Discover The Future Of SAP BusinessObjects (BI 4.3 SP02)

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Why adopting
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3?
SAP Analytics Product Management
March, 2021

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© 2021 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ
« SAP is commited to continue
to invest into the on-premise
BI Suite »

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SAP BI Portfolio comprises two key solutions
SAP Analytics Cloud
If you are looking to take advantage of the
benefits of a cloud solution, SAP Analytics
Cloud is the strategic analytics platform for all
SAP applications.
SAP BusinessObjects BI suite
If you prefer to manage your applications
on-premise, SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite is
the best and most scalable enterprise reporting
solution in the industry.
Many customers use both solutions side by side

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The Hybrid reality
Analytics Innovation is
in the cloud
Customers are adopting SAP
Analytics Cloud to benefit
from it
New IT Spending is
moving to the cloud
For new applications
and projects.
Customers have large
on-premise investments
The transition will take time,
some workloads will stay on
premises for the next few years

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Interoperability
SAP Analytics Cloud SAP BusinessObjects BI suite
Users | Applications | Data
▪ BI 4.3: a brand new, modern user experience
▪ Tighter integration with SAP Analytics Cloud
▪ Customer enhancements
▪ Continue to lower TCO
▪ Smart insights, smart predict, conversational
search and natural language
▪ Accelerate time to value and enterprise readiness
▪ Focus on usability and self service
SAP BI investment focus areas

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SAP BI Portfolio 2020
Formatted, interactive Reporting and
Self-service Dashboarding
Automated Publishing & Scheduling
Web Intelligence
Ad-hoc query and Operational Reporting*
SAP Lumira Designer
Analytic Applications
SAP Analysis Office
MS Office
Self-service analysis for OLAP
& Planning data sources
One simple analytics cloud solution
Data discovery and Dashboarding
Collaborative Planning
Augmented Analytics
Live connectivity to on-premise BW, HANA & Universes
SAP BusinessObjects BI suite
SAP Analytics Cloud
On-Premise Custom Application
And Interactive online analysis
* Crystal Reports remain the best option for pixel perfect reporting.

Why SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3?

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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3
Key Themes
Enterprise Readiness
Enhance ease of deployment
and support latest industry
standards
Hybrid
Provide a tighter integration
between BusinessObjects BI
and SAP Analytics Cloud
User Experience
Harmonize user experience
and foster BI adoption with a
Fiori like experience

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Consume Web Intelligence data model in SAP Analytics Cloud
with Live Data Access 3.1 for BusinessObjects
Data Providers
#1 #2 #3 #4
List of available
objects: dimensions,
measures, variables
Data Model
Hybrid
Re-use existing
Web Intelligence
documents to build
new information
SAP Analytics
Cloud

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New Fiori like BI Launchpad
▪ Modernized user experience
▪ Do not ship the existing BI
LaunchPad
▪ 100% functional and compatible with
existing content and authorizations
▪ Full functional parity
▪ Scheduling / Publication
enhancement
▪ Updated BI Workspace
New BI Launch Pad User
Experience

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New BI 4.3 Web Intelligence Client
A rejuvenated user experience
▪ Light menu bar (no double ribbon)
▪ New Formatting/Build panels and contextual
Widget
▪ “Trial” experience when authoring/analyzing
What is coming next in BI 4.3
▪ One client for web and desktop, viewers and
designers
▪ Parity with WebI Java Applet and WebI Rich
Client 4.2 SP07
▪ HTML5 (no Java), touch ready, FIORI like
▪ Light Dashboards
Overall, the enhancements unlock end-user autonomy, self-service reporting and dashboarding
User
Experience

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.3
Sharing the SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence data model
Data Providers
#1 #2 #3 #4
List of available
objects: dimensions,
measures, variables
Data Model
User
Experience
▪ Re-use existing Web Intelligence documents to build new information
▪ Create and share the business semantics, and associated result sets
▪ Enforce consistency and update of information (trusted BI, lower TCO of updates)

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SAP BusinessObject BI 4.3
Enterprise Readiness
▪ Installation and deployment: continuous improvements to the install process, enhancements to
silent install, tool to support cache removal etc
▪ Security enhancements: support for SAML 3.0, simplified SAML configuration and setup,
credential mapping enhanced to support multiple combinations
▪ Updates to the administrator tools like BI Admin cockpit, monitoring, promotion management etc.
▪ Improved audit functionalities to better track user updates like login failures, authentication etc.
▪ Enhancements to scheduling and publication functionalities
▪ Highest security and product standards compliance: updated components to adhere to the latest
security and product standards to address any vulnerability or other concerns
▪ New versions of data sources, applications and OS support
▪ Simplified IaaS deployment: enhancements provided o support bulk updates, track settings etc.

