The Power of Collective Insight with SAP BI

The Power of Collective Insight
with Business Intelligence
Waldemar Adams, @adamsw
SAP Vice President Business Intelligence EMEA
March 2014

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Market trends
& challenges…

Analytics
Business
Applications
Business
Applications
Analytic
Capabilities
Business
Applications
From Gartner Summit
Analytics Analytics
2014, London
Business
Applications
Promise of
BIG data

BIG data and Analytics, “there’s no one without the other”
Ÿ Analytics & BI remains
the #1 priority for CIO’s
in 2014
Ÿ Over two third of the
Big Data solutions
expected over the next
10 years are Analytics
related.

High Performing Companies
50% More Likely to use Analytic Information Strategically
Have significant decision-support/
analytical capabilities
Value analytical insights to a
very large extent
Have above average analytical
capability within industry
Use analytics across their
entire organization
High Performers Low Performers
Source: High Performing companies out-perform their industry in terms of profit, shareholder return and revenue growth. Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport

Graphics: grasundsterne GmbH
Cloud
Mobile
Analytics?
Analytics?
Analytics?
Analytics?

Graphics: grasundsterne GmbH
Cloud
Mobile

Big data
In-memory
SAP HANA product
Analytics
challenge
technology
use-case

How Analytics need to evolve to deliver collective insight
Raw
Data
Cleaned
Data
Standard
Reports
Ad Hoc
Reports
& OLAP
Agile
Generic
Predictive
Analysis
Visualization
Optimization
Predictive
Modeling
What
Self
Service BI
happened?
Why did it
happen?
the best that
could happen?
What will
happen?
What is
User Engagement
Maturity of Analytics Capabilities
Collective Insight
End-to-end
Easy adoption
Fast
implementation
Business focused
Enable
storytelling

Unleashing the power of collective insight
ENGAGE VISUALIZE PREDICT
Provide exactly the right offers and
service levels to every customer
Instantly predict market trends and
customer needs and innovate new
product and services quicker
Imagine the potential…
Predict demand or supply across your
entire Supply Chain immediately
Understand what your customers &
potential customers are saying about
you, right now

Analytic Solutions from SAP
Agile
Visualization
Advanced
Analytics
Cloud
Big Data
Mobile
Collaboration
Enterprise
Business Intelligence

Enterprise Business Intelligence
Agile
Visualization
Advanced
Analytics
Enterprise
Business Intelligence
> 1.500 Customers on BI4.1
> 45% adoption on BI 4.x
Great Customer Feedback
FedEx: "in the 15-yrs I’ve worked with BOBJ -- 4.1 is the
best code release ever”…
Cascades: “improvement in speed of the prompts in a
Web Intelligence Report.“
Arun District Council: “DeskI compatibility is exactly what
we needed. It worked nicely”…

Enterprise BI - Vision & Strategy
Ubiquitous, collaborative, scalable
Ubiquitous BI for all users and landscapes
Ÿ BI on mobile, cloud, on-premise
Ÿ Ready for global operation
Ÿ Flexible access to Enterprise governed data
Collaborate across the organization
Ÿ For anyone across the organization - individuals, teams, or department
Ÿ Active sharing and collaborative decision making
Ÿ Consistent and engaging experience
Scalable
Ÿ Scalable, secure, and mission critical
Ÿ Open platform to extend and embed
Ÿ For any size business, deployment, or organization
Enterprise BI
Ÿ Ubiquitous
Ÿ Collaborative
Ÿ Scalable

Agile Visualization - Vision & Strategy
Agility for the business
Unleash user’s creativity
Ÿ Unlock hidden patterns in data
Ÿ Build beautiful, custom visualizations and stories
Ÿ Bring together corporate and personal data
Agility for the business
Ÿ Download and use quickly – no IT involvement needed
Ÿ Access and work with almost any data source independently
Ÿ Personal edition for free – both desktop and cloud
Able to leverage IT’s expertise
Ÿ Connect back to, and leverage, IT infrastructure
Ÿ View, publish and synchronize desktop data and visualizations from SAP
Lumira, fully leveraging SAP HANA
Ÿ Optimized for big data
Agile
Visualization
Ÿ Creative
Ÿ Agile
Ÿ IT Friendly

