SAP Business Objects BI4 and SAP Landscapes - An Integration Overview

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

- Integration with SAP - Ingo Hilgefort, SAP Canada

October 2011

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SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Portfolio




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

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

Analysis

Data 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




Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Product Crystal Reports

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




Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Product 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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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

Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Product SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards




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

Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Product SAP BusinessObjects Explorer




Empower analysts to consume and explore

multi-dimensional data sets

Comprehensive OLAP data access

Multiple OLAP cubes in the same work space

Available for Web based and Microsoft Office focused deployments

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

Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Product SAP BusinessObjects Analysis




SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and SAP NetWeaver

Direct native access to SAP BW

Direct BICS access to BEx queries is strategic

Leverage previous investments in BEx queries

Unified BI application layer for all cases

BEx Web templates hosted within BI 4.0

BEx WAD publishes BEx Web templates to BI 4.0

SAP Solution Manager integration

Unified system monitoring

End-to-end root cause analysis

SAP Change and Transport System integration

Unified change and transport management

Lifecycle Manager triggered from SAP CTS+

Common infrastructure

Unified Java application environment

Continued support for SAP NetWeaver WAS* Support made available pursuant to the support timeline in the Product Availability Matrix located on SAP Service Marketplace

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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Connectivity for SAP Landscape Direct Access via BICS

Direct dimensional access to your BEx queries

No need to create a universe

Support of hierarchies and dimensional metadata

Hierarchical query panel

Member selector

Hierarchical navigation

Member functions

Hierarchical report output

Hierarchical columns

Fold unfold

Level totals

Hierarchical graphics

Multi-data provider synchronization

Hierarchical formulas on report

Universes for OLAP access to BW currently fully supported*

OLAP universes XI 3.x currently hosted and supported in BI 4.x releases on Web Intelligence, Live Office, and Query as a

Web Service

No further enhancement to functionality or performance




Low TCO Access to SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Query

Crystal

Reports

Web

Intelligence Xcelsius

Universe

InfoProviders

BICS BAPI

MDX

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Query

Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence,

Dashboards, and Analysis

InfoProviders

Before: Silo’ed connectivities

in SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 After: Unified direct BICS access

in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0

BICS




Best Access to All Data Sources

Best access method for each specific data source: BICS, SQL, MDX

New dimensional universes for third-party OLAP data sources

New multi-source universes with built-in data federation

Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence,

Explorer, and Dashboards

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Query

InfoProviders Third-party

Data

Warehouse

Analysis

SQL SQL

Multi-Source Universe Universe

Third-party

OLAP

Server

MDX

BICS BICS MDX

Third-party

OLAP

Server




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Data Connectivity Options

Crystal Reports for Enterprise Web Intelligence




Navigating BW Hierarchies Surfaced from BW and BEx Queries

Crystal Reports for Enterprise Web Intelligence Analysis
























BI Launch Pad

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Integration of BEx Web Applications

Integration of SAP BEx Web

Application Java runtime into SAP

BusinessObjects BI platform

No additional SAP NetWeaver

J2EE stack required

BusinessObjects BI Platform

BI Consumer Services

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Queries /

InfoProviders

BEx Web

Templates

Analysis

(Web) Runtime

BEx Web

Runtime

BEx Web

Applications

BEx Web Application

Designer 7.x




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Integration of BEx Web Applications
























SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager

Component-

Specific Tools

End-to-End

Root Cause Analysis

Lower mean

time to resolution

Technical

Monitoring, Alerting

& Administration

Optimize operations

Technical

Reporting

Prove value to business

SAP SOLUTION MANAGER

End-to-End Change Analysis

End-to-End Workload Analysis

End-to-End Exception Analysis

End-to-End Trace Analysis

C(++) ABAP Java .net

MANAGED SYSTEMS

SAP EarlyWatch Alert

Service Level Reporting

Standard IT Reporting

Customer BW Reporting

Technical Monitoring & Alerting Technical Administration

Unified Alert Inbox

Alert correlation & propagation

Open monitoring infrastructure

IT Calendar

Task

Management

Runbook

Tools

Explorer

Central planning and tracking

Standardized and guided operations

Open automation infrastructure

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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager

Supportability Integration Points

CTS + Integration

SAP Passport and Unified tracing

Solution Manager Configuration

SLD (System Landscape Directory)

Central dynamic Trace switch

Activity / Resource Monitoring

AppSight Instrumentation

Introscope Instrumentation

Single user trace

Administration read only role

Remote Access




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager – System Landscape Directory

Problem:

Several employees have complained that the system has not worked correctly for

several days.

