1. The Business Intelligence Experts What to Do With BOBJ in 2009 Tanner Spaulding, SAP Labs Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

2. The Business Intelligence Experts Introductions 2 You can request a copy of today’s presentation by sending an email request to Info@comerit.net

3. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 3 Agenda

4. © SAP 2008 / Page 4 Product Directions for BI Solutions Richest Offering for All Business Users SAP BEx Analyzer Voyager Web App Designer Predictive Report Designer Web Intelligence Crystal Reports Xcelsius BI Widgets Web Services And Much More… Polestar Mobile BI Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform Advanced Analysis Enterprise Reporting Dashboards, Visualization Ad-hoc Query & Reporting BusinessObjects Enterprise SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA

5. © SAP 2008 / Page 5 Product Directions for BI Solutions SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions Predictive Web Intelligence Crystal Reports Xcelsius Web App Designer Report Designer Pioneer (OLAP Analysis) BI Widgets Web Services And Much More… Polestar Mobile BI Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform Advanced Analysis Enterprise Reporting Dashboards, Visualization Ad-hoc Query & Reporting BusinessObjects Enterprise SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA

6. © SAP 2009 / 6 Enterprise Reporting Dash- boards Crystal Xcelsius Pioneer Web Intelligence Ad-hoc Reporting Ad-hoc BI Search How Business Objects Tools Expand the Scope of BI Enterprise Reporting Dash- boards Advanced Analytics Polestar Functional Scope of the SAP BusinessObjects Tools Suite

7. © SAP 2009 / 7 Enterprise Reporting Dash- boards Crystal Xcelsius Pioneer Web Intelligence How Business Objects Tools Expand the Scope of BI Polestar Fast BI Search for masses of casual users Polestar Each tool in the suite has its specific strengths and is tailored to a specific purpose. Which tools and combinations to use depends on customer needs & strategy

8. © SAP 2009 / 8 Enterprise Reporting Dash- boards Crystal Xcelsius Pioneer Web Intelligence How Business Objects Tools Expand the Scope of BI Polestar WebIntelligence AdHoc Reporting for Business users - Adhoc report design - Merge personal & corporate data - Same online & Offline experience Each tool in the suite has its specific strengths and is tailored to a specific purpose. Which tools and combinations to use depends on customer needs & strategy

9. © SAP 2009 / 9 Enterprise Reporting Dash- boards Crystal Xcelsius Pioneer Web Intelligence How Business Objects Tools Expand the Scope of BI Polestar Pioneer Advanced Analytics for Business Analysts - AdHoc OLAP - Packaged OLAP Content Each tool in the suite has its specific strengths and is tailored to a specific purpose. Which tools and combinations to use depends on customer needs & strategy

10. © SAP 2009 / 10 Enterprise Reporting Dash- boards Crystal Xcelsius Pioneer Web Intelligence How Business Objects Tools Expand the Scope of BI Polestar Xcelsius Dashboards for information consumers - Packaged BI dashboards - Dashboard design for professional users Each tool in the suite has its specific strengths and is tailored to a specific purpose. Which tools and combinations to use depends on customer needs & strategy

11. © SAP 2009 / 11 Enterprise Reporting Dash- boards Crystal Xcelsius Pioneer Web Intelligence How Business Objects Tools Expand the Scope of BI Polestar Crystal Packaged formatted reports for the entire enterprise -- easy to consume -- pixel exact & print optimized Each tool in the suite has its specific strengths and is tailored to a specific purpose. Which tools and combinations to use depends on customer needs & strategy

12. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 12 Agenda

13. © SAP 2009 / 13 Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.0 BW Data Federator RDBMS Analytic Engine OLAP BAPIODBOXMLA Universes QT ODA SQL AccessMDX Access WebI Xcelsius QaaWS BIA

14. © SAP 2009 / 14 Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.01 BW DF Fascade Data Federator RDBMS Analytic Engine OLAP BAPIODBOXMLA Universes QT ODA SQL AccessMDX Access WebI Xcelsius QaaWS BWA changes and additions in red

15. © SAP 2007 / Page 15 Comparison BW Server FeatureMDXSQL BW Hierarchies Restricted and Calculated Key Figures Security BW Variables Currency and Unit Conversion Exceptions, Conditions SUM, MIN, MAX Aggregations AVG, COUNT, COUNT DISTINCT, … Aggregations  OLAP Cache Navigational Attributes Mass Data Enabled  Federation (e.g. BW – RDBMS, BW – BW) = fully supported  = limited support / workaround

