SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 WebIntelligence Overview

SAP® BusinessObjects™ 4 Suite

Analysis Components Overview

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informational purposes and may not be incorporated into a contract. Readers

are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,

and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

Agenda

� Introducing SAP BusinessObjects 4

� SAP BusinessObjects 4, Analysis Components Overview


� SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office

� SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP

� SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence

Information is Not Reaching Business Users

in the Right Amount

Always Just Always Just

21%21%

UsuallyUsuallyUsually Usually

Information for Important Business Decisions:

79%79%


Always Just Right AmountAlways Just Right Amount

UsuallyToo MuchUsually

Too MuchUsually

Too LittleUsually

Too Little

Source: BusinessWeek Research Services Base; 675 US

and European business executives and managers

Introducing SAP BusinessObjects 4 SuiteOne BI Suite for Different User Needs

Dashboards

Reporting

Interactive Analysis

OLAPAnalysis

DataExploration


D I F F E R E N T N E E D S

Reporting 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?

WebIntelligence & Analysis (Office & OLAP)

Dashboards

Reporting

WebIntelligence

Analysis


D I F F E R E N T N E E D S

Reporting

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?

Survey

Tell Us a Little About Yourself:

1. Are you a current SAP BusinessObjects customer?

2. Is your plan to use SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence

(BI) software with third party (non-SAP) data?

3. Are you currently using the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)


3. Are you currently using the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx)

query design tool?

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Agenda

� Introducing SAP BusinessObjects 4

� SAP BusinessObjects 4, Analysis Components Overview


� SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office

� SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for OLAP

� SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects

Advanced OLAP

Leading Web Visualization

Native Excel IntegrationSAP NetWeaver BWA

BEx Analyzer

Multiple Sources

Voyager

Analysis for SAP BusinessObjects 4 SuiteNext Generation OLAP Analysis

SAP NetWeaver BEx

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Analysis, Edition for MS Office Analysis, Edition for OLAP (Web)

� Excel-based OLAP analysis

� Excel-based BI applications

� Live PowerPoint presentations

� Web-based OLAP analysis

� Interoperability with larger BI Suite

Take Your Productivity to the Next LevelSAP BusinessObjects™ Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office

The Future

of SAP BI is Now

� Innovation without disruption

� Familiar and intuitive Microsoft Office user

experience - a few simple clicks to rapid

business insights

� Simplified drag & drop interface to filter,

slice & dice

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� Uncover deep insights with powerful

Excel-based analytical capabilities

� Bring analyses into PowerPoint

presentations

� Leverage all your investments - BW cubes

BEx queries, and BI platform

� Control and optimize TCO via minimizing

user training and customization costs

Innovate without Disruption for

Immediate Benefits

Run with existing cubes and queries

� No need to migrate BEx queries

� No need to change BW data models

� Support BW 7.x and BEx queries 3.5/7.x

Transition BEx analyzer users now


Transition BEx analyzer users now

� Most BEx features already supported

� Short-term plan for remaining gaps

� Write-back to BW-IP in Q1 2011

� Scheduling and other variants in 2011

Adopt new BI platform at your own pace

� Direct connection to BEx queries (BICS)

� Deploy new BI platform only when needed

Self-Service Access to Deep Business InsightsSAP® BusinessObjects™ Analysis, Edition for OLAP

Advancedanalytical capabilities

� Enhanced user-interface designed to optimize various workflows

� Analyze across multiple dimensions and hierarchies

� Uncover deep business insights


� Boost user adoption and lower TCO with web-based analysis

� Powerful functions & calculations including Rank, Moving Averages, Accumulative Sum, Variance, Median, Standard Deviation, etc...

