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The Business Intelligence Experts

What to Do With BOBJ in 2009

Tanner Spaulding, SAP LabsDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT


Introductions

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The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by toolSoftware rampup plans Training plans What can be done nowWhat are others doingKey points take away Questions and Answers

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Agenda

© SAP 2008 /

Product Directions for BI SolutionsRichest Offering for All Business Users

SAP BEx AnalyzerSAP BEx Analyzer VoyagerVoyager

Web App DesignerWeb App Designer

PredictivePredictive

Report DesignerReport Designer

Web IntelligenceWeb Intelligence

Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports

XcelsiusXcelsius

BI WidgetsBI Widgets

Web ServicesWeb Services

And Much More…

PolestarPolestar

Mobile BIMobile BI

Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform

AdvancedAnalysis

EnterpriseReporting

Dashboards,Visualization

Ad-hocQuery &Reporting

BusinessObjects EnterpriseBusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWASAP NetWeaver BW and BWA

© SAP 2008 /

Product Directions for BI SolutionsSAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions

PredictivePredictive

Web IntelligenceWeb Intelligence

Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports

XcelsiusXcelsiusWeb App DesignerWeb App Designer

Report DesignerReport Designer

Pioneer (OLAP Analysis)Pioneer (OLAP Analysis)

BI WidgetsBI Widgets

Web ServicesWeb Services

And Much More…

PolestarPolestar

Mobile BIMobile BI

Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform

AdvancedAnalysis

EnterpriseReporting

Dashboards,Visualization

Ad-hocQuery &Reporting

BusinessObjects EnterpriseBusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWASAP NetWeaver BW and BWA

© SAP 2009 / 6

Enterprise Reporting

Dash-boardsCrystal

Xcelsius

Pioneer

WebIntelligence

Ad-hocReporting

Ad-hoc BI Search

How Business Objects Tools Expand the Scope of BI


Dash-boards

AdvancedAnalytics

Polestar

Functional Scope of the SAP BusinessObjects Tools Suite

© SAP 2009 / 7


Dash-boardsCrystal

Xcelsius

Pioneer

WebIntelligence


PolestarFast BI Search for masses of casual users

Polestar

Each tool in the suite has its specific strengths and is tailored to a specific purpose . Which tools and combinations to use depends on customer needs & strategy

© SAP 2009 / 8


Dash-boardsCrystal

Xcelsius

Pioneer

WebIntelligence


Polestar

WebIntelligence

AdHoc Reporting for Business users

- Adhoc report design- Merge personal & corporate data- Same online & Offline experience


© SAP 2009 / 9


Dash-boardsCrystal

Xcelsius

Pioneer

WebIntelligence


Polestar

PioneerAdvanced Analytics for Business Analysts

- AdHoc OLAP- Packaged OLAP Content


© SAP 2009 / 10


Dash-boardsCrystal

Xcelsius

Pioneer

WebIntelligence


Polestar

XcelsiusDashboards for information consumers

- Packaged BI dashboards- Dashboard design for professional users


© SAP 2009 / 11


Dash-boardsCrystal

Xcelsius

Pioneer

WebIntelligence


Polestar

Crystal

Packaged formatted reports for the entire enterprise-- easy to consume-- pixel exact & print optimized




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Agenda

© SAP 2009 / 13

Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.0

BW

Data Federator

RDBMS Analytic Engine

OLAP BAPI ODBOXMLA

UniversesQT ODA

SQL Access MDX Access

WebIXcelsius

QaaWS

BIA

© SAP 2009 / 14

Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.01

BW DF Fascade

Data Federator

RDBMS Analytic Engine

OLAP BAPI ODBOXMLA

UniversesQT ODA

SQL Access MDX Access

WebIXcelsius

QaaWS

BWA

changes and additions in red

© SAP 2007 /

Comparison

BW Server Feature MDX SQL

BW Hierarchies

Restricted and Calculated Key Figures

Security

BW Variables

Currency and Unit Conversion

Exceptions, Conditions

SUM, MIN, MAX Aggregations

AVG, COUNT, COUNT DISTINCT, … Aggregations

OLAP Cache

Navigational Attributes

Mass Data Enabled

Federation (e.g. BW – RDBMS, BW – BW)

= fully supported = limited support / workaround

© SAP 2007 /

WebI – BW Interoperability via ODA (MDX)Architectural Overview

Functionlibrary

Executioninstance

Parser

Query execution controller

MetadataBAPIs

RowsetAPIs

DatasetBAPIs

MDX engine

Analytic Engine

BIA or RDBMS

ODA

RFC

Implementationof Unorder()function for optimizing Sorting

Optimizationof memoryconsumption

Optimization ofthe exchange protocoal (binary XML) and format (rowsets; internal API)

Adapt MDX and Flattening to new Format

© SAP 2007 /

WebI – BW Interoperability via ODA (MDX)Details

Improvements1. Avoid unnecessary sorting

MDX standard imposes results to be sorted However, those sorts are typically ignored or not required by WebI sorting can be avoided by using a new UNORDER() function in SAP's MDX

