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Next Generation Business Intelligence BI Platform Road Map BI Accelerator Q&A

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SAP NetWeaver & Business Suite Limited Business Intelligence SAP NetWeaver / SAP Business Suite
Departmental Departmental BI Projects BI Projects
Composition Visual Framework Composer
Front End Back End Platform

SAP Portal Task Workers FIN Analysts

Analysts Analysts Power Users Power Users

SAPBEx BI Tools

SAP ERP
Financials Operations Human Resources Corporate Services

Limited BI Tools Limited BI Tools

In-Memory BI Acceleration Accelerator

MDM

Data Warehouse

CRM SRM

SCM PLM
SAP Data SAP Data

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Business Objects Next Generation Business Intelligence SAP NetWeaver + Business Intelligence Platform
Front End Platform Front End Back End Platform Front End Platform Back End Platform
BOBJ SAP

Any Portal Visual Composer SAP PortalBusiness Intelligence Platform Task Workers FIN Enterprise Analysts Reporting Ad-hoc Query & Analysis Dashboards

BEx

SAP ERP

BI Accelerator

MDM

Financials Operations Human Resources Corporate Services

Data Warehouse

CRM SRM

SCM PLM

Business Objects Next Generation Business Intelligence SAP NetWeaver + Business Intelligence Platform
SAP Portal Visual Composer Any Portal
BOBJ SAP

Business Intelligence Platform

Task Workers Crystal Enterprise Reports Reporting Webi Ad-hoc Query & Voyager Analysis Xcelsius Dashboards

SAP ERP BI Accelerator

MDM

Financials Operations Human Resources Corporate Services

Data Warehouse
Data Integrator Open ETL
Data Quality
Unstructured Data Cloud Data

CRM SRM

SCM PLM

Business Applications & Structured Data

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Business Objects Next Generation Business Intelligence SAP NetWeaver + Business Intelligence Platform
SAP Portal Visual Composer Any Portal

Accessible Accessible Anywhere Anywhere All People All People Full Reporting Full Reporting Suite Suite Scalable Scalable BI Platform BI Platform

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Front End Platform Back End Platform

Business Intelligence Platform

Task Workers Crystal Enterprise Reports Reporting Webi Ad-hoc Query & Voyager Analysis Xcelsius Dashboards

SAP ERP BI Accelerator

MDM

Financials Operations Human Resources Corporate Services

Data Warehouse
Data Integrator Open ETL
Data Quality
Unstructured Data Cloud Data

CRM SRM

SCM PLM
Data Data Accuracy Accuracy All All Data Data

Business Applications & Structured Data

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Joint Roadmap for BI Tools Enterprise Reporting

Enterprise class formatted reporting

Existing solutions PREMIUM

2008

2009

2010

Enterprise Reporting

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports Trial BASE BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer 7.1

Crystal Reports Trial BEx Report Designer 7.1

Crystal Reports Light BEx Report Designer 7.1

Key Points
For BI Tools, the strategic focus going forward and the key investments will go towards the premium offerings based on todays Business Objects product portfolio. BEx Report Designer 7.1, (last release in 2008) will be available under maximum maintenance until 2016 and will be Business Objects replaced with the Crystal Light product.
SAP

Joint Roadmap for BI Tools Ad-hoc Query and Reporting

Ad-hoc Query and Reporting via the Web

Existing solutions PREMIUM

2008

2009

2010

Ad-hoc Query and Reporting

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

Key Points BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is the flagship product for ad-hoc web-based query creation and reporting for the casual end user.
Business Objects SAP

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Joint Roadmap for BI Tools OLAP Analysis

Interactive OLAP Analysis

Existing solutions PREMIUM

2008 Voyager

2009

2010

OLAP Analysis

Voyager

Pioneer
BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

Pioneer
BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

BASE

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

Key Points Web Intelligence will compliment Voyager by offering ad-hoc web-based query creation and reporting for the casual end user. Pioneer (code name for 2009 release) provides a superset of capabilities from BEx Analyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer (Web), and Business Objects Voyager. Business Objects Voyager customers migrate to Pioneer. BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzer customers migrate to Pioneer.
SAP

Joint Roadmap for BI Tools Dashboards

Interactive Dashboards and Data Visualization

Existing solutions PREMIUM

2008

2009

2010

Dashboards

Xcelsius

Xcelsius

Xcelsius+

Xcelsius+

BASE

Web Application Designer

Web Application Designer

Web Application Designer

Web Application Designer

Key Points Xcelsius+, a future release of Xcelsius, will become the flagship product for data visualization and dash-boarding. BEx Web Application Designer will not be enhanced further beyond Release NW 7.1 in 2008. Composition Environment including Visual Composer continues to be the go-to product for creating composite applications.
Business Objects SAP

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Joint Roadmap for Data Quality and MDM Strategic Focus on Premium Offering
Existing solutions 2008 2009 2010

PREMIUM

Data Quality Master Data Management

Data Quality

Data Quality

Data Quality

Data Quality

Master Data Management

Master Data Management

Master Data Management

Master Data Management+

Key Points SAP NetWeaver MDM will be able to consume content from BusinessObjects Data Quality (DQ) in 2008 through data cleansing and de-duplication before load into master data repository By 2010 SAP will deliver tight integration of DQ with an enhanced version of Master Data Management DQ and MDM will also continue to be available as a standalone offering

Business Objects SAP

SAP NetWeaver BI Roadmap for BI Accelerator

High Performance BI

Existing Solution SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator PREMIUM

Accelerator for InfoCube Read Times Low Cost of Operations High Availability / Backup & Recovery

