SAP BusinessObjects AdvancedAnalysis

June 2010

Alexander PeterDirector, Product Management Advanced Analysis

SAP Intelligence Platform & NetWeaver GroupSAP AG

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Agenda

1. Overview2. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office3. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Web Edition4. Appendix

SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis

Two different product flavors:

SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Web edition? As premium web-based OLAP analysis client for business analysts to run ad hoc OLAP

analyses, and create OLAP workspaces for private usage or sharing with others? SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Web edition completes SAP BusinessObjects

client portfolio in the area of OLAP analysis and interoperates with offerings such as WebIntelligence & Crystal Reports? Successor of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager

SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office? MS Office Add-Ins that allow ad hoc multidimensional analysis of OLAP sources in MS Excel,

intuitive creation of BI presentations with MS PowerPoint as well as Excel workbook-basedapplication design.

? SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office will evolve into a fully-fledged productivity suite for MS Office by converging with SAP BusinessObjects Live Office? Premium Alternative to SAP BEx Analyzer

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Simplified Requirements and Current Tooling

Business User /Information Consumer

Key User Business Analyst

Power User Tools Easy BI consumption

Building MS OfficeContent in Excel & PPt

Ad hoc DataAnalysis in Excel

Consuming BIContent, e.g., WebI, CR

ExplorationConsumingDashboards

Active/staticReport

Consumption

Ad Hoc OLAPAnalysis

Building Content(Dashboards, Reports,

workspaces)

InteractiveReports &Analysis

CR XCE AA Web WebI WebI/CR XCE Explorer

Advanced Analysis, edition for MS Office Live Office

Web

MS

Offi

ce

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Semantic Layer(next generation)

Web IntelligenceCrystal ReportsAdvanced Analysisedition for MS Office

Advanced AnalysisWeb edition

Interoperability Between Advanced Analysis andOther Clients in 2010

? Analysis is captured in a query object called analysis view that is shared between products in the SAPBusinessObjects suite (similar for the BEx query view in the BEx Suite)

? The analysis view captures the view on the data including filters and other features it is stored in BOEnterprise

? Advanced Analysis can create and consume the analysis view, The first clients who are able to consume it areCR & Web Intelligence. Each tool interprets the analysis view in a way that is consistent with its nativeenvironment

? In the future, it is planned to be expanded to shared presentation layer state as well

Shared Query(Analysis View)

Create /consume

Create /consume

BICS Component

Create /consume

Create /consume

Interoperability(Consume throughtransient universe)

Agenda

1. Overview2. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Edition for Microsoft

Office3. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Web Edition4. Appendix

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Use Cases for Advanced Analysis, edition forMS Office & Live Office

Business User /Information Consumer

Key User Business Analyst

Power User Tools Easy BI consumption

Building MS OfficeContent Advanced Analysis

Consuming BIContent, e.g., WebI, CR

ExplorationConsumingDashboards

Active/staticReport

Consumption

AdvancedAnalysis

Building Content(Dashboards, Reports,

workspaces)

InteractiveAnalysis

CR XCE AA Web WebI WebI/CR XCE Explorer

Advanced Analysis, edition for MS Office Live Office

Web

MS

Offi

ce

Building MS OfficeContent in Excel & PPt

Ad hoc Data Analysisin Excel

? Centralized creation of AdvancedAnalysis content (workbooks &PowerPoints)

? Sophisticated workbook design(VBA APIs and so on)

? Ad Hoc data access and dataanalysis, slicing & dicing, and soon, in Excel

? Ad Hoc embedding of BI datainto PowerPoint presentations

? Consumes pre-defined BIcontent in Excel, PowerPoint &MS Word

Note: the bigger the orange share, the more suitable the tool for the user segment

SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis,Edition for Microsoft Office 1.0 Prerequisites? Prerequisites

? MS Office 2003 or higher (on MS Windows XP and higher) Powerpoint Add-in only available as of MS Office 2007

? SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 or higher** Recommendation: use SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 as there are significant TCO and

integration improvements between BOE and NetWeaver? SAP Business Objects Enterprise (BOE) XI 3.1 or higher: (can run side-by side with SAP

NetWeaver BW) See next slide for information about platform capabilities

? Queries defined in SAP BEx Query Designer 3.5 (within SAP NetWeaver 7.0!) or 7.0+ ;also: direct access to SAP NetWeaver BW InfoProvider and query views No need to migrate queries, no change in BW data models necessary The SAP BEx Query Designer stays as it is and can continues to be the semantic

modeling level for SAP NetWeaver BW data.? Client Sizing: See SAP note 1466118

** Requirements may be higher for other clients

*Please note: these are preliminary statements .The statements remain to be finalized once Advanced Analysis, edition for MS Office becomes available.