2. Leaner memory consumption during flattening optimized flattening algorithm non-standard result structure

3. Leaner communication ODA – OLAP BAPI use compressed data exchange via binary XML

Availability SAP NetWeaver BW 7.01 SP 3 Business Objects Enterprise XI3.0/XI3.1

XI3.0 :Fix Pack 2 w/ LAFix2.1 XI3.1 :Fix Pack 1.2 SAP Integration Kit Fix Pack 2 w/LAFix2.1

© SAP 2008 /

Advanced OLAP Analysis Product Integration Roadmap

Pioneer (code name for 2010 release) provides a superset of capabilities from SAP Business Explorer (BEx) Analyzer (Excel), SAP BEx Analyzer (Web), and SAP BusinessObjects Voyager

Migration from Voyager workspaces to Pioneer Web and from BEx Analyzer workbooks to Pioneer Office

*Embedding of web apps built with BEx Web Application Designer into Pioneer Web by 2010 with a later migration to the Pioneer Design SDK

OLAP Analysis

2008 2009 2010

PioneerPioneerVoyagerVoyager

BEx Web AnalyzerBEx Web Analyzer

BEx Analyzer (Excel)BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel)BEx Analyzer (Excel)


BEx Analyzer (Excel)BEx Analyzer (Excel)


VoyagerVoyager

PR

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BEx Web App Designer*BEx Web App Designer* BEx Web App Designer*BEx Web App Designer* BEx Web App Designer*BEx Web App Designer*

InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal

Option for BW Customers: Embedding BEx Web Templates with Long-Term Migration Strategy

SAP BOE Platform

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Web Templates

Pioneer Web Server

Workspace

PIO Web Tab

BEx Web Tab

…

BI Consumer Services

BEx Queries/ InfoProviders

Pioneer Web Client

BEx Web App Designer

SAP BOE Platform

Pioneer Web Server

Workspace

PIO Web Tab

BEx Web Tab

…

BI Consumer Services

Pioneer Web Client

Pioneer Designer/ SDK

SAP NW BW

BEx Web Templates

BEx Queries/ InfoProviders

BEx Web App Designer

Migration options via Pioneer SDK

planned 2010 future

InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal

© SAP 2007 /

© SAP 2008 /

What Is Polestar? It’s Search Against BI…

Use familiar key-word search to find business informationAnswers “on-the-fly” and

investigative questions

Searches directly on pre-indexed dataNo previous reports or metrics

need existProvides fast search and

exploration

Searches across all data sourcesAny universe accessible

sourceAny BW Accelerator accessible

sourceNote: BI Accelerator is now called BW Accelerator

© SAP 2008 /

…and Then It’s Exploration Of the Results

Intuitively explore on dataNo data model or data

knowledge required

Automated relevancy of resultsMost relevant

information is displayed first

Best chart type auto generated

Share insights with othersExport to Web Intelligence, CSV or imageSave it locally as a browser bookmarkOne-click to send a link to the results by email

SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator andSAP BusinessObjects Polestar Integration



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Ramp-Up Availability

Some Observations….



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SAPBO SAP Business Objects for SAP NetWeaver BW

future

New 2 day course offering from SAP Education for training on Business Objects integration with SAP NetWeaver BW

Two dates are currently scheduled in June for virtual course delivery

June 1 – 2, 2009

June 25 – 26, 2009

See the following link to the Course Description for more detailed information on the content covered

SAPBO Course Description

http://www.sap.com/usa/services/education/usacourse.epx?context=%5B%5B%7CSAPBO%7C%7C1%7C091%7CUS%7C%5D%5D%7C



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What can be Done in 2009- Implementations

Suggestion Tool PurposeVisual Composer VisualizationWeb Intelligence Ad-hocBI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop IntelligenceCrystal Report Formatted reportsBPC Consolidation & PlanningBI Accellerator In memory performance

Candidates for Implementations in 2009

Source: SAP, 2009

Visual Composer

Widgets

BI Accellerator

Web Intelligence (webi)


The two types of Universes

There are currently 2 ways to get at the SAP BI data.

If you implement this year, you need to make concious decisions about which method you select. There are pros and cons of each

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What can be Done in 2009- Take a Look at…

Polestar is an interesting technology that companies may start a prototype with and see how it can help them access BI data from a variety of sources (NW and others)

Xcelsius

Polestar

Suggestion Tool PurposeXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine

Pioneer BEx web & Excel

Worth a Prototype

Keep an Eye on, but wait until the new release


What can be Done in 2009- Prototype

Consider building a Xcelsius Prototype to get used to really interactive dashboards and what-if analysis.

Suggestion Tool PurposeXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine


Worth a Prototype


Xcelsius

Source: Adobe, 2009


What can be Done in 2009- Keep doing…

There are many classical SAP NetWeaver tools that should still be used by companies that are planning go-lives in 2009.

Integrated planning is still supported.Pioneer is still 12 months awayWAD will continue to be the development

environment for 2009.

