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Overview
SAPs Strategic Focus on Business Intelligence
Dashboards
and Apps
Self-service Reporting
* SAP Lumira, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis; SAP Predictive Analysis
Provides the freedom to understand your data, personalize it, and create beautiful content
Overview
Key Benefits
Easy to use and quick to install.
Get real-time answers on any volume of data
Connect, access and visualize data without a single
line of code
Provide business users with a simple experience to independently ask and answer
business questions on the fly
Overview
Quickly and easily explore your data using search
Easily visualize your data
Geographic and Time awareness
Build simple, interactive views (Exploration views)
Mobile ready
Key Benefits
Empower casual users to experience self-serve data
discovery
Discover critical answers over the Web or on device
Improve adoption with intuitive behavior for date, time,
and geographical dimensions
Create user-defined dashboards more easily without
dependency on IT or training
Provide Business Analysts with the ability to analyze OLAP data in both Excel and over the
Web
Overview
Recommended for OLAP analysis scenarios (multi-
dimensional analysis)
Quickly leverage your existing SAP investments with
support for BW and HANA
High productivity for analysts through both Web and
Excel based interfaces
Premium alternative for BEx customers
Key Benefits
Access, slide, and pivot cubes in SAP NetWeaver BW
and SAP HANA
Access non-SAP data in Microsoft Analysis Services
Share analysis workspaces with SAP Crystal Reports
and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Provide Business Analysts with sophisticated algorithms to take the next step in
understanding their business and modeling outcomes.
Overview
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
Key Benefits
Ease of use for the data analyst
Visualizations right where youd expect them.
Integration: ability to share insights with other BI
tools
No need to extract terabytes of data from SAP
HANA to perform predictive analytics
Overview
Modern development environment and HTML5
runtime
Native BW and HANA support
Growing library of controls
Recommended for BW customers (especially those
with BEx WAD investments)
Key Benefits
Develop analytic applications for use on the Web or
mobile devices
Allow users to interact with data easily in highly
customizable interfaces
Fully leverage your existing investments in SAP
NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA
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 enterprise BI infrastructure with support for
the semantic layer
Recommended for use on 3rd party data sources
Key Benefits
Monitor key performance indicators
Perform what-if scenario analysis
Consume dashboards over the Web or embedded in
Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe PDF documents
Use consistent data access with other BI solutions
Take action on the insights in the dashboard
Quickly build ad-hoc queries and reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data
structure
Overview
Key Benefits
Quick, self-service answers to unpredictable questions.
Universe semantic layer makes it easy for business users
to access data.
Secure sharing of interactive reports
Online and offline access
Ability to combine corporate data with local spreadsheets
Overview
Access nearly any data source directly
Build reports that look exactly the way you want
through pixel-perfect positioning, layout and templates
Powerful API to embed reports into applications
Optimized for high-volume reporting and publishing
Key Benefits
Convert data into formatted, easy-to-read reports
Schedule, secure, and share in any format.
Add formatted reporting to custom applications with
modern Web APIs and standards
Take action from within your reports for closed-loop
operational reporting
Analyze
Visualize
Discover
Report
Collaborate Predict
Overview
Make informed decisions with instant access to
personalized information
Ensure secure access to information across a range
of devices
Receive alerts on critical events
Key Benefits
Access SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for both
iPhone and iPad
Analytics and GPS technology via Google Maps
Visual map overlay on point-of-interest data
Data overlay through on-device camera visuals
Mobilize Dashboards (aka Xcelsius and Design Studio
Models) to Mobile Devices
Provides the freedom to understand your data, personalize it, and create beautiful content
Overview
Key Benefits
Easy to use and quick to install.
