ASUG 2009 Comprehensive Guide v3

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SHERRYANNE MEYER [ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER

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The Complete Guide to Reporting Tools

Available in SAP NetWeaver and the SAPBusinessObjects Portfolio

Bjarne BergDirector SAP BI

Comerit Inc.

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

This is a comprehensive guide to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligencepresentation tools

We will take an overview tour of the Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAPNetWeaver Visual Composer (VC), Web Application Designer (WAD),Report Designer, Web publishing, Java Server pages (JSP) and the new SAPNetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer.

We will look at the strengths and limitations of each tool and see how theycan be used independently or collectively in a SAP BI environment.

Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAPNetWeaver BI tools to make your system more flexible and adaptive to theneeds of end users.

Learning Points

Agenda

The SAP BI Tool Revolution

SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx AnalyzerAnalysis Process Designer (APD),SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC)Web Application Designer (WAD)Report Designer

Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP)Administrative toolsThe BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools

Empowering the users – a mind shift

Who Should get access

Wrap-up

Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools

The SAP BI Core Toolset

SAP BI is anenterprise-widecomprehensivedecision support (DSS)system for analyticalneeds of an enterprise.

BI can also supportsome degree of operational reporting

The SAP BI tool set has many presentation toolsand options for companies to leverage.

Agenda

Wrap-up

The BEx Query Designer in BW 3.5

The BEx query designer isa simple tool that you useto develop queries for users.

While the Query Designer

defined the query, youhave many options on howyou deploy the queries

You can deploy the queriesthrough web templates,broadcasted emails,portals, Excel and more.

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BEx Query Designer gets a ‘facelift’ in BI 7.x

The 3.5x BExQuery Designer

The NWBI 7.0 BExQuery Designer

The new 7.x Query designer wastotally re-developed in MS-Visual Basic

This new property pane makes iteasier to format and control displaysthan in the past.

BEx Ad-Hoc QueryDesigner functionality isreplaced by BEx WebAnalyzer in BI 7.0

BEx – Analyzer (Excel Workbooks)

1. BEx Workbooks is Excel 'on steroids'.

2. BW queries can be opened in Excel

3. Queries can be refreshedand standard Excel functions canbe used

This is a great tool for financialanalysts and power users.

To use this tool youneed BEx installed

BEx web Analyzer integrates Excel

The Excel integration in theBEx analyzer is far better.

Unlike the old days of dynamicHTML, you can now use theBEx analyzer more like a real

application without refreshingthe whole page every time youclick on something (this is dueto the Java component in BI7.0)

Source: SAP AG, 2008

Important: BEx browser goes awayin SAP BI 7.0 (so does BExDownload Scheduler)

BEx – Analyzer Design Mode

1. Application building in Excel (similar to WAD)

2. New options for queries with two structures3. Excel formulas allow access to any cell of the result set

4. Excel formatting options can be fully leveraged for BExworkbooks (e.g., blank lines, fonts, etc.)

5. Combining Excel formulas and Excel formatting allows the designof complex formatted workbooks

6. Integration of Business Planning is available

To use this tool youneed BEx installed

Source: SAP, Zane Connally 2008

Agenda

SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx AnalyzerAnalysis Process Designer (APD),SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC)Web Application Designer (WAD)Report DesignerWeb publishing

Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP)Administrative toolsThe BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools

Wrap-up

APD – Analysis Process Designer and data mining

SAP BW Analysis Process Designer (APD) is for Knowledge discovery andexploration of large sets of data.

APD has been available in BW since version 3.0 and can be used to docomplex analysis without having to restructure the data and create hundredsof specialized data marts.

You can read from a variety of sources such as

Flat filesDatabase tablesData Store Objects (new name for ODS)InfocubesBW queries

Image: SAP, UK

Since BW 3.5, APD has beenintegrated with the Data

Mining Workbench. You canaccess it though thetransaction code “RSDMWB”

Creating new data inside SAP BI

In Data warehousing v2.0 (Bill Immon’s new terminology), weare using BI applications to create new data that needs to befed to the data warehouse, and /or the transactional system

Tools are now available to build association data sets thatcreates updates based on BI findings (i.e. customersegmentation, risk, profitability flagging etc).

