SAP BW and BOBI Overview

Arsyan Syahir, Eclectic Consulting
August 6, 2019
SAP BusinessObject Business Intellegence (BOBI) and SAP Business
Warehouse (BW)
Overview

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SAP BW and BOBI Overview
Who creates the reports? What level of knowledge is needed?
Report’s Categories by level of knowledge
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Different Needs Require Different Experience
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Executive
Individual Contributor
Middle Management
Business Analyst
 Analyze regional
goals and strategic
KPIs
 Analyze information to
measure the progress
toward set goals and
KPIs.
 Leverage actual and
historical data to create
detailed planning
scenarios
 Leverage data and tools to
provide answers ad-hoc to
the management and
executive team so that
decisions are based on
solid information.
 Oversee cross department /
line of business
performance and evaluate
different scenarios for
plnning and forecasting
purposes.
 Combine and review
analytics with company
strategies and goals to
continuously improve
company performance
 Review regular
account statements
to control customer
invoices and
vendor accounts.
 Fulfill management
requests for
information as
simply as possible.

 with the data stored in the transactional systems and not rely
on my good feel?
 How do I get key business information into the hands of
employees so that they can impact corporate
performance…?
 How do I leverage the information I have to create new
business opportunities…?
Why Do We Need Enterprise Business Intelligence
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SAP Business Warehouse
The SAP Business Warehouse enables Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) to format the information of large amounts of operative and historical data. OLAP
technology enables multi-dimensional analyses according to various business perspectives. The preconfigured Business Warehouse Server for core areas and
processes ensures information views within the entire enterprise. BW do ETL, Data Modelling and Reporting.
Business Explorer (BEx)
The Business Explorer is the reporting tool for the Business Information Warehouse and consists of :
 Business Explorer Analyser
 Business Explorer Browser
SAP Business Warehouse is a Data Analysis Tool
SAP BusinessObject BI is a Visual Analysis Tool
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SAP BusinessObject BI
The SAP BusinessObject BI (also known as BO or BOBJ) is a suite of front-end applications that allow business users to view, sort
and analyze business intelligence data.
Business intelligence (BI) is a technology-driven process for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help corporate
executives, business managers and other end users make more informed business decisions.
SAP BO encompasses a variety of tools, applications and methodologies that enable organizations to collect data from internal
systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against the data, and create reports, dashboards and
data visualizations to make the analytical results available to corporate decision makers as well as operational workers.
https://help.sap.com/bobi
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Data Flow
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Digital transformation is disrupting everything
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Massive amounts of data leads to new challenges and opportunities...
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New World Order
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In leading organizations, executives agree that…
If Data is fuel in a digital world, Analytics is the engine
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1. Uncover “unknowns”
2. Predict the future
3. Empower everyone to make
better decisions
4. Turn decisions into actions
So, every company must…
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SAP can help you lead your organization’s digital journey
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Typical Customer Environment
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SAP BI Client Portfolio
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Office Integration
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Office
 For Financial Analysts and other business users
 Microsoft Office add-in enables financial professionals and other business users to rapidly access, visualize, and analyze hierarchical data within Excel and
PowerPoint.
Reporting
Distribute Formatted Information
Data Discovery & Applications
Discover, Analyze and Share
SAP Lumira
 For Business Analysts, power users, and IT professionals
 Mashup relational data, rapidly create visualizations and build simple storyboards
 Add scripting and dynamic actions to simple storyboards
 Create sophisticated, dynamic analytic applications like planning front ends.
 Use the included templates to rapidly deploy self service analytics
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP Crystal Reports
 Securely distribute information across your organization
 Answer new questions with predefined interactive reports
 Publish high volumes of personalized reports via email

