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SHERRYANNE MEYER[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER MEMBER SINCE: 2000
ANUP MAHESHWARI[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER MEMBER SINCE: 2008
AJAY VONKARERY[ASUG INSTALLATION MEMBER MEMBER SINCE: 1999
The Complete Guide to Reporting Tools Available in SAP NetWeaver and the SAP
BusinessObjects Portfolio
Bjarne BergDirector SAP BI
Comerit Inc.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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This is a comprehensive guide to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence presentation tools
We will take an overview tour of the Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC), Web Application Designer (WAD), Report Designer, Web publishing, Java Server pages (JSP) and the new SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer.
We will look at the strengths and limitations of each tool and see how they can be used independently or collectively in a SAP BI environment.
Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAP NetWeaver BI tools to make your system more flexible and adaptive to the needs of end users.
Learning Points
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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The SAP BI Core Toolset
SAP BI is an enterprise-wide comprehensive decision support (DSS) system for analytical needs of an enterprise.
BI can also support some degree of operational reporting
The SAP BI tool set has many presentation tools and options for companies to leverage.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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The BEx Query Designer in BW 3.5
The BEx query designer is a simple tool that you use to develop queries for users.
While the Query Designer defined the query, you have many options on how you deploy the queries
You can deploy the queries through web templates, broadcasted emails, portals, Excel and more.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BEx Query Designer gets a ‘facelift’ in BI 7.x
The 3.5x BEx Query Designer
The NWBI 7.0 BEx Query Designer
The new 7.x Query designer was totally re-developed in MS-Visual Basic .NET
This new property pane makes it easier to format and control displays than in the past.
BEx Ad-Hoc Query Designer functionality is replaced by BEx Web Analyzer in BI 7.0
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BEx – Analyzer (Excel Workbooks)
1. BEx Workbooks is Excel 'on steroids'.
2. BW queries can be opened in Excel
3. Queries can be refreshed and standard Excel functions can be used
This is a great tool for financial analysts and power users.
To use this tool you need BEx installed
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BEx web Analyzer integrates Excel
The Excel integration in the BEx analyzer is far better.
Unlike the old days of dynamic HTML, you can now use the BEx analyzer more like a real application without refreshing the whole page every time you click on something (this is due to the Java component in BI 7.0)
Source: SAP AG, 2008
Important: BEx browser goes away in SAP BI 7.0 (so does BEx Download Scheduler)
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BEx – Analyzer Design Mode
1. Application building in Excel (similar to WAD)
2. New options for queries with two structures
3. Excel formulas allow access to any cell of the result set
4. Excel formatting options can be fully leveraged for BEx workbooks (e.g., blank lines, fonts, etc.)
5. Combining Excel formulas and Excel formatting allows the design of complex formatted workbooks
6. Integration of Business Planning is available
To use this tool you need BEx installed
Source: SAP, Zane Connally 2008
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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APD – Analysis Process Designer and data mining SAP BW Analysis Process Designer (APD) is for Knowledge
discovery and exploration of large sets of data.
APD has been available in BW since version 3.0 and can be used to do complex analysis without having to restructure the data and create hundreds of specialized data marts.
You can read from a variety of sources such as Flat files Database tables Data Store Objects (new name for ODS) Infocubes BW queries
Image: SAP, UK
Since BW 3.5, APD has been integrated with the Data Mining Workbench. You can access it though the transaction code “RSDMWB”
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Creating new data inside SAP BIIn Data warehousing v2.0 (Bill Immon’s new terminology), we are using BI applications to create new data that needs to be fed to the data warehouse, and /or the transactional system
Tools are now available to build association data sets that creates updates based on BI findings (i.e. customer segmentation, risk, profitability flagging etc).