Images: Bhanu Gupta, ASUG 2005 Illinois chapter

Complex scenarios can be

built for structured analysissuch as risk modeling,customer segmentation,market basket analysis,predictive modeling and muchmore

Image: SAPImage: SAP

APD – Analysis Process Designer and data mining

“New data” based on the

findings can be loaded back intodata targets and used by othersfor reporting i.e. CRM analysis.

Agenda

SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx AnalyzerAnalysis Process Designer (APD)SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC)Web Application Designer (WAD)Report DesignerWeb publishing

Who Should get accessWrap-up

Visual Composer

A Visual Composer is a tool to visualize the data. It is a browser-basedmodeling and design tool for rapid application development & prototypingin a code-free development environment.

Visual Composer for Complex cockpits

Modeling of BI applications using the BI kit of the Visual Compo

allows business users to create analytical content for SAP portal. Ioffers the integration with BI infoproviders, views, BEx webapplications, PDF and more via WEB API as access toother datasources suchas OLAP andrelational datasources) viaJavaconnectors

Image source: Cubeserv

Details about Visual Composer Cockpits

Delivered as part of Enterprise Portal in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 Usage Type(SPS8 and higher)

Different options available for rendering Visual Composer outputFlashWeb Dynpro (HTML)

Flash provides high-end visualization of Visual Composer models

Since a cockpit may havemany different sources(queries), it can take quitesome time to execute them if the memory cache is notused consistently

Visual Composer Data Methods

Can integrate data from multiple data sources, including SAPand non-SAP systems, into one modelDifferent options available for data access include:

BI Extension KitRemote Function Call (RFC)Web services

BI Extension Kit allows accessto the following DataSources

SAP NetWeaver 2004 BI(BW 3.5 Support Package 14)SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0

JDBCXMLA

Visual Composer DataProviders

You can use BI queries and views as DataProviders forVisual Composer modelsYou also can use BI query functionalities for exceptionsand variables along with Visual Composer models

Visual Composer allowsaccess to BI history,favorites, and roles

The future of Visual Composer

Composition Environment including Visual Composer“continues to be the go -to product for creatingcomposite applications” (SAP, 2008)

Source: SAP, July 2008

AgendaThe SAP BI Tool Revolution

Empowering the users – a mind shiftWho Should get access

Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools

BEx Web Application Designer (WAD)

OLAP Processor

BEx Web Application DesignerBEx Analyzer/Query Designer

Web Service

Charting Engine

Web Browser

HTLM Templates InfoProvider

WAD is an intuitive toolto build powerful webapplications and to

interact with portals andcustom templates.

BW queries can bemanipulated in WAD for better display

New Features of SAP NetWeaver SAP BI 7.0 Web AD

Web Items: Tab Pages, Button, Script Item (in SAP BI 7.0 Support PackageStack 7)

Drag and drop using Analysis itemNew chart types (heat map, Gantt, milestone trend analysis)Export BI Web applications in PDF format

Command Wizard for generating Web API commandsIntegration with SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 BEx Report Designer forformatted reports

NEW: User can change the XHTMLsource code of any web templateeither directly, or the ABAP programRS_TEMPLATE_MAINTAIN_70, or inany external XHTML editor.