Advanced Analysis, Edition for MS Office 1.0 Platform Capabilities? BOE is strategic BI platform for all SAP BusinessObjects Clients

? BOE XI 3.1 Central provisioning of BW connections Client-side Single-Sign On Saving and sharing workbooks centrally (common xls / ppt InfoObject)

? Planned for BOE XI 4.0 (as of begin of ramp-up for BOE XI 4.0) Support system-type connection Server-side and client-side Single-Sign On Saving and sharing workbooks centrally (common xls(x) / ppt(x) InfoObject) Lifecycle Management Interoperability with other clients: WebI, Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects

Advanced Analysis, Web edition based on Analysis View? Although technically possible and good for testing purposes direct operation of the Office

Add-In on BW without BOE is not recommended for productive usage (main services likecentral repository, interoperabilty, and so on are not supported)

*Please note: these are preliminary statements .The statements remain to be finalized once Advanced Analysis, edition for MS Office becomes available.

Advanced Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeMS Excel Add-In with Query Panel

Advanced Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeMS PowerPoint Add-In

Advanced Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeDesign Panel

? Views? Analysis: Allows navigation, filtering, and so on? Information:

? General information on the embedded datasource or the workbook itself (i.e. last datarefresh, created by, and so on)

? All relevant information (filters, variables, andso on) at one glance, in one place

? Components: Structural information view either fromthe data source or the worksheet perspective

? Navigation? Simplified drag&drop within panel or into grid to filter,

drill-down, slice&dice, replace, and so on? Finger-tip access to hierarchies? Access to display attributes

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Advanced Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeAdvanced Analysis

? New options for the end-user? Define conditional formatting (formerly exceptions)? Define filter by measure (formerly conditions)? Define easy calculations and dynamic calculations? Excel commentary on data cells

? New hierarchy features? Collapse into hierarchical structures (display

hierarchy)? Show/hide hierarchy levels? Sort breaking hierarchies

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Advanced Analysis, Edition for MS OfficeEasy Application Building

? Workbook Design? Easy insertion of multiple data

source (from multiple systems)? Improved overview of BW elements

in an Excel workbook? Free formatting of text elements

(cells with meta data retrievalformulas)

? New APIs as Excel formulas? Add Excel-based charts

? Easy consumption of Workbooks createdby Advanced Analysis, edition for MSOffice? Add information on the data sources

(name, last update, and so on? Add information on the filter status? Integrate filter dialog

? Sharing Workbooks/PowerPoint? Save workbook/ppt presentation in

BOE SAP 2010 / Page 15

Agenda

1. Overview2. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office3. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Web Edition4. Appendix

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Power User Tools

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Use Cases for Advanced Analysis, Web Edition

Business User /Information Consumer

Key User Business Analyst

Building MS OfficeContent Advanced Analysis

Consuming BIContent, eg. WebI, CR

MS

Offi

ce

Ad Hoc OLAPAnalysis

? Creation of re-usable AdvancedAnalysis workspaces

? Not necessarily an expert forsophisticated BI ApplicationDesign

? Ad Hoc data access and dataanalysis, slicing & dicing

? Creation of Advanced Analysisworkspaces for personal use

? Can use pre-defined Webworkspaces

? Need to operate betweenAdvanced Analysis and more BIconsumer tools like WebIntelligence or Explorer

Note: the bigger the orange share, the more suitable the tool for the user segment

Easy BI consumption

ExplorationConsumingDashboards

Active/staticReport

Consumption

Building Content(Dashboards, Reports,

workspaces)

InteractiveReports &Analysis

CR XCE AA Web WebI WebI/CR XCE Explorer

Web

SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, WebEdition Prerequisites

? Prerequisites? Browser: MS Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Firefox 3.5, Adobe Acrobat 8 and 9, and Safari 4

for Apple Mac.? BOE XI 4.0? For SAP BW connectivity: SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 SP 23 or higher** or

SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 EHP1 SP5 or higher** Recommendation: use SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 as there are significant TCO and

integration improvements between BOE and NetWeaver Queries defined in SAP BEx Query Designer 3.5 (within SAP NetWeaver 7.0!) or 7.0+ ;

also: direct access to SAP BW InfoProvider and query views (no need to migratequeries or change data models)

? For MSAS connectivity: MS Analysis Services 2005 SP1 and SP2; Microsoft AnalysisServices 2008

** Aurora program requirements may be higher for other clients*Please note: these are preliminary statements .The statements remain to be finalized once Advanced Analysis, Web edition becomes available.

Roadmap for Enhanced Microsoft AnalysisServices (MSAS) Support

? Major MSAS features already supported in first version of SAP BusinessObjects AdvancedAnalysis, Web edition.

? Planned support of following MSAS features in next SAP BusinessObjects AdvancedAnalysis, Web edition release(s)? Server-based named sets? Dimension attributes (within hierarchies)? Actions? KPIs? Drill-Through (available in Voyager)

*Please note: these are preliminary statements .The statements remain to be finalized once Advanced Analysis, Web edition becomes available.

