BI 4.1 Overview.pdf

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Overview

Paul Vermaak, Senior Solution Specialist Business Intelligence | Predictive Analysis October 2013

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BI 4.1 is available on SMP since Aug 30th

BI 4.1

RTC

May 10

Ramp-up (KPI based) Final

Validation

Ramp up program ended 3 months early: all KPIs have been met

14 live customers as of end of August, no red project

230 shipments total, more than 130 partners

All product scenarios covered

More than 200 support, consultants and partners trained

Technically it is 4.1 SP1, available as a full build (or delta) on SMP

GA! Initially planned end of ramp up program

SP1


14 Live Customers (at the end of ramp up)

Region Customer Country

APJ Iluka Resources Limited Australia

EMEA Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA Germany

EMEA Coop Genossenschaft Switzerland

EMEA SAP IT Business Systeme Germany

EMEA Arun District Council Uniked Kingdom

EMEA Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd South Africa

EMEA SERUNIN, S.A. Spain

EMEA SKODA AUTO, a.s. Czech Republic

EMEA Transnet National Ports Authority* South Africa

North America 3M Company United States

North America Fairfax County Water Authority United States

North America FedEx Services United States

North America Hatch Associates Ltd Canada

North America Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Canada


Customer Feedback

Very positive customer feedback

Customers estimate that the quality is better than 4.0 FP3

Customers on BW found that the performance on WebI increased a lot

3M, Customers Fairfax (US), Business Connexion (Europe) and Consol Glass (South Africa) and the remaining live customers are already references for 4.1. Reference team working with other

customers in the net few weeks.

3M live with more than 10 000 users already

Fedex live with 1500 users

Customer Quotes

FedEx: in the 15-yrs we've wrk'd w/bobj -- 4.1 is the best code release ever "

Arun District Council in the UK: "For us as a customer there is nothing missing and some of the additional features are very good." and "Only positive feedback from the users. Much better than

the previous version, very positive." and "A lot better than the previous release!"

Cascades: Most of the goals set before the project have been obtained, including the improvement in speed of the prompts in a Web Intelligence Report when opened in LaunchPad.

Fairfax County Water Authority: "Huge step forward for Analysis OLAP 4.1 usability enhancements / variants in Analysis for OLAP makes is usable for casual users, users are

independently creating and generating reports.

Business Connexion: "We would highly recommend the use of the solution and the SAP customer adoption team as well. Without them we would not have been able to achieve the fast go live."


SAP BI 4.x Adoption

4000+ customers

productive with BI 4.x

about 30%

Targeting 6000 at the end

of the year

Would be close to 50%

4.1 is the Quality release

that customers have been

waiting for

Lets pass the message around

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Whats Different about this Release?

4.1

More platforms

Quality and Enhancement Requests

Innovations in self-service,

dashboarding and mobile BI

First point release

Migration ready

New APIS


4.1 Focus on Quality

Massive engineering focus on BI 4.0 customer feedback

Forward fit to BI 4.1 SP1 includes:

4.0 SP6

4.0 SP05 up to patch 5.7

4.0 SP04 up to patch 4.13

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WebI: Quality, Performance and Enhancements

Custom color palettes

Freeze table headers

Enhanced merge of hierarchies

Edit merged objects

Select members in lists of values in formula editor

Create/edit BW/BEx reports: up to 80% faster than 4.0 to open query panel with

BW 7.30

Refresh BW/BEx reports with variables: up to 50% than 4.0 to refresh reports

with variables, and display variable

See youtube video for more details


Support the Developer Community

Full SDKs for Platform, Crystal, WebI and Semantic Layer

Below the object model to create a .unx universe


Support the Developer Community

Embed Web Intelligence functionality with RESTful Web services API

Create/consume/schedule documents

Create/edit data providers

Personalize Web Intelligence user experience

Control UI elements and functions

User-based settings in CMC


Migrate Desktop Intelligence users Desktop Intelligence Compatibility Pack (DCP)

BI 4.1

DCP

DeskI

XI 3.1 SP6

Provides Desktop Intelligence users with the

ability to work with BI 4.1

Desktop Intelligence users and reports are managed from the 4.1 management console

Limited viewing of DeskI reports in Infoview (no DeskI server processes), need pdf output

Desktop Intelligence report scheduling limited to Windows scheduling

Availability with XI 3.1 Fix Pack 6.1 and above

No change to Desk 3.x end of support (2017)