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2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029
Mainstream Maintenance
BI 4.3
Priority 1
Support
BI 4.2 Mainstream Maintenance
Priority 1
Support
SP09
SP01 SP02
SP08
SP00 SP03 SP04 SP05
Timeline

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SAP BI4.2 features not yet into SAP BI4.3 SP01:
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 catch up features
Feature In BI4.3 SP1 ? In BI4.3 SP02 ? Comment
Shared Elements No Yes
SAP HANA On Line No No Not planned
Extension Points No Yes
Freeze Header No Yes
Send to FTP No No
WebI Rich Client Zabo mode No Yes
WRC Standalone No No
WRC Text, CSV, Excel as a source No Yes
WRC can not be launched from the BILaunchPad No Yes
Query as a Web Service No Yes Replaced by oData
Document as a Web Service No Yes Replaced by oData

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How to transform Web Intelligence into an Adhoc Reporting, interactive Dashboarding,
data visualisation and data exploration tool!
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 and our partner www.Need4viz.com

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SAP BOE
On-Premise
▪ Perpetual licensing
▪ Customize, modify, and
extend
▪ Release cycle 6 to 12
months, speed of adoption
depends on customers’
schedule
▪ Runs on customer
infrastructure
SAP BOE
Extended Edition
▪ BOE Hosted in SAP Cloud
▪ Subscription licensing
▪ On-premise functional scope
▪ Extensibility Framework and
extensions via SCP
▪ Predefined Landscapes (based on
T-shirt sizes)
▪ Half year release cycle, customers
chooses upgrade window within 12
months
▪ Low TCO and fast time to value
▪ Dedicated system landscape on
cloud infrastructure
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 in the Cloud (IaaS)
SAP Private Cloud Edition

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 SP02

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Summary
• Reports Display Enhancements
• Shared Elements
• Web Intelligence Rich Client
• New Web Intelligence Data Sources
• Unified Workflows: Query Panels and Objects Enrichment
• Usability Enhancements
• Semantic Layer and Connectivities
• SDK & Extension
SAP Labs
Preview
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice.

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Freeze Header
• Back in SAP BI 4.3 SP2!
• Depending on the table type:
• Freeze horizontal and/or vertical headers
• Freeze first rows/columns
• Available in both Reading and Edit modes
• In the toolbar: to apply to all tables in the
report
• In a table’s contextual menu: to apply it to
this table
SAP Labs
Preview

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Freeze Header
SAP Labs
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Hidden Reports, Report Description
• In Edit mode
• Define if a report must be always hidden or hidden based on a formula
• Display an icon to identify hidden reports
• Define a description for a report. The description is displayed in report tab’s tooltip.
• In Reading mode
• Do not display always hidden reports.
• Evaluate formula to define whether conditionally-hidden reports are visible
• The description is displayed in report tab’s tooltip.
• Formula Language
• New function: ReportDescription()
SAP Labs
Preview

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Hidden Reports, Report Description
SAP Labs
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Presentation Mode
• Extend the Auto-Refresh mode
• Available in Reading and Edit modes
• Switch to one report to another one
• Select reports switch period
• Select reports to display
• Different options to optimize screen display
• Full Screen mode
• Show/Hide reports tab
• Show/Hide refresh bar
• Hide all warnings on screen, except in Refresh bar.
• Always-hidden reports are not displayed
• Conditionally hidden reports may be displayed or not
(depending on the refreshed dataset)
SAP Labs
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Presentation Mode
SAP Labs
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Less Intrusive Refresh Warning Messages
• Reduce the number of warnings by factorizing the Partial
content loaded and No data retrieved warnings
• New document parameter to hide
refresh warning messages
• Icon for Partial refresh warning is still
displayed in toolbar
SAP BI 4.3 SP1 SAP BI 4.3 SP2
SAP Labs
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Charts
• New Type: Treillis
SAP Labs
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Create Shared Element
• Shared Elements have been introduced in SAP BI 4.2
• Save a shared element in the repository that contains all resources required to
create this block: data providers, queries, variables, formatting…
• Select a cell, table or chart
SAP Labs
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Insert Shared Element
• From the toolbar: Select a shared element to insert in your report
• Navigate in the repository per folders, categories or list
SAP Labs
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Shared Element Side Panel
• Dedicated tab for Shared Elements
• Display the list of instances of a shared element in the
document
• Click the instance to put the focus on it
• Check for new versions published in the repository
• Update shared elements if new versions are available
• Insert a new instance of the shared element
• Unlink:
• Shared element from a document
• Shared element instance from a report element
SAP Labs
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Shared Element
SAP Labs
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Local Text / Excel
Back in SAP BI 4.3 SP2!
• Local Data Providers: Text and Excel
• Refresh on Server
SAP Labs
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New Web Intelligence Data Sources
OData / Google Drive

