Whats New in SBO BI Platform 4 01

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

What is new in 4.0?

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1. BI launch pad

2. Search capabilities

3. BI workspace

4. Portal integration

5. Alerting

6. Monitoring and auditing

7. BI content lifecycle management

8. Upgrade and deployment

Agenda


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


BI Launch Pad

Allow users to find, access, manage, and work with relevant information

What’s New

Better user experience and optimized workflow

Reducing the time required to learn and increasing user productivity

Easier administration and supportabilityDelivering information tailored to the business users


BI Launch Pad

Home page widgets for easy

access to common features

Quick access to applications

and search

Recently viewed reports,

scheduled documents, and

alert notifications

Configurable start location

Bring Relevant

Information Forward


BI Launch Pad

Schedule and Send to action

from document viewers

Create new folder on save

Clean up all Inbox

documents in one click

Open several documents at

the same time

Keep document opened in a

permanent tab

Reduce Manual Steps


BI Launch Pad

Preference set by user or

administrator

Role-based personalization –

preference and home page

settings for user group

Application fine tuning with

property files – preserved

during maintenance

Customization and

Administration


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


New search engine

Search document attributes

and content

Unified search integrated

with BI launch pad

Facetted navigation on

search results for refined

results

Search Enhancements

Search


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


BI Workspace

Centralize and personalize information and analytics needed for daily work

activities while reusing existing relevant BI content


BI Workspace

Simpler workspace creation

workflow

Improved content linking

capabilities

Integrated search capabilities

(BI platform

Better viewing experience with

tabs and multiples viewers

Workspace Creation and

Consumption


BI Workspace

Easier deployment with

automatic content discovery

(upgrade management tool

Multilingual support

Better permission control

Monitoring/auditing support

OpenDocument support

Deployment and

Administration


BI Workspace

Removal of Visualization Analytics

“As part of the product rationalization process,

SAP has decided to discontinue investing in

the Dashboard Builder visualization analytics.

This means the last version that Dashboard

Builder will ship these analytics is in XI 3.1,

including service packs. These analytics will

not be included in the next major release of

the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite.”

Gauges: speedometer, barometer, thermometer, traffic lights

Charts: interactive metric trend, radar chart, bubble chart, pie chart, data exploration

The proposed solution is to replace those analytics with Dashboards visualizations.

Note 1375008

The following analytics are removed:


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


Integration with SAP NetWeaver Portal and

Java Portal

SAP NetWeaver Portal : iView

Java portal servers : JSR168

Feature parity with BI launch pad –

all BI contents, all actions

Single sign on

Document listing portlet – enable

rapid deployment of BI applications

Document viewing portlet for building

custom portal application

Portal Integration


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


Alerting

Enable management by exception

Provide the right information at the right time

Reduce time spent on examining recurring reports

that do not convey new information

What is new:

Unified and extendable alerting framework

Simple subscription based workflow eases user adoption

Notification email or message in BI launch pad

Alert generated by real time event (Event Insight) or scheduled data checking (BI

documents – Crystal Report in initial release)


Alerting

Triggers of

Alerts

Reactions to

Alerts and Events

Real time event (Event

Insight )

Data condition (processed by

BI document)

BI platform schedule

completion

ETL completion

System monitoring

Send notification message

Schedule report to run

Run custom application

Alerting

Framework


Alerting

Alert consumers

subscribe to alerts easily

All subscribed alerts

managed in one place

Administrators and users

can subscribe for others

Consistent workflow for

any alert source

Alert Subscription


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


Monitoring

Server metric and probes

User-defined watch

condition

Visualization dashboard

in the CMC

Alert email

Integration with SAP

Solution Manager, Tivoli,

and JMX compatible tools

Monitoring Capabilities


Auditing

For all events

Simplified system wide

configuration

Auto purging of old data

Enhanced audit data store

for simpler audit reports

and applications

Auditing Enhancements


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


BI Content Lifecycle Management

Lifecycle Management Console

replaces Import Wizard

Connection override in bulk

automatically

Version control, rollback

Scripting facility

Auditable

Integration to standard SAP LCM

tool for combined landscape, via

CTS+

LCM EnhancementsLifecycle Management Console

ProductionDevelopment &Testing


1. BI launch pad


3. BI workspace


5. Alerting




Agenda


Upgrade and Deployment

New easy to use tool

Combine the best of import wizard

and database migration tool

Performance improvement over

import wizard

Choice of upgrades: complete or

incremental

Direct upgrade from XI R2 SP2 or

later, and from XI 3.x

Upgrade Management Tool


Upgrade and Deployment

Multilingual BI delivery

across geographic locations

Enhanced scalability with

virtualization and 64-bit

support

Continued heterogeneous

platform and database

support

Global Readiness

and Scalability


Thank you!

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Whats New in SBO BI Platform 4 01