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BusinessObjects 4.0 Data Visualization Solutions
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BusinessObjects 4.0
Data Visualization Solutions
Eric Molner
February 8, 2013
Who Is Analytics8?
– Founded in 2002
– Offices in Chicago, Raleigh, Dallas, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne
– 100+ Consultants
– 150+ Customers
– Consulting, Training, Support/ Help Desk, Software Procurement
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What We Do
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Entire Data Warehousing “Stack”
Entire Lifecycle: From Strategy to Implementation
& Testing
Certified Training and Mentoring
All Levels of Customer
Sophistication
Multiple Approaches from Traditional BI, to Data
Visualization, to Hosted BI
Multiple Approaches
Traditional BI Stack
Data Warehouse / Data Marts
BI Semantic Layer
User Interface, Dashboards, Scorecards, Reports
Integration Layer (ETL)
Hosted BI
Data WarehouseData Marts
OLAP, Query and Reporting Tools
User Interface, Dashboards, Scorecards, Reports
Integration Layer (eTL)
ERPOtherData
• User Interface
• Chart and Report Engine
• Analysis Engine
• Integration
CRM
Data Visualization
ERPOtherData
CRMERPOtherData
CRM
Data Extract
QAQA
Project ManagementProject Management
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Advantages of Working With Us
– Not Just Technicians
– Accelerated Time to Value
– End-to-End Expertise
– Single-Source Solution
– Work with the Leading Business Intelligence Vendors
– Industry-Specific Domain Knowledge
– Structured, but Flexible Project Delivery Methodology
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Our Customers
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Financial Services
Insurance Manufacturing
Retail & CPG
Check Out our New Website
Eric Molner
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– Principal Consultant, based out of Chicago
– Over 8 years of Business Intelligence experience
– Held a variety of roles from lead developer to project manager
– Effectively worked with clients in the financial, retail, healthcare, and transportation industries
– Main areas of concentration:
SAP BusinessObjects Migrations
Deployment, Installation, and Configuration of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Data Visualization/Data Discovery
Reporting Best Practices
Business Analysis
Logical database design for reporting
Testing/Data Quality Management
Agenda
– Review SAP Business Intelligence solution offering
– Demo – Explorer & Exploration Views
– Benefits (Business & IT) for supporting Explorer
– Demo – Visual Intelligence NEW
– Activity – Develop in SAP Visual Intelligence
– Differences between Explorer & Visual Intelligence
– Q&A
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SAP Business Intelligence Solutions
Multiple Options to choose from
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BI Platform
Dashboards
CrystalReports
WebIntelligence
Analysis
Explorer
Trusted Data
BI Platform
Dashboards
CrystalReports
WebIntelligence
Analysis
Explorer
Trusted Data
Data Discovery
Finding out something new via Self-Service BI
Traditional Business Intelligence
• Standard Reporting• Summary & Detail• Top X Customers• Transactional History
• Ad-Hoc Analysis
• Dashboards listing KPIs
Data Discovery (aka Business Discovery)
• Easy to combine multiple data sources
• Easy to analyze and understand associations with other data elements
• Easy to visualize
• Easy to share
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Performance
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Report
Report
Report
Report
Report
ETL DWH BI Layer
ERP
CRM
FilesFiles
Files
With SAP HANATraditional BI Stack
Paths to Connect to HANA
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SAP Explorer
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• Keyword Search on Data
• Analyze Data Faster
• Quicker User Adoption due to intuitive interface
• Share results multiple ways• .csv• Excel• Image of graphs• URL
• Integrates with WebI & Mobile
• Utilizes same semantic layer
SAP Explorer Benefits
Business• Better Success at User Adoption• Improved query response times• Search for data like using an online search engine• Multiple ways to share insights
IT• Improved query performance• Leverage existing SAP collateral
– HANA– Universes– Security
• Less Dependency• Integrates with WebI & Mobile
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SAP Visual Intelligence
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• Access enterprise and personal data
• Manipulate the data to meet business/reporting requirements
• Quickly develop complex visualizations to establish trends and uncover hidden insights into the data
• Share visualizations via e-mail
• Publish datasets to:• HANA• Explorer• Streamwork
SAP Visual Intelligence Activity
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• Do you have Visual Intelligence Installed?
• Locate the Emerging Market Analysis.xls
• Raise your hand if you are having technical issues
Explorer vs. Visual Intelligence
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Data Acquisition• Acquire data from different sources• Combine multiple data sources
Data Transformation• Massage the data to meet analytical requirements
Data Visualizations• Similar list of charting options• Save individual visualizations that can be referenced later
Questions?
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Eric Molner
Analytics8500 N. Michigan AveSuite 810Chicago, IL 60611
T: 312 878 6600F: 773 326 0749
www.Analytics8.com
Thank you!