Advanced Analytics - Vision & Strategy
Predict and Act!
Increase ROI, Minimize TCO
Ÿ Gain the competitive advantage
Ÿ Get up and running quickly, low learning curve
Ÿ Predict to solve difficult business problems
Ÿ Application in every industry or Line of Business
Ÿ Intuitive for business users, yet robust enough for data scientists
Predict and act faster then ever before
Ÿ Predictive solutions built to leverage big data and SAP HANA in-memory
platform
Ÿ Open and extendable - leverage custom code or 1,000’s of open source
predictive workflows
Deploy Predictive solutions anywhere, anytime
Ÿ Leverage existing data sources, from local to the enterprise data warehouse
Ÿ Share predictive insights easily within your LOB or with the entire enterprise
Ÿ Integration with SAP HANA-based applications and LOB solutions
Advanced
Analytics
Ÿ Adaptable
Ÿ Open
Ÿ Everywhere

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
A Suite for All Insight
A Place for All Data
1 Platform

Support of both
net new and
updated
platforms
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
What’s different about this release?
Focus on
quality and
innovation
deserving of a
professional
grade BI
platform
New capabilities
around self-service,
dashboarding
and mobile BI
4.1
First point
release of SAP’s
market leading
Business
Intelligence
Suite
All existing XI
R2 and XI3
customers can
migrate to this
newest platform
of SAP’s BI
Suite
Core stability
and capability
improvements
from new
innovations to
incremental
product
advances from
4.0 to re-introduced
features from
XI3

Key Capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
One Place for All Information
Scale and Power Big Data Ready Speed to Deliver
• Support for Amazon Elastic
MapReduce and Hadoop
Hive
• Improved access to Oracle
Exadata, Oracle OLAP and
Oracle Essbase
• Enhanced workflow
features in conjunction with
the SAP HANA® platform
and the SAP NetWeaver®
Business Warehouse (SAP
NetWeaver BW)
application
• Immediate response time
regardless of data volume
• Improved usability to build
pervasive BI applications
• Integrate with monitoring
functionality from SAP,
lifecycle management,
search, and user
management
• Enhanced design
experience with new
creation wizard and
integrated data
federation
• Automated universe
deployment and lifecycle
management

BI Platform
Professional Grade
Enterprise
Portals
On Demand MS Office
Services
Mobile Devices Browsers
Agile Visualization Enterprise BI Advanced Analytics
ERP
SAP NetWeaver BW
TeraData
Other data warehouses
SAP Business Suite
Oracle E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft
JD Edwards
Embedded
Content
Unstructured data in
Social Media and
Hadoop
Business Intelligence Platform
Universe Semantic Layer
SAP HANA platform
Oracle, IBM DB2, MS Excel
Microsoft SQL Server
and other relational data
sources
EDW
Essbase
Microsoft AS
Oracle OLAP

People are THE Key BI “Technology”
BI Culture is about optimizing the use of
this “technology”
It’s as important to plan the
cultural changes as it is to
plan the rest of BI
deployments

Enabling the Enterprise-class Agile Visualization
Customers want:
AGILITY for business users
+
The ability to SCALE and GOVERN BI
strategically across the organization.
Excel
Agility for Business Users Enterprise scale and governance
Enterprise
Self-Service
Traditional BI
Data
Discovery

SAP Lumira
all data at your fingertips

Mobile BI 5: Tailored Experience
Swipe, Tap, Zoom to Answers on the devices of your choice

Customer Success with BI Academy
https://www.sapbusinessobjectsbi.com/bi-academy/

