bobj introduction by ark solutions, inc
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People Process Technology
An Introduction on
BusinessObjectsBy: ARK Solutions, Inc.
OUR PEOPLE | YOUR PROCESS | SAP TECHNOLOGY
SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Portfolio
SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions provide business users with access to unifiedinformation through a broad suite of BI tools for confident decision making andalignment across people and teams on a single, scalable BI platform
Dashboards andVisualization
How do I visualizedata for betterdecisionmaking?
InteractiveAnalysis
How do I answer adhoc questions andinteract withinformation?
Data Exploration
How do I findimmediate answersto businessquestions?
forecasts?
Analysis
How do I determinetrends from complexhistoricaldata andpossiblymake better
reports for greaterinsight?
Reporting
How do I accessand transformcorporate data intohighly formatted
Crystal Reports
The de facto standard for reporting
Proven world standard for report design
Ubiquitous reporting assets and expertise for fastimplementation
Chosen reporting solution by over 500 majorindependent software vendors
Deploy a common framework for all
enterprise reporting needs
Build any kind of report – such as business,financial, legal, and regulatory reports
Sophisticated report formatting: create multi-page, multi-query, pixel-perfect reports
Templates and wizards to speed up report
creation
Secure, large-scale distribution of reportsover the Web
Connectivity to any data source
Web Intelligence
Empower business users withpowerful, yet easy to useanalysis Intuitive, Web-based interface with
offline capabilities Start from a blank slate or use an
existing analysis or report Multi-source access Interactivity with filtering, ranking,
sorting, calculations, etc. Data lineage
Lighten IT workload Self-service analysis and reporting Controlled and secure access with
tight BI platform integration Intuitive, business-centric view of
information with universes
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Bring BI to all business users Simplicity and speed of search Intuitive data exploration and visualization Fast response across mountains of
data anywhere in the organization Accelerated version with in-memory
technologies
Help IT to be successful Easy and efficient to manage and scale More reactive to business with faster
delivery Support for heterogeneous data
sources
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Consume attractive, personalizeddashboards online or offline Access to personalized, Flash-based
dashboards Secure visualizations anywhere – portal,
reports, PDF, MS Office documents
Empower business users withinteractive information Powerful “what-if” analysis with sliders
and other controls Ability to drill-down into details Pre-built components, skins, maps,
charts, gauges, and selectors
Empower analysts to consume andexplore multi-dimensional data sets Comprehensive OLAP data access Multiple OLAP cubes in the same work
space Available for Web based and Microsoft
Office focused deployments
Quickly find patterns, exceptions,and other areas of interest Comprehensive range of business and
time calculations Stunning visualization options (e.g.,
scatter plot, bubble plot, radar chart, etc.) Exception highlighting Ability to drill-down into details – Web
Intelligence or Crystal Reports
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for MS Office
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP
Allow power users & IT to createpurpose built analysis templatesand applications Target User Group
IT, Designer, Power User
Functionality Eclipse-based application design
environment for planning &analytical apps
Access to BW via BICS Integrated with SAP BusinessObjects Premium Alternative to BEx WAD
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
Semantic Layer for Exposing Business
Data Under a Single Umbrella
Legacy reporting technology
Analytics for sophisticated users
Limited report formatting capabilities
Modern user experience
Compelling analytics for all users
Best-of-breed BI solutions
SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions integratedwithin the SAP Business Suite
SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP ECC Customers
Two Flavors Generic Crystal report:
Enable usage of SAP BusinessObjects tools immediately across allALVs within the whole suite (e.g. for printout or as starting point to define Specific Crystal Reports)
Specific Crystal Report:Using formatting features on top of data of a dedicated ALV layout. Can be shipped as content or defined by customer
Central idea Using Crystal Reports as layout option for Web
Dynpro ALV and SAP GUI ALV
Leverage ALV lifecycle management (LCM)
SAP BusinessObjects BI
for SAP ECC Customers
SAP BusinessObjects BI
for SAP ECC Customers
SAP BusinessObjects BI
for SAP ECC Customers
Operational Reporting Direct connectivity towards SAP ERP can be established with Crystal Reports 2011 only
Starting with SAP ERP 6.0 EnhancementPackage 05 (Innovations 2010) the Transient Provider allows to leverage a BEx
query based on a classic InfoSet and in that way expose operationaldata via a common interface
Crystal Reports for Enterprise is able to leverage the connection towards Rapid Marts, SAP HANA , and the Transient
Provider
Self Service Reporting Self Service reporting capabilities with Web Intelligence are enabled by leveraging the Transient Provider technologyand the
semantic layer in combination with SAP HANA
Data Visualization SAP BusinessObjectsDashboards can leverage the connection towards Universes, Live Office,and BI Web Services to
leveragedata from the operational systems, Rapid Marts, and SAP HANA
Analysis SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis Suite is able to leverage SAP HANA‟s analytical capabilities and provide users these
capabilities inside Microsoft Office and web environments In addition SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis Suite is able to leverage the Transient Provider technology and allow for analytical
reporting on top of transactional data
Search and Exploration SAP BusinessObjectsExplorer is able to leverage the Universe connection as well as establish a direct connection to SAP
HANA
SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts
Rapid Mart data model usesstar design principle Information-rich:
Content stored in ~50 tables
Pre-build universes included withaccess to all objects
Pre-build WebI reports
Pre-build Xcelsius dashboards
All ready to use right from the start!