2008
Analytic Capabilities (e.g. top n) DataStore Object Acceleration Optimized BusinessObjects Webl integration on top of SAP NetWeaver BI/BIA

2009/2010
BusinessObjects Polestar integration: Self-Service BI based on search paradigm Standalone BIA for source-independent acceleration through Business Objects Universes Agile BI: Local and source-independent innovation space for departments

Key Points Turn-key solution for BI performance Breaking down the barrier between structural flexibility and performance Commodity hardware based appliance

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SAP NetWeaver BI - Roadmap for Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW)

Analysis Processes

Trusted Information
Analytical Layer Fast & Agile

EIM Infrastructure

Existing Solution
BusinessObjects Data Integrator for 3rd Party application access (e.g. Oracle) BusinessObjects Data Quality for 3rd party access Integration with BusinessObjects Data Integrator for access to new data sources

2008

2009/2010
Integrations: BusinessObjects Data Quality SAP NetWeaver BI staging BusinessObjects Data Services Open Hub framework BusinessObjects Metadata Manager SAP NetWeaver BI Meta Data Repository Semantic partitioning

PREMIUM

SAP NetWeaver BI Enterprise Data Warehouse

SAP NetWeaver BI for best-in-class data warehousing Connectivity to SAP Sources

BASE

HybridProvider Operational InfoProvider

Key Points
Managing the value chain from raw data to information through the data warehouse Enabling Business Intelligence through the analytic datamart layer Trusted information through integration of BusinessObjects Data Services and SAP NetWeaver BI

SAP NetWeaver Roadmap for BI in Visual Composer

Combine analytical and operational data from SAP and non-SAP data sources with transactional services
2007 SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer PREMIUM
First Set of Embedded BI functionality Easy access from VC to NetWeaver BI Loose coupling of BEx Web & Visual Composer models

2008
SAP List viewer as VC BI control Access to selected 3rd Party relational and multidimensional sources Support of Planning functions in VC

2009/2010
Supports jumps from VC models to Pioneer analyses, Xcelsius dashboards and Crystal Reports Native WD4VC Analysis control in VC Runtime Authorization & Personalization

Key Points Embed BI into edge processes Extend BI data to a larger user community Holistic view on business information in a given context

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SAP NetWeaver and Business Objects BIP Roadmap - Strategic Focus on Premium Offering
Existing solutions
PREMIUM

2008

2009

2010

Enterprise Reporting

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Trial

Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Base

BEx Report Designer 7.1

BASE

BEx Report Designer Ad-hoc Query & Reporting OLAP Analysis Web Intelligence Voyager BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel) Dashboards

BEx Report Designer 7.1 Web Intelligence Voyager BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

BEx Report Designer 7.1

PREMIUM

Web Intelligence Pioneer

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

Web Intelligence Pioneer

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

BASE PREMIUM

BASE

Xcelsius
Web Application Designer

Xcelsius
Web Application Designer

Xcelsius+
Web Application Designer

Xcelsius+
Web Application Designer

Data Quality & Master Data Management

Data Quality

Data Quality

Data Quality

Data Quality Master Data Management+

Master Data Management

Master Data Management

Master Data Management

Products not explicitly mentioned here continue on their existing roadmap. Examples (not a complete list) are SAP NetWeaver BI (EDW), SAP NetWeaver BIA, SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment & VC, BusinessObjects Rapid Marts, etc.
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Business Objects SAP

Customer Recommendations

SAP NetWeaver BI Customer

Continue with DWH, extend with BIA and premium packages

SAP Customer w/o NetWeaver BI

Implement SAP NW Data warehouse and BIA, plus premium packages

Business Objects Customer / Non-SAP Customer

Implement Business Objects BI Platform Evaluate need for SAP NetWeaver BIA and Data Warehouse

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Business Objects and SAP NetWeaver A Perfect Match User-Centricity

Business User

SAP NetWeaver BI Business ready Business Objects Information Discovery & Delivery Integrated Best for SAP

Task Workers

SAP NW BI Accelerator Business Objects EIM

Extended Value with Business Objects BIP All people

SAP NetWeaver BI incl. Data Warehouse

IT Analysts SAP-Only

All information One intelligence platform

Openness
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MDM

Source Agnostic

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SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Value Proposition

Very fast query response time Performance improvements by factor 10 100

Increased quality of information/ Extended BI reach

Stable query response time Independent of DB optimizer, aggregates, ...

SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator

Implemented for latest blade server hardware platforms High scalability No aggregate maintenance, minimized roll-up/change run Low maintenance

Significant reduction of operation costs

SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Scenarios

Save time to build and maintain aggregates Take load off BI hardware Cost of Operation IT Performance / Scalability Ready for high data volumes (retail, utilities, banking etc.) Challenging response time SLA Ad-Hoc reporting Scalable blade server platform Time for Development No need to take care of performance aspects Faster development Faster BI Upgrade Processes Extremely shortened roll-up and change run times Opportunity for more frequent data alignments Compression not always needed

Business New Business Scenarios Get more detailed insight in your business
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Data Latency

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SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Appliance

BIA appliance by IBM BIA appliance by HP

CPUs by Intel

BIA appliance by SUN BIA appliance by Fujitsu Siemens

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BI Accelerator Pulse Check

On site BI system analysis & BI Accelerator readiness Checks.
BI Data model analysis. BI Query Performance Analysis. BI Key Strategic Queries Deep Analysis.

Agenda Introduction to SAP BI Accelerator Presentation 45 Minutes BI System Analysis 4 Hours

Eligibility SAP BI 3.x, 7.0 Customers

Duration 1 Day
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