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Kevin McManusMcManus Software + Consulting

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ AGENDA

1. Top Take Aways

2. BI Model

3. Features Explanation

4. Examples

5. Conclusion

6. Q&A


[ TAKE AWAYS

� Understanding the roadmap differences between SAP Business Warehouse and Business Objects Enterprise

� Companies that have Business Objects Enterprise may not realize all of the functionality that is available and coming.

� By understanding what is coming you have the opportunity to further extend the reach of BOE within your organization

� Opportunity to Raise awareness of BI outside of the IT department


[ Speaker

� Kevin McManus brings over 17 years of world wide consulting experience with a specialization in delivering reporting and analysis solutions to customers in many industries.

� BI Chair of the Central Texas ASUG Chapter

� Speaker at the User Conference in Dallas, TX, Berlin, Germany and other ASUG events

� BusinessObjects Enterprise Certified Professional

� Founder of McManus Software + Consulting

� Creator of Report Launch for Business Objects

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[ Business Intelligence - Access

SAP

SQL Server

Oracle

Teradata

MySQL

Sybase

Data Mart /

WarehouseSource

Data

Financial

Systems

Transactional

Systems

Budgets &

Forecasts

Sales &

Marketing

3rd Party &

Customers

Databases and

spreadsheets

Reports and

Report Parts

Xcelsius

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence Dashboards

Internal Applications

Outward Facing

Portals

Mobile

Desktop tools


[ Business Intelligence - Storage

Source

Data

Financial

Systems

Transactional

Systems

Budgets &

Forecasts

Sales &

Marketing

3rd Party &

Customers

Databases and

spreadsheets

Relational

Columnar

In Memory

Unstructured

Multi-dimensional

EII / Dynamic ODS

Cloud and

Web ServicesMobile

Desktop tools

Dashboards

Semantic Layers


[ Strategy


[ Business Objects Platform� Client

� Crystal Reports� Web Intelligence � Intelligent Analysis� Xcelsius � Dashboard Designer� Explorer� Infoview / Dashboard Builder � BI Launchpad� Voyager � Pioneer

� Connectors� Live Office� Query as a Web Service (QaaWS)� OCBC / Native Drivers

� Servers� Crystal Report Server� Business Objects Edge� Business Objects Enterprise� Data Services / Data Federator / Metadata Manager


[ Web Intelligence

� Web Based tool for browser based report use and development on server based data sources

� Rich client – installed on workstation for local and server based resources


[ Universe Designer

� Design joins, filters and objects used by reporting tools to define queries


[ Crystal Reports

� Pixel Perfect Report Designer for simple or complex report design.

� Connects to many data sources

� Many Export formats


[ Xcelsius

� Creates Flash based dashboards


[ Other tools

� Explorer: web-based search and exploration application that enables business professionals to explore pre-indexed and in-memory data stores(BWA)

� Dashboard Builder: web based portal based on content from built in analytics, Crystal Reports , and Web Intelligence report parts run within the InfoView

� Voyager: Analysis of OLAP based data sources with simple dashboard capability.


[ Road Map in the beginning

Usage SAP Tool Business Objects Tool

Discovery and Exploration Polestar

Query Design Bex Query Designer Business Objects Enterprise Universes to InfoCubes and BEx queries.

Report Designer Report Designer Crystal Reports XI

Adhoc Reporting BExAnalyzer Web Intelligence XI R2

Dashboards/Visualization Web App Designer Xcelsius 4.5

Advanced Analysis (OLAP) BExAnalyzer - BW Voyager

Data Warehouse Platform Netweaver Business Warehouse (OLAP)

ROLAP and OLAP connections

In Memory Storage BusinessWarehouse Accelerator

Data Integration NetWeaver Data Integrator/ Data Quality

Mobile Several Mobi


[ Road Map 2010 / 2011

Usage SAP Tool Business Objects Tool

Discovery and Exploration Business Objects Explorer

Query Design BEx Query Designer BO XI 4.0 Common Universe Layer

Report Designer Report Designer � Crystal Reports 2008

Adhoc Reporting BExAnalyzer � Inteligent AnalysispkaWeb Intelligence

Dashboards/Visualization Web App Designer � Dashboard Designerpka Xcelsius

Advanced Analysis BExAnalyzer - BW Voyager � Pioneer

Data Warehouse Platform NetWeaver Business Warehouse (OLAP)

ROLAP and OLAP connections

In Memory Storage BusinessWarehouse Accelerator

BW and Any data into Accelerator

Data Integration NetWeaver Data Integrator/ Data Quality

Mobile Explorer Mobile


[ Roadmap


[ Road Map


[ Moving Forward

� Business Objects is THE Business Intelligence interface technology going forward

� SAP connectivity is the primary goal of product development over the next 12 months

� BusinessObjects derived content will start being seen integrated within the Business Suite

� Expansion of the common semantic layer coming in next release

� Multiple data sources

� All source types - OLAP, relational, and structured (e.g. XML, TXT, etc)


[ Road Map 2010

� Integration of Data connection tools� Xcelsius Connections to NetWeaver BW� Data Integrator / Data Quality / Data Federator enhancements

� BW Accelerator + BusinessObjects Explorer + SaaS� Blade Server Platform� Cloud based SaaS rollout

� Semantic Layer Developments� Will integrate Power of Bex Queries and Universe� Metadata Manager Integration� BusinessObjects Explorer on In Memory data stores

� Teradata Backend for BW

� BI tools within NetWeaver no longer the strategic direction


[ Latest and Greatest since release

� Then (2008)

� Dashboards - Xcelsius Enterprise

� Reporting – Web Intelligence

� Mobile - Use to mean mostly blackberry

� NetWeaver BI

� Now(2010)

� Dashboards - SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Design

� Reporting - Interactive Analysis

� I-Phone, I-Pad, Android

� NetWeaver Business Warehouse


[ Next Steps for you?

� What is your Corporate Business Intelligence strategy?� Give to end users as quickly as possible?

� Maintain Quality through a centralized BI competency center?

� Do you need to connect your Business Intelligence tools� To Other operational systems than SAP ?

� To users outside of your internal network (i.e. Supply Chain)?

� Are you focusing on SAP based Business Intelligence� Integrated SAP solutions exist out of the box

� Short Term SAP BW

� What are your current capabilities?� Understanding of OLAP vs ROLAP vs OLTP


[ CONCLUSION

� Get comfortable with the idea of BusinessObjects

� SAP Investments are bringing innovation to SAP customers

� SAP Investments are bringing faster support to BusinessObjects customers

� Resources

� http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/business-objects-for-sap-faq


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Q&A - Contact Information

Kevin McManus

McManus Software + Consulting

www.reportlaunch.com

[email protected]

877-857-7407

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