Server

Client


SAP Business Objects Mobile 5

Self-Service

Dashboards & apps

Reporting Reporting

Lumira Cloud

Explorer

Crystal Reports

Dashboards

Design Studio

Analysis Office & OLAP

Lumira Desktop

Web Intelligence


Mobile BI 5 enhancements

Improved homepage

One app for all content

New access to Explorer

New access to Lumira Cloud

Harmonized actions for all report

content types

Enhancements for WebI, Dashboards and Design Studio

Mobile Container enhancements

BI Inbox support

Mobile SDK to customize, extend, integrate,

distribute

Latest release on App store support iOS7


SAP BusinessObjects Mobile SDK

Customize

Branding

Onboarding

Customize product features

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


Support for new data sources

Big Data Ready

Hadoop with Hive on Amazon EMR

New non-relational sources

oData

XML and web services (SOAP)

New relational sources

Teradata 14 / SSO for Teradata

Oracle Exadata

SQL Server 2012

DB2 10 for zOS via JDBC, DB2 for zOS 10.1,

DB2 LUW 10 & 10.1, DB2 for i v7.1

Sybase ASE 15.7, SSO for Sybase IQ

Oracle via ODBC (in addition to OCI and JDBC)

PostgreSQL 9

Greenplum 4.1 & 4.2

All together

- 13 vendors

- 30 sources (plus the generic drivers)

- Several versions

A total of 191 possible combinations


Simplify Global Deployments

Deploy to Arabic countries

Right-to-left user experience

Arabic locale triggers right-to-left user interface for WebI, Crystal, BI Launchpad and mobile

Document created in Arabic locale reads right-to-left

Arabic support

Hebrew support coming in 4.1 SP3


BI 4.1 New features by product

Platform

Tenant-based session

management

3rd party authentication auto-

mapping

Simplified/parallel install

Universe Semantic Layer

HANA variables and

input parameters

.unx Java SDK

Data Fed Designer in IDT

Auto HANA .unx creation

Upgrade Management Tool

Service dependency check

Web Intelligence

RESTful Web services

Freeze Header

Custom Palettes

Relational Query Stripping

(including HANA)

Explorer

E-Views in BI Workspaces

Free facet loading

Explorer in MobI

Object remapping

.unv support

Dashboards

Offline

Refresh on device

Analysis for OLAP

Essbase Support

RRI & OpenDoc

Variants

Prompt Merging

Manual Prompts

CR for Enterprise

Join modeled and un-

modeled sources

HANA OLAP access

Freehand SQL


SUP 2.2 & SUP cloud support QR Code & Barcode Scan Support Android for WebI & Dashboards

Single Sign-on Automatic universe generation

on HANA views

Crystal Reports direct access to Analytic & Calculated Views

incl. hierarchies & variables

RESTful Services, SL Authoring, WebI,

Mobile, Mobile

Dashboards, etc.

Offline mobile and desktop

dashboards

More visualizations

Simplified deployment and migration tools

More Multi-tenancy features

RTL in CR, WebI, Launchpad & Mobile

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)

Combine Universes with BEx Queries to

abstract the field

names

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

New features by theme


Key Links

Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions

SAP Business Intelligence Newsletter

Latest (Sept 2013) roadmap on SMP

Road Maps on SAP Service Marketplace,

How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment

SAPs Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI

BI4 Upgrade Resources : http://sap.com/upgradebi

Sizing and Deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI4

eLearning product tutorials

See all Features by version matrix


Service Packs and Fix Packs schedule

maintenance schedule on SMP

BI Future Directions


Enhancements

DeskI features in WebI

Mobile BI 5.1

Design Studio 1.2

Lumira Desktop 1 SP13 and server

Analysis Office 1.5

MSFT and Tableau connecting to

Universes

Confidential Subject to change

BI 4.1 SP2

WebI Customer Connection ERs

Lumira Server

Optimize for Hana

Design Studio 1.3

Next releases of Mobile and Lumira

Next Version

BI4 Suite visual timeline

BI Platform: Lower TCO, JAM integration

BI Clients: enhancements, Right to Left

Full APIs: WebI, Crystal, SL and platform

DeskI Compatibility Pack

Mobile BI 5

Design Studio 1.1

Lumira Desktop 1 SP11 and cloud

Analysis Office 1.4

BI 4.1 SP1

Latest (Sept 2013) roadmap on SMP


Agile

Visualization

Compress information to

insight

Empower analysts

Connect IT and departments

SAPs strategic directions on Business Intelligence

Enterprise BI

Scalability, security, and

integration

Ubiquitous BI for all users and

landscapes

Consistent experiences

Advanced

Analytics

Data Mining

Low latency extreme data

performance

Big Data

Mobile

First experience for BI

Expand BI to all users

Deliver content to point of impact

Contextual


Enterprise BI - Reliable BI Platform

Future Direction

SCALABLE PLATFORM .