Rapid Marts can be implemented individually, or in any combination, to form a single platform that delivers the infrastructure of internal and external information needed.
SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts Packages
For SAP ERP Supported Analysis
General Ledger
Accounts Receivable Accounts Payable Cost Center
Human Capital Management Suite HR
Available Rapid Marts for SAP solutions : Fnancials Suite
Inventory
Purchasing
Manufacturing Suite Project Systems Production Planning Plant Maintenance
Operational SuiteSalesSales
solutions for departmentalneeds. Rapid Marts‟ aim is tosimplify and shorten datamart deployment cycles. Theyare not replacements for anEnterprise Data Warehouselike BW.
Please Note: Rapid Martsare jump-start data martofferings useful for rolling outquick, subject-area specific BI
SAP High-Performance Analytic
Appliance (SAP HANA) Operational Data Marts
Scenario Replication of operational data into memory
New Business Content provides immediateaccess to analytic models on operational data
Modeling environment enables customization ofcontent and creation of new models
Benefits
Outstanding query performance on operationaldata
High flexibility to create new models or tocustomize SAP Business Content
No materialization of analytic models
Direct access for SAP„s BI clients and MS Excel
Risk free passage to in-memory computing
SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA)
Operational Data Marts
Objective:Access and transform transactionaldata into actionable, dynamic analyticsand reduce the cost andtime for a DWH solution
Best practice solution:SAP HANA with SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers
SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers
SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers
Operational Reporting
Direct connectivity towards SAP ERP and non-SAP based business applications can be established with Crystal Reports 2011 only
Starting with SAP ERP 6.0 EnhancementPackage 05 (Innovations 2010) the Transient Provider allows to leverage a BEx querybased on a classic InfoSet and in that way expose operationaldata via a common interface
Crystal Reports for Enterprise is able to leverage the connection towards the Transient Universe (BICS), Universes , SAP HANA ,and the Transient Provider
Self Service Reporting
Self Service reporting capabilities with Web Intelligence are enabled by leveraging the Transient Universe (BICS) on top of SAPNetWeaverBW and the Transient Provider technology for SAP ERP and the semantic layer in combination with SAP HANA
Data Visualization
SAP BusinessObjectsDashboards can leverage the connection towards the BI Consumer Services, Universes, Live Office,and BIWebServices to leverage data from the operationalsystems, SAP NetWeaverBW,and SAP HANA
Analysis
SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis, edition for Microsoft Officeis able to leverage the BI Consumer Services in combination with SAPNetWeaverBW and is able to leverage SAP HANA‟s analytical capabilities and provide users these capabilities inside the MicrosoftOffice environment
In addition SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis Suite (Office and OLAP edition) is able to leverage the Transient Provider technologyforSAP ERP and allow for analytical reporting on top of transactionaldata
Search and Exploration
SAP BusinessObjectsExplorer is able to leverage the Universe connection and establish a direct connection to SAP HANA or SAPNetWeaverBW Accelerator (BWA)
SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers
SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP HANA Customers
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PreconfiguredAnalytical Appliance■ In-Memory software + hardware
(HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Cisco)
In-Memory Computing Engine Software■ Data Modeling and Data Management
■ Real-time Data Replicationvia Sybase ReplicationServer
■ Data Services for ETL capabilities from SAPBusiness Suite, SAP BW and 3rd Party Systems
Capabilities Enabled■ Analyze information in real-time at unprecedented
speeds on large volumes of non-aggregated data
■ Create flexible analytic models based on real-timeand historic business data
