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SAP Business Objects BI 4 Upgrade
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One Strategy for Enterprise BI
Jason Rose, Vice President, Business Intelligence Marketing, SAP
Thomas B Kuruvilla, Solution Manager, Business Intelligence Solutions, SAP
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Agenda
Whats New
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Data
doubles
1 billion
Facebook users
5 billion
in emerging
middle class
every 18 months
4 billion
15 billion
YouTube views
per day
web-enabled
devices
Use Analytics
10% Today
Missing new
insights
Not utilizing all
the information
out there
75%
Need
Analytics
by 2020
Optimization
Predictive
Modeling
What is
the best that
could happen?
Generic
Predictive
Analysis
Agile
Visualization
What will
happen?
Self
Ad Hoc Service BI
Raw
Data
Cleaned
Data
Reports
Standard & OLAP
Reports
Why did it
happen?
What
happened?
Collective Insight
User Engagement
End-to-end
Easy adoption
Fast
implementation
Business focused
Enable
storytelling
Cloud
Mobile
Agile
Visualization
Big Data
Advanced
Analytics
Enterprise
Business Intelligence
Collaboration
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Enterprise BI
Ubiquitous BI for
all users and
landscapes
Consistent
experiences
Scalability,
security, and
integration
Agile
Visualization
Advanced
Analytics
Extend analytics
throughout your
organization and
beyond
Next generation
visual analytics
Contextual BI
Against more
data and
processes
Run in Real-time
Open and
flexible (R,
Hadoop, all data)
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Improved interoperability
and usability across the
BI suite
Deliver engaging
information to users when
and where they need it
Create custom
experiences with
embedded analytic
extensions
Powerful
Visualizations
Faster More
Accurate Decisions
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Speed to Deliver
Enhanced design
experience with new
creation wizard and
integrated data
federation
Automated universe
deployment and lifecycle
management
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Professional Grade BI
Platform
Quality Focused
Increased efficiency to
enhance decision making
capability and productivity
Non-disruptive production
delivery and information
governance across the
organization
Simplified architecture for
increased IT responsiveness
Superior Breadth
of Ecosystem
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Dashboards
and Apps
Agile
Visualization
Reporting
Distribute Information
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BI Platform
Professional Grade
Mobile Devices
Browsers
Self-service
On Demand
Services
Embedded
Content
MS Office
Enterprise
Portals
Reporting
ERP
EDW
MS Excel
Unstructured data in
Social Media and
Hadoop
OLAP Cubes
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4.1
First point
release of SAPs
market leading
Business
Intelligence
Suite
Focus on
quality and
innovation
deserving of a
professional
grade BI
platform
Core stability
and capability
improvements
from new
innovations to
incremental
product
advances from
4.0 to reintroduced
features from
XI3
All existing XI
R2 and XI3
customers can
migrate to this
newest platform
of SAPs BI
Suite
New capabilities
around selfservice,
dashboarding
and mobile BI
Support of both
net new and
updated
platforms
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Single Sign-on
Automatic universe generation
on HANA views
Crystal Reports direct access to
Analytic & Calculated Views
incl. hierarchies & variables
Oracle Exadata,
Oracle OLAP, Oracle
Essbase, Hadoop on
Amazon Elastic
MapReduce, Teradata
14, Teradata OLAP,
OData, XML, Web
Services
Variable Variant
Support (A OLAP,
Design Studio)
Publishing (A Office)
Convert analysis to
Mobile (A OLAP, A
Office)
Offline mobile
and desktop
dashboards
More visualizations
RESTful Services, SL
Authoring, WebI,
Mobile, Mobile
Dashboards, etc.
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BI platform
Multitenancy
Recording tenant ID in auditing data
Ability to restrict concurrent logon session per tenant
Multitenant provisioning tool enhancement to support unx universe
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All together
- 13 vendors
- 30 sources (plus the generic drivers)
- Several versions
A total of 191 possible combinations
Exadata
SQL Server
2012
DB2
PostgreSQL
Greenplum
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Arabic support
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Measure delegation
Auto-refresh option at server & document level
Reduce #unavailable by delegating measure
calculation when given against a simple formula
Merged Objects
Can add/remove object to a merged object
Allow merged objects with hierarchy
Usability enhancements
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UI customization
Personalized Web Intelligence clients
Customization per user group in CMC
Customization of UI elements and actions
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Extend
Extend the application with new charts and visualization
Integrate
Integrate with the 3rd party security tools to enforce the corporate
policies and enhance security
Distribute
Distribute through Enterprise App Store, MDM tools or upload the
customized app to App Store
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This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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Key benefits
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Single Sign-on
Automatic universe generation
on HANA views
Crystal Reports direct access to
Analytic & Calculated Views
incl. hierarchies & variables
Oracle Exadata,
Oracle OLAP, Oracle
Essbase, Hadoop on
Amazon Elastic
MapReduce, Teradata
14, Teradata OLAP,
OData, XML, Web
Services
Variable Variant
Support (A OLAP,
Design Studio)
Publishing (A Office)
Convert analysis to
Mobile (A OLAP, A
Office)
Offline mobile
and desktop
dashboards
More visualizations
RESTful Services, SL
Authoring, WebI,
Mobile, Mobile
Dashboards, etc.
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Key Links
sap.com/upgradebi
sap.com/learnbi
sap.com/bivirtualization
sap.com/bisizing
service.sap.com/roadmap
How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment
(http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981)
SAPs Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI
http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/2011/07/27/demystifying-standard-sap-support-for-major-releases-of-sapbusinessobjects-bi/
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@APOS_Systems
Visit www.apos.com to register for upcoming sessions and view recorded sessions.
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Impact Analysis
Data Lineage
Analytic Utilization
Upcoming Events
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InfoBurst
InfoBurst XDC
360 Suite
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Thank you
Jason Rose
[email protected]
@rosejason
Thomas B Kuruvilla
[email protected]
@t_bovee
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