Converge
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Transform data
• Acquire data from corporate, personal and web sources
• Acquire data from custom sources with extensions
• Quickly cleanse, transform, combine and enrich data
Visualize and discover insights
• Rich library of chart types
• Extend, embed and customize with open source D3 extensions
• Discover related insights and influencers
• Full online analysis (OLAP) support on SAP BW and SAP HANA
Share beautiful stories
• Build engaging stories that highlight KPIs
• Share insights on mobile, web browser and desktop
Design professional applications
• Build dashboard or self service applications for specific needs
• Extend Discovery story with Designer capabilities
• Develop planning applications on SAP BW-IP & SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1
Trusted data discovery
• Leverage trusted SAP BI platform and data security
• Single portal for both enterprise BI and Agile Visualization
• Scale to tens of thousands of users
SAP BusinessObject Lumira
For Trusted Data Discovery, Storytelling and Application Development
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Bridging Business Users and Power Users
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discovery component designer component
Extend
Discovery
Stories
Analytic
Applications

High-Level Architecture (Layer)
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ENABLE THE BUSINESS
• Commentary
• Geo Maps
• Parallel Queries
• Visualizations Extensions
• Shared Elements
• Cascading Input Controls
• Reference Cells
TRUSTED FOUNDATION
• Big Numbers, Linked Universes
• HTML Client
• Set Analysis
BEST ON SAP
• Direct Access to HANA, HANA Online Mode
• UNX on BEx queries
• BW and HANA enhancements
SAP BusinessObject Web Inteligence
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1
2
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New interactive viewer
 Modern user experience
 New filter experience
 Consistent user experience
Continue HTML client parity
 FHSQL, RTL document
Data Access
 Hierarchy flattening
 FHSQL authorization
New charts
 Gauges, KPI tiles
New functions in formula language
 TimeBetween, DateBetween, PromptSummary
SAP BusinessObject Web Inteligence
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Business User Flexibility in Analysis for Office
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Details of Lumira, Web Intelligence and Analysis for Office
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SAP BO Business Intelligence Suite
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Discover. Predict. Create.
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Agility for business analysts and business users Portofolio
• Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your business
• Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and enriching
data
• Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics
• Forecast and predict future outcomes
• Lumira / Predictive Analysis

Reporting
share information
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SAP BO Business Intelligence
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SAP BO Business Intelligence
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• Simplify for IT
• Server Group Exclusivity
• Virus Scan Integration
• openSSL updates
• X.509 Authentication
• Security Updates
• Rest Web Services
BI Admin Enhancements
• Fiori Styled BI Launchpad
• New WebI interactive viewer
• NetWeaver Enterprise Portal
• HANA SAML Test Connection
• User Account Status
• Document Instances
• Inbox – Limit number of
documents
• CMS DB Driver
Innovate
• Search Enhancements
• Promotion
Management
• Upgrade Management
• Installer

System Architecture
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Executive and Managers
Requirements
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Analyst
Requirements
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Casual Users
Requirements
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IT
Responsibilities and Requirements
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BusinessObject BI Samples
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CEO Dashboard
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• Adaptive Layout Container
• New container component
• Supports different layouts for small, medium
Mobile Feature
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Desktop Deployment Tablet Deployment Mobile Phone Deployment

o SAP BI Recommended Links
• BI4.2 SP04 What’s New L2 Deck:
https://jam4.sapjam.com/groups/4I4k19WniJiYjGhHE7qA0m/documents/RbP65ec2fUNZ9FX12S0EGX/slide_viewer
?_lightbox=true
• Watch SAP Analytics Customer Stories : http://www.SAPAnalyticsStory.com
• SAP BI Statement of Direction : http://bit.ly/SAPBI_SOD
• Choosing the right BI Client : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981
• SAP BI Sizing : www.sap.com/bisizing
• SAP BI Pattern Books :
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+Business+Intelligence+Platform+Pattern+Books
• SAP BI Platform Support Tool : http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+BI+Platform+Support+Tool
Key Links
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Agenda
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SAP BusinessObject Business
Intelligence (BOBI)
SAP Business Warehouse (BW)

World of Several Applications..
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… to the world of ERP
Mfg
Purchasing
Finance Sales
Processes
Processes
Processes
Processes
Processes

