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Mobile BI
Mobile BI
About Me:
• Work within the solution visioning business unit of itelligence UK specializing in SAP BusinessObjects Analytic technologies.
• Wealth of experience with SAP BusinessObjects from working in the Business Intelligence sector for over 15 years in many varied roles including consultancy delivery and sales, business analysis and pre sales.
• UK&I SAP User Group volunteer and chair the Special Interest group for Data Visualisation and Dashboard Design.
Andrew Fox
SAP Analytics Evangelist
itelligence Business Solutions (UK)
Twitter: @Analytics_Fox
Blog: http://thinkingbi.wordpress.com
Agenda
• What is BusinessObjects Mobile BI?
• How do I set it up?
• What tips and tricks are there?
Quick Poll
Remember these ?
Evolution of Mobile BI from SAP
• “User interfaces were too clunky and connection speeds were too slow...it
took the wide availability of 3G wireless and modern smartphones/tablets to
provide truly usable interfaces”
What does SAP Mobile BI look like today ?
Which types of reporting content are supported?
Dashboards
ExplorerWeb Intelligence
Crystal Reports
Design Studio
Lumira
Dashboards and appsReporting Self Service
Which devices are supported ?
Which phone operating systems are supported?
• iOS version
– iOS 6.0 and above
• iPad support
– iPad2 & above
– iPad1 is not supported (lack of support for iOS6)
– iPad mini
• iPhone Support
– iPhone4 & above
• Andriod version
– Support for OS 4.3
– (4.4 planned for Q1 2014)
Architecture
BI Platform Dependency
• The minimum platform requirement
for the complete functionality of
application to work is SAP
BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0 SP
8 or 4.1 SP 2
• The application is backward
compatible and the legacy features
of the application continue to work on
older server versions including XI
3.1.
Application Feature Compatibility Matrices
Feature Compatibility Matrix
available for:
XI 3.1 BOE Server
Versions
4.0 and 4.1 BI platform
Server Versions
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guid
es/boexir4/en/516_mobiOS_featcomp_en.pdf
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boe
xir4/en/5x_mobiOSandr_featcomp_en.pdf
Feature Compatibility Matrix
available for:
iPad
iPhone
Android Tablet
Android
General Architecture
VPN
Client
Hoops to jump through
• Don’t underestimate the network,
infrastructure and security teams
requirements and timescales
Two apps become one
• Available on BI 4.1 and
BI 4.0 SP08
• Explorer artefacts will
now be supported on BI
4.0 platform with SP08
• Access Information
Spaces
• Access Exploration view
sets
• Create, access &
manage Personal Views
SAP BusinessObjects Mobile
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP BusinessObjects Mobile
Customising the Mobile BI app
• The SAP BusinessObjects Mobile application
SDK provides you with the following capabilities:
• Ability to customize the application using a meta-
data driven approach
• Ability to extend application's capabilities by
writing code using the classes provided within
the application SDK in Xcode environment.
• Ability to embed Web Intelligence reports and
Dashboards in the mobile applications that you
have developed
• http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/516_mobiOS_Dev
eloper_en.pdf
How do I set it up?
Download the free apps from the Apple or
Google play stores
Have a look at the sample content
Assign Mobile Categories to documents
Connect to your BOE landscape
Look at your own BI Content
Report Design
Report design• Web Intelligence Layouts available
InfoviewiPad
Portrait View
iPad
Landscape View
Report design• Web Intelligence Layouts available
InfoviewiPad
Portrait View
iPad
Landscape View
Report design• Web Intelligence Layouts available
InfoviewiPad
Portrait View
iPad
Landscape View
Report design• Web Intelligence Layouts available
InfoviewiPad
Portrait View
iPad
Landscape View
Supported WebIntelligence Features
Sections Input Controls
Supported Explorer Features
• Personal Views
Report design -Sparklines
• You want to display the
cross table as a scorecard
on the device. You define
the block name of the
cross table in your Web
intelligence report
• ;SL_GF_Sales_C_3_12
Report design - Traffic Light Icons
• You want to display this
vertical table as a
scorecard in which a traffic
icon indicates the trend of
sales revenue. You define
the block name of vertical
table in the report as
• ;SC_TT_C_3_R
Report design - Bullet Charts
• Actual is the column with actual
(current) value of the measures.
• Comparative is the column with the
target value of each measure
against which the actual value is
compared.
• Min, Mid and Max are qualitative
ranges of measure indicating poor,
satisfactory and good respectively.
• ;BC_Actual vs Target_C_2_6_tl_1
Report design - Google Mapping
• map_lt6_lo7_poi1_ca1_gp1
Report Design - Free Format
• Use the category – “MobileDesigned” not “Mobile”
Summary
Things to Note and Remember
Key themes to take away
• Minimum platform requirement for the full
functionality to work is BI4.0 SP 8 or BI4.1 SP 2
• The Mobile BI app is backward compatible and
the legacy features of the application continue
to work on XI 3.1.
• DMZ or VPN architecture, the choice is yours
• Reuse existing content and enhance to exploit
mobile specific visualisations
Andrew Fox
SAP Analytics Evangelist
http://itelligencegroup.com/uk/
You can follow me on Twitter:
@Analytics_Fox
Blog on Business Intelligence
http://thinkingbi.wordpress.com
