SAP Visual Intelligence

Solution Overview

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At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Explain the capabilities, components, and benefits of Visual

Intelligence

Explain how SAP Visual Intelligence fits into the Analytics portfolio

Objectives Slide

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Ignite creative ideas

SAP Visual Intelligence

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What is SAP Visual Intelligence?

Who is it for?

Acquire, combine, and manipulate a variety

of corporate and personal data sources

without reliance on IT

Enhance data by merging, cleansing,

calculating, and easily adding geospatial and

time hierarchies

Analyze and visualize data on the fly and

creating compelling, engaging, intuitive

visualizations and share insights with others

What is it for?

SAP Visual Intelligence allows business users to acquire, manipulate, analyze and

visualize data from corporate and personal data sources to discover and share insights.

Business User

Analyst

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Key Capabilities SAP Visual Intelligence

Acquire data from a variety of corporate and personal data sources

Real time on massive volumes of detailed data with native access to our in

memory solution (SAP HANA)

Merge, correct, manipulate, and perform calculations without scripting

Easily enhance data with time and geographic hierarchies

Intuitive data exploration and visualization tools to automatically design a

variety of powerful charts

Add overlay charts to display geographical visualizations on a map

Save and share visualizations with others

Key Capabilities

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Importing Data Sets

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Quickly Merge Data Sources

SAP Visual Intelligence allows business users to:

• Merge data from different data sets based on values common to both

such as a customer ID or name column

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Semantic Element Detection

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Easy Data Manipulation

SAP Visual Intelligence allows business

users to:

• Modify case

• Find and replace

• Fill values with characters

• Trim values to remove characters

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Find and Replace

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Group Values

SAP Visual Intelligence allows business

users to:

• Treat unique values as a group

• Group related products, customers,

or other entities

• Group spelling variations

(color vs colour)

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Filter, Sort, and Format Values

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Manipulate Columns

SAP Visual Intelligence allows business

users to:

• Duplicate, rename, and delete

columns

• Create new columns using functions

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Create Calculated Columns

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With Built in Help

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Data Grid SAP Visual Intelligence Interface Views

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Data Facets SAP Visual Intelligence Interface Views

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Visualize SAP Visual Intelligence Interface Views

Learn more about the new visualization engine.

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Trellis Charts

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Split SAP Visual Intelligence Interface Views

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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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Interactive Visualizations

Track KPIs and summary data

Authored by IT

Highly visual and interactive

Business Intelligence Clients from SAP

Discovery Analysis

Dashboards

Access and Analyze

Slice, pivot OLAP data

Optimized for OLAP data and cubes

Reporting

Broad Distribution

Mass distribution of formatted information

Push (scheduled) or pull (end user driven)

Authored by end users and/or IT

Predict and Optimize

Understand what drives the business

Model and predict future outcomes

Unleash Business User Creativity

For analysts and users within lines of business

Acquire, cleanse, and visualize data.

Web based or desktop.

Predictive

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP Visual Intelligence

SAP Predictive Analysis

SAP HANA Predictive Analysis Library

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio (Zen)

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

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Differentiators and Benefits SAP Visual Intelligence

Eliminate bottlenecks by providing analysts

with the tools they need to examine and

investigate departmental data

Visualize the big picture, drill into the details,

and present data in intuitive charts

Faster time-to-value and reduced learning

curve

Benefits

Data Acquisition without

reliance on IT

Data Manipulation

without reliance on IT

Instant Visualization on

any volume of data

Top Differentiators

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Check Your Understanding (Quiz Question Example)

Which data manipulations are capabilities of SAP Visual

Intelligence?

Choose the correct answer.

Modify case (Correct answer)

Find and replace (Correct answer)

Fill and trim values (Correct answer)

Treat unique values as a group (Correct answer)

Create calculated columns (Correct answer)

Correct!

Sorry, that is incorrect. SAP Visual Intelligence provides all

of this functionality

Quiz question template

Presales Tutorials

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Overview

With SAP Visual Intelligence, you can directly access a wide range of

databases that support Freehand SQL.

In this tutorial, you will access the Customer table in an Oracle

database, and then fine-tune your selection using Freehand SQL query

statements.

Tutorial: Connecting to a freehand SQL data source

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Overview

SAP Visual Intelligence’s manipulation tools offer a quick and intuitive

way to edit and cleanse local datasets such as Excel and CSV files.

In this tutorial, you will use the manipulation tools to split and rename

columns, replace misspelled values, trim leading and trailing spaces,

and group related records.

Tutorial: Manipulate a dataset

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Overview

SAP Visual Intelligence offers the ability to identify and categorize data

into measures and apply semantic enrichments to create hierarchies.

Adding hierarchies to your dataset enables you to easily group and drill

down through your visualizations.

In this tutorial, you will categorize and add time and geographic

hierarchies to your dataset.

Tutorial: Apply semantic enrichment to create hierarchies

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Overview

You can merge the contents of two local datasets, provided they share a

column that contains the same data.

In this tutorial, you will merge the eFashion and Branch datasets.

Tutorial: Merge two datasets

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Overview

SAP Visual Intelligence provides a broad selection of chart families and

types that you can use to create visual representations of your dataset.

In this tutorial, you will create visualizations using different chart types,

and then apply sorts, add calculations, and save the visualizations.

Tutorial: Create data visualizations

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Overview

One of the key features of SAP Visual Intelligence is the ability to

connect online to analytic views in SAP HANA.

In this tutorial, you will connect to an SAP HANA analytic view.

Tutorial: Connecting to an SAP HANA analytic view

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You should now be able to

Explain the capabilities, components, and benefits of Visual

Intelligence

Explain how SAP Visual Intelligence fits into the Analytics portfolio

Lesson Summary

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For more information on topics discussed in this lesson, see the

following references: SAP Visual Intelligence Resource Library

SAP Visual Intelligence Product Tutorials

SAP.com/TryVisualIntelligence

Business Intelligence Resource Library

Demo Resource Library - Offline Demos, Recorded Demos and Demo Script

Product Availability Matrix (PAM) - Bundles technical and release planning information on

SAP software product versions for quick reference.

SAP Software Download Center – Access the SAP software portfolio

Partner Enablement Center - Expert sessions, workshops, eLearning, demos, and more.

SAP Customer Testimonials - More than 100,000 customers of all sizes and in all

industries

SAP Help Portal bundles access to SAP product documentation and also related

information, such as SAP Notes, product availability information, as well as community

content.

Related Information

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