SAP Business Objects Clients

SAP BusinessObjects BI Clients October 2013

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SAP Analytics Solutions One Suite for All Insight

Reporting Agile Visualization

Dashboards and Apps

Deliver engaging information to users where they need it Track key performance indicators and summary data Build custom experiences so users get what they need quickly

Securely distribute information across your organization

Answer related questions by interacting with pre-defined reports

Build printable reports for operational efficiency

Discover areas to optimize your business Adapt data to business needs Tell your story with beautiful visualizations

Discover. Predict. Create.

Build Engaging Experiences

Distribute Information


Agile Visualization Discover. Predict. Create.

Agility for business analysts and business users Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your business Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and

enriching data

Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics Forecast and predict future outcomes

Portfolio

SAP Lumira

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer SAP BusinessObjects Analysis SAP Predictive Analysis*

*SAP Predictive Analysis details are part of Advanced Analytics


SAP Lumira to unleash business analyst creativity

Provides the freedom to understand your data, personalize it, and create beautiful content

Download and install on your desktop in less than 5 minutes

Insight from many data sources Combine, manipulate and enrich data to

apply it to your business scenarios Self-service visualizations and analytics to

tell your story Optimized for SAP HANA for real-time on

detailed data

Overview


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for business users to quickly access information on their own

Provide business users with a simple experience to independently ask and answer business questions on the fly

Quickly and easily explore your data using search

Easily visualize your data Geographic and Time awareness Build simple, interactive views

(Exploration views) Mobile ready

Overview


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP analysis

Recommended for OLAP analysis scenarios (multi-dimensional analysis)

Quickly leverage your existing OLAP investments with support for BW, HANA, Essbase, Analysis Services, and other OLAP sources

High productivity for analysts through both Web and Excel based interfaces

Premium alternative for BEx customers

Overview

Provide Business Analysts with the ability to analyze OLAP data in both Excel and over the Web


SAP Predictive Analysis to gain an extremely deep understanding of your business

Provide Business Analysts with sophisticated algorithms to take the next step in understanding their business and modeling outcomes.

Perform statistical analysis on your data to understand trends and detect outliers in your business

Build models and apply to scenarios to forecast potential future outcomes

Breadth of connectivity to access almost any data

Optimized for SAP HANA to support huge data volumes and in-memory processing

Overview


Dashboards and Apps Build Engaging Experiences

Build engaging, visual dashboards Powerful environment to build interactive and visually

appealing analytics

Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down, crosstabs, charts

Use custom code to extend and build workflows

Portfolio

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius)


SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio for building analytic applications on BW and HANA

Modern development environment and HTML5 runtime

Native BW and HANA support Growing library of controls Recommended for HANA and BW

customers (especially those with BEx WAD investments)

Overview

Provides a development environment that contains a broad library of controls and visualizations to build analytic applications on BW and HANA


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards for building custom dashboards on any data

Build rich, interactive dashboards and visualizations

Broad visualization library to support KPIs and executive dashboards

Leverage enterprise BI infrastructure with support for the semantic layer

Recommended for use on 3rd party data sources

Overview

Provides a rich set of visualizations and controls to build highly interactive dashboards on third-party data sources


Guidance for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA customers

Customers using SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP HANA as a data source should adopt SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio as their primary tool for creating dashboards and applications, for both Web and mobile deployment.

Customers of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards should continue with Dashboards and leverage the upcoming HTML5 functionality for mobile dashboards. Customers using Dashboards on top of SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP HANA should strongly consider building their new dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio.

See SAPs analytics blog for more detail on our dashboarding strategy and direction


Reporting Share Information

High productivity design for report designers Quickly build formatted reports on any data source

Securely distribute reports both internally and externally

Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users to easily create and modify their own reports

Enhance custom applications with embedded reports

Portfolio

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP Crystal Reports


SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for self-service query and reporting

Market-leading self service reporting solution for rapid report creation

Support for multi-source semantic layer to bring together different sources of information without having to know the DB structure or SQL

Content accessible from anywhere: Mobile, Web, Desktop

Overview

Quickly build ad-hoc queries and reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data structure


SAP Crystal Reports for formatted reports

Access nearly any data source directly

Build reports that look exactly the way you want through pixel-perfect positioning, layout and templates

Powerful API to embed reports into applications

Optimized for high-volume reporting and publishing

Overview

Build pixel-perfect formatted reports for printing and operational reporting


BI Platform Professional Grade

Enterprise Portals

MS Office On Demand Services

Browsers Mobile Devices

ERP SAP Business Suite Oracle E-Business Suite PeopleSoft JD Edwards

Unstructured data in Social Media and Hadoop

Embedded Content

MS Excel Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and other relational data sources

Universe Semantic Layer

Business Intelligence Platform

EDW SAP NetWeaver BW TeraData Other data warehouses

SAP HANA Platform

Reporting Agile Visualization Dashboards and Apps

Essbase Microsoft AS Oracle OLAP

Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client

based on product capabilities


Where does the data reside?

