SAP BusinessObjects BI Clients

April 2015

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BI Use Cases
High Level View

Agility

Data Discovery
Analyze and visualize data from multiple sources
Data analysis and visualization in Microsoft Excel
Self Service exploration and analysis of corporate data

Dashboards and Apps

Interoperability
Sharing

Self service composable dashboards

Interactive BI applications with a highly visual, interactive user experience

Security

Interactive, professionally authored dashboards for executive consumption

Scalability

Reporting
Self service query and reporting

Standards

Publish reports to a dynamic list of recipients

Highly formatted reports like invoices, purchase orders

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SAP Analytics Solutions

Optimized for Different Use Cases, Yet Interoperable
Professionally Authored
Where there is a significant complexity to the BI content
Standardized formats, sophisticated design, complex data mashups, or high levels of governance.
Separates the creation environment from the consumption environment.

Interoperability

Professionally Authored

Agile
DataVisualization

Dashboards
and Apps

Discovery

Reporting

Interoperability

Self Service
Self Service

Not a product, but a way of working with software

Business user, analyst, or executive answering their own questions
Mobile or web based self service
Combines the creation and consumption environment into a single seamless experience

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Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Mashup, Explore, and Analyze
Agility for business analysts and users

Portfolio

Access, cleanse, and combine data from multiple sources

SAP Lumira

Discover patterns, trends and outliers

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

Tell your story with visualizations and analytics

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Answer any business question from a browser or mobile device

Optionally provide a layer of security and governance for added trust

*SAP Predictive Analysis details are part of Advanced Analytics

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Data Discovery by Persona

Decision Maker

Analyst

More Capability
SAP Lumira

Data acquisition and mashups from multiple heterogeneous sources

Supports Universe semantic layer and SAP Business Suite
Data preparation and manipulation cleansing and grouping.
Data exploration, rich visualizations, storytelling, infographics
Desktop, Web, Cloud, and mobile deployments

Analysis for Office

Data acquisition from HANA and BW

Data mashups via BW Workspaces (requires BW 7.3+ on HANA)
Excel based visualizations
Rich hierarchical data functionality. Full access to all BW metadata.
Excel and PowerPoint Add in

Analysis for OLAP

Data acquisition from HANA, BW, MS Analysis Services, Oracle OLAP, Essbase
Rich hierarchical data functionality
Web based deployment

Explorer

Simple, consistent UI
Enables broad based data access with little training
Exploration views enables self-service dashboards
Web and mobile deployments

Easier to Adopt
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Data Discovery Solutions Data Access Matrix

As of Lumira 1.23, Analysis OLAP in BI 4.1, Analysis Office 2.0, Explorer in BI 4.1
BW Access
Data
Preparation

Universe
Access

Mashup
Flattened BW
Data with
Other Data

Access
Flattened
BW Data

Access BW
Data
Hierarchically

SAP
Lumira

Desktop

SAP
Lumira
Server

Browser

Analysis
OLAP

Browser

Analysis
Office

Excel and
PowerPoint
Addin

Explorer

Browser via
Flash

Mashup
Hierarchical BW
Data using BW
Workspaces

SAP
HANA

Essbase,
MS Analysis
Services,
Oracle OLAP

View only

For additional details and limitations on BW data access by client,

see https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1869560
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Analyze and Visualize Data from Multiple Sources

SAP Lumira, Desktop edition
Accelerate your analysis by visualizing all your data to tell a compelling story

Overview
Download and install on your desktop in less than 5
minutes
Access data, combine it with other datasets, cleanse and
enrich the data.
Create visualizations from the standard graphs, or use the
D3 engine to invent new visualizations
Combine visualizations into simple dashboards or
infographics
Share with others in your team or organization
When combined with the BI Platform, secure specific data
sources to certain individuals for Trusted Data Discovery.

