SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Presenter: Steven Gray 5/17/2012.

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0Presenter: Steven Gray5/17/2012

AgendaInstructor/Company Profile

SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 – What’s New?

Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?

Technical Requirements

Benefits and challenges

How can Kalvin help?

Q & A

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About Steven Gray

Steven is a Senior Principal Consultant/TrainerSteven has implemented solutions in a number of industries, including government, both national and local, financial, retail, healthcare, and insuranceSteven is an SAP certified architect in both SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XIr2 and XI 3.1Steven is a certified SAP trainer for SAP BusinessObjects Administration and Security and Universe DesignerSteven is a seasoned consultant with over 9 years experience in engineering, project management, and consulting services

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TEAM AT KALVIN

One of the Largest W2 Staff Specializing in BI

We pride ourselves on delivery and exceeding our customer’s expectations.Dedicated Project Management Office to oversee the project deliverables and client expectations.Repository of documentation as part of business continuity plan for clients, projects and consultants .

Focus on Long Term Partnership

Kalvin believes each client is unique and leverages best practices to customize a solution that is successful for our customer’s organization. Build strong and long-lasting relationships with clients and partners by creating a productive work environment that encourages innovation and great attitudes.

Kalvin believes in investing our time to ensureYOUR BI success.

Customer satisfaction/success is our #1 priority.Kalvin believes through your BI success will Kalvin be

successful.

“Best of Breed” solution provider for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing

MissionVision

“Creating intelligent data to power an intelligent world.”

To partner with you to create intelligent data that will empower your business to:

Maximize operational performance Increase not just revenue but profit Help identify and serve your clients better

Kalvin Solutions

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Behavioral Data EMR / Clinical Data Attitudinal/Research Market Research Psychographics Macro economics Data Integration Data mart /Data models ETL/Data warehousing

Who are my core customers and how do the behave?

What drives their behavior?

Can I predict change? Segmentation (Value,

lifestyle) Promotion Impact

/Marketing Mix Predictive Analysis

Brand Loyalty Promotion scorecard

Customer 1st

KPI’s (Key Drivers) Risk Scorecard Loyalty Promotion

Loyalty Programs One to one customer

communication Technology(RFID, POS,

Mobile, Location based) Surprise and Delight

ACTIVATION

STRATEGY

INTELLIGENT REPORTING

BUSINESS / ANALYTICAL INSIGHTS

INTELLIGENT DATA MODELING

Kalvin’s holistic approach to your BI needs – It starts with data foundation to delivering strategic insights in order to further activate upon your quintessential customers.

Activation

Strategy

Intelligent Business Reporting

Business Analytics

Intelligent Data







Q & A

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BusinessObjects 4.0 - Overview

Latest Major release of SAP 64-bit release running on Tomcat 6 with Java 1.6 Single WAR fileSmaller footprintMost complete offeringStreamlined and Usability


Product Name Changes

SAP Business Objects

Enterprise XI 3.x

SAP BO BI platform 4.0

SAP BO Xcelsius

Enterprise

SAP BO Dashboards

SAP BO Xcelsius Designer

SAP BO Dashboard

Design

Xcelsius Enterprise Interactive Viewing

SAP BO Dashboards

Interactive Viewing

Infoview SAP BO BI launch pad

Dashboard Builder

SAP BO BI workspaces

Universe Designer

Universe Design Tool

•Information designer Tool

•Upgrade Management Tool

New Products

•Lifecycle Management Console

•Translation Management Tool

•Report Conversion Tool

Products Retained

SAP Crystal Reports 2011 Crystal Reports


Mobile Business Intelligence

Easy navigation with fewer clicksGet key information on your mobile deviceGet analysis and critical alerts on the goMake fact based decisionsImprove customer relationshipsBoost productivityKeep business processes running smoothlyLower total cost of ownership


What’s New in BusinessObjects 4.0?

One Unified Business Intelligence Suite New Visual experience with modern styling and look New charting options, improved workflow


What’s New in Business Objects 4.0?

New Semantic Layer Design tool Supports multisource

universes Cleaner look and feel


What’s New inBusinessObjects 4.0?

Redesigned User Interface

Higher Usability

Easy to customize

Monitoring



BI availability in mobile devices wherever and whenever Unified information view More meaningful Auditing Monitoring Enhanced Alerting



Auditing Audit all events Simplified system

wide configuration Auto-purge old

data Enhanced audit

reporting.







Q & A


Why Upgrade to BusinessObjects 4.0?

Take advantage of the new functionality and featuresUpgrade management tool

End of support for XIr2


Administration Console Features

Simulating common workflow through Monitoring and Probes Data Security including a two-key encryption system and FIPS -140 compliant mode of operation Data Federation query engine integrated with BO platform Add-on products are now part of the complete install


Data Exploration

Simplicity of Internet search Google-like search experience – business information

instantly ranked based on auto-scoring. Search across all BI resources and data Self-service access to relevant information without

predefined report or query

Trust and power of BI Guided data exploration Share trusted insights with others

Rapid deployment Fully leverages existing BI investments Up and running in days


Lifecycle Management

Replaces import wizardConnection override in bulk automatically.Version control, RollbackAuditableScripting facility


SAP Crystal Reports – Enhancements

SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise A New design of Crystal Reports design client – streamlines report creation Better support for the SAP BusinessObjects semantic layer and SAP BW

SAP Crystal reports 2011 Integration with Visual Studio 2010 New Read only format Exporting reports into MS Excel

SAP Crystal Reports Viewer 2011 Integrate Crystal Reports Enterprise and Crystal reports 2011







Q & A


BI 4.0 Architecture


O/S for BO Enterprise Server Components


O/S for BO Enterprise Client Components


SAP BusinessObjects(BO) 4.0 – What’s New?





Q & A


Benefits

64 bit server installExisting XI 3.x universes still work in the 4.0 platformData Federator functionality inbuilt along with Universe Access to multiple data sources SAP Integration Automatic version control Web Application consolidation


Challenges

Installation often poses challenges if not well planned SAP Mobile deployment should be on dedicated hardware Post-installation configurations have changed

Need to migrate universe to use Explorer 4.0 or Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0Proper knowledge sharing to get familiar with features Can only upgrade directly if you are on BOE version XIr2 SP2 or higherNo more Import Wizard, and Desktop Intelligence







Q & A


Kalvin’s Offerings …

With BO 4.0, Kalvin can help you with: Desktop Intelligence retirement BO 4.0 readiness assessment of customer's existing

environment BO 4.0 architecture and sizing BO 4.0 Installation Reporting/Analytics

Web IntelligenceCrystal ReportsDashboard Explorer

Training/Education







Q & A

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