Reporting Self Service Dashboards and Apps

SAP BW

SAP HANA

Relational sources

OLAP sources

Flat files

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

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Design Studio Dashboards

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Optimized and favoured

Supported

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OLAP

Office

1. Supported with relational .unx against BW, BW on HANA and HANA optimized InfoProviders


Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Comparing Product Capabilities

Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Web Intelligence Dashboards

Design Studio

Analysis for Office

Analysis for OLAP Lumira Explorer

Highly formatted reporting

Parameterized & Dynamic Layout

Self Service

Hierarchical capabilities

Data Visualization

Product Interoperability

Guided Navigation

Mobile Reporting 1 1 2

Supported Not Supported 1. With Design Studio 2. With Explorer and Lumira Cloud


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x & OLAP Sources Hierarchical Reporting Capabilities


Web Intelligence

Dashboards (BI4 SP05

connectivity)

Design Studio

Analysis for Office

Analysis for OLAP

Explorer/Lumira/PA

Support for hierarchical member selection

Support for hierarchical parameters

Support for hierarchies in charts and crosstab

Only Hierarchical Scorecard

Support for delegated measures

Support for hierarchical report design

Switching between hierarchies on the fly

Level based member selection

Showing Leaves only / Lowest Level of the hierarchy

Expand to Level as a configuration option

Skipping Levels of a hierarchy

Ranking data along hierarchies


Where is the content consumed?


n Design Studio n Dashboards





n Web Intelligence n Crystal Reports

n Analysis OLAP n Explorer

n Analysis Office n Predictive Analysis

n Lumira



n Explorer



Where is the content created?






n Web Intelligence

n Analysis OLAP n Explorer

n Analysis Office n Predictive Analysis

n Lumira



based on your audience


Who creates the content?



n Crystal Reports n Web Intelligence




n Web Intelligence

n Analysis Office/OLAP n Predictive Analysis

n Explorer

n Lumira

Designer

Analyst


Who consumes the content?


n Design Studio1

n Dashboards

n Web Intelligence

n Crystal Reports






n Analysis Office/OLAP

n Predictive Analysis2

n Explorer

n Lumira

n Explorer

1. Content consumed in Design Studio output, not the Design Studio IDE itself.

Analyst

Decision Maker


Report (Crystal Reports & Web Intelligence) Create standardized reports to review operational metrics Include Alerts that leverage information for follow up Share reports with larger audience and make use of product interoperability Enable interactive reporting capabilities to access and analyze a variety of data sources

Monitor & Analyze (Design Studio, Dashboards, Analysis for Office and OLAP) Create prepared workbooks that others can consume and interact with Analyze operational metrics inside the Microsoft Office environment Create guided analysis BI applications

Designer

SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio Who creates the content?

Predict (Predictive Analysis) Consume and interact with information to predict future outcomes Discover trends, patterns and sets

Discover (Explorer & Lumira) Create assets to allow Analysts and Decision Makers to search and explore data by using search

and visualizations to answer ad-hoc questions anywhere, anytime

Combine, enrich, manipulate, and merge data to create information


Monitor and Analyze (Analysis for Office, Analysis for OLAP & Design Studio) Analyze corporate information to fulfill ad hoc requests from management Build and share Microsoft Excel and web based BI applications for guided analysis Use Analysis as starting point and leverage product interoperability for details Create and edit reports without the need for IT or a report designer Share reports with larger audience and make use of product interoperability

Analyst

Discover (Explorer & Lumira) Answer ad-hoc questions anywhere, anytime using historic and real-time data Search and explore information by using natural words and simple visualizations Access large volumes of information on-premise and on device Combine, enrich, manipulate, and merge information

SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio Who consumes the content?

Predict (Predictive Analysis) Consume and interact with information to predict future outcomes Discover trends, patterns and sets


Decision Maker

Monitor & Analyze (Design Studio and Dashboards) Track and analyze company wide metrics using real-time interactive dashboards Share findings with upper management in form of presentations with live data Leverage what-if capabilities to evaluate different planning scenarios Leverage product interoperability to share findings with other BI clients Analyze information on the desktop, browser, and mobile device

Report (Crystal Reports & Web Intelligence) Consume pre-delivered reports

SAP BusinessObjects BI portfolio Who consumes the content?

