What’s new in SAP BusinessObject BI 4.1? (part1)
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The document discusses SAP's BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 software. It focuses on SAP's strategic priorities of core BI capabilities, self-service analytics, mobile BI, big data and social BI. The software suite provides unified and personalized insights through powerful visualizations to enable faster, more accurate decisions. It offers a single standard for enterprise BI with a professional grade platform and broad ecosystem support. New features in version 4.1 include improved deployment tools, multi-tenancy, offline mobile dashboards and support for additional data sources and languages.
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What’s new in SAP BusinessObject BI 4.1? (part1)
- 1. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 One Strategy for Enterprise BI May 2013
- 2. SAP’s Strategic Focus on Business Intelligence Core Self-service Mobile Extreme Social Ÿ Core for innovation Ÿ Complete BI suite Ÿ Continued leadership Ÿ Use by IT and departments Ÿ Fast time to value Ÿ Connection to the enterprise Ÿ First experience for BI Ÿ Content to point of impact Ÿ Expansion to untapped users Ÿ Big data Ÿ Real time Ÿ Predictive Ÿ Ability to capture the decision Ÿ Information in context Ÿ Ability to leverage the network One Strategy for Enterprise BI © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 2
- 3. SAP Business Intelligence One Suite for All Insight Build Engaging Experiences Ÿ Deliver engaging information to users where they need it Ÿ Track key performance indicators and summary data Ÿ Build custom experiences so users get what they need quickly Dashboards and Apps Self-service Reporting Discover. Predict. Create. Distribute Information Ÿ Discover areas to optimize your business Ÿ Securely distribute information across your organization Ÿ Adapt data to business needs Ÿ Tell your story with beautiful visualizations © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. Ÿ Answer related questions by interacting with pre-defined reports Ÿ Build printable reports for operational efficiency 3
- 4. Self-service Discover. Predict. Create. Agility for business analysts and business users Portfolio Ÿ Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your business Ÿ Lumira Ÿ Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and enriching data Ÿ Explorer* Ÿ Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics Ÿ Forecast and predict future outcomes Ÿ Analysis* Ÿ Predictive Analysis* * SAP BusinessObjects Explorer; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis; SAP Predictive Analysis © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 4
- 5. Dashboards and Apps Build Engaging Experiences Build engaging, visual dashboards Portfolio Ÿ Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealing analytics Ÿ Design Studio* Ÿ Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down, crosstabs, charts… Ÿ Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)* Ÿ Use custom code to extend and build workflows * SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 5
- 6. Reporting Share Information High productivity design for report designers Portfolio Ÿ Quickly build formatted reports on any data source Ÿ Web Intelligence* Ÿ Securely distribute reports both internally and externally Ÿ Crystal Reports* Ÿ Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users to easily create and modify their own reports Ÿ Enhance custom applications with embedded reports * SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP Crystal Reports © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 6
- 7. BI Platform Professional Grade Mobile Devices Browsers Self-service On Demand Services Dashboards and Apps Embedded Content MS Office Enterprise Portals Reporting Business Intelligence Platform Universe Semantic Layer ERP EDW SAP HANA Platform Oracle, IBM DB2, SAP NetWeaver BW SAP Business Suite Microsoft SQL Server Oracle E-Business SuiteTeraData and other relational data Other data warehouses PeopleSoft sources JD Edwards © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. MS Excel Unstructured data in Social Media and Hadoop OLAP Cubes 7
- 8. SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What’s different about this release? 4.1 First point release of SAP’s market leading Business Intelligence Suite Focus on quality and innovation deserving of a professional grade BI platform © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. Core stability and capability improvements from new innovations to incremental product advances from 4.0 to reintroduced features from XI3 All existing XI R2 and XI3 customers can migrate to this newest platform of SAP’s BI Suite New capabilities around selfservice, dashboarding and mobile BI Support of both net new and updated platforms 8
- 9. One Strategy for Enterprise BI One Suite for All Insight One Place for All Information One Standard for Enterprise BI © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 9
- 10. One Suite for All Insight Unified and Highly Personalized Powerful Visualizations Faster more Accurate Decisions © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 10
- 11. One Suite for All Insight Unified and Highly Personalized • • • Improved interoperability and usability across the BI suite Deliver engaging information to users when and where they need it Create custom experiences with embedded analytic extensions © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. Powerful Visualizations • • • Monitor your business with specialized charting and geospatial analytics Empower end users with industry focused visualizations and spatial analytics Detect outliers and discover areas to optimize your business Faster More Accurate Decisions • • • Create and consume BI content from any mobile device Empower teams to deliver collaborative decisions Simplified deployment to accelerate time to value 11
- 12. One Place for All Information Big Data Ready Scale and Power Speed to Deliver © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 12
- 13. One Place for All Information Big Data Ready • • • Support for Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hadoop Hive Improved access to Oracle Exadata, Oracle OLAP and Oracle Essbase Enhanced workflow capabilities in conjunction with SAP HANA and BW © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. Scale and Power • • • Immediate response time regardless of data volume Improved usability to build pervasive BI applications Integrate with SAP monitoring, lifecycle management, search, and user management Speed to Deliver • • • Enhanced design experience with new creation wizard and integrated data federation Automated universe deployment and lifecycle management Improved WebI report design performance against BW 13
- 14. One Standard for Enterprise BI Professional Grade BI Platform Quality Focused Superior Breadth of Ecosystem © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 14
- 15. One Standard for Enterprise BI Professional Grade BI Platform • • • For any size business, small to large For any type of deployment, on-premise or on-demand For anyone across the organization, individuals, teams, or department © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. Quality Focused • • • Increased efficiency to enhance decision making capability and productivity Non-disruptive production delivery and information governance across the organization Simplified architecture for increased IT responsiveness Superior Breadth of Ecosystem • • • Open and agnostic suite of products that can leverage existing BI investments Supported by global best practices for enhanced adoption Enable speedy deployment with shortened time to value 15
- 16. SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Summary of new features • Simplified deployment and migration tools • More Multi-tenancy features • RTL in CR, WebI, Launchpad & Mobile • 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 • 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) • Offline mobile and desktop dashboards • More visualizations © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. • RESTful Services, SL Authoring, WebI, Mobile, Mobile Dashboards, etc. 16
- 17. Key Links Ÿ sapbusinessobjectsbi.com Ÿ sap.com/learnbi Ÿ sap.com/bivirtualization Ÿ sap.com/bisizing Ÿ service.sap.com/roadmap Ÿ How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment Ÿ SAP’s Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 17
- 18. © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP AG. The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors. National product specifications may vary. These materials are provided by SAP AG and its affiliated companies ("SAP Group") for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP Group shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP Group products and services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark for additional trademark information and notices. © 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved. 18