The document provides information on SAP's Business Intelligence technology updates. It summarizes new features in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2, including improved self-service analytics, dashboards, reporting, predictive analysis, data visualization, mobile access, and connectivity to additional data sources. It also describes tools like Explorer for data exploration, the Information Design Tool, and integration with desktop reporting and mapping technologies.

1. SAP BI Technology Update
Febvruary 2015

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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 – Technology Platform
Enterprise
Portals
Microsoft
Office
On Demand
Services
BrowsersMobile Devices
ERP
SAP Business Suite
Oracle E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft
JD Edwards
Unstructured data in
Social Media and
Hadoop
OLAP Cubes
Embedded
Content
Microsoft
Excel
Oracle, IBM DB2,
Microsoft SQL Server
and other relational data
sources
Universe Semantic Layer
Business Intelligence Platform
EDW
SAP NetWeaver BW
Teradata
Other data warehouses
SAP HANA Platform
Self-Service Dashboards and apps Reporting

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• Multi-Source Universe (unx)
• Information Design Tool
• Hierarchical Prompts, LOVs, etc
• Multi-user Support
• Solution Manager Integration
• Identity Manager Integration
• CTS Integration
• Native BICS Access to BW
• Single BI Infrastructure
• Copy & Paste!
• Simplified UI
• Charting Engine
• Native SAP Connectivity
• Consume Analysis View
• Legacy DeskI Features
• Exploration Views
• Improved UI
• Create Measures
• Support for HANA
• 64 bit, No 2 Gig limits
• Real-time Monitoring
• Alerts, Probes, Watches
• Third Party Integration
(Wiley Interscope, etc)
• BI Launchpad
• Multi-Tab View
• BI Workspaces
• iOMS for Sharepoint
• Support for iPhone, iPad
• BusinessObjects
Mobile App (WebI, CR)
• Explorer, Exploration Views
• Augmented Reality
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0
Summary of new features
• Crystal Reports
for Enterprise
• Universe & BW
Connectivity
• Usability &
Charting
• Embedded Universe (unx)
• HTML5 Support
• Design + Content = 1 File
• Design Studio for SAP BW
• Data Visualization
• Connect, Visualize, Share
• Trellis Charting
• Publish to HANA
• Publish to Explorer

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• SUP 2.2 & SUP cloud support
• QR Code & Barcode Scan Support
• Android for WebI & Dashboards
• Single Sign-on
• Automatic universe generation
on HANA views
• RESTful Services, SL
Authoring, WebI,
Mobile, Mobile
Dashboards, etc.
• Offline mobile
and desktop
dashboards
• More visualizations
• Simplified deployment
and migration tools
• More Multi-tenancy
features
• RTL in CR, WebI,
Launchpad & Mobile
• Oracle Exadata,
Oracle OLAP, Oracle
Essbase, Hadoop on
Amazon Elastic
MapReduce, Teradata
14, Teradata OLAP,
OData, XML, Web
Services
• Variable Variant
Support (A OLAP,
Design Studio)
• Publishing (A Office)
• Convert analysis to
Mobile (A OLAP, A
Office)
• Combine Universes
with BEx Queries to
abstract the field
names
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
Summary of new features
SAP BusinessObjects 4.1
Summary of new features

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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
One unified and complete BI Suite addressing the full spectrum of BI
Self-Service
 Discover areas to optimize your
business
 Adapt data to business needs
 Tell your story with beautiful
visualizations
Discover. Predict. Create.
Dashboards and apps
 Deliver engaging information to
users where they need it
 Track key performance indicators
and summary data
 Build custom experiences so users
get what they need quickly
Build engaging experiences
Reporting
 Securely distribute information
across your organization
 Give users the ability to ask and
answer their own questions
 Build printable reports for
operational efficiency
Share information

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
Enable business users to quickly access information on their own
Provide business users with a simple experience to independently ask and answer
business questions on the fly
 Quickly and easily explore your data
using search
 Easily visualize your data
 Geographic and Time awareness
 Build simple, interactive “dashboard”
views (Exploration views)
 Mobile ready
Overview

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Predictive Analysis
to gain an extremely deep understanding of your business
Provide Business Analysts with sophisticated algorithms to take the next step in
understanding their business and modeling outcomes.
 Perform statistical analysis on your data
to understand trends and detect outliers
in your business
 Build models and apply to scenarios to
forecast potential future outcomes
 Breadth of connectivity to access almost
any data
 Optimized for SAP HANA to support
huge data volumes and in-memory
processing
Overview

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Information Design Tool
4.x Universe Designer

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Desktop Intelligence Compatibility
Scope
 Consumption of DeskI content in BI 4.1
using DeskI 3.1 client
 SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1
SP6 FP6.1 will provide the DeskI client
the capability to connect to a BI 4.1 CMS
 SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1
EoL timelines are still applicable on
Desktop Intelligence
Key Benefits
 Important and critical DeskI documents
can be stored in BI 4.1
 Customers gain additional time to
convert DeskI documents while on BI
4.1
 Reduced TCO, as customers can retire
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise 3.1
completely

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Desktop Intelligence
SAP Community Network (SCN)
http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-bi-legacy-products/desktop-intelligence

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Desktop Intelligence
Converting Deski to Webi
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41571

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Desktop Intelligence
Report Conversion Paths
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-41571

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Desktop Intelligence
Deski-Webi Feature Comparison
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Conversion+from+Desktop+Intelligence+to+Web+Intelligence

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Esri Mapping Integration for Webi and Dashboards
Galigeo
http://www.galigeo.com/products-overview/location-intelligence-products/sap-business-objects/
http://www.galigeo.com/learning-center/demo/

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Webi Cmaps Integration
Centigon Solutions
http://centigonknowledge.com/tutorial/configuring-cmapsextensionv2//

16. SAP BI Demonstration

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Upgrade Resources
www.sapbusinessobjectsbi.com

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SAP BI Online Tutorials
http://www.sap.com/LearnBI

19. Questions?
David Bargh