ASUG - GB - Web Intelligence 4 0 3 What's New_09012012

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Web Intelligence 4.0 FP3 What’s new? Gregory Botticchio / Solution Management, Web Intelligence

January 2012

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Agenda

Product description

What’s new ?

Quality, Usability and Stability Improvements

Hierarchies and BW integration

Charts improvements

Interoperability, security and integration

Product description Positioning Web Intelligence in BI Suite


Web Intelligence in the Suite

Dashboards

Reporting

OLAP

Analysis Data

Exploration

How do I visualize

key performance

indicators for

better decision

making?

How do I answer

ad hoc questions

and interact with

shared

information?

How do I find

immediate

answers to

business

questions?

How do I uncover

trends from

historical data and

make possible

better forecasts?

How do I turn data

into pixel-perfect

formatted reports

for greater

insight?

Web

Intelligence

Self-service interactive

reporting product

• Intuitive, easy to use for

business users and

information consumers

• All in one, with wide

coverage of use cases

• Any data sources &

combined data sources

• Share trusted insights


SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Product description

With SAP® BusinessObjects™ Web Intelligence® software, companies can perform sophisticated ad hoc

reporting and analysis. Powerful functionality and an intuitive user interface enable your people to turn data

into insights, improve decision making and productivity, and share knowledge across the enterprise.

Access to heterogeneous data sources

Combine multiple data sources within a report

Flexibility and control

Create new reports or modify existing reports

Interactive and intuitive interface

Use the organized toolbar, menus, drag-and-drop features,

and charting options

Online and offline reporting and analysis

Ask questions, analyze data, and identify trends no matter

where you are

Consistent, familiar metadata

Leverage semantic layer and common business terms

View definitions of document filters, report objects,

variables, and formulas and keep track of data modifications

Leverage reports in BI Mobile

What’s new? New features in 4.0 Feature Pack 3


Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Quality, Usability and Stability Improvements

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Continuous improvement is our first focus. This deals with global application stability, performance

enhacements for most used interactions and, customizable document style to avoid formatting each report

elements individually.

Application performance

Reduced delay after each modification done in the report

Reduction of server CPU load

Better perception of fluidity; especially on big documents

Rich Client quick launch

Keep application loaded after last document closed

Reduce launch when reopening a document.

Report Style Management (CSS)

Import/Export of a WebI cascading style sheet file

Reset to the default style supposed to define the

company’s corporate style

Available on Rich Client and Applet only


Rich Client quick launch

Goal: reduce time to open WRC

WRC Quick Launch, adds a new icon in the system tray

Basic menu interactions possible : New Window / Quit

When closing all WRC Windows/documents, then the application continues to run in

background, unless the user specifically ask for its closure

Then when opening a new wid from file, or asking for a new window, the response is

immediate with absolutely no delay

Note : User session is kept when closing the window. Only closing the application discards user session What it means?

Once authenticated to the CMS, user can close the WRC Window, he will still use the enterprise session next time he wants to open a document from the CMS – until session timeout


Report Style Management (CSS)

Easily defined your Corporate

report formatting

Clear the formatting already applied

Import/Export the Cascading Style

sheet

Modify the Cascading Style Sheet

Can be promoted to all end-users

Available in Rich Client or

applet

In the document property dialog box,

select “Change Default Style”

Then import/Export or reset the CSS

Note : Default CSS can also be set for all reports on the server


Other enhancements

Simplified Sorting

Apply directly a Sort to a Dimension or Measure

Access the Sorts without having to select the “Manage Sorts” option

Available for Table and Charts

Complex Sorting is managed via “Manage Sorts”


Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Hierarchies and BW integration

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Hierarchies are now supported in the all workflows : from interactive input, navigation to display. This allows

also to better support OLAP data sources & BW integration.

