People Process Technology

An Introduction on

BusinessObjectsBy: ARK Solutions, Inc.

OUR PEOPLE | YOUR PROCESS | SAP TECHNOLOGY

SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Portfolio

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions provide business users with access to unifiedinformation through a broad suite of BI tools for confident decision making andalignment across people and teams on a single, scalable BI platform

Dashboards andVisualization

How do I visualizedata for betterdecisionmaking?

InteractiveAnalysis

How do I answer adhoc questions andinteract withinformation?

Data Exploration

How do I findimmediate answersto businessquestions?

forecasts?

Analysis

How do I determinetrends from complexhistoricaldata andpossiblymake better

reports for greaterinsight?

Reporting

How do I accessand transformcorporate data intohighly formatted

Crystal Reports

The de facto standard for reporting

Proven world standard for report design

Ubiquitous reporting assets and expertise for fastimplementation

Chosen reporting solution by over 500 majorindependent software vendors

Deploy a common framework for all

enterprise reporting needs

Build any kind of report – such as business,financial, legal, and regulatory reports

Sophisticated report formatting: create multi-page, multi-query, pixel-perfect reports

Templates and wizards to speed up report

creation

Secure, large-scale distribution of reportsover the Web

Connectivity to any data source

Web Intelligence

Empower business users withpowerful, yet easy to useanalysis Intuitive, Web-based interface with

offline capabilities Start from a blank slate or use an

existing analysis or report Multi-source access Interactivity with filtering, ranking,

sorting, calculations, etc. Data lineage

Lighten IT workload Self-service analysis and reporting Controlled and secure access with

tight BI platform integration Intuitive, business-centric view of

information with universes

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Bring BI to all business users Simplicity and speed of search Intuitive data exploration and visualization Fast response across mountains of

data anywhere in the organization Accelerated version with in-memory

technologies

Help IT to be successful Easy and efficient to manage and scale More reactive to business with faster

delivery Support for heterogeneous data

sources

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Consume attractive, personalizeddashboards online or offline Access to personalized, Flash-based

dashboards Secure visualizations anywhere – portal,

reports, PDF, MS Office documents

Empower business users withinteractive information Powerful “what-if” analysis with sliders

and other controls Ability to drill-down into details Pre-built components, skins, maps,

charts, gauges, and selectors

Empower analysts to consume andexplore multi-dimensional data sets Comprehensive OLAP data access Multiple OLAP cubes in the same work

space Available for Web based and Microsoft

Office focused deployments

Quickly find patterns, exceptions,and other areas of interest Comprehensive range of business and

time calculations Stunning visualization options (e.g.,

scatter plot, bubble plot, radar chart, etc.) Exception highlighting Ability to drill-down into details – Web

Intelligence or Crystal Reports

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for MS Office

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP

Allow power users & IT to createpurpose built analysis templatesand applications Target User Group

IT, Designer, Power User

Functionality Eclipse-based application design

environment for planning &analytical apps

Access to BW via BICS Integrated with SAP BusinessObjects Premium Alternative to BEx WAD

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

Semantic Layer for Exposing Business

Data Under a Single Umbrella

Legacy reporting technology

Analytics for sophisticated users

Limited report formatting capabilities

Modern user experience

Compelling analytics for all users

Best-of-breed BI solutions

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions integratedwithin the SAP Business Suite

SAP BusinessObjects BI

For SAP ECC Customers

Two Flavors Generic Crystal report:

Enable usage of SAP BusinessObjects tools immediately across allALVs within the whole suite (e.g. for printout or as starting point to define Specific Crystal Reports)

Specific Crystal Report:Using formatting features on top of data of a dedicated ALV layout. Can be shipped as content or defined by customer

Central idea Using Crystal Reports as layout option for Web

Dynpro ALV and SAP GUI ALV

Leverage ALV lifecycle management (LCM)

SAP BusinessObjects BI

for SAP ECC Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI

for SAP ECC Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI

for SAP ECC Customers

Operational Reporting Direct connectivity towards SAP ERP can be established with Crystal Reports 2011 only

Starting with SAP ERP 6.0 EnhancementPackage 05 (Innovations 2010) the Transient Provider allows to leverage a BEx

query based on a classic InfoSet and in that way expose operationaldata via a common interface