• Support all versions of Lumira
• Enhanced offline functions for WebI, Design Studio &
Lumira
• Afaria policy and configuration importation
• Offline dashboards authoring
• Embedded into workflow apps from SAP and 3rd party
• WebI free hand SQL
• Input controls enhancements
• Improved DHTML client
• Crystal Reports
built specifically
for HANA
• Direct access for
WebI to HANA
with hierarchies
• Support of HANA
Text analysis and
Geospatial
• Programmatic OData
connection to .unx
• WebI extension points
• Charting engine open
for customization
• 3rd party GIS and geo
map providers: eg.
ArcGIS from ESRI
4.1.x BI Suite Enhancements
• Administer Lumira Server from
BIP
• Near Zero Downtime when
applying software updates
• Reportable system metadata
• Common visualizations across
most clients
• Offline mobile
and desktop
dashboards
• More visualizations
• New Hadoop
distributions
• Hadoop access
through SAP HANA
• BI for HANA Live
• On the fly currency
conversion
• Additional BW
support: manual
prompts, variants, cell
level annotations

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Product Roadmap
Engaging Experience
Ÿ New ultra simple user experience
Ÿ Support for Web Intelligence,
Dashboards, Crystal Reports,
Explorer, Lumira, Design Studio,
hyperlink objects, EPM apps
Ÿ Mobile Analytics Gallery 1 tap
connect
Ÿ Voice and text annotations
Ÿ Collaborate with SAP JAM
App Authoring
Ÿ Branding, customization, security
integration and deployment
options
Ÿ Embedded Mobile Analytics
Platform services
Ÿ SAP Mobile Platform integration
Ÿ 3rd party security solutions
integration
Ÿ Support for iOS, Android,
BlackBerry
Engaging Experience
Ÿ Android support for Design
Studio & Lumira
Ÿ Targeted industry & LOB
mobile experiences
Ÿ Mobile Analytics Gallery
partner networks
App Authoring
Ÿ Embedded Mobile Analytics
for Industry and Line of
Business solutions
Platform services
Ÿ Custom and Industry Mobile
Analytics solutions
Ÿ Extended geolocation
services
Ÿ Custom Visualization SDK
Engaging Experience
Ÿ Custom industry
visualizations via SAP
Visualization SDK
Ÿ Content authoring on device
Ÿ Extended offline support for
Design Studio & Lumira
App Authoring
Ÿ Integrated mobile
application development
SDK
Platform services
Ÿ Extended device support
including Windows 8 Mobile
Ÿ HTML5 Analytics SDK
Today >>> Planned Innovations >>> Future
Directions

SAP Lumira Server plans released last week GA
• Q1 2014: Lumira Server ready for Hana market
• Create stories in Lumira Desktop based on online HANA Views or offline data
(excel, offline HANA, Universes, etc)
• Publish stories to Lumira Server (on SAP HANA), View via browser or tablet
• Q1 2014: Create visualizations and stories in a browser/tablet
• Create visualizations and stories based on data sets stored in SAP HANA via a browser interface
• Create Infocharts (highly customized charts) on Desktop or browser
• Team Cloud ready for market (manage user/groups and artifacts)
• Consistent user experience in desktop, cloud, server
• Q3 2014: Lumira Server for BIP
• Manage Lumira Server connected to the BI Platform.
• Server-side refresh of UNx based data sets
• Explore the data with facets, Visual discoveries in the Visualize room

Just
get
started!
New
flavor
of
BI
with
1
SAP
Lumira
&
Mobile
BI
Try
it
with
your
own
data!
Personal
EdiDon
sap.com/trylumira
+
free
download
from
app
store
–
search
for
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even
in
the
cloud
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Simple registration, 1 GB of free storage, mobile enabled
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Thank You!
Contact information:
Waldemar Adams
waldemar.adams@sap.com
twitter.com/@adamsw

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