16. © SAP 2007 / Page 16 WebI – BW Interoperability via ODA (MDX) Architectural Overview Function library Execution instance Parser Query execution controller Metadata BAPIs Rowset APIs Dataset BAPIs MDX engine Analytic Engine BIA or RDBMS ODA RFC Implementation of Unorder() function for optimizing Sorting Optimization of memory consumption Optimization of the exchange protocoal (binary XML) and format (rowsets; internal API) Adapt MDX and Flattening to new Format

17. © SAP 2007 / Page 17 WebI – BW Interoperability via ODA (MDX) Details Improvements 1.Avoid unnecessary sorting MDX standard imposes results to be sorted However, those sorts are typically ignored or not required by WebI sorting can be avoided by using a new UNORDER() function in SAP's MDX 2.Leaner memory consumption during flattening optimized flattening algorithm non-standard result structure 3.Leaner communication ODA – OLAP BAPI use compressed data exchange via binary XML Availability SAP NetWeaver BW 7.01 SP 3 Business Objects Enterprise XI3.0/XI3.1 XI3.0 :Fix Pack 2 w/ LAFix2.1 XI3.1 :Fix Pack 1.2 SAP Integration Kit Fix Pack 2 w/LAFix2.1

18. © SAP 2008 / Page 18 Advanced OLAP Analysis Product Integration Roadmap Pioneer (code name for 2010 release) provides a superset of capabilities from SAP Business Explorer (BEx) Analyzer (Excel), SAP BEx Analyzer (Web), and SAP BusinessObjects Voyager Migration from Voyager workspaces to Pioneer Web and from BEx Analyzer workbooks to Pioneer Office *Embedding of web apps built with BEx Web Application Designer into Pioneer Web by 2010 with a later migration to the Pioneer Design SDK OLAP Analysis 200820092010 Pioneer Voyager BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Web Analyzer Voyager PREMIUM STANDARD BEx Web App Designer*

19. InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal Option for BW Customers: Embedding BEx Web Templates with Long-Term Migration Strategy SAP BOE Platform SAP NetWeaver BW BEx Web Templates Pioneer Web Server Workspace PIO Web Tab BEx Web Tab … BI Consumer Services BEx Queries/ InfoProviders Pioneer Web Client BEx Web App Designer SAP BOE Platform Pioneer Web Server Workspace PIO Web Tab BEx Web Tab … BI Consumer Services Pioneer Web Client Pioneer Designer/ SDK SAP NW BW BEx Web Templates BEx Queries/ InfoProviders BEx Web App Designer Migration options via Pioneer SDK planned 2010 future InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal © SAP 2007 / Page 19

20. © SAP 2008 / Page 20 What Is Polestar? It’s Search Against BI… Use familiar key-word search to find business information Answers “on-the-fly” and investigative questions Searches directly on pre-indexed data No previous reports or metrics need exist Provides fast search and exploration Searches across all data sources Any universe accessible source Any BW Accelerator accessible source Note: BI Accelerator is now called BW Accelerator

21. © SAP 2008 / Page 21 …and Then It’s Exploration Of the Results Intuitively explore on data No data model or data knowledge required Automated relevancy of results Most relevant information is displayed first Best chart type auto generated Share insights with others Export to Web Intelligence, CSV or image Save it locally as a browser bookmark One-click to send a link to the results by email

22. SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and SAP BusinessObjects Polestar Integration

23. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 23 Agenda

24. Ramp-Up Availability Some Observations….

25. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 25 Agenda

26. SAPBO SAP Business Objects for SAP NetWeaver BW future New 2 day course offering from SAP Education for training on Business Objects integration with SAP NetWeaver BW Two dates are currently scheduled in June for virtual course delivery June 1 – 2, 2009 June 25 – 26, 2009 See the following link to the Course Description for more detailed information on the content covered SAPBO Course Description

27. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 27 Agenda

28. The Business Intelligence Experts What can be Done in 2009- Implementations Source: SAP, 2009 Visual Composer Widgets BI Accellerator Web Intelligence (webi)

29. The Business Intelligence Experts The two types of Universes There are currently 2 ways to get at the SAP BI data. If you implement this year, you need to make concious decisions about which method you select. There are pros and cons of each 29

30. The Business Intelligence Experts What can be Done in 2009- Take a Look at… Polestar is an interesting technology that companies may start a prototype with and see how it can help them access BI data from a variety of sources (NW and others) Xcelsius Polestar

31. The Business Intelligence Experts What can be Done in 2009- Prototype Consider building a Xcelsius Prototype to get used to really interactive dashboards and what-if analysis. Xcelsius Source: Adobe, 2009

32. The Business Intelligence Experts What can be Done in 2009- Keep doing… There are many classical SAP NetWeaver tools that should still be used by companies that are planning go-lives in 2009.  Integrated planning is still supported.  Pioneer is still 12 months away  WAD will continue to be the development environment for 2009.