Supports of Hierarchies

Member selection based on levels

Input Controls on Hierarchy

Charts with hierarchical dimensions

Drill Up, Drill Down, Expand, Collapse, Show/Hide

parents on Charts

Additional BW Integration

Scaling Factor: Expose scale factor value as a key figure

attribute

Prompt on Hierarchy

Select Europe to drill down



Enhancement in the member selector dialog box of the query panel

Select all the members by name or by level

Implicit member selection from a node until a specified depth




(1/2)

UNX OLAP or BICS

Type simple or multiple

selections

Used to apply a filter operator

« Equal To » or « Not Equal

To » to a report element




(2/2)

Presentation in tree list instead of

flat list like with report filter in Filter

bar

User can see selected member by

clicking « Selection »

Keys can be displayed after display

values

After checking items of the tree list,

user must validate by clicking

« OK »



Charts with hierarchical

dimensions :

BICS or OLAP UNX

Hierarchical labels in category

axis for most charts

Hierarchical navigation

Based on contextual menu

Expand or Collapse

All/Children/Descendant

Drill Focus down/up

In contextual menu

Drill focus down with simple

click on chart element or label

when a sub level exist

Drill Focus up otherwise



Bex Scaling Factor Support:

• Expose scale factor value as a

key figure attribute



“Merge dimension” by details

Zero suppression (not specific to BEx queries)

Prompts on member selection

Disable member selection when Hierarchy Node variable exists to prevent data

inconsistency

Prefix Key and Name attributes with parent name

Hierarchy variable exists: remove hierarchies from query panel other than default hierarchy

Enhance change source from a OLAP BW universe (UNV) to BICS – Enable free mapping between source universe (UNV) objects and target BEx objects

– Some mapping constraints are maintained: filters from source can only map to filters in the target

source


Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Charts improvements

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

Chart improvements are done in all directions: extension of the library, ease of reading (same colors

through sections) and ease of customization.

Color Assignment of series

Apply a color using the Toolbox to the selected series

Series colors are synchronized through all sections

SAP standard palette

Enhanced chart library: Waterfall

Flat vs. hierarchical Waterfall

Options to display totals

Chart Edition

Selectable Areas for direct formatting in toolbars

Contextual toolbar enhancements

Improved Sorting Context Menu

Fig 2. Waterfall chart

Fig 1. After setting a color palette, changing High priority to red. Applied to all pies.


Color assignment of series

Better Color Management

Color Synchronization across sections

Color can be chosen by the user to a legend item

Color is maintained during “turn into” operations between charts with equivalent data assignment


Enhanced chart library: Waterfall

New Waterfall Chart

Simple Waterfall chart

Hierarchical Waterfall, with Treenodes and intermediate or final totals


Chart Edition

Zone Formatting

All the zone composing a chart can be formatted individually

Note : DHTML Limitation no series selection feedback, Formatting chart areas using the toolbox


Web Intelligence 4.0 Feature Pack 3 Interoperability, security and integration

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

In 4.1, the Web Intelligence DHTML closes the previously 4.0 gap with the applet and Rich Client by

providing the ability to create documents and add or edit queries

Query panel on DHTML

Query panel for UNV and UNX

SharePoint Integration

Publishing

Integration and Security

New export format “save as txt”

SEC 144 security standard


Query panel on DHTML

DHTML Query Panel

100% HTML, no download

UNV & UNX universes

No BEx support yet


Integration and Security Find locally critical info stored in wid and unv/x

Critical Security Issue Solved with SEC144

Context

Web Intelligence Rich Client (WRC) = Desktop tool, storing resources locally (wid, unv & unx)

WID & UNV contain DB connexion string, login & pass

Critical Weakness usable to hackers

Architecture Change in 4.0 Feature Pack3

Wid & Unv do not contain critical info anymore (Only a connection id)

Access to database is delegated silently to the server backend

WRC only receives a dataset from backend, without seeing critical info at anytime

The delegated refresh is triggered by a new security right added at connection Object Level

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Thank You!

Contact information:

Gregory Botticchio

Solution Management / Web Intelligence

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