The company support organization is informed about the problems and is starting

root cause analysis using SAP Solution Manager.

To begin the analysis of the problem, the end-to-end change analysis application

will be used to check if configuration changes might be the root cause.

Solution:

Information stored as part of the System Landscape Directory allow for End to End

Change Analysis

Examples of available information:

SAP BusinessObjects web tier configuration data

SAP BusinessObjects Services layer

Platform Services Configuration



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Compare Configuration of QA and

production landscape

or production landscape at two

different point in times

Select Configuration

store group

Select Configuration

store(e.g. configuration

file stored in file system)

View configuration

Enable History Filter

(Display of changed

configuration

parameters only)

Change timestamp to be analyzed

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager – System Landscape Directory




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager – Exception Analysis

Problem:

An employee reports errors using the Web Intelligence application.

To analyze the problem, the End-to-End Exception Analysis application will be used

to isolate the component that causes the problem and to analyze error messages

written by the component.

Solution:

End to End Exception Analysis integrated with SAP Solution Manager allow for

alerting and analysis of thresholds for SAP BusinessObjects components

Examples:

SAP BusinessObjects web tier

Java Application Errors (from Web Application Server Log)

Event Log Errors (Windows only)

SAP BusinessObjects services layer

Server error Logs

Event Log Errors (Windows only)




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager – Exception Analysis

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Number of error messages per

BO server component

When did most of the error

messages occur

Change timeframe to be analyzed

Switch to detailed views with error

message details per software

component




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager – Workload Analysis

Problem:

Several employees of a company have complained about slow system response

during the generation of Web Intelligence reports over the last few days.

To begin the analysis of the problem, the end-to-end workload analysis application

will be used to analyze which component is responsible for the long running

requests and whether resource bottlenecks occur.

Solution:

Central monitoring and End to End Workload analysis using SAP Solution Manager

is providing alerting and monitoring functionality for the SAP BusinessObjects

environment and the SAP environment in a single environment

Examples:

SAP BusinessObjects Services

Average Response Time per Request

Number of Requests

CPU & Memory Util.

Calls to Data Source




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager – Workload Analysis

Most important performance

KPIs per server component

Check performance in time

profile

Change timeframe to be

analyzed

Switch to detailed views with

performance metric details per

BO Server




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager - Tracing

Problem:

An employee complained about high system response time while refreshing an

Interactive Intelligence report.

End-to-end trace analysis will be used to determine whether the high response time

is mainly caused by client or server processing or network and which request and

component accounts for the highest part of the response time.

Solution:

Using the central trace integration with SAP Solution Manager provides access to

tracing and log files

Examples:

SAP BusinessObjects web application layer

HTTP Request Analysis

Server Analysis

Log Viewer

SAP BusinessObjects server layer

Server Analysis




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager - Tracing



Check which parts of response

time are spent in Client,

network, server

Check HTTP status codes of

requests

Detailed Analysis

Filter only most expensive

requests

Check which parts of response

time are spent per applications

server host involved




Remote Support Component for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

Focused on SAP customers who only use SAP BusinessObjects (without SAP NetWeaver / SAP

BusinessSuite)

allows customers to better manage, monitor and evaluate their SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system

Functionality Available

SAP Early Watch Alert: This report provides a summary of the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system

landscape and its configuration.

Examples are; system and hardware configuration, software versions, key performance indicators, detailed

service settings, and SAP BusinessObjects technology checks.

Root Cause Analysis: A systematic top-down approach to determine where and why a problem occurred,

as well as defining how to perform a root cause analysis across different support levels and different

technologies.