33. The Business Intelligence Experts Stop As soon as possible If you need Formatted Reports in 2009, you should seriously consider Crystal Reports. The current roadmap calls for moving Report Designer into regular maintenaice at the end of 2009, and stop further development of this tool. Looking forward to Xcelsius and Pioneer, it may be advisable to limit futher custom development in JSP unless it is not intended to be migrated at a future date.

34. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 34 Agenda

35. The Business Intelligence Experts What are Others Doing – Example 1 Many are starting to develop and prototype on the SAP BOBJ toolset. This company is planning to rollout webi and their new ad-hoc query environment to a limited set of users in 2009. The project team is small and the development will also serve as a proof- of-concept for future cokpit development in 2010.

36. The Business Intelligence Experts What are Others Doing – Example 2 This company wants to start tooling up their development team and have decided to start an Xelcius prototype effort for 2009. They also plan of migrating some of their current custom web dashboards into Visual Composer for a go-live this fall. Their initial team size is relativly small, with one consultant and a couple of employees.

37. The Business Intelligence Experts What are Others Doing – Example 3 This company is rolling out formatted reporting to their core financial team and have decided not to use Report Designer. Instead they are rolling out Crystal as their core platform for pixel controlled formatted reports. They also want to start the team transition to Xcelsius and is therefore also developing some prototypes on this technology.

38. The Business Intelligence Experts What are Others Doing – Example 4 This company rolled out Crystal reports on SAP BI in 2006 and is starting in 2009 with a project effort to migrate to Xcelsius for web rendering and cockpits. They have also started to develop visual composer cokpits that they plan on integrating into Xcelsius later in spring 2010.

39. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 39 Agenda

40. The Business Intelligence Experts Summary – Ideas for SAP BOBJ in 2009 40

41. The Business Intelligence Experts The total BOBJ toolset - Advanced Analytics Source: SAP March, 2009 41 While we covered the core BOBJ tools that relates directly to SAP BI, there are many other tools available: This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market

42. The Business Intelligence Experts 42 The total BOBJ toolset –Dashboards & Visualization Source: SAP March, 2009 This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market

43. The Business Intelligence Experts 43 The total BOBJ toolset – BI Best-of-Breed tools Source: SAP March, 2009 This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market

44. The Business Intelligence Experts The total BOBJ toolset – Data Integration Source: SAP March, 2009 44 This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market

45. The Business Intelligence Experts 45 The total BOBJ toolset – Masterdata Management Source: SAP March, 2009 This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the traditional SAP ERP market

46. The Business Intelligence Experts The SAP BOBJ Roadmap Current development status by tool Software rampup plans Training plans What can be done now What are others doing Key points take away Questions and Answers 46 Agenda

47. The Business Intelligence Experts Questions and Answers 47

48. The Business Intelligence Experts Resources 48 On –line Material, Presentations and Downloads www.Comerit.net Help @ SAP http://help.sap.comhttp://help.sap.com > ‘BusinessObjects’ top level navigation tab SAP BusinessObjects Developer Community on SDN http://boc.sdn.sap.com ‘BusinessObjects version of SDN’ Communities, Beta Product downloads, Webinar information, E-Books, Developer Conference 2007 slides, Free Trial downloads, more!... Check out the blogs and forums – there is already some great content posted Ingo Hilgefort’s bolg:https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/251909211https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/u/251909211 SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Roadmap and Roadmap FAQ https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b00a1a 75-c49d-2b10-0ebb-ecc80ab88994 https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap-faq

49. confidential 49 The Business Intelligence Experts New SAP Press Book New SAP Press book by Ingo Hilgefort to be released in May 2009 Great resource for technical installation, implementation, and integration information http://sap- press.com/product.cfm?account= &product=H3034http://sap- press.com/product.cfm?account= &product=H3034

50. The Business Intelligence Experts How to contact us: Dr. Bjarne BergTanner Spaulding bberg@comerit.net Tanner.Spaulding@sap.com 50

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