Suggestion Tool PurposeWeb Application Designer Web developmentBEx Web Web reportingBEx Excel Excel reportingAnalysis Process Designer Structured AnalysisIntegrated Planning Planning

Keep doing for a while longer


Stop As soon as possible

If you need Formatted Reports in 2009, you should seriously consider Crystal Reports. The current roadmap calls for moving Report Designer into regular maintenaice at the end of 2009, and stop further development of this tool.

Looking forward to Xcelsius and Pioneer, it may be advisable to limit futher custom development in JSP unless it is not intended to be migrated at a future date.

Suggestion Tool PurposeReport Designer Formatted reportsCustom JSP pages Custom applications

Stop when possible



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What are Others Doing – Example 1

Many are starting to develop and prototype on the SAP BOBJ toolset.

This company is planning to rollout webi and their new ad-hoc query environment to a limited set of users in 2009.

The project team is small and the development will also serve as a proof-of-concept for future cokpit development in 2010.

Company AMfg.

BI version 7.0

Casual users 209

Power users 15

Dashboards -

System size 3 Tb

Live since 2001

2009 Initiatives Webi and Crystal Reports go live in

October

Team size 3.5

Area



This company wants to start tooling up their development team and have decided to start an Xelcius prototype effort for 2009.

They also plan of migrating some of their current custom web dashboards into Visual Composer for a go-live this fall.

Their initial team size is relativly small, with one consultant and a couple of employees.

Company BInsurance

BI version 7.0

Casual users 713

Power users 30

Dashboards 28

System size 800 Gb

Live since 2000

2009 Initiatives Prototype with Xcelcius and VC dashboard

deployment in September 2009

Team size 2.5

Area



This company is rolling out formatted reporting to their core financial team and have decided not to use Report Designer.

Instead they are rolling out Crystal as their core platform for pixel controlled formatted reports.

They also want to start the team transition to Xcelsius and is therefore also developing some prototypes on this technology.

Company CUtility

BI version 7.0

Casual users 806

Power users 50

Dashboards 42

System size 4.6 Tb

Live since 2004

2009 Initiatives Crystal rollout October and Xcelsius Prototype

Team size 5

Area



This company rolled out Crystal reports on SAP BI in 2006 and is starting in 2009 with a project effort to migrate to Xcelsius for web rendering and cockpits.

They have also started to develop visual composer cokpits that they plan on integrating into Xcelsius later in spring 2010.

Company DMfg.

BI version 7.0

Casual users 1012

Power users 18

Dashboards 22

System size 2.1 Tb

Live since 2003

2009 Initiatives Visual composer and Xcelsius integration of existing crystal reports,

go-live Nov. 2009

Team size 6

Area



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Summary – Ideas for SAP BOBJ in 2009

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Suggestion Tool PurposeVisual Composer VisualizationWeb Intelligence Ad-hocBI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop IntelligenceCrystal Report Formatted reportsBPC Consolidation & PlanningBI Accellerator In memory performanceXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine

Web Application Designer Web developmentBEx Web Web reportingBEx Excel Excel reportingAnalysis Process Designer Structured AnalysisIntegrated Planning PlanningReport Designer Formatted reportsCustom JSP pages Custom applications


Candidates for Implementations in 2009

Worth a Prototype


Stop when possible

Keep doing for a while longer


The total BOBJ toolset - Advanced Analytics

Source: SAP March, 2009

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While we covered the core BOBJ tools that relates directly to SAP BI, there are many other tools available:

This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market

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The total BOBJ toolset –Dashboards & Visualization

Source: SAP March, 2009This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools,

not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market


The total BOBJ toolset – BI Best-of-Breed tools




The total BOBJ toolset – Data Integration




The total BOBJ toolset – Masterdata Management

Source: SAP March, 2009This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools,

not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market



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Questions and Answers

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Resources

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On –line Material, Presentations and Downloadswww.Comerit.net

Help @ SAPhttp://help.sap.com > ‘BusinessObjects’ top level navigation tab

SAP BusinessObjects Developer Community on SDNhttp://boc.sdn.sap.com‘BusinessObjects version of SDN’Communities, Beta Product downloads, Webinar information, E-Books, Developer Conference 2007 slides, Free Trial downloads, more!...Check out the blogs and forums – there is already some great content posted

Ingo Hilgefort’s bolg:https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/251909211

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Roadmap and Roadmap FAQhttps://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b00a1a75-c49d-2b10-0ebb-ecc80ab88994https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap-faq

http://www.comerit.net/

http://help.sap.com/

http://boc.sdn.sap.com/

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/251909211

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b00a1a75-c49d-2b10-0ebb-ecc80ab88994

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b00a1a75-c49d-2b10-0ebb-ecc80ab88994

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap-faq

confidential49The Business Intelligence Experts

New SAP Press Book

New SAP Press book by Ingo Hilgefort to be released in May 2009

Great resource for technical installation, implementation, and integration information

http://sap-press.com/product.cfm?account=&product=H3034




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