Everyone knows that SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is synonymous with ad-hoc querying and interactive reporting. But not everyone knows that the Web Intelligence toolkit can also be used for dashboards. Join SAP’s Pascal Gaulin (BI Product Expert, Web Intelligence) and Gregory Botticchio (BI Product Manager, Web Intelligence) as they demonstrate how to create powerful dashboards using rich and versatile, modern Web Intelligence visualization features.

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Web Intelligence Product Expert
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Web Intelligence Product Manager
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Speakers

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Gregory Botticchio & Pascal Gaulin, SAP France
May 2019
How to design Web Intelligence reports that behave
like real Dashboards

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Get quick business insights – and understand trends and root causes – with SAP
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. The ad hoc query and interactive reporting tools
make it easy to uncover fast, decision-ready business intelligence (BI) from any data
source, on any device.
Facilitate ad hoc queries, operational reporting, and analysis with
a repeatable framework
▪ View data from different perspectives – and easily edit queries and reports to reflect information
needs – with a highly interactive data interface
Easily deliver information throughout the organization with unified
BI tools
▪ Distribute personalized reports content to mass audience, in an automated manner, enabling
collaboration at the data level
Improve decision-making and user autonomy with self-service BI
▪ Enable operational reporting through the tailored interface, and generate answers to tough business
questions with self-service information retrieval and securely shared visual insights in reports
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Product overview
Interact
Comment
Share
Format
AnalyzeAd hoc
question
Modify
Analyze
Authoring
Viewing

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Key capabilities
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▪ Ad hoc query: Create ad hoc questions in an environment that uses a semantic
layer instead of technical jargon; query and merge data from any business
application, data source, and local file
▪ Report design: Use an intuitive drag-and-drop interface to create queries,
complex reports, and visual insights in the format of your choice (report or
dashboard)
▪ Analysis and interactivity: Leverage powerful functions for thorough business
and data analysis; add interactivities to let end users discover new insights
▪ Document sharing and collaboration: Securely distribute reports to mass
audience; allow end users to comment in context of the report and the data
▪ Mobility: Ask questions, analyze data, and identify trends no matter where you
are – with online and offline reporting capability (mobile, Web, desktop)
▪ Embedded analytics: Use REST APIs to customize the tool entirely; build new
native functionality and visual extension
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Product description

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Web Intelligence Dashboard
Introduction
Everyone uses WebI for
REPORTING, few use it for
DASHBOARDING, here's why
they should…

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence proposes :
- Full control on the document layout and content
- Many block types (charts and tables) letting you display any kind of information
- Free-form analysis via full interactivity of the document (charts and widgets)
- New and modern consumption experience
All together, these features allow them to quickly design basic Dashboards …
Web Intelligence Dashboard
Introduction

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The basics, how to best format your report 1/3
▪ Work in « Page » mode: select a page format based on the
element which needs to be displayed
– A4 or else… best is A3
▪ One page – choose the orientation based on your
dashboard design :
– “Landscape” format or “Portrait” format
– Remove header and/or footer
– Remove top/bottom/left/right margins
▪ Use relative position for report elements alignment
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
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The basics, how to best format your report 2/3
▪ Same size for report elements
– Use a common ratio for the columns and rows
▪ Fixed-size Charts
– Don’t size manually
– Use :
▪ Fixed-size Tables
– Don’t size manually
– Don’t use « Autofit width»
– Fix the size for each column:
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
2x1 2x1 2x1
6x1
6x2
6x2
6x2
6X2
6x2
12x1

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The basics, how to best format your report 3/3
▪ Use the new WebI Interactive Viewer (BI4.2 SP04 & next)
▪ Chart animation turned ON :
▪ Auto-refresh turned ON :
… And best is the latest Web Intelligence release: BI4.2 SP07! 
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?

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Display report tabs at the top (or on the side) of your document
▪ In each report, use free cells with intra-document links to other reports
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
“Tiles” report:
Example:
“Table” report:
“Geomap” report:

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Make a report element appear and disappear interactively
▪ Use Element Linking
▪ Add a Hiding Condition on the target
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
Element Link Source:
[City]
Element Link Target #1:
Hide if Count([City]) > 1
Hide if Count([City]) > 1
Element Link Target #2:
Example:

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Display a progress bar in a table
▪ Build a character string which length depends on the value to be represented
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
Example:
Fill ( Char(124) ; Round ( [Revenue share] * 40 ; 0 ) )
With [Revenue share] =
[Sales revenue] / (
Max ([Sales revenue]) ForAll ([Lines])
)

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Build a fixed-size table
▪ Manually set the width of each column
▪ Rank the table to show its first N rows
▪ In the table footer, add an intra-document link to another report showing the full table, in case the user wants
to see all data
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
Example:

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Dynamically highlight values in a table
▪ Define a measure variable equal to a constant
▪ Build an input control on that variable
▪ Define a conditional format on the table column containing the object you want to highlight
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
Example:
▪ Variable [Quantity] = 2000
▪ Input Control on [Quantity]:
• Minimum = 2000
• Maximum = 3500
• Step = 100
▪ Conditional format:
▪ Cell background is green when [Quantity
sold] >= [Quantity]
▪ Else, cell background is orange

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Interactively change the KPI displayed in a chart
▪ Define a 1st variable (a dimension) which value is a string constant
▪ Define a 2nd variable (a measure) which value depends on the text stored in the 1st variable
▪ Define an input control to change the value stored in the 1st variable and assign the 2nd variable to the chart
Web Intelligence Dashboard
How To?
Example:
▪ [KPI] = “Revenue”
▪ [Measure] = If [KPI] = “Revenue” Then [Sales revenue] Else [Quantity sold]

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20. Contact information:
Gregory Botticchio
Web Intelligence Product Manager
SAP France
gregory.botticchio@sap.com
Pascal Gaulin
Web Intelligence Product Expert
SAP France
pascal.gaulin@sap.com
Thank you.

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