Advanced Analysis, Web Edition Workspacewith BW and MSAS Components

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Advanced Analysis, Web EditionAdvanced Analysis

? New options for the end-user? Define conditional formatting (formerly exceptions)? Define filter by measure (formerly conditions)? Define simple and dynamic calculations? Create custom calculations? Insert comment in cell

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Advanced Analysis, Web Edition:Data Presentation Charts

? Chart types from shared CVOM library: Column (Clustered, Stacked, 100% Stacked, 3DClustered), Line, Pie, Bar (Clustered, Stacked, 100% Stacked), Scatter, Bubble, Radar, Box Plot

? Interactivity if a chart and a crosstab are linked to the same analysis, both components displaythe same data and update simultaneously whenever you make changes to either component

? Scope of Analysis change window to focus on most important data in the chart SAP 2010 / Page 22

Scope ofAnalysis

Advanced Analysis, Web Edition:Predictive Services Find Outliers

MS Office 2003 or higher Web Browser

Find Outliers: Performs a statistical analysis of the data to determine whichvalues dont seem to belong with the rest of the data.

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Select New Analysis togenerate a separate crosstab

with outliers only

Advanced Analysis, Web Edition:Predictive Services Find Trends

MS Office 2003 or higher Web Browser

Find Trends: Determines whether a data series exhibits behavior that matches apattern described by one of a set of statistical equations for trend analysis.

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Projectvalues

based ontrend

Advanced Analysis, Web EditionHigh Level Architecture

? Advanced Analysis, Web editionleverages BOE platform services(LCM, persistency, authentication,and so on) and cannot be usedwithout BOE

? The Advanced Analysis, Web editionServer component can be optionallyinstalled on? NW J2EE 7.1 or on? Any J2EE supported by BOE

? Advanced Analysis workspaces &analysis views stored in BOErepository

Advanced Analysis (Web)

*SAP BusinessObjects StrategyManagement, Profitability and CostManagement, Planning and Consolidation

AJAX/ HTTP

Application Server

Any J2EE supported by BOE(e.g., SAP NetWeaver)

BusinessObjects Enterprise PlatformOLAP Data Access & Drivers

BI Consumer Services

SAP Sources

SAP NetWeaver BW 7.x(BEx Queries, views,

InfoProviders)

SAP NetWeaver BWAccelerator

SAP BusinessObjectsPOA Providers *

(planned for 2nd release)

3rd Party OLAP Sources

e.g., MS AnalysisServer

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InfoView / SAP NetWeaver Portal

Using of BEx Web Application DesignerTemplates in Advanced Analysis (Web)

? Integration of SAP BEx WebApplications into Advanced Analysis,Web edition runtime

? No additional SAP NetWeaver J2EEstack requiredAdvanced Analysis (Web) Client

BusinessObjects Enterprise Platform

BI Consumer Services

SAP NetWeaver BW

BEx Queries /InfoProviders

BEx WebTemplates

Adv. Analysis(Web) Runtime

BEx WebRuntime

Workspace

Adv. AnalysisWorkspace

BEx WebWorkspace

BEx Web ApplicationDesigner 7.x

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Interoperability:Reflect Business User Workflows

Question

Format, layoutadd context

Share,distribute

Personalize,Analyze

Business UserInformation usage

Life Cycle

Ask questions on existinganalytic content or basedon corporate data sources

Understand aggregates,details, components andrelationships &interdependencies withother content

Add context to bettercommunicate the

analysis resultsto others

Provide access toothers through

publishing, scheduling,in multiple channels

Each client strengths will be increasinglycomplemented by strengths of other tools

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Advanced Analysis (Web) andInteractive Analysis (formerly WebI)

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Business Analystson OLAP sources

Report authors & Generalbusiness users

ADVANCEDANALYSIS,

WEB EDITION

INTERACTIVEANALYSIS

Emphasis onanswering Questions

with Analysisfeatures

No emphasis onAnalysis over

Formatting& Sharing

Question

Analyze

Format

for

consumption

Share

Userinformation

goals

? Job function is one of two user-types:1. Report authors for self/others2.General business users & light analysis

? No emphasis on reporting over analysis

? Job function involves analysis and extensivehierarchical navigation

? Expect features to be optimized for analysis:Highly interactive drilldown, filtering &hierarchy handling

Plannedinteroperability

Agenda

1. Overview2. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office3. SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, Web Edition4. Appendix

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SAP Business Explorer (BEx)

? Maintenance? BEx 7.0 continues to be delivered with the next SAP NetWeaver BW releases. At this

point in time, theres no planned end of life. The maintenance period is renewed withevery major BW release.

? BEx 3.5 is part of BW 3.5/SAP NetWeaver 04 and the maintenance cycle is coupled tothis release (see SAP note 1410878). As BEx 3.5 is also compatible with a BW 7.0backend and had been delivered with BW 7.0, SAP will maintain BEx 3.5 functionalitywithin BW 7.0 and subsequent releases until the end of BW 7.0 maintenance cycle.Maintenance is NOT extended with BW 7.30 or other future releases. Note that full PAMsupport of BEx 3.5 cannot be granted by SAP as Microsoft has removed, e.g., supportfor some components within Windows 7 that had been used by BEx Web ApplicationDesigner 3.5.

? Coexistence BEx Analyzer and Advanced Analysis, edition for MS Office? You can install BEx and Advanced Analysis on a single PC.? Only one add-in can be active in an Excel session (in other words, either BEx or

Advanced Analysis can be active)? Opening an Advanced Analysis workbook activates the Advanced Analysis add-in.? Opening a BEx workbook activates the BEx add-in.

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