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BI4.1 Value PropositionSAP BI GTM
August 15, 2014
Customer
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Market conditions and customer expectationsare changing rapidly
Volatility
Globalization
Cost conscious
New generation
The reality of the Internet of Everything
1 billion Facebook
users
4 billion YouTube views
per day
Data
doublesevery 18
months
15
billionweb-enabled
devices
5 billion in emerging
middle class
10%
75%
Use Analytics
Today
Need
Analytics
by 2020
Nucleus Research, Gartner, Fortune Magazine
Unlocking the value of Big Data
Ability to manage and
consume all data is getting
harder
Not utilizing all the
information out there
Not leveraging the power of
collective insight
Missing new insights
IT is not agile enough and
the business wants to get
involved
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Nucleus Research, Gartner, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Forrester
The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012
Key Trends shaping the future of BI
33% 80%
of BI consumed on handhelds
in 2013
of information needs handled
by end users
$1
$10.66
Spent on BI Return
>10x ROI
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Top Reasons to upgrade to SAP BI 4.1
Enable Answers
on the Go
Deliver Trusted Data
Discovery to the Entire
Team
Get the most out of
your BI Solution
Analytics solutions from SAP
Agile
Visualization
Advanced
Analytics
Big Data
Mobile
Collaboration
Cloud
Enterprise
Business Intelligence
Value Drivers of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1
Native
SAP
HANA support
Designed to
support
futureinnovations
Mobile
UpgradeReady
Reduced
TCO
DeskICompatibility
Native
SAP
BW support
Focus on
Quality
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Native SAP HANA support
• Support of HANA by every BI Client of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Suite
• Platform Integration with Native HANA supported BI Clients as Design
Studio, Analysis Office and Lumira
• Combine SAP HANA data with any other data source using Multi Source
Universes
• No performance degradation
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Mobile
• Embedded within installer & Central Management Console
• Support of ALL SAP BusinessObjects Client tools
• Integrated Explorer support including Exploration Views
• Support of SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server
• Support for every Web Application Server and OS as recorded in PAM for the
BI Platform
• Removal of legacy Third Party Communication Layer
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Native SAP BW support
• SAP BW Business Intelligence Consumer Service (BICS) connection
embedded in BI Platform
• No need for BW JAVA deployment to SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Clients to
SAP BW
• Improved performance for reporting against BW*
• Query Stripping and Auto Refresh by BI CLients
* Depending on BW Version
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Reduced TCO
• Available as Cloud Deployment in public and private cloud options
• Ability to generate Multi Source Universes
• Leverage any investment made in SAP BW for reporting by BI4.1
• Backup without Down Time
• Embedded Monitoring Functionality including integration to SAP Solution Manager, IBM Tivoli
and JMX clients
• Embedded Promotion Management
• Improved Auditing Engine
• Enabled for parallel patching and on-going improvements for Near Zero Downtime
• Support of ALL SAP BI Clients in a single platform
• Enablement of Self Service Support
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Designed to support future innovations
* planned
• 64 Bits Server Architecture to support modern Hardware
• Building up for Near Zero Downtime
• Full support for Virtualization
• Platform Integration with Analysis Office, Design Studio, Lumira* and LumiraServer*
• Support for Big Data sources as Hadoop Hive and Amazon EMR
• HTML 5 Clients and Mobile Content
• Common (extendable) Chart Engine for BI Clients
• Universe Support for the Latest and New Databases
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Focus on Quality
• BI4.1 is better in quality compared to XI3.1
• Complete new Quality Process to ensure quality driven development and
software delivery
• Ramp Up Target completion within 4 months
• Best Practices Solutions Embedded
Customer FeedbackFedEx: "in the 15-yrs I’ve worked with BOBJ -- 4.1 is the best code
release ever”…
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Upgrade Ready
• Upgrade Management Tool is a dedicated product to upgrade XIR2 and XI3x
content to BI4.1
• Improved upgrade performance
• Support for Incremental* and Full upgrades
• Available as Command Line or by GUI*
* Windows Only
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Desktop Intelligence Compatibility
• Ability to upgrade Desktop Intelligence Documents into BI4.1 CMS
• Ability to manage and secure Desktop Intelligence Documents in BI4.1
Central Management Console
• Ability to connect Desktop Intelligence Client to BI4.1 CMS*
• Improved Report Conversion Tool for higher conversion success
* As of XI3.1 SP6 Fixpack 6.1
Customer FeedbackArun District Council: “DeskI compatibility is exactly what we needed. It
worked nicely”…
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SAP BI Innovation Value Calculation
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The SAP Difference
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Key Links
sap.com/upgradebi
sap.com/learnbi
sap.com/bivirtualization
sap.com/bisizing
service.sap.com/roadmap
How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment
SAP’s Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI
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Where to get these slides?
The slides are publicly available on the SAP Community Network (SCN)
BI4.1 Value Proposition Level 0 : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55412
BI4.1 Value Proposition Level 1 : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55411
BI4.1 Value Proposition Level 2 : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55417
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