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Objectives
• Replace Query as a Web Service and Document as a Web Service that cannot be created
or edited in SAP BI 4.3
• Two main use-cases
• Generate an Odata link so other products/tools can retrieve data from a document
• Use an external web site Odata flow as a data source for Web Intelligence
• Use Google Drive as a data source repository (Google Spreadsheet, Excel, Text)
• Export to Google Drive
SAP Labs
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Generate Odata Data Source
• Generate an OData REST Web Service link from a query or a block
• This link returns the corresponding data flow in OData
• It can be used to retrieve dataset from your Web Intelligence
document
• In Edit mode, in the contextual menu the Copy Odata Link
command copies the Odata URL in the Clipboard.
• It is a REST Web Service call: It must be integrated in some
development that implements the Login REST Web Service call
• A Query • A Block
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New Data Source: Odata Web Service
• Web Intelligence to use Odata URL link as new Data Source type
• The flow will be interpreted as a Text file
• New Query Panel and Object definition (name, data type, object type, aggregation) common to other data
sources (TXT, XLS, FHSQL)
SAP Labs
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New Data Source: Google Drive
• Web Intelligence to use Google Drive as new
Data Source repository
• Authenticate to Google Drive through OAuth
• CMC configuration for OAuth authentication
• Credentials prompted at first Google Drive
• OAuth Token is saved per user and reused until
validity expires
• Google Drive Picker to select a file to use as data
source
• Google Spreadsheet
• Text
• Microsoft Excel
• Properties
• Query Panel and Object definition (name, data
type, object type, aggregation) common to other
data sources (TXT, XLS, FHSQL)
SAP Labs
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Export To
When you export a Web Intelligence document
as XLS, PDF, HTML, TXT, CSV, you download
it locally.
In SAP BI 4.3 SP2, you can also:
• Export to Google Drive
• Export to BI Platform Repository
SAP Labs
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New Data Source Selection Dialog Box
• Organize Data Sources by Categories
• SAP BI Platform Repository
• Local (Back in SAP BI 4.3 SP2!)
• Universe
• XLS
• Text
• Google Drive (New!)
• Google Spreadsheet
• XLS
• Text
• Web Services (New!)
• Odata
SAP Labs
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Unified Workflows
Query Panel / Objects Enrichment

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▪ Two Query Panel Flavors
▪ Semantic Query Panel (UNV, UNX, WID,
SAP BW, SAP HANA)
– Select objects in the query
– Add Filters
– But no aggregation, no type selection
▪ Custom Data Provider (XLS, TXT, FHSQL,
OData, Google Sheet…)
– Object Type selection
– Data Type selection
– Aggregation
– But no filters, no object selection
▪ Align the two workflows
SAP BI 4.3 Query Panels
Differences
SAP Labs
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Extend Query Panel
• One Single Query Panel : Use the Semantic Layer Query Panel for all data
sources
• Select objects from the data sources, add filters, preview, run query
• Already the case for UNV, UNX, SAP BW, SAP HANA, WID
• TXT, XLS, FHSQL, Odata, Google Spreadsheet: New!
• Depend on data source capabilities: No sub-query on Text, Excel… file for the
moment.
• Set object properties
• Name: Useful for SAP BW or universe
• Qualification (dimension, measure, detail)
• Type: String, Number, Decimal (High Precision Number), Date
• Aggregation function (for a measure) : Useful for SAP BW
• Associated dimension (for a detail)
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Usability Enhancements: Prompts and Input Controls
• The Prompts dialog box displays both the
prompts and the selected values (two panels)
• Input Control
• Display the hierarchy tree (and not only one
node members)
• Resize input control menu size
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Usability Enhancements
• Format Painter (Back in SAP BI 4.3 SP2!)
• To duplicate a format on multiple elements
• Press [Escape] to exit Format painter mode
• Date/Time Picker
• To select date and time
• If manually typed, auto-correction
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Usability Enhancements
• Hyperlink to document target:
• Select a document and an element
• Open in Current Window
• Apply Now in Build > Data
• Accessibility: Shortcuts (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+S,
…)
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Web Intelligence REST Web Services and Extensions
• New Web Intelligence REST Web Services
• Web Intelligence UI Extensions will be back
• Side Panel, Status Bar, Perspective
• Non-OSGI mode only
• Java Scripts API
• Official support of Custom Elements
• New APIs: DocumentInputControl
• New Documentation and White Paper
SAP Labs
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Timeline
BI 4.2 SP6
July 2018
BI 4.2 SP7
February 2019
BI 4.3 (GA)
H1 2020
BI 4.3 SP01
Dec 2020
BI 4.3 SP02
Q4 2021
BOE maintenance to
extend to at least 2027

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence product direction
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
• WebI Alerting (BILP & WebI)
• Trend lines (CVOM & WebI)
• Dataset exploration via facets
• Improve dashboarding creation and interaction
• Fix table and chart size with scrollbar
• Intra-report document link with filters
• Custom tooltip
• Additional formatting capabilities:
• for table cells (text justification, text orientation)
• Icons
• “Data Manager” to ease data manipulation
• Continuous User Interface Enhancements to Improve Web Intelligence usability

SAP Analytics Product Management
Gregory Botticchio
Gregory.botticchio@sap.com
Thank you.

Discover The Future Of SAP BusinessObjects (BI 4.3 SP02)

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