Discover (Explorer) Answer ad-hoc questions anywhere, anytime using historic and real-time data Search and explore information by using natural words and simple visualizations Access large volumes of information on-premise and on device


based on your business requirements


Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Using Business Requirements Financial Area

As Financial Manager for the West Coast Region of North America I need to be able to analyze cost and profit center actuals towards the allocated budget along several dimensions. I need to be able to see these measures along our company structures as well as being able to compare information from several sources. I also need to be able add my own calculation to answer on-demand requests from senior management.

I would like to leverage the information inside Microsoft Excel, but it also should be possible to use it in a browser.

Analyst



What did we hear ? Use of hierarchies (cost center / profit center / company structures) Usage of Microsoft Excel and browser based access Creation of calculations on the fly Accessing multiple sources

Analyst





Design Studio

Analysis, Edition for Microsoft

Office

Analysis, edition for

OLAP Lumira Explorer

Usage of Hierarchies

Using BEx Query Structures

Microsoft Excel as client

Internet Browser as client

Creating calculations

Multiple Source in one report

Supported Not Supported



Summary Based on the combination of requirements from the Financial Area the recommendation

would be to use Analysis, edition for OLAP Analysis, edition for Office (if the data source is HANA) Design Studio

Design Studio could be used to create a custom BI application / template for the user audience if the data source is SAP BW or SAP HANA

For less hierarchical driven reports and a more consumer (less power user) type of audience Web Intelligence might be an alternative


Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Using Business Requirements Sales Area

The Sales Manager for Canada asked me to create a report for his sales representatives that would allow them to see their current sales pipeline. He mentioned that the information needs to be available in the office, on the road, and on mobile devices.

He also stressed that each sales representative needs to be able to change the report as they wish as well as add local sales information from personal spreadsheets so that they can see the information by opportunity, product, week & month, and other angles. Actual hierarchies are only used limited.

As Sales Manager for Canada, he mentioned it would be a great value to be able to run some simple scenarios to see how certain changes could impact the pipeline, for example a change in the product cost or price.

and he then also mentioned that sometimes people prefer just to get an eMail with a PDF file.

Decision Maker



What did we hear ? The information needs to be available on-premise (in the office), offline (on

the road), and on mobile devices Users need the ability to change the report and change the view on the data Only limited use of hierarchies Distribution of the reports via eMail in a PDF format is also required For the Sales Management some simple what-if scenarios would be a great

asset

Decision Maker





Design Studio

Analysis for Office

Analysis for OLAP Lumira Explorer

Offline Capabilities

Mobile Reporting

Distribution via eMail (Broadcasting)

Edit the report

Change the view of the data

What-if scenarios

Data enrichment




Summary Based on the combination of requirements from the Sales Area the recommendation would

be to use Web Intelligence Lumira (note no .pdf output) Mobile BI

What if Scenarios would be created using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards or Design Studio


Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Using Business Requirements Executive Area

As Executive Manager, I need consolidated information, which provides me with a high-level overview on all critical corporate KPIs.

I need to be able to access this information anytime, anywhere.

If needed I need to be able to get to the root cause and see the detailed information.

I also can not always wait for my business analyst of IT to send me the information when I ask them a question. It would be good to be able to simply search for the answer by entering my question.

Decision Maker



What did we hear ? Consume highly aggregated information Strong data visualizations needed Provide the ability to drill down and navigate to detailed information Fast response time Information needs to be available via mobile device Allow for search and exploration

Decision Maker





Design Studio

Analysis, Edition for Microsoft

Office

Analysis, edition for

OLAP Lumira Explorer

Highly Aggregated information

Strong data visualization

Drill Down / Navigate to detailed information

Mobile Reporting

Search & Exploration




Summary Based on the combination of requirements from the Executive team the recommendation

would be to use Explorer Design Studio or Dashboards Mobile BI

Lumira can be used to create Information Spaces consumed by Explorer

In addition consider SAP HANA for performance improvements


Your BI Strategy should start with the business requirements, not with the DWH.

Key Learnings

Start by defining your requirements and your desired outcome.

Focus on the business pain points by area. One use case after the other not all in once

Understand your audience. Let them describe their workflow. Listen !

Remember Your BI Strategy starts with the business requirements.. Not with the DWH


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