Auto update: If SAP create new functionality or bug fixes for remote support component the software

downloads updates for itself and installs them automatically.

Which SAP BusinessObjects solutions are supported?

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 SP2 and future versions

Further details: http://service.sap.com/rsc

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration SAP Solution Manager – Remote Support
























SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Lifecycle Management

SAP Business Warehouse SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

Controller A designated BW server configured as a Domain

Controller (Transport Host) in Transport

Management System (STMS)

A designated BusinessObjects Enterprise server with

LifeCycle Manager Add-on

Route Predefined on the Controller through Transport

route configuration

Definable per Transport(Promotion) by assigning a

source and a destination systems

Systems Source and target servers predefined on the

Controller through Transport route configuration

Definable per Transport(Promotion) by assigning a

source and a destination systems

Development

SAP BusinessObjects

SAP Business

Warehouse QA Production

Development QA Production





CTS

Change and Transport System

To synchronize content in SAP ABAP

deployments

CTS+

Enhanced Change and Transport System

Used to transport non ABAP objects

TMS

Transport and Management System

Transaction STMS

Define transport domains and transport

routes

Transport all changed objects from one

system to another.

Transport organizer

Transport routes





LifeCycle Manager is a Web-Based tool that enables you to

Promote Business Intelligence resources from one BusinessObjects system to another

BusinessObjects system

Manages dependencies of BI resources

Rollbacks a promoted resource to restore the destination system to its previous state

Manages different versions of BI resources

No additional licensing required

Available now at the SAP

Service Marketplace extranet




BOE Systems

TMS System-Landscape Configuration – Representation of BOE Systems

TD1

(DEV System)

TEST

TD2

TEST

TD1

TEST

XYZ

TD2

(Test System)

XYZ

(Prod System)

Promotion of

Jobs

Application

Type

BOLM

Transport

Request Transport

Request Transport

Request

ZIP

Application

Type

BOLM

Start the import

in TMS to

process the job

Collect

objects

Promote

via CTS

Job

Transport

Request Transport

Request Transport

Request

ZIP

Transport

Organizer

Web UI








1. Change(s) made in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Development system

2. Lifecycle Manager used to:

Collect changed objects & any required internal dependencies into “Promotion Job”

Associate any external dependencies with the promotion job (e.g. BEx Queries)

Assign Promotion Job to Transport Request

Export to CTS+ consolidation environment

3. Transport Request is being released. CTS+ transports objects via Transport

Routes to various Transport nodes (destination systems)

4. Lifecycle Manager import plug-in called at destination & changes committed to

destination system (>> SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 4.0)

All objects committed with administrator credentials

Overrides to database connections are applied based on override table at destination

system

Related objects (e.g. BW) committed to appropriate destination as well
























SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration Overall Landscape

SAP Netweaver Java stack is not required for BEx WAD running in BI Platform

SAP Netweaver Java stack is not required for using the direct BICS connection

towards SAP NetWeaver BW

With the exception of Xcelsius 2008 / Xelsius 4.0 (>> planned for4.1)

Due to the missing SAP Portal component there are limitations on functionalities in

SBOP 4.0

No Knowledge Management, i. e. no operations involving documents are possible

Adobe Document Services (ADS) is not available (PDF generation is done via own SAP

library)

Report-Report-Interface is not possible

On the BI Platform, the BEx WAD Runtime does not support Information Broadcasting

Multiple Backend (ABAP) BW system is not supported

Single Sign On is not supported (planned for SP02)




SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration

SAP Enterprise Portal Integration

Portlet providing BI launch pad features –

enabling rapid deployment of BI frontend

application in portal

Feature parity with BI launch pad – all BI contents,

all actions (view, edit, create, schedule)

Viewing portlet for building custom portal

application

UI driven workflows to display documents

Supports browsing the SAP BusinessObjects

Enterprise repository

Thank You!

Contact information:

Ingo Hilgefort, SAP Canada

[email protected]

Twitter: ihilgefort

mailto:[email protected]

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