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Analyze and Visualize Data from Multiple Sources

SAP Lumira Server
Share, secure, and modify Lumira visualizations and stories.
Applies to Lumira Server for BI Platform, Lumira Server for HANA, and Lumira Server for Teams

Overview
Browser based access to existing Lumira visualizations
and storyboards.
Create new visualizations and storyboards from existing
Lumira data.
Supports any deployment model:
n

SAP HANA deployments

Integrated into SAP BuisnessObjects BI Platform

Standalone, unintegrated with SAP HANA or the BI Platform

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Data Analysis and Visualization in Microsoft Office

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office
Enable Business Analysts to analyze multidimensional BW and HANA data in Excel and PowerPoint

Overview
For multi-dimensional analysis scenarios
Leverage your existing OLAP investments with
support for BW, HANA
Integrates with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Create compelling Excel based analytic applications
Create data sandboxes when used with BW
Workspaces
Instantly create Design Studio applications for broad
distribution
Premium alternative for BEx Analyzer customers

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Explore and Analyze Corporate Data

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP
Enable Business Analysts to analyze and visualize OLAP data over the web

Overview
For multi-dimensional analysis scenarios
Leverage your existing OLAP investments with
support for BW, HANA, Essbase, Analysis Services,
and other OLAP sources
Fast to rollout with browser based interface
Instantly create Design Studio applications for broad
distribution
Premium alternative for Bex Analyzer customers

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Explore and Analyze Corporate Data

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
Provide business users with a simple experience to ask and answer business questions on the fly

Overview

Little to no end user training

Easy to setup nothing to author other than a thin

semantic layer

Quickly and easily explore your data using search

Easily visualize your data

Geographic and Time awareness

Build simple, interactive views (Exploration views)

Mobile ready

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Dashboards and Analytic Apps

Dashboards and Analytic Applications

Build Engaging Experiences
Build engaging, visual dashboards and analytic applications

Portfolio

Build interactive and visually appealing analytics

SAP Design Studio

Have IT author the application, or empower the business to compose

their own dashboards from prebuilt components

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

for building analytic applications on Universes, BW and HANA
Build Analytic Applications, professionally authored dashboards, planning applications, and self-service composable
dashboards

Overview
Supports Universe data sources, BW, and HANA
Empower end users to compose their own dashboards
Create input-enabled planning applications against BWIP or the BPC Embedded model
Native support for virtually all BW metadata types
Deploy Design Studio dashboards to all 3 platforms: BI
Platform, BW, and HANA

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Enable End Users To Create Their Own Composite Dashboards

SAP Design Studio

Application designers determine the degree of

re-use of individual components
Users are empowered to create and recreate
their own composable dashboards
Agility benefit: End users can quickly create the
dashboard layout they want.
Governance benefit: IT provides reusable,
trusted dashboard components.
Smart Object Gallery

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Build Interactive Dashboards and Analytic Applications

SAP Design Studio

When used with the BPC Embedded

Model, Design Studio can be used to
build comprehensive input-ready
planning applications
Individual values can be locked while
building a plan for other values.

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

for building custom dashboards on any data
Provides a rich set of visualizations and controls to build highly interactive dashboards on third-party data sources

Overview
Build rich, interactive dashboards and visualizations
Broad visualization library to support KPIs and
executive dashboards
Leverage Universe semantic layer
Recommended for use on 3rd party data sources

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Guidance for Dashboard Projects

Customers using SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP HANA as a data source should adopt SAP Design
Studio as their primary tool for creating dashboards and applications, for both Web and mobile
deployment.
Existing customers of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards should continue with Dashboards and
leverage the HTML5 functionality for mobile dashboards.
Customers starting a new project on any data source should strongly consider building new
dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio.
See SAPs analytics blog for more detail on our dashboarding strategy and direction

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Reporting

Reporting
Create, Format, and Distribute Information
High productivity design for report designers

Portfolio

Quickly build formatted reports on any data source

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Securely distribute reports both internally and externally

SAP Crystal Reports

Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users to easily create

and modify their own reports
Enhance custom applications with embedded reports

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

for self-service query and reporting
Quickly build ad-hoc queries and reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data structure

Overview
Market leading solution to enable business
users to create and modify their own reports.
Support for the multi-source Universe
semantic layer brings together different
sources of information without having to
know the DB structure or SQL
Content accessible from anywhere: Mobile,
Web, Desktop

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SAP Crystal Reports

for formatted reports
Build pixel-perfect formatted reports for printing and operational reporting

Overview
Access nearly any data source directly or
via the Universe semantic layer
Create invoices, purchase orders, receipts
Create data-driven publications to burst
personalized report books to internal and
external users
Content accessible from anywhere:
Mobile, Web, Desktop
Embeddable into custom applications

