much…
50% of
Knowledge Workers Have Access or Utilize BI / Analytics
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011
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Making Huge Progress …
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011
Which of the following users have access or utilize BI/analytics
today (2012)?
65%
IT
Management
58%
C-Level Corporate
Executives
75%
Business
Analysts
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Still Lagging …
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011
Which of the following users have access or utilize BI/analytics
today (2012)?
24%
Customer-Service
Reps
28%
Sales force
8%
All
Employees
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Barriers to BI/Analytics Adoption
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011
What are the barriers to adopting BI/analytics products
enterprisewide?
40%
Scalability
37%
No Agreement on
Product(s)
45%
Ease-Of-Use
Challenges
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Standard Reports
Ad-hoc Reports
OLAP & Visualization
Dashboards & Scorecards
Exploration & Visualization
Value
Predictive Modeling
Traditional BI Answers Known Questions
Org
aniz
atio
nal
& C
om
pet
itiv
e Im
pac
t The BI Spectrum: Known Vs. Unknown
Self-Service BI Answers Unknown Questions
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All Levels of The Business Have Questions
Suppliers Consumers
Retailer Distributor Warehouse Plant
As an Analyst, I need to know
which of our customers are…
As the VP Operations,
I would like to know…
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There Are Challenges to Get Timely Answers
Suppliers Consumers
Retailer Distributor Warehouse Plant
I spend all my time preparing
and sharing data with my team.
I have no time to deliver
valuable insights.
I am tired of waiting on others to
provide the answers to the
questions I have now.
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The Starting Point for Your Questions
Cloud Explorer Mobile
Explorer Web
Visual Intelligence
Search
Explore
Share
Acquire
Transform
Visualize
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With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, You …
Share answers and insight with other
people
Explore data using interactive
visualizations
Access data exposed by others
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Type in Business Terms and …
Use keyword search
Results ranked by data relevance
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Start Exploring with Point-And-Click Interface
Faceted navigation
Best chart type auto generated
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Create Ad Hoc Dashboards
Explore data behind the dashboard
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Ad-Hoc Discovery Everywhere
Explore data behind the dashboard
Easily navigate dashboard
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With Geo-Location Awareness
Analytics, maps and geo-location together
Visual map overlay on point-of-interest data
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With SAP Visual Intelligence, You …
Iteratively discover data
by building visualizations
Synthesize and transform
data the way you want it
Acquire data from corporate
& personal sources
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Acquire Data
Growing list of Database Sources including Teradata, Sybase IQ, SQL Server and
Oracle
Leverage investment in SAP Universes,
both UNX and UNV
Support online access for massive data volumes
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Transform Data Dynamically
Combine Corporate and Personal Sources
Easily Understand what is possible with
contextual suggestions
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Intuitive Discovery and Analysis Experience
Automatic time and geography awareness
Consume, categorize, and filter measures
and variables Easy drag and drop for
immediate ad-hoc views, no need to build queries or
scripts
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Beautiful Analytics to Convey and Share Knowledge
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VISUAL INTELLIGENCE VS. EXPLORER: SPOT THE DIFFERENCES
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Visual Intelligence Vs. Explorer: 3 Differences
Build Your Own Visualizations
Transform Data The Way You Want It
Acquire Your Own
Data
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USER POWERED, IT APPROVED!
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Self-Service - no need for IT to create report or dashboard
Connected to enterprise BI -leverage existing BI assets
Simple to manage and scale
IT Approved
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DEMO
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Latency in analysis of information impacts decisions
Data
Warehouse / Marts
OLAP
Transactional
System
OLTP
Real-time
posting
into Transactional
System
Aggregation
Batch transfer to
Data Warehouse
Limited flexibility due to
pre-defined data structures
Long query run-times
Loss of detail
Long Wait times for reports
Reporting
Challenges
Large Volumes
High Impact
'Real Life'
Business
Transaction
Analysis and Insight
Action
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What if this would all happen real-time?
Real-time
Loading into SAP
HANA
High Performance
Large Volume Data
Processing
Fast, flexible and detail
analytics over large volumes
SAP HANA
IN-MEMORY
SAP
HANA
'Real Life'
Business
Transaction
Analysis and Insight
Action
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Benefits – SAP Visual Intelligence on SAP HANA
For the Business For IT
Self-Service Ability for end-users to create and visualize
their own analytics without engaging IT
Increased Adoption of Analytics
Intuitive interface requiring minimal user training
Faster Time to Analysis Achieve faster response time and better
understanding with insight in visual form on SAP HANA
Total Cost of Ownership Leverage existing SAP HANA investment ●
1 platform to deploy and administer
Connected to the Enterprise
Leverage existing data, security, and administrative services
Secure One IT-sanctioned security model and single sign on
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Get
Started Learn about both solutions 1
See a demo On the show floor
2
Try it with your data! sap.com/tryvisualintelligence
3
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Thank You!
Contact information: Saskia Battersby [email protected] Pierre Leroux [email protected]
blogs.sap.com/analytics
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FF03148AD0742B1
twitter.com/#!/search/%23sapvisi
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