The document discusses TIBCO Spotfire, an analytics platform. It shows how Spotfire connects various clients to data sources via servers. It provides visualizations, analytic engines, and automation services. Spotfire Application Data Services connects Spotfire to enterprise systems like SAP, Siebel, and Oracle by introspecting their data models and delivering the data using SQL. The rest of the document focuses on how Spotfire connects specifically to SAP Business Warehouse (BW) data, discussing the challenges of differing data structures and query languages between Spotfire and BW, and how Spotfire's adapter generates optimized queries and allows unified access to BW data in Spotfire.

1. TIBCO Spotfire Application Data
Services
TIBCO Spotfire European User
Conference
Paris, 16th and 17th March 2011
Boris Glazman
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Managers, Consumers,
CLIEN
TS
Executives
Spotfire
Web Player
IT / DBA
Spread-sheets
Spotfire
Web Player
Server
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TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform
SERVERS
Spotfire
Enterprise Player
Spotfire
Professional
Zero install web client Visual, Analytic & Dynamic In-Memory Engines
DATA
SOURCES
Spotfire
Automation
Services
Flat
Files
RDBMS XML
Analysts
Independents
Configurators
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
In-Memory Engine
Spotfire Server
Administration & Integration
In-Memory Engine

3. TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform
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CLIEN
TS
Spotfire
Web Player
IT / DBA
Spread-sheets
Spotfire
Web Player
Server
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SERVERS
Spotfire
Enterprise Player
Spotfire
Professional
Zero install web client Visual, Analytic & Dynamic In-Memory Engines
DATA
SOURCES
Spotfire
Automation
Services
Flat
Files
RDBMS XML
Informaticians
Statisticians
Spotfire S+
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Analysts
Independents
Configurators
Analysts
Informaticians
Statisticians
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Spotfire Miner
In-Memory Engine
Spotfire Server
Administration & Integration
Spotfire Statistics
Services
Computation Engine
In-Memory Engine
SDKs

4. TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform
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CLIEN
TS
Spotfire
Web Player
Spotfire
Web Player
Server
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SERVERS
Spotfire
Enterprise Player
Spotfire
Professional
Zero install web client Visual, Analytic & Dynamic In-Memory Engines
DATA
SOURCES
Spotfire
Automation
Services
RDBMS XML
Spotfire
Developer
IT / DBA
Development,
Solutions,
Integration
Flat
Files
Spread-sheets
Informaticians
Statisticians
Spotfire S+
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Analysts
Independents
Configurators
Analysts
Informaticians
Statisticians
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Spotfire Miner
In-Memory Engine
Spotfire Server
Administration & Integration
Spotfire Statistics
Services
Computation Engine
In-Memory Engine
SDKs

5. TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform
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CLIEN
TS
Spotfire
Web Player
Spotfire
Web Player
Server
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SERVERS
Spotfire
Enterprise Player
Spotfire
Professional
Zero install web client Visual, Analytic & Dynamic In-Memory Engines
DATA
SOURCES
Spotfire
Automation
Services
RDBMS XML
Spotfire
Developer
IT / DBA
Development,
Solutions,
Integration
Flat
Files
Spread-sheets
Informaticians
Statisticians
Spotfire S+
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Analysts
Independents
Configurators
Analysts
Informaticians
Statisticians
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Spotfire Miner
In-Memory Engine
Spotfire Server
Administration & Integration
(OA) Event
Processing
Services
Real-Time Connectivity
Spotfire Statistics
Services
Computation Engine
Event Data
Streams
In-Memory Engine
SDKs

6. TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Platform
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CLIEN
TS
Spotfire
Web Player
Spotfire
Web Player
Server
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SERVERS
Spotfire
Enterprise Player
Spotfire
Professional
Zero install web client Visual, Analytic & Dynamic In-Memory Engines
DATA
SOURCES
Spotfire
Automation
Services
RDBMS XML
Spotfire
Developer
IT / DBA
Development,
Solutions,
Integration
Flat
Files
(OA) Event
Processing
Services
Web
Services
Spread-sheets
Informaticians
Statisticians
Spotfire S+
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Analysts
Independents
Configurators
Analysts
Informaticians
Statisticians
Spotfire Server
Spotfire
Application Data
Services
SAP R/3
Managers, Consumers,
Executives
Spotfire Miner
In-Memory Engine
Administration & Integration
App Data Connectivity
Real-Time Connectivity
Spotfire Statistics
Services
Computation Engine
Oracle
E-Business Siebel
eBusiness
Event Data
Streams
In-Memory Engine
SDKs

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Spotfire Data Services
Data via http
Relational Views via JDBC
Relational
Databases
Enterprise Data
Warehouse
Spotfire Application Data Services
Web
Services
SAP ERP Salesforce.com Siebel Oracle
eBusiness
SAP
BW
OLEDB

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TIBCO Spotfire Application Data Services
 Eliminates the need to pre-build a data warehouse or
mart for CRM and ERP systems
 Offloads queries against mission critical transaction
systems to “just in time” caching layer
 Introspects data models from packaged, API-based
applications and delivers it as standards-based SQL to
Spotfire Information Services
 Accelerates data modeling with a pre-built set of the
most common data views for each application
 Transforms the data into the form required by Spotfire
with a complete set of powerful and flexible tools
 Speeds up data access from slow data sources by
taking advantage of the optional caching layer

9. TIBCO Spotfire SAP connectivity
TIBCO Spotfire European User
Conference
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SAP BW Data Access Challenges
 Data Structure mis-match
 “How do I represent n-dimensional SAP BW data in a 2-
dimensional reporting form?”
 Data retrieval language mis-match
 “How do I query with SQL when BW requires MDX?”
 MDX is painful
 80% know SQL; 20% know MDX
 Complex; Hard to write
 “My MDX is different from yours” (SAP vs. Oracle)
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Composite SAP BW Adapter – At a Glance
 SQL to MDX conversion engine with a friendly face
 Generates optimized MDX for faster execution
 SAP NetWeaver Certified Integration
 Retrieves information from SAP BW
 Supported Versions : SAP BW 3.5 / SAP BI 7.0
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Key Features (1of 3)
 Supported Data Targets
 Info Cubes
 Info Providers
 Multi Providers
 BEx Queries (Query Cubes)
 Operational Data Store (ODS)
 Data Service Objects (DSO)
 Zero footprint Server
 No need to install any custom components on the BW Server
 Supports SAP BW Security Model
 By using OLAP BAPIs, Composite BW Adapter natively supports
BW Security Model

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Key Features (2 of 3)
 Superior user friendliness / ease of use
 BEx like UI
 Displays user friendly name instead of complex technical
names
 Unlock the SAP BW cubes model
 Displays entire hierarchy

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Key Features (3 of 3)
 Supports BI Accelerator (BIA)
 BI Accelerator improves query performance
 Federation with non-SAP sources
 BW data can be combined with other relational, flat-files and
create federated sources