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Purpose Of Business Objects BO-BI

WARE HOUSE

BO is a tool to support primarily

Business Intelligence

Data Cleansing BO Data Quality

Extract Transform Load BO Data Services

Standard Business Content

SAP/NON SAP BO Rapid Marts

It generates BI in the form of

Ad hoc ReportsCanned ReportsDashboardsScore CardsMobile Reports


Customers of SAP Business Objects-BI

Customers/Projects who already prepared the warehouse and looking to generate smart Business Intelligence from:

•Any Database (ex: Oracle Database)•Any ERP (SAP/NON SAP) (ex: People Soft)•SAP Warehouse (SAPBW)•SAP Applications (SAPR3)


SAP Business Objects-BI

Before SAP Acquired BO

• Reporting Tool• 65000 Customers• 14+ Years Old

Supports Only…•Databases•Structured/Unstructured Data

After SAP Acquired

SAPBO • Reporting Tool• 3+ Years• 65000 + SAP&ERP Customers

Supports…• Database• ERP• SAPBW• SAP Applications• Structured/Unstructured

Data


Technical Scenario of SAP BO-BI Implementation

Administration & Security

Publications

Semantic Layer

Integration& Custom BAPI

SAPR3 SAPBW SQLDB (DataSource

ODBC Connection

Business Intelligence

Deployment

Generating BI

(Configuration Management)


Phase vs Purpose vs Modules vs Scenario of SAP BO-BI Implementation

Phase : Integration

Purpose : To create a connectivity between BO-tool & SAPBW & SAPR3

Modules to be Used : BO-SAP Integration Kit BO-Central Management Console

Scenario : Create a Webi report using Sales overview Infocube

Note: In order to access the cubes/key date variables/Hierarchies in BO environment, we have to execute custom BAPI in BW environment



Phase : ODBC Connection

Purpose : To create a connectivity between BO Tool and Non SAPDWH

Modules to be used : ODBC Connector or 32-Bit ODBC Connection

Scenario : To Create a Webi report using Oracle Database



Purpose w.r.t SAP

To enhance the Existing SAP Info Objects to generate SAP BO-BI instead of SAPBI.

w.r.t Non SAP To create logical schema without disturbing the original

Schema to generate BO-BI.

Modules to be used : BO Designer For UniverseBO-BVM For Business view

BO-Voyager For Voyager Slice and Dice

Scenario : To create a Webi report where the user A and B have different hierarchies for the same dimension object.

Phase: Semantic Layer



Phase : Business Intelligence

Purpose : To represent data smartly from Heterogeneous Data sources in the form of Adhoc reports

Canned reports Dashboards Scorecard

Infoview Webi/Analytics/Dashboards/Scorecard/Voyager Crystal reports Operational reports Xcelsius Interactive Dashboard Widget Mobile reports QAWS Web service Live Office Microsoft based reports Deski Two tier reports (from VB macro) Webi Rich 3 tier report (from any DS) Polestar KPI Dashboard

Modules To Be Used


SAP Business Objects-BI Web Intelligence

What is Web Intelligence?

Powerful ad hoc reporting tool helping users turn business insights into effective decisions

When to use?

Ad hoc analysis and self service reporting.

Benefits/Features

Self-service access to data and intuitive information analysis are available in one product Ease of use/exploration Web based reportingSeamless integration with SAP BW environment Report scheduling and bursting Alerting, Ranking and Drill Down.


SAP Business Objects-BI Webi-Rich Client Connectivity

What is Webi-rich client?

It is a canned reporting tool which can connect to Universes and Textfiles to generate reports

Benefits/Features

It is created in local sandbox and uploaded to portalIt can take the source as Webservice and txt files apart from UniverseIt has all the features of Webi reports


Webi-Rich Client-Report


SAP Business Objects-BI Desktop Intelligence Connectivity

What is Deski?It is canned reporting tool which can take source as Universe,XML,VB Macros. Stored Procedures to create Adhoc and canned reports

Benefits/Features It can be created in online and offline and generates the reports from universe and 3rd party datasources.


