Tips and tricks using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 on

top of SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse data. (#512)

Gregory Botticchio / Patrice Le Bihan

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Agenda

Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client

Why SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence ?

Implementation Best Practices for Web Intelligence on SAP NetWeaver BW

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

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Selecting the Right SAP

BusinessObjects BI Client

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

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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?

Dashboards

How do I answer

ad hoc questions

and interact with

information?

Interactive

Reporting

Web

Intelligence

Data Exploration

How do I find

immediate answers

to business

questions?

Explorer

How do I determine

trends from

complex historical

data and possibly

make better

forecasts?

Analysis

Analysis, Edition

for Office & OLAP

How do I access

and transform

corporate data into

highly formatted

reports for greater

insight?

Reporting

Crystal Reports

BI Application

Design

How can IT create

centrally from

simple to complex

BI applications for a

larger audience ?

Analysis, Edition

for Application

Design

Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Portfolio

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Different Needs Require Different Experience

Executive

Individual Contributor

Middle Management

Business Analyst

Information

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[ Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Different Needs Require Different Experience

Analysis, edition

for OLAP

Analysis, edition for

Microsoft Office Web Intelligence

Business

Analyst

Analysis, edition for

Microsoft Office

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

Individual

Contributor

Analysis, edition for

Microsoft Office

SAP BusinessObjects

Dashboards

Analysis, edition

for OLAP

Middle

Management

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Executive

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Your consumer is driving the business requirements

We will focus on the consumer of reports and analytics in this presentation

IT will always play a role as part of your BI deployment to build the foundation

Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Different Needs Require Different Experience

Setting up BEx Queries

Creating pre-defined workbooks

Building BI & Planning Applications

Dashboard Design

Setting up BEx Queries

Setting up connections

Report Design

IT Crystal Reports

Web

Intelligence

Dashboards

Analysis

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Why SAP BusinessObjects

Web Intelligence ?

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ The Solution: Business Intelligence (BI)

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text Access Format, layout

add context

Share,

distribute Analyze

Business User

Information

usage

Life Cycle

Understand aggregates, details and

relationships & interdependencies

with other content

Communicate content to a

small or broad audience.

Users can start at any point in the cycle, interacting even with highly

formatted content created & shared by others

Interact with formatted reports to explore

and answer new questions

Ask questions on existing analytic

content or based on corporate

and personal data sources

Other users access/personalize

to their contexts

inside/outside their work

environment, Push and pull

information

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Why Web Intelligence ?

Report Design

Report Consumption

Share and re-use

Web Intelligence 4.0 and SAP NetWeaver BW

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Self-Service Access to Data Empowers End Users to Do Their Own Reports and Analyses

Business Metadata

Access heterogeneous

data sources

User-defined

Queries

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Streamlined access to all corporate data sources Unique options for bringing BW and 3rd-party data together

Best access method for each specific data source: SAP, RDBMS, OLAP

Multi-source universes with built-in data federation for SAP and RDBMS

Dimensional universes for 3rd-party OLAP data sources

Reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc, data

exploration

3rd-party

Data

Warehouse

Analysis

SQL

Universes (Unv)

3rd-party

OLAP

Server

MDX

MDX

3rd-party

OLAP

Server

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Query

InfoProviders

Multi-Source Universes (Unx)

SQL BAPI

BICS

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Access to heterogeneous data sources Combine multiple data sources within a report

Synchronize different BEx queries with a

common dimension.

Merge BEx queries with other data

provider such other RDBMS or Excel file

Merged

dimensions for

data

synchronization

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Unified experience across all data

sources with new semantic layer

For OLAP sources:

Query Stripping: Improved

performance by

automatically removing

unused objects

Integration of hierarchical

concepts into query panel

user experience

Common User Experience Across All Data Sources

Selection in

value-based

hierarchies

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Analysis Your Way

Interactive Analysis Combined with Free-form Reporting

Analyze with few clicks

Analyze with few clicks

Context related

right click menu

Rich feature set

Drag and drop

Organized tool bar

Analysis Your Way Interactive Analysis Combined with Free-Form Reporting

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Heat maps, tree maps

New look Tag Clouds

Bubble charts

Adaptability, Stunning Visualization

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Dimensional concepts

integrated into rich

reporting model

Navigate directly into

the report hierarchies to

find root causes

Dimensional

charting

Navigate and Report Hierarchical Data

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Why Web Intelligence ?

Report Design

Report Consumption

Share and re-use

Web Intelligence 4.0 and SAP NetWeaver BW

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Why Web Intelligence ? Gain Business Insight with Interactive Reports and Analysis