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Landscape Guidance

SAP Analytics Solutions

For Specific Personas

Designer

Reporting

Dashboards and
Apps

Reporting

Analyst

Data Discovery

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SAP Analytics Solutions

For Third Party Data Sources

Design Studio
Dashboards

Crystal Reports
Web Intelligence

Designer

Professionally Authored

Reporting

Analyst

Data Discovery

Dashboards and
Apps

Reporting

Self Service
Lumira
Analysis for OLAP
Explorer

Lumira1
Explorer2

1)
2)

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Web Intelligence

Lumira Edge, Lumira Server or Lumira Cloud

Exploration Views
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SAP Analytics Solutions

For SAP BW

Design Studio

Crystal Reports
Web Intelligence

Designer

Professionally Authored

Reporting

Analyst

Data Discovery

Dashboards and
Apps

Reporting

Self Service
Lumira
Analysis Office
Analysis for OLAP
Explorer

Lumira1
Explorer2

1)
2)

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Web Intelligence

Lumira Edge, Lumira Server or Lumira Cloud

Exploration Views
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SAP Analytics Solutions

For SAP Business Suite and SAP HANA Integration

Design Studio

Crystal Reports
Web Intelligence

Designer

Professionally Authored

Reporting

Analyst

Data Discovery

Dashboards and
Apps

Reporting

Self Service
Lumira
Analysis Office
Analysis for OLAP
Explorer2

Lumira1
Explorer2

1)
2)

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Web Intelligence

Lumira Edge, Lumira Server or Lumira Cloud

Best used with SAP HANA. Not recommended for integration with non-accelerated SAP Business Suite.
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Interoperability

Overview of Interoperability in the BI Suite

The Importance of Interoperability
It enables a persona switch insights created by analysts can be broadly distributed in reports,
dashboards, and analytic applications
It creates leverage analysis clients are often too complex for casual users. However t
There are 4 Primary Ways of Creating Interoperability In the BI Suite
Direct Export from Analysis Office, Analysis OLAP to Design Studio
Interoperability using Analysis Views
Integration using OpenDoc formatted hyperlinks
Using the Report to Report Interface to integrate with SAP applications

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Interoperability in the BI Suite

Direct Export from Analysis Office, Analysis OLAP to Design Studio

Analysis Office Workbooks and Analysis OLAP Workspaces can be exported to equivalent
Design Studio applications.
These are automatically generated applications which can be further edited by a designer for
broad deployment.
This technique allows the insights of a few analysts to be broadly shared and secured.

Analysis OLAP to
Design Studio

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Interoperability in the BI Suite

Analysis Views
Analysis Views are saved navigation states of analyses, including filters, hierarchies, and available metadata.
It represents the data definition, not how it is visualized.
1.
2.

Create an Analysis View in Analysis OLAP or Office

Open an Analysis View in Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Analysis OLAP, Analysis Office

Data
Discovery
Create
and Open
Analysis
View

Dashboards
and Apps

Reporting

Analysis OLAP

Crystal Reports

Analysis Office

Web Intelligence

Open Analysis Views in Crystal Reports & Web

Intelligence
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Interoperability in the BI Suite

OpenDocument links

OpenDocument formatted links pass context as parameters to other BI Platform documents:

Enables drilling down from summary level dashboards to report level detail

Or drill-across from one dashboard to another

Any BI Platform document can be a source and target for an OpenDocument link

Drill down to a
report

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Interoperability in the BI Suite

Taking Action on Insights

The report says that inventory is low.. Now what?

Use the Report to Report Interface to jump directly
to a SAP transaction to order new inventory.
Other jump destinations include:
SAP Queries
Transactions
Reports
Applications
Web Addresses

Jump to a SAP
transaction

The target action can be parameterized using the

cell youre jumping from to maintain context

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Resources

Key Links

sapbusinessobjectsbi.com
Getting started with SAP BI
sap.com/upgradebi
sap.com/learnbi
sap.com/bivirtualization
sap.com/bisizing
service.sap.com/roadmap
Replay of the SAP BusinessObjects Client Convergence Webcast
SAP BusinessObjects BI Support Matrix for SAP BW
SAPs Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI
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