Single source for enterprise wide business reporting
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Data Warehouse Definition
SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) enables you to analyze data from operative SAP
applications and from other business applications and external data sources. SAP BW, which is
pre-configured for core areas and processes, allows you to examine the relationships in all areas of
your organization.
SAP BW enables Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) for the staging of information from large
amounts of operative and historical data. OLAP technology permits multi-dimensional analyses
according to various business perspectives.
SAP Business Warehouse
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A data warehouse is a system with its own database. It draws data from diverse sources and is
designed to support query and analysis. To facilitate data retrieval for analytical processing, we use
a special database design technique called a star schema.
Basic Concept of Data Warehousing
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OLTP vs OLAP
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Besides the difference in designing the database, building a data warehouse involves a critical task
that does not arise in building an OLTP system: to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from
diverse data sources into the data warehouse.
ETL (Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data)
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In data extraction, we move data out of source systems, such as an SAP R/3 system. The
challenge during this step is to identify the right data. A good knowledge of the source systems is
absolutely necessary to accomplish this task.
Extract, Trasform, Load (ETL)
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Transformation
In data transformation, we format data so that it can be represented consistently in the data
warehouse. For example, we might need to convert an entity with multiple names (such as AT&T,
ATT, or Bell) into an entity with a single name (such as AT&T). The original data might reside in
different databases using different data types, or in different file formats in different file systems.
Some are case sensitive; others may be case insensitive.
Loading
In data loading, we load data into the fact tables correctly and quickly.
Extract, Trasform, Load (ETL)
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The graphic shows a physical and logical division between data staging in the source systems, data
storage and management, and analysis.
SAP BW Architecture
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SAP BW Architecture
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• ETL & Staging
• Operational data store
• Metadata repository
• Master data mgmt
• Web enabled OLAP
• Web application server

 Top layer - Reporting environment
 Bex Analyzer
 Bex Browser
 Dashboard
 Web Intelligence
 The middle layer - source system, BW Server
 Administering the BW system
 Storing data
 Retrieving data according to users' requests
 The bottom layer - source systems
 R/3
 Flatfile
SAP BW Architecture (Components)
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 The middle-layer BW Server consists of the following components:
 Data Warehousing Workbench
 Staging Engine
 PSA (Persistent Staging Area)
 ODS (Operational Data Store) Objects
 InfoCubes
 Data Manager
 OLAP Processor
 InfoProvider
SAP BW Architecture (Components)
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InfoProviders are objects for which you can create and execute queries in SAP BI. These include
objects that physically store data - the data targets, such as InfoCubes, DataStore Objects, and
InfoObjects (characteristics with attributes or texts). They also include objects that do not contain
any physical data, such as InfoSets, MultiProviders. InfoProvider is the generic term used to
describe any objects or views relevant to reporting.
Data Target / InfoProviders in SAP BW Reporting
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Data targets are SAP BI objects that have their own data store (which means they physically
contain data). These objects include InfoCubes, DataStore Objects and InfoObjects (characteristics
with attributes or texts). The system supplies data targets with data from the source systems using
a load process. Data targets become InfoProviders if they are used in BEx reporting.
Data Target With Their Own Data Store
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InfoCube
An InfoCube is the central evaluation object for reports which need aggregated (compressed) data. In
reporting, an InfoCube is a self-contained dataset (for example, a business area). You can analyze this
data in a BEx query. The tables in an InfoCube are structured in a star schema (multi-dimensional data
model)
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Data Store Object
DataStore Objects store consolidated and cleansed data on a detailed (atomic) level. In
reporting, you use DataStore Objects for detailed reporting in SAP BI, for example, for
reporting on individual business documents (orders, invoices etc). A DataStore Object
describes a consolidated data set from one or more data sources. In contrast to multi-
dimensional data stores for InfoCubes, data in DataStore Objects is stored in flat database
tables.
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Characteristic InfoObject
Characteristic InfoObjects can have tables into which the master data information (attributes, texts,
hierarchies) is loaded from the source system. Once you have included a characteristic InfoObject in the
InfoProvider tree, you can use it as an InfoProvider for BEx reporting. You use these InfoProviders for
master data reporting in SAP BW.
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MultiProvider
A MultiProvider combines data from several InfoProviders and makes it available for use in
reporting. The MultiProvider does not contain any data itself. Its data comes exclusively from the
InfoProviders on which it is based. You can create a MultiProvider from any combination of
InfoProviders.
Data Target Without Their Own Data Store
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SAP BW Data Flow
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SAP Business Warehouse (UI Samples)
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