SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution ArchitectureSAP BusinessObjects BI Clients – Detailed Information

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SAP BusinessObjects BI SolutionsDeliver Business Insight and Enable Effective Analysis

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?

How do I answer ad

hoc questions and

interact with

information?

Interactive

AnalysisData Exploration

How do I find

immediate answers

to business

questions?

How do I determine

trends from complex

historical data and

possibly make better

forecasts?

Analysis

How do I access

and transform

corporate data into

highly formatted

reports for greater

insight?

Reporting

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The de facto standard for reporting

Proven world standard for report design

Ubiquitous reporting assets and expertise for fast

implementation

Chosen reporting solution by over 500 major independent

software vendors

Deploy a common framework for all enterprise

reporting needs

Build any kind of report – such as business, financial, legal,

and regulatory reports

Sophisticated report formatting: create multi-page, multi-

query, pixel-perfect reports

Templates and wizards to speed up

report creation

Secure, large-scale distribution of reports

over the Web

Connectivity to any data source

BI Solution: Enterprise ReportingProduct : SAP Crystal Reports

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BI Solution: Enterprise ReportingProduct : SAP Crystal Reports

Incremental update to CR 2008 with a few

new features

Focused on serving the needs of Partners

and Volume customers

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 SAP Crystal Reports for

Enterprise 4.0

With the release of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 4.0, there will be two

versions of Crystal Reports available.

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BI Solution: Enterprise ReportingProduct : SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Empower business users with powerful, yet

easy to use analysis

Intuitive, Web-based interface with offline capabilities

Start from a blank slate or use an existing analysis or

report

Multi-source access

Interactivity with filtering, ranking, sorting,

calculations, etc.

Data lineage

Lighten IT workload

Self-service analysis and reporting

Controlled and secure access with

tight BI platform integration

Intuitive, business-centric view of information with

universes

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BI Solution: Dashboarding & Data VisualizationProduct : SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (former Xcelsius)

Consume attractive, personalized

dashboards online or offline

Access to personalized, Flash-based dashboards

Secure visualizations anywhere – portal, reports,

PDF, MS Office documents

Empower business users with interactive

information

Powerful “what-if” analysis with sliders and other

controls

Ability to drill-down into details

Pre-built components, skins, maps, charts, gauges,

and selectors

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BI Solution: Data Search and ExplorationProduct : SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Bring BI to all business users

Simplicity and speed of search

Intuitive data exploration and visualization

Fast response across mountains of data anywhere in

the organization

Accelerated version with in-memory technologies

Help IT to be successful

Easy and efficient to manage

and scale

More reactive to business with faster delivery

Support for heterogeneous data sources

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BI Solution: Analytical ReportingProduct : SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

Empower analysts to consume and explore

multi-dimensional data sets

Comprehensive OLAP data access

Multiple OLAP cubes in the

same work space

Quickly find patterns, exceptions,

and other areas of interest

Comprehensive range of business and time calculations

Stunning visualization options (e.g., scatter plot, bubble

plot, radar

chart, etc.)

Exception highlighting

Ability to drill-down into details – Web Intelligence or

Crystal Reports

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BI Solution: Analytical ReportingProduct : SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, OLAP edition

Uncover Deep Business Insights with web-

based self-service Analysis

Analytical questions can be pursued immediately

Optimized for highly interactive analysis

New analytical capabilities

Conditional Formatting

Calculations

Null and Zero suppression

Multiple data source in a single workspace

Deferred query (auto update)

Interoperability with SAP BusinessObjects BI

solutions

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BI Solution: Analytical ApplicationsProduct : SAP BusinessObjects Analysis , edition for application design

Purpose built analysis templates and

applications

Target User Group

IT, Designer, Power User

Functionality

Eclipse-based application design environment for

planning & analytical apps

Access to SAP NetWeaver BW via BI Consumer

Service (BICS)

Integrated with SAP BusinessObjects

Premium Alternative to BEx Web Application

Designer

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