Get real-time answers on any volume of data
Connect, access and visualize data without a single
line of code
Provide business users with a simple experience to independently ask and answer
business questions on the fly
Overview
Quickly and easily explore your data using search
Easily visualize your data
Geographic and Time awareness
Build simple, interactive views (Exploration views)
Mobile ready
Key Benefits
Empower casual users to experience self-serve data
discovery
Discover critical answers over the Web or on device
Improve adoption with intuitive behavior for date, time,
and geographical dimensions
Create user-defined dashboards more easily without
dependency on IT or training
exist
Provides fast search and exploration
Searches across all data sources
Any universe accessible source
Any Accelerator accessible source
Faceted navigation
Provide Business Analysts with the ability to analyze OLAP data in both Excel and over the
Web
Overview
Recommended for OLAP analysis scenarios (multi-
dimensional analysis)
Quickly leverage your existing SAP investments with
support for BW and HANA
High productivity for analysts through both Web and
Excel based interfaces
Premium alternative for BEx customers
Key Benefits
Access, slide, and pivot cubes in SAP NetWeaver BW
and SAP HANA
Access non-SAP data in Microsoft Analysis Services
Share analysis workspaces with SAP Crystal Reports
and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Pervasive web-
based analysis
Interoperate with
Design Studio, SAP BW, HANA, EPM,
WebI and Crystal Modern look-and-feel with Teradata, ORACLE Essbase,
ORACLE OLAP and Microsoft
Reports intuitive drag-and-drop Analysis Services
Simplified drag-&-
drop to filter, and
slice-&-dice
Provide Business Analysts with sophisticated algorithms to take the next step in
understanding their business and modeling outcomes.
Overview
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
Key Benefits
Ease of use for the data analyst
Visualizations right where youd expect them.
Integration: ability to share insights with other BI
tools
No need to extract terabytes of data from SAP
HANA to perform predictive analytics
Overview
Modern development environment and HTML5
runtime
Native BW and HANA support
Growing library of controls
Recommended for BW customers (especially those
with BEx WAD investments)
Key Benefits
Develop analytic applications for use on the Web or
mobile devices
Allow users to interact with data easily in highly
customizable interfaces
Fully leverage your existing investments in SAP
NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA
Direct Access to BW
and HANA via BICS
Eclipse-based
application design
environment
iPad Apps
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 enterprise BI infrastructure with support for
the semantic layer
Recommended for use on 3rd party data sources
Key Benefits
Monitor key performance indicators
Perform what-if scenario analysis
Consume dashboards over the Web or embedded in
Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe PDF documents
Use consistent data access with other BI solutions
Take action on the insights in the dashboard
Current use of
Current use of
SAP BusinessObjects
Bex Web Application
Dashbords (former
Designer
Xcelsius)
Multi-Source,
SAP BW only
Non-SAP BW
Quickly build ad-hoc queries and reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data
structure
Overview
Key Benefits
Quick, self-service answers to unpredictable questions.
Universe semantic layer makes it easy for business users
to access data.
Secure sharing of interactive reports
Online and offline access
Ability to combine corporate data with local spreadsheets
Provide business users a quick way to understand the data behind simple reports
Enable power users to gain a deep understanding of multiple data sources
Provide Desktop Intelligence users with another superior user experience
Hierarchies displayed in single Dimensional concepts integrated into New formula functions for formatting
column with controls to expand rich reporting model and calculation control over
levels hierarchical data
Overview
Access nearly any data source directly
Build reports that look exactly the way you want
through pixel-perfect positioning, layout and templates
Powerful API to embed reports into applications
Optimized for high-volume reporting and publishing
Key Benefits
Convert data into formatted, easy-to-read reports
Schedule, secure, and share in any format.
Add formatted reporting to custom applications with
modern Web APIs and standards
Take action from within your reports for closed-loop
operational reporting
Overview
Easy-to-use, new design environment for novice and
professional designers
Create simple reports to represent complex data
within a few minutes
Streamlined experience across the suite
Key Benefits
Leverages improve suite wide connection to SAP
NetWeaver BW
Direct connectivity to SAP BEx Queries using the
BICS connectivity
Connectivity to SAP ERP via Universes with Feature
Pack 03
Multi-lingual capabilities via SAP BusinessObjects
Translation Manager
With the release of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0 , there will
be two versions of Crystal Reports available for use with the BI Platform.
Imagine that you work for the FAA and want to track all the flights in the US by
count, hour, busiest airport etc. The dataset that is available to you is from the
year 2011, for Quarter 1
1. Now imagine that youre a business user at the FAA and you have access to
flight and passenger data for the San Francisco Airport available to you in csv
format. You want to analyze on this data and perform self-analysis
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