SAP BO Analysis Office Release 1.4

David Richert

W E L C O M E

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Agenda

1. Overview

2. Added Value

3. How to work with Analysis Office?

4. Demo

5. Prerequisite, Report Report Interface, Launcher

6. Data Connectivity

7. Analysis for Office Roadmap

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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office OLAP Analysis for SAP BW and SAP HANA (Office + Web)

Modern and familiar

Microsoft Office user

experience

Build powerful Excel

workbook BI

applications Support BW-Integrated

Planning

Target User Groups:

BI Professional

Business User

Create live

PowerPoint

presentations

Added Value

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Analysis Office: Added Value

1. Design/Task/Navigation Panel, like Excel Pivot table

2. Drag and Drop

3. Undo button and Pause refresh button

4. PowerPoint Integration

From Excel to PowerPoint, or a new analysis within PowerPoint

5. Easy insertion of multiple data sources

6. Add multiple Bex queries (Data Sources) to one workbook

7. Formula Editor (Finance Reports example)

8. Integrated BW-IP (Planning Functionality)

9. Smart Copy -> Copy Source to Design Studio

10. Broadcasting (Next Release of SAP BO Platform)

SAP

Frontends

R/3 Non

SAP

SAP

BW Business

Content

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Copy / Paste

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Example process:

formatting

Manually: consolidation in ppt

Manual saving of workbooks

Manager Management

P&L

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Solution: Live PPT Presentations

Live analyses embedded into

PowerPoint presentations

Export current analysis from Excel

Insert BEx query results directly

Analysis embedded as live object

How to work with Analysis ?

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End user

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Pivot table look and feel

Drag and drop within panel Drag and drop on result set Access to display attributes Move the hierarchy on to the grid without going back to Query Designer

Define Conditional Formatting (BEx: Exceptions) was only available before in Query Designer

Define Filter by Measure (BEx: Conditions)

Define basic and dynamic calculations

Excel comments on data cells

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Deeper Analysis from advanced user

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Actor: Business Analyst

Description: Ad hoc Analysis

Successful criteria: Ad hoc data analysis, slicing/dicing in Excel

Share data by embedding BI data in PowerPoint presentations

Using Report-Report Interface for Business navigation logic

No training required since it is an Excel-like Interface

Creating Office Workbooks using SAP Queries as a DataSource:

On the fly calculations

May create filters for consumption of consumer

Uses Display panel

Uses Pause/Refresh button

Combines multiple sources

Creates charts

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Actor: Report Developer

Description: Develop Workbooks , Style Sheets

Successful criteria: Create Workbooks

Create BEx Queries

Create Custom Style Sets

General Troubleshooting

May wait to migrate more complicated VB workbooks, or simply recreate in

Analysis

Use API to build sophisticated workbooks

Set up default template

Report Developer

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New in Release 1.4

Analysis Suite

Interoperability with Design Studio

Automatic transformation from Analysis Office apps to iPad

apps

Enhancemed BI Platform Support

Single Sign-On and LCM (requires BI 4.1)

Innovation

Waterfall Charts

Continuous Improvements

Broadcasting via BI Platform 4.1 (Feature Pack planned for Q3

2013)

Launch Query Designer

Access Mode, Versioned/time-dep hierarchies, de-/activate

hierarchies, Data Refresh, Member selector for mass data (note

1824726)

GA since May 2013

Analysis,

edition for Microsoft Office

Using Design Studio

runtime

iPad App

Pre-req, Report Report Interface Launcher

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Pre-Requisites

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Report Report Interface (RRI) Jump to several Destionations (RSBBS)

Data Connectivity options in Analysis Office

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Data Connectivity Options in Analysis Office

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1. Recommendation: SAP Bex Query

No need to change (Migrate) Bex Queries or BW Model

2. SAP Bex Query Views

3. InfoProvider directly

4. HANA (Calculation and Analytical views)

5. SAP ERP (InfoSets with transisent InfoProvider)

Roadmap for Analysis for Office

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SAP Product Road Map for Analysis, edition for MS Office Key themes, capabilities, and planned innovations

Highly interactive

multidimensional analysis on

SAP sources (BW & HANA)

MS PowerPoint Publishing

Excel-based application design

via powerful API

Analysis Excel write-back on

BW-IP (integrated planning)

Combine local and corporate

data (via BW Workspaces)

Conversion support

Scheduling and publication

HANA SSO

Continuous Improvements for

BW

Dynamic Grid, i.e. enhanced formatting options in analysis

mode

Comments

Enhanced PowerPoint support

Native HANA & HANA

platform

Lumira Integration

Access to 3rd party sources

(via DSL/Universes)

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Planned RTC: Q3 2013

Today Planned Innovation Future Direction

Thank you

Contact information:

Plahl, Guenter Mohamed Abdel Hadi David Richert

Business Development Senior Solution Advisor Senior Solution Advisor

+41 79 335-0744 +41 79 197 70 40 +41 79 307 64 29

guenter.plahl@sap.com mohamed.abdel.hadi@sap.com david.richert@sap.com