■ Foundation for new category of applications(e.g., planning, simulation)to significantlyoutperform currentapplicationsin category
■ Minimizes data duplication
MDX SQL BICSSQL
Other Applications SAP BusinessObjects
SAP NetWeaverBW
SAP BusinessSuite 3rd Party
SAP HANA
ModelingStudio
In-Memory Computing Engine
CalculationandPlanningEngine
Real–TimeReplicationServices
Row & ColumnStorage
DataServices
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SAP HANA
JDBC ODBC ODBOSQLDBC
SAP In-MemoryDatabase
ReplicationServer
SAP In-Memory Computing Studio
SAP BusinessApplication
ReplicationAgent
SAP BusinessObjectsData Services4.0
Anysource
SAPBusinessObjects
BI 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects BI clients
DB Server
SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP HANA Customers
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration
Lifecycle Management
SAPBusinessWarehouse SAPBusinessObjectsEnterprise
Controller AdesignatedBWserverconfiguredasaDomainController(TransportHost)inTransportManagementSystem(STMS)
AdesignatedBusinessObjectsEnterpriseserverwithLifeCycleManagerAdd-on
Route PredefinedontheControllerthroughTransportrouteconfiguration
DefinableperTransport(Promotion)byassigningasourceandadestinationsystems
Systems SourceandtargetserverspredefinedontheControllerthroughTransportrouteconfiguration
DefinableperTransport(Promotion)byassigningasourceandadestinationsystems
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration
Lifecycle Management
LifeCycle Manager is a Web-Based tool that enables you to Promote Business Intelligence resources from one BusinessObjects system to another
BusinessObjects system
Manages dependencies of BI resources
Rollbacks a promoted resource to restore the destination system to its previous state
Manages different versions of BI resources
No additional licensing required
Available now at the SAPService Marketplace extranet
SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 – SAP Integration
SAP Enterprise Portal Integration
Portlet providing BI launch padfeatures – enabling rapid deploymentof BI frontend application in portal Feature parity with BI launch pad – all BI
contents, all actions (view, edit, create,schedule)
Viewing portlet for building customportal application UI driven workflows to display documents
Supports browsing the SAPBusinessObjects Enterprise repository
SAP BusinessObjects Data ServicesImprove Efficiencies with Deeper Platform Integration
SAPNetWeaver
BW
Third PartyData Warehouse
SAP Business Suite
SAP extractors
All third-partydata sources SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services
Data Services Single tool to define all extraction, validation and cleansing rules Enables native access to the Business Suite, BW extraction is not required Ensures data from SAP and non-SAP systems is cleansed and reconciled before load BW
…with Business Content Extractors… Loads run faster Job setup is much easier to deploy and maintain Delta loads fully supported (Changed Data Capture) High quality data is prerequisite for accurate analysis and informed decision making
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Auto generate Data Services extraction jobs, from within BW, to load data in from any source Integrated Data Services connectivity in NetWeaver BW 7.3
– From within the BW workbench, browse external metadata through Data Services connectivity
Native loading in BW 7 data stores through new staging BAPIs– No longer required to go via BW 3.5 emulation mode
SAP BusinessObjects Data ServicesImprove Efficiencies with Deeper Platform Integration
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SAP BusinessObjects Data ServicesImprove Efficiencies with Deeper Platform Integration
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Any Source
Data LoadOpen Hub
Data Services 4.0
NewDB
Modeler
(in-memory)
HANA
BW
Repository
Server
Designer andManagement
Console
SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services is the engine to load all data into NewDB (in-memory)The HANA Modeler will generate initial loading jobs Modeler will use Data Services to browse and „import‟ external metadata
Modeler will generate initial flows to load data into NewDB tables
Further modifications to flows done via Data Services Designer
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