� Leverage all your investments - BW cubes & BEx query design, BI platform, as well as non-SAP multidimensional sources

� Simultaneous connection to multiple queries from different data providers

Leverage all your investments

Interoperability via Analysis Views

� Analyze OLAP data in Analysis (edition for OLAP or edition for MS Office 1.1) and then format

and report in Web Intelligence

� Explore your data in Explorer, and then analyze further, format or report in Web Intelligence

Analysis, Edition for OLAP


Analysis Views Web Intelligence

Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office (1.1)

Web Intelligence 4 delivers…

End-to-end self-service experience covering a range of users

� Modern, beautiful, more productivity through optimized UX and new visualization capabilities

� Analysis capabilities combined with free-form report layout for authors

� Interactivity on formatted reports to consumers freedom to answer their own questions on trusted data

Interoperability to “go beyond traditional WebI scenarios”


� Explorer interoperability so any user can search, explore and then analyze information

� SBO Analysis interoperability for online OLAP analysis, then ad-hoc self-service and formatting

Broad access to data and content

� Single user experience for access to enterprise (relational and OLAP) and personal (Excel, Web Services) data sources

� Self-service data mash-up for new insights across data silos

� Better understanding of the data via new data manager, dimensional navigation and multisource Universes

Flexible and Deep Feature Set Serving a wide range of use cases

� Information Consumers requiring predefined BI

content with simple personalization

� Interactive consumers requiring formatted

content to enable them to answer new questions

� Professional Analysts using Advanced

Analysis, web edition who want ad-hoc reporting

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Analysis, web edition who want ad-hoc reporting

capabilities on their analytical output

� Business analysts analyzing data across

diverse sources

� Relational, MSAS, BW, XML, JavaBeans, Web Services

� Personal: Excel, Text

� Business authors accessing new data and

defining formatted BI content for others

Productivity ImprovementsDeliver unsurpassed interactivity to more users

1998 - Nagano� Harmonized User Experience

� Office-style Ribbon Toolbar

� Minimal-to-no training required

� Improved Interactivity & Analysis Workflows

� Streamlined guided analysis - answers to mostcommon questions are a click away

� Content copy & paste b/w docs and into MS Office

� Data manager for browsing query results on the fly

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Selling Expenses Growth

5%0% 10%

� Data manager for browsing query results on the fly

� New User Experience for slicing/dicing & what-if

� Relieve IT & power users from most commonrequests to personalize reports

� New visualization engine

� More charts, more options

– Pie with Depth

– Heat Map

– Scatter / Polar Bubble

– Tag Cloud

– Box Plot

Data Manager Flexible, efficient way to view query information

Sort and filter columns to easily identify data quality issues

Explore any object from

At-a-glance summary view of each query

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Manage all data sources from the same flexible UI.

Explore any object from any query to isolate its related values

�Provide business users a quick way to understand the data behind simple reports

�Enable power users to gain a deep understanding of multiple data sources

�Provide Desktop Intelligence users with another superior user experience

Dimensional Query Panel Flexible, simple way to select hierarchical data

Dimensions presented as native hierarchies from dimensional

Integration of hierarchical concepts into query panel user experience


from dimensional sources

Member selection for selecting hierarchical values

Dimensional Controls Extend to consumption & interaction experience

Dimensional concepts integrated into rich reporting model

Hierarchies displayed in single column with controls to expand levels

New formula functions for formatting and calculation control over hierarchical data


� Improved user experience and more flexibility when handling hierarchical data

�Familiar workflows for users experienced with BEx Web Analyzer and OLAP clients

�Maintain option to report on “flattened” data

Leverage all your investments

Interoperability via Analysis & Exploration Views

� Analyze OLAP data in Analysis (edition for OLAP or edition for MS Office 1.1) and then format

and report in Web Intelligence

� Explore your data in Explorer, and then analyze further, format or report in Web Intelligence

Analysis, Edition for OLAP


Analysis Views

Web IntelligenceAnalysis, Edition for Microsoft Office (1.1)

Explorer

(non accelerated)Exploration View

Demo


Safe Harbor Statement

This document was intended to outline future product direction, and was not a

commitment by SAP to deliver any given code or functionality. Any statements

contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking

statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any

forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to

various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially




document remains at the sole discretion of SAP. This document is for

informational purposes and may not be incorporated into a contract. Readers

are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,

and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

Thank you!


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SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 WebIntelligence Overview