RELIABLE ACCESS Bring all BI content is in one place (including non-SAP BI) managed by SAP

and accessible via BI Launchpad.

RELIABLE MANAGEMENT Build TRUST with users by operating a platform with no downtime. Provide a

proven 99.9% uptime, near zero-downtime upgrades. Provide enhancements

and continuous monitoring.


Future Directions

SCALABLE PLATFORM

Scaling to 10x more users Gartner expects Analytics to be used by 75% users by 2017

Large deployments: Apple 15 000 users, up from 6 000 end of 2011, Credit Suisse 15 000 users, Disney 28 000 users

Very large: ATT and Infosys 170 000 users, JPMC 55 000 users on BI 4, US Air Force 750 000 users with custom BOE portal

Minimize system downtime for system maintenance

Content validation tool to compare BI content before and after upgrades and patches

Mobile BI Enhanced offline capabilities for WebI, Design Studio and Lumira

Support for SSO and importing of policies and configuration for easy onboarding using SAP Afaria.

Authoring of dashboards from the device.

Embeding of Mobile Analytics into operation and transactional workflow apps

Extend support of Android and Windows 8


Enterprise BI - Open Platform

Future Directions

OPEN ACCESS TO DATA Any BI tool can now leverage the business knowledge in your Enterprise BI

Solution ensuring consistency of information without limiting the

experiences

OPEN VISUALIZATIONS Leverage the community to access and utilize any visualization for any

information in any tool. New visualizations can be deployed and leveraged

across the BI Suite like never before.

OPEN DATA MANIPULATION Expand the range of capabilities for the BI Suite with community developed

models and data functions, no matter the source.


OPEN ACCESS TO DATA

Future Directions

Working with Microsoft and Tableau to open access to universes

Maintains the Single version of the truth that customers build with universes

Release expected in the next 3 to 6 months

Extend the reach and increase number of users for the BI platform

A user needs to have a valid BOE session whenever he or she interacts with data based on a Universe, regardless of the client tool choice or if the data is cached.

BOE Platform licensing effect is consistently enforced whether theyre using Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Excel, Tableau or any third party tool.

Connected/Disconnected mode

When connected, users can refresh the data and apply row-level and datasource security from the Universe.

For 3rd party tools that implement a disconnected mode: the fully disconnected case is considered an exception, and a warning will appear to tell the user that a connection could

not be established


OPEN VISUALIZATIONS

Enabling the Developers: CVOM SDK allows to extend Visualization

library, for instance with Geospatial

Find samples on the Data Geek community Data Mania

DEMO

Partners building

extensions to Lumira


Analytics Solutions

Agile Visualization for the Enterprise

Future Directions

AGILE VISUALIZATION EXPLORATION Ask questions from corporate data more easily on larger collections than ever

before by leveraging the power and speed of SAP HANA

AGILE VISUALIZATION SEMANTICS Develop and extend semantics and business views of data locally with

personal or departmental versions.

AGILE VISUALIZATION DATA For the first time users can share new information via their corporate analytical

infrastructure with a single click and IT remain able to manage and govern

what information reaches who.


AGILE VISUALIZATION EXPLORATION

Easily search large data sets

Quickly discover interesting situations in the data

Integrate new visualization techniques like Lava Points

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.


AGILE DATA AND SEMANTICS

Validate Enrich Build context

+ +

Easy transformation of data Quick transformation of data to fit analysis needs

Custom hierarchies, custom calendars, custom territories

Complex filters and set operations

Enriched semantics Allow users to enrich and share data to contribute to the Network of Truth

Flexible governance model

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Thank you Paul Vermaak

[email protected]

@pvermaak

Documents

BI 4.1 Overview.pdf