Command Wizard and JavaScript

You can use Command Wizard for generating JavaScript code forthe Script Item to use in custom cockpit applications

Source: SAP 20009

Product Directions for BI Solutions

SAP BEx Analyzer Voyager

Web App Designer

Predictive

Report Designer

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Xcelsius

BI Widgets

Web Services

And MuchMore…

Polestar

Mobile BI

Enterprise DataWarehousing & BI Platform

Advanced

Analysis

EnterpriseReporting

Dashboards,Visualization

Ad-hocQuery &Reporting

BusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWA

Source: SAP 20009

Product Directions for BI Solutions

SAP BEx Analyzer Voyager

Web App Designer

Predictive

Report Designer

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Xcelsius

BI Widgets

Web Services

And MuchMore…

Polestar

Mobile BI

Enterprise DataWarehousing & BI Platform

Advanced

Analysis

EnterpriseReporting

Dashboards,Visualization

Ad-hocQuery &Reporting

BusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWA

BI Web Application Designer Roadmap

InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal

SAP BOE

Platform

SAP NW BW

BEx WebTemplates

Pioneer WebServer

WorkspacePIO WebTab

BEx WebTab

BI Consumer Services

BEx Queries/InfoProviders

Pioneer Web Client

BEx WebAppDesigner

SAP BOE

Platform

Pioneer Web Server

WorkspacePIO WebTab

BEx WebTab

BI Consumer Services

Pioneer Web Client

Pioneer Designer/ SDK

SAP NW BW

BEx WebTemplates

BEx Queries/InfoProviders

BEx WebAppDesigner

Migrationoptions viaPioneer SDK

InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal

planned 2010 future

Agenda

The BEx Report Designer

This new tool was created

to simplify the formatting of reports and fix many of theprinting issues in previousversions of BW.

Source: SAP AG

We now get color control, header-footer control and many new features suchas location control of cells and integration of pictures, charts and fixed text.

BEx Report Designer is new in BI 7.0

Customizable font styles (i.e.bold, italic), colors, etc.Group-level changes withindividual formatting

Layout options, e.g.: Height of rows, width of columns

Multi-line column headers

Flexible field positioning

Merging cells

Support for hierarchies

Rules for the presentation of special characteristic values

Integration of text, pictures,and charts

Header & footer for reports

News: BEx Report Designer 7.1, (last release in2008) will be available under maximummaintenance until 2016 and will be replaced withthe Crystal Base product.

Crystal Report is still available (also in SAP BW 3.x)

With BW you get access to Crystal reports. In fact you have many pre-

developed reports that comes with SAP-BW. Currently, you can modify, ordevelop and deploy a few Crystal reports without additional licensing cost.

Crystal is a great tool for batch reporting of "pixel controlled' formattedreports.

Agenda

Wrap-up

Web Cockpits in the Portal

You can integrate queriesand Web applications intothe portal throughpublishing, broadcasting, orWeb calls

The portal can eitherreceive designed pages

passively or actively createcommunities, Web pages,collaboration rooms, orcockpits

Broadcasting

Publishing

Agenda

Wrap-up

BI Java SDK-Based Applications in SAP BI 7.x

BI Java SDK can be used for custom applications based on SAP BI

and non-SAP data.BI Java SDK provides access to relational and OLAP data sourcesusing JDBC, XMLA, ODBO etc.Access to 200+ data sources using the JDBC drivers.

Source: SAP AG, 2008

Java programmers willrecognize the standarddevelopment kit's (SDK)

main libraries such as theabstract windowing toolkit(AWT) and the GUI-oriented Swing objectlibrary as well

BI Java SDK-Based Cockpits (cont.)

SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio can develop BI Java SDK-basedapplicationsCan use along with SAP Java Web Dynpro

Interested developersshould familiarizethemselves with SAPNetWeaver Developer Studio

Agenda

Wrap-up

More Administrative tools for management & development

Enhanced Dataflow control (split delta)Administrator Cockpit (Web-based)BI Accelerator (high performance BIA)Enhanced InfoSets with InfoCubes

Re-modeling and repartitioning of InfoCubesNew Data Transfer Process (DTP)Write-optimized DataStore objectsNew Admin Workbench

SAP BI 7.0 have many improved tools fordevelopers and system administrators

Agenda

Wrap-up

SAP’s Premium Offerings

SAP Acquired Business Objects in 2007/2008 and is working on

integrating BOBJ into the core SAP BI offerings.