Desktop Intelligence-Report


SAP BO-BI - Analytics

What is Analytics?

Analytics is the place hold where we keep all the metrics and which acts like a building block for dashboard

Benefits/Features

They are created from Bo Portal(Infoview) using SAP or Non SAP Universe and we have standard analytics in different categories like Process analytics, Performance mgr analytics


SAP BO-BIDashboard

What is Dashboard?It is a collection of Analytics with different templates

Benefits/Features It includes the Bo Documents and analytics & We page templates which give Enterprise level information.

These are created at Info view Level (BO Portal)

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SAP BO-BIWidgets

What is Widgets?They are free floating dashboards which can be used for even mobile reporting

Benefits/FeaturesThese dashboards can be represented on Desktop and Mobile by configuring Bo defined web service and RSS Feeds


SAP BO-BIWidgets

What is Widgets?They are free floating dashboards which can be used for even mobile reporting

Benefits/FeaturesThese dashboards can be represented on Desktop and Mobile by configuring Bo defined web service and RSS Feeds


SAP BO-BIVoyager Workspace Pioneer

What is Voyager?

•It is a Dashboard Utility which generates Slice and Dice reports in hierarchy mode by connecting to one or more cubes in SAP or NON SAP environment

Pioneer Voyager is going to replace with Pioneer Web & Pioneer Office for OLAP Analysis


SAP BO-BIBusiness Explorer & Accelerator

What is Business Explorer?

Business Explorer is a exploration and search tool where we can do Slice and Dice the KPI’s of the Organization

Benefits/Features It generates auto templates It is used for Exploration of dimensions over measures It Provides Best-Fit Analysis It Provides a Bookmark feature with Live data using Bo defined Web service.



SAP BO-BIQAWS- Web Service

What is QAWS?It is WSDL(Web service description reporting tool) which generates XML data and structure reports

Benefits/Features QAWS generates XML Soap method reports which are used in Xcelsius to create Real-time Dashboards and online reporting using BO SDK


Query As Web service-Output (WSDL)


SAP BO-BILive Office

What is Live Office?Live office is an adhoc reporting tool which connects to Universe,Webi reports and Crystal reports to represent on Microsoft utilities

Benefits/Features:-It gives Live data via Universe and Webi & Crystal reports via Bo-Defined Web service connectivity

It can be edited, refreshed and saved to the portal

It can be used in Xcelsius and Widget dashboard creation.


SAP BO BI-Land ScapeNon-SAP ERP without DWH


SAP BO BI-Land ScapeSAP ERP without DWH


SAP BO BI-Land ScapeNon-SAP & SAP ERP / No DWH


SAP BO BI-Land ScapeERP (SAP / non SAP) with non-SAP DWH


SAP BO BI-Land ScapeERP system (SAP/non SAP) with SAP NetWeaver BW


SAP BO BI-Land ScapeERP system (SAP / non SAP) with Non SAP

DWH & SAP NetWeaver BW


SAP BO Architecture


SAP BO Modules

Web Based

•Info view:

http:\\ sysname:8080:InfoViewApp\Logon.jsp

•Central Management Console

http:\\sysno:8080\CmcApp\Logon.faces•Polestar

http:\\Sysname:8080\polestar(KPI--- Dashboard)

Window Based•BO Designer•BO BVM•Voyager•Deski•Webi-rich•Crystal Reports•Xcelsius•QAWS•Widgets•Import Wizard•Publishing Wizard•Report Conversion Tool•Live Office


SAP BO Services

SAP

Services

J2ee ServicesABAP ServicesSystem Table Services

BO

Services

Apache TomcatBW PublisherService Intelligent Agent

Note

Apache Tomcat To Run Web Applications.

BW-Publisher To Publish the BO reports to SAP Portal.