Crystal Reports for Enterprise is able to leverage the connection towards Rapid Marts, SAP HANA , and the Transient

Provider

Self Service Reporting Self Service reporting capabilities with Web Intelligence are enabled by leveraging the Transient Provider technologyand the

semantic layer in combination with SAP HANA

Data Visualization SAP BusinessObjectsDashboards can leverage the connection towards Universes, Live Office,and BI Web Services to

leveragedata from the operational systems, Rapid Marts, and SAP HANA

Analysis SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis Suite is able to leverage SAP HANA‟s analytical capabilities and provide users these

capabilities inside Microsoft Office and web environments In addition SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis Suite is able to leverage the Transient Provider technology and allow for analytical

reporting on top of transactional data

Search and Exploration SAP BusinessObjectsExplorer is able to leverage the Universe connection as well as establish a direct connection to SAP

HANA

SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts

Rapid Mart data model usesstar design principle Information-rich:

Content stored in ~50 tables

Pre-build universes included withaccess to all objects

Pre-build WebI reports

Pre-build Xcelsius dashboards

All ready to use right from the start!

Rapid Marts can be implemented individually, or in any combination, to form a single platform that delivers the infrastructure of internal and external information needed.

SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts Packages

For SAP ERP Supported Analysis

General Ledger

Accounts Receivable Accounts Payable Cost Center

Human Capital Management Suite HR

Available Rapid Marts for SAP solutions : Fnancials Suite

Inventory

Purchasing

Manufacturing Suite Project Systems Production Planning Plant Maintenance

Operational SuiteSalesSales

solutions for departmentalneeds. Rapid Marts‟ aim is tosimplify and shorten datamart deployment cycles. Theyare not replacements for anEnterprise Data Warehouselike BW.

Please Note: Rapid Martsare jump-start data martofferings useful for rolling outquick, subject-area specific BI

SAP High-Performance Analytic

Appliance (SAP HANA) Operational Data Marts

Scenario Replication of operational data into memory

New Business Content provides immediateaccess to analytic models on operational data

Modeling environment enables customization ofcontent and creation of new models

Benefits

Outstanding query performance on operationaldata

High flexibility to create new models or tocustomize SAP Business Content

No materialization of analytic models

Direct access for SAP„s BI clients and MS Excel

Risk free passage to in-memory computing

SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA)

Operational Data Marts

Objective:Access and transform transactionaldata into actionable, dynamic analyticsand reduce the cost andtime for a DWH solution

Best practice solution:SAP HANA with SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects BI

For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI

For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI

For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

Operational Reporting

Direct connectivity towards SAP ERP and non-SAP based business applications can be established with Crystal Reports 2011 only

Starting with SAP ERP 6.0 EnhancementPackage 05 (Innovations 2010) the Transient Provider allows to leverage a BEx querybased on a classic InfoSet and in that way expose operationaldata via a common interface

Crystal Reports for Enterprise is able to leverage the connection towards the Transient Universe (BICS), Universes , SAP HANA ,and the Transient Provider

Self Service Reporting

Self Service reporting capabilities with Web Intelligence are enabled by leveraging the Transient Universe (BICS) on top of SAPNetWeaverBW and the Transient Provider technology for SAP ERP and the semantic layer in combination with SAP HANA

Data Visualization

SAP BusinessObjectsDashboards can leverage the connection towards the BI Consumer Services, Universes, Live Office,and BIWebServices to leverage data from the operationalsystems, SAP NetWeaverBW,and SAP HANA

Analysis

SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis, edition for Microsoft Officeis able to leverage the BI Consumer Services in combination with SAPNetWeaverBW and is able to leverage SAP HANA‟s analytical capabilities and provide users these capabilities inside the MicrosoftOffice environment

In addition SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis Suite (Office and OLAP edition) is able to leverage the Transient Provider technologyforSAP ERP and allow for analytical reporting on top of transactionaldata

Search and Exploration

SAP BusinessObjectsExplorer is able to leverage the Universe connection and establish a direct connection to SAP HANA or SAPNetWeaverBW Accelerator (BWA)

SAP BusinessObjects BI

For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI

For SAP HANA Customers

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PreconfiguredAnalytical Appliance■ In-Memory software + hardware

(HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Cisco)

In-Memory Computing Engine Software■ Data Modeling and Data Management

■ Real-time Data Replicationvia Sybase ReplicationServer

■ Data Services for ETL capabilities from SAPBusiness Suite, SAP BW and 3rd Party Systems

Capabilities Enabled■ Analyze information in real-time at unprecedented

speeds on large volumes of non-aggregated data

■ Create flexible analytic models based on real-timeand historic business data

■ Foundation for new category of applications(e.g., planning, simulation)to significantlyoutperform currentapplicationsin category

■ Minimizes data duplication

MDX SQL BICSSQL

Other Applications SAP BusinessObjects

SAP NetWeaverBW

SAP BusinessSuite 3rd Party

SAP HANA

ModelingStudio

In-Memory Computing Engine

CalculationandPlanningEngine

Real–TimeReplicationServices

Row & ColumnStorage

DataServices

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JDBC ODBC ODBOSQLDBC

SAP In-MemoryDatabase

ReplicationServer

SAP In-Memory Computing Studio

SAP BusinessApplication

ReplicationAgent

SAP BusinessObjectsData Services4.0

Anysource

SAPBusinessObjects

BI 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects BI clients

DB Server

SAP BusinessObjects BI

For SAP HANA Customers

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration

Lifecycle Management

SAPBusinessWarehouse SAPBusinessObjectsEnterprise

Controller AdesignatedBWserverconfiguredasaDomainController(TransportHost)inTransportManagementSystem(STMS)

AdesignatedBusinessObjectsEnterpriseserverwithLifeCycleManagerAdd-on

Route PredefinedontheControllerthroughTransportrouteconfiguration

DefinableperTransport(Promotion)byassigningasourceandadestinationsystems

Systems SourceandtargetserverspredefinedontheControllerthroughTransportrouteconfiguration

DefinableperTransport(Promotion)byassigningasourceandadestinationsystems

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration

Lifecycle Management

LifeCycle Manager is a Web-Based tool that enables you to Promote Business Intelligence resources from one BusinessObjects system to another

BusinessObjects system

Manages dependencies of BI resources

Rollbacks a promoted resource to restore the destination system to its previous state

Manages different versions of BI resources

No additional licensing required

Available now at the SAPService Marketplace extranet

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration

SAP Enterprise Portal Integration

Portlet providing BI launch padfeatures – enabling rapid deploymentof BI frontend application in portal Feature parity with BI launch pad – all BI

contents, all actions (view, edit, create,schedule)

Viewing portlet for building customportal application UI driven workflows to display documents

Supports browsing the SAPBusinessObjects Enterprise repository

SAP BusinessObjects Data ServicesImprove Efficiencies with Deeper Platform Integration

SAPNetWeaver

BW

Third PartyData Warehouse

SAP Business Suite

SAP extractors

All third-partydata sources SAP BusinessObjects

Data Services

Data Services Single tool to define all extraction, validation and cleansing rules Enables native access to the Business Suite, BW extraction is not required Ensures data from SAP and non-SAP systems is cleansed and reconciled before load BW

…with Business Content Extractors… Loads run faster Job setup is much easier to deploy and maintain Delta loads fully supported (Changed Data Capture) High quality data is prerequisite for accurate analysis and informed decision making

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Auto generate Data Services extraction jobs, from within BW, to load data in from any source Integrated Data Services connectivity in NetWeaver BW 7.3

– From within the BW workbench, browse external metadata through Data Services connectivity

Native loading in BW 7 data stores through new staging BAPIs– No longer required to go via BW 3.5 emulation mode

SAP BusinessObjects Data ServicesImprove Efficiencies with Deeper Platform Integration

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SAP BusinessObjects Data ServicesImprove Efficiencies with Deeper Platform Integration

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Any Source

Data LoadOpen Hub

Data Services 4.0

NewDB

Modeler

(in-memory)

HANA

BW

Repository

Server

Designer andManagement

Console

SAP BusinessObjects

Data Services is the engine to load all data into NewDB (in-memory)The HANA Modeler will generate initial loading jobs Modeler will use Data Services to browse and „import‟ external metadata

Modeler will generate initial flows to load data into NewDB tables

Further modifications to flows done via Data Services Designer

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