BOBJ capabilities – Dashboards and Reports

Crystal Reports for pixel formatted reports hasbeen available with SAP BI/BW since 2002. Thistool can be integrated into your tool portfolio

using existing SAP NetWeaver BI queries

(NOTE: Crystal & Crystal Base will be the core tools for formattedreports starting 2010)

• Dashboards can be built using Xcelsius.

• Xcelsius+ will be launched in 2009, andwill be “the flagship product for datavisualization & dashboards”

Source SAP AG, 2009

BOBJ capabilities – Analysis, Ad-hoc & Widgets

The Web Intelligence tool from BOBJ isa tool for ad-hoc web based reporting,query & analysis.It is intended for end users and canleverage queries to both relational andOLAP sources.

It will be the core offering for ad-hocend user analysis starting 2009.

With the current offering of BOBJ you canalso use Desktop Widgets to place BIcontent direct onto a PC desktop andmonitor reports and KPIs.

Source SAP AG, June 2008

New Tools Roadmap

Source SAP

The Move towards Pioneer

• Pioneer (for 1st

Quarter 2010 release) providesa superset of the capabilities in BEx Analyzer(Excel), BEx Analyzer (Web), and BusinessObjects Voyager.

• Voyager customers migrate to Pioneer.

• BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzer customersmigrate to Pioneer. (Note: BEx is planned to gointo regular maintenance)

Webbased

Excelbased

Source SAP, April, 2009

[ What can be Done in 2009- Implementations

Suggestion Tool PurposeVisual Composer Visualization

Web Intelligence Ad-hocBI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop IntelligenceCrystal Report Formatted reportsBPC Consolidation & PlanningBI Accellerator In memory performance

Candidates forImplementations in 2009

VisualComposer

Widgets

BI Accelerator

Web Intelligence (webi)

[ The two types of Universes

There are currently2 ways to get atthe SAP BI data.

If you implementthis year, you needto make consciousdecisions aboutwhich method you

select. There arepros and cons of each

[ Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.0

Data Federator

RDBMS Analytic Engine

OLAP BAPI ODBO XMLA

UniversesQT ODA

SQL Access MDX Access

WebI Xcelsius

Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.01

BW DF Fascade

Data Federator

RDBMS Analytic Engine

OLAP BAPI ODBO XMLA

UniversesQT ODA

SQL Access MDX Access

WebI Xcelsius

[ ComparisonBW Server Feature MDX SQL

BW Hierarchies

Restricted and Calculated Key Figures

Security

BW Variables

Currency and Unit Conversion

Exceptions, ConditionsSUM, MIN, MAX Aggregations

AVG, COUNT, COUNT DISTINCT, … Aggregations

OLAP Cache

Navigational Attributes

Mass Data Enabled

Federation (e.g. BW – RDBMS, BW – BW)

= fully supported

= limited support / workaround

[ What can be Done in 2009- Take a Look at…

Polestar is an interestingtechnology that companies maystart a prototype with and see

how it can help them access BIdata from a variety of sources(NW and others)

Xcelsius

Polestar

Suggestion Tool PurposeXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine

Pioneer BEx web & Excel

Worth a Prototype

Keep an Eye on, but waituntil the new release

[ What can be Done in 2009- Prototype

Consider

building aXcelsiusPrototype toget used toreallyinteractivedashboardsand what-if analysis.

Suggestion Tool PurposeXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine

Worth a Prototype

Xcelsius

Image source: Adobe, 2009

[ What can be Done in 2009- Keep doing…

There are many classical SAP

NetWeaver tools that should still beused by companies that are planninggo-lives in 2009.

Integrated planning is still supported.Pioneer is still 12 months awayWAD will continue to be the developmentenvironment for 2009.

Suggestion Tool PurposeWeb Application Designer Web developmentBEx Web Web reportingBEx Excel Excel reportingAnalysis Process Designer Structured AnalysisIntegrated Planning Planning

Keep doing for a while longer

[ Stop As soon as possible

If you need Formatted Reports in 2009, you should seriouslyconsider Crystal Reports. The current roadmap calls formoving Report Designer into regular maintenance at the endof 2009, and stop further development of this tool.