Server Intelligent Agent To Manage BO Logical Servers.© Objects Consultancy Services

SAP BO Software

C# .Net

http:\\Sysname:8080\InfoviewApp\logon.Net

Uses IIS

Web Service

JAVA

http:\\Sysname:8080\InfoviewApp\logon.jsp

Uses

Apache Tomcat

Recommended when you work on SAP Platform

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Made up of

SAP BO BI vs Other Tools

Cognos-BI Data from any Database.Hyperion-BI Data from any DatabaseMicro Strategy-BI Data from any Database.SAP-BI Data from SAPBW/SAPR3 systems.SAPBO-BI Data from

1) Any Database2) Any ERP(SAP/NONSAP)3) SAPBW4) SAPR35) Any Structured/Unstructured data.

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SAP BO Security Model

SAP BO uses Enterprise LDAP Windows NT Windows AD SAP Authentication

•SAP BO converts SAP Roles into BO groups.•SAP BO has standard access levels

FullScheduleViewView On Demand

•SAPBO also gives a facility to create Custom Access Level using General, System, Custom ,Context level.

Search Mode ApplicationUser SecurityGroupAccess levelPre Requisites• User should be created and mapped to group.•Create Access level and provide restriction to Access level.


SAP BO Best Practices

Use OLAP than MDX drivers when using SAP Data SourcesUse BW Accelerator in SAPBO architecture.Use SAPBO Data Services when you are trying to connect SAPR3 from B.O.Apply Indexing mechanism on NONSAPDWH before using by B.O to generate BI.Create Objects at Semantic layer than at BI level.


SAP BO DataServices (BO-DS)


SAP BO Data Services(BO-DS)

Market-leading, unified solution for enterprise-class data integration and data quality

nSingle, easy-to-use user interface to build, test and deploy projectsnConnect, transform and make the information available from virtually any sourcenComprehensive data quality solution for cleansing and enriching all types of datanScalable solution for high data volumes with high throughput (batch and real-time)

üSAP Business Objects Data Services is a “leader” in the Data Integration and Data Quality Magic Quadrants from Gartner, as well as in the Data Integration Forrester Wave.üSAP has 5000+ customers on our Data Integration and Data Quality solutions.


SAP BO Data Federator(BO-DF)

Data federator creates a virtual data store from Heterogeneous data stores and gives output in the form of .ATL or .XML also it creates Universe semantic layer from heterogeneous data sources.


SAP BO Rapid Marts(BO-RM)

SBOP RAPIDMARTSSBOP RAPIDMART SAP SALESSBOP RAPIDMART SAP PURCHSBOP RAPIDMART SAP PROJECT SYSSBOP RAPIDMART SAP PROD PLANSBOP RAPIDMART SAP PLANT MAINTSBOP RAPIDMART SAP INVENTORYSBOP RAPIDMART SAP GLSBOP RAPIDMART SAP HRSBOP RAPIDMART SAP COSTCENTERSBOP RAPIDMART SAP ACC RECSBOP RAPIDMART SAP ACC PAYSBOP RAPIDMART PSFT HRSBOP RAPIDMART PSFT GLSBOP RAPIDMART PSFT ASSET MGTSBOP RAPIDMART PSFT ACC RECSBOP RAPIDMART PSFT ACC PAYSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL SALESSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL PURCHSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL PROJECTSSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL INVENTORYSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL HRSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL GLSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL FIX ASSETSSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL FED FINANSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL CONTRACTSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL ACC PAYSBOP RAPIDMART ORCL ACC REC

Rapid mart is a prepackaged Standard Business Solution which requires BusinessObjects Enterprise and Business Data services to be installed.It will provide Standard .ATL (ETL Solution).BIAR (Universe & Webi reports).DDL (Data definition language) .XML (Real time docs).DOC (Installation docs ).XLF (Xcelsius docs)


SAP BO XI RE New Features

Xcelsius + GoogleSAP Businessobjects Explorer (Standard/Accelerator)SAP BO Pioneer (Web/Office).SAP BO Webi-Extension points.SAP BO GISSAP BO Mobile Info Center.


Future Face of SAP BO-BI(BO with ERP-EPM-EIM- GRC-IDD)


Future Face of SAP BO-BI(BO with OLAP-MDX-BWA)


Future Face of SAP BO-BI(BO with Heterogeneous Datasources)


Future Face of SAP BO-BI(BO with Xcelsius + Google maps)


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