Top Ten Web Intelligence Features

Jonathan Brown

Dec 2016

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Introduction

Jonathan Brown (aka JB)

o Support Architect out of Vancouver, B.C

o @SAP 17 Years – Whole time in Product

Support

o Support Analytics/BI Platform with focus

on Web Intelligence

o Passionate about Web Intelligence

Performance and Stability

@its_me_jonny

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Parallelized Data providers

Previous versions of XI 3.1 ran Data Provider

(DP) Queries sequentially. 1 after another.

BI 4.2 introduces a new feature that runs these

DP Queries in Parallel

This results in a potentially HUGE

performance gain for some documents

This was a top voted feature on SAP IdeaPlace and became

a reality due to the community driven demand!

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COMPARE: XI 3.1 VS 4.X

BI 4.2

Parallelized Data Provider Querying

XI 3.1

DP1 DP2 DP3

DB

12 secs 22 secs 26 secs

12 secs

22 secs

26 secs

~ 26 Secs Total

DP1

DB

~ 60 Secs Total

DP3

DP2

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Query Stripping is used to improve performance

Removes any unused objects from the database query to

reduce the size of results

Improves speed of queries while also reducing size of

documents and result sets

Query Stripping

NOTE: Must be enabled at the Business

Layer,

Document and Query Levels

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DEMO – Query Stripping

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Shared Elements allow you to share objects between

multiple documents

Updating/changing of the shared element will

propagate down to the documents that consume it

Shared Elements

You can configure your document

to automatically check for updates

to the Shared Elements in the

Document Properties page

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DEMO – Shared Elements

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Custom Grouping Options

Create custom

groups at the report

level

Display the

groups in your

report

Use the groups

for displaying &

aggregating data

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DEMO – Custom Grouping Options

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A Reference is a variable that points to the value displayed in another cell

Similar to an Excel Reference (=$A1 + $B1)

Example Use:

References

Create a Reference for the sum of a complex or

large crosstab [Sum of California Sales]

Use the Reference in a

different Report tab

without having to

calculate the value again

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Cascading Input Controls – Grouped Controls

XI 3.1 BI 4.2

Ungrouped Input controls

meant values were not

relational

With grouped Input

Controls, the values are

relational. Only

“California” stores are

listed now

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Document Level Input Controls

New feature allows you to set

the scope of an input control to

be the Whole Document

You can get more granular at

the Report Level but still have

full document level filters apply

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DEMO – Cascading Grouped Controls / Document ICs

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Default Prompt Values can be specified at

the universe level (Business Filters)

Developers can now use Formulas to

define dynamic default values

Many functions are available in the

Formula Editor

Dynamic Default Values for Prompts

Sample Functions

CurrentDate()

CurrentDatetime()

CurrentUser()

DocumentName()

DatabaseUser()

DayNumberOfMonth()

RelativeDate()

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DEMO – Dynamic Prompt Values

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New Chart Types and new Charting engine (4.x)

New Charting Types

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Waterfall Chart - Example

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Create Geomaps in Web

Intelligence Docs

Integrated geographical database

covering over 100K locations

3 new Chart/Map types: Geo

Choropleth, Geo Bubble, and Geo

Pie charts

New Geo Maps

Geo Bubble Chart – Gross

Sales by Country

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Custom Color Palettes

Custom Color Palettes allow

you to create your own color

pattern to be used with your

charts

Very handy for documents

with many chart components

Can be used to define your

company colors or for better

integration into you portal

color themes

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DEMO – Charting

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