Looking forward to Xcelsius and Pioneer, it may be advisableto limit further custom development in JSP unless it is notintended to be migrated at a future date.

Suggestion Tool PurposeReport Designer Formatted reportsCustom JSP pages Custom applications

Stop when possible

[Training SAP Business Objects for SAP NetWeaver BW

future

New 2 day course offering from SAP Education for training onBusiness Objects integration with SAP NetWeaver BW

Two dates are currently scheduled in June for virtual coursedelivery

June 1 – 2, 2009

June 25 – 26, 2009

See the following link to the Course Description for more

detailed information on the content coveredhttp://www.sap.com/usa/services/education/usacourse.epx?context=%5b%5b|SAPBO||1|091|US|%5d%5d|

Agenda

[ D idi hi h ti t l i i ht f

Deciding which reporting tool is right for you

* Through embedded Bex Broadcaster

Bex Broadcaster

WebreportsWorkbooks Fixedformat WebApplications Models

Ad-hoc query designer

Query Designer

Analysis ProcessDesigner

Crystal Reports

Broadcaster -wizard

Visual Composer

Web ApplicationDesigner

O t h e r t o o

T o o l s

Q u e r y

Vizuali-zation Distrib-ution

[ Wh t t d h t?

Who gets to do what?

The major decision for a SAP BI driven enterprise is to determinewho gets access to each tool.

There is often a temptation for the IT community of wanting tokeep the tools under their domain – That is a mistake

The IT community should actively work with the power and

casual users to improve human capabilities and thereby teachthem to become more productive employees.

Chinese Proverb

[ T l A Wh h ld d h t

Tool Access – Who should do what…..

There are many options and decisions to be made on whoshould be able to access all the different tools.

Bex Broadcaster

Power users

Regular users Authors Developers BW

Admins

Ad-hoc query designer

Query Designer

Analysis ProcessDesigner

Crystal Reports

Broadcaster -wizard

Visual Composer

Web ApplicationDesigner

O t h e r t o o

Q u e r y

[ Resources

Resources

COMERIT (Presentations, guides and accelerators) www.comerit.net

SAP Documents - Interfaces for Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysishttps://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f52e9cc1-0d01-0010-d88b-d808b69391a4

SAP Business Intelligence (BI) by Norbert Egger, Jean-Marie Fiechter,Sebastian Kramer, Ralf-Patrick Sawicki, and Stephan Weber.

Galio Press - Hardcover, 653 pages, ISBN 978-1-59229-082-6

[ K L i

Key Learnings

Suggestion Tool PurposeVisual Composer Visualization

Web Intelligence Ad-hocBI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop IntelligenceCrystal Report Formatted reportsBPC Consolidation & PlanningBI Accellerator In memory performanceXcelcius Dashboards

Polestar Search engine

Web Application Designer Web developmentBEx Web Web reportingBEx Excel Excel reporting

Analysis Process Designer Structured AnalysisIntegrated Planning PlanningReport Designer Formatted reportsCustom JSP pages Custom applications

Candidates forImplementations in 2009

Worth a Prototype

Stop when possible

Keep doing for a while longer

[ Questions and Answers

Questions and Answers

How to contact me:Dr. Bjarne Berg

bberg@comerit.net

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[ B M t i l Th t t l BOBJ t l tThis Bonus Material Include allSAP BOBJ t l t j t t l

Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset

Source: SAP March, 2009

SAP BOBJ tools, not just toolsfor the SAP market

[ Bonus Material The total BOBJ toolsetThis Bonus Material Include allSAP BOBJ tools not just tools

Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset

SAP BOBJ tools, not just toolsfor the SAP market

Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset SAP BOBJ tools, not just toolsfor the SAP market

Source: SAPMarch, 2009

[ Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset SAP BOBJ tools, not just toolsfor the SAP market