Images: Bhanu Gupta, ASUG 2005 Illinois chapter
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Complex scenarios can be built for structured analysis such as risk modeling, customer segmentation, market basket analysis, predictive modeling and much more
Image: SAPImage: SAP
APD – Analysis Process Designer and data mining
“New data” based on the findings can be loaded back into data targets and used by others for reporting i.e. CRM analysis.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD) SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Visual ComposerA Visual Composer is a tool to visualize the data. It is a browser-based
modeling and design tool for rapid application development & prototyping in a code-free development environment.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Visual Composer for Complex cockpits
Modeling of BI applications using the BI kit of the Visual Composer allows business users to create analytical content for SAP portal. It offers the integration with BI infoproviders, views, BEx web applications, PDF and more via WEB API as access to other data sources such as OLAP and relational data sources) via Java connectors
Image source: Cubeserv
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Details about Visual Composer Cockpits
Delivered as part of Enterprise Portal in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 Usage Type (SPS8 and higher)
Different options available for rendering Visual Composer outputFlashWeb Dynpro (HTML)
Flash provides high-end visualization of Visual Composer models
Since a cockpit may have many different sources (queries), it can take quite some time to execute them if the memory cache is not used consistently
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Visual Composer Data Methods
Can integrate data from multiple data sources, including SAP and non-SAP systems, into one model
Different options available for data access include: BI Extension Kit Remote Function Call (RFC) Web services
BI Extension Kit allows access to the following DataSources SAP NetWeaver 2004 BI
(BW 3.5 Support Package 14) SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 JDBC XMLA
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Visual Composer DataProviders
You can use BI queries and views as DataProviders for Visual Composer models
You also can use BI query functionalities for exceptions and variables along with Visual Composer models
Visual Composer allows access to BI history, favorites, and roles
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Visual Composer is Easy for Power Users to Learn
Visual Composer is a power user tool that is simple to learn for someone with a little bit of technical background (i.e. controllers, report writers, analysts).
Source: SAP
Take advantage of prebuilt analytic business packages
No coding required to create great-looking Web-based cockpits
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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The future of Visual Composer
Composition Environment including Visual Composer “continues to be the go-to product for creating composite applications” (SAP, 2008)
Source: SAP, July 2008
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution
SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BEx Web Application Designer (WAD)
OLAP ProcessorOLAP Processor
BEx Web Application DesignerBEx Analyzer/Query Designer
Web ServiceWeb Service
Charting EngineCharting Engine
Web Browser
HTLM Templates InfoProvider
WAD is an intuitive tool to build powerful web applications and to interact with portals and custom templates.
BW queries can be manipulated in WAD for better display
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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New Features of SAP NetWeaver SAP BI 7.0 Web ADWeb Items: Tab Pages, Button, Script Item (in SAP BI 7.0 Support Package Stack 7)
Drag and drop using Analysis itemNew chart types (heat map, Gantt, milestone trend analysis)
Export BI Web applications in PDF formatCommand Wizard for generating Web API commands Integration with SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 BEx Report Designer for formatted reportsNEW: User can change the XHTML source code of any web template either directly, or the ABAP program RS_TEMPLATE_MAINTAIN_70, or in any external XHTML editor.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Command Wizard and JavaScript You can use Command Wizard for generating
JavaScript code for the Script Item to use in custom cockpit applications
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Source: SAP 20009
Product Directions for BI Solutions
SAP BEx AnalyzerSAP BEx Analyzer VoyagerVoyager
Web App DesignerWeb App Designer
PredictivePredictive
Report DesignerReport Designer
Web IntelligenceWeb Intelligence
Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports
XcelsiusXcelsius
BI WidgetsBI Widgets
Web ServicesWeb Services
And Much More…
PolestarPolestar
Mobile BIMobile BI
Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform
AdvancedAnalysis
EnterpriseReporting
Dashboards,Visualization
Ad-hocQuery &Reporting
BusinessObjects EnterpriseBusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWASAP NetWeaver BW and BWA
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Source: SAP 20009
Product Directions for BI Solutions
SAP BEx AnalyzerSAP BEx Analyzer VoyagerVoyager
Web App DesignerWeb App Designer
PredictivePredictive
Report DesignerReport Designer
Web IntelligenceWeb Intelligence
Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports
XcelsiusXcelsius
BI WidgetsBI Widgets
Web ServicesWeb Services
And Much More…
PolestarPolestar
Mobile BIMobile BI
Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform
AdvancedAnalysis
EnterpriseReporting
Dashboards,Visualization
Ad-hocQuery &Reporting
BusinessObjects EnterpriseBusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWASAP NetWeaver BW and BWA
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BI Web Application Designer Roadmap
InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal
SAP BOE Platform
SAP NW BW
BEx Web Templates
Pioneer Web Server
WorkspacePIO Web Tab
BEx Web Tab
…
BI Consumer Services
BEx Queries/ InfoProviders
Pioneer Web Client
BEx Web App Designer
SAP BOE Platform
Pioneer Web Server
WorkspacePIO Web Tab
BEx Web Tab
…
BI Consumer Services
Pioneer Web Client
Pioneer Designer/ SDK
SAP NW BW
BEx Web Templates
BEx Queries/ InfoProviders
BEx Web App Designer
Migration options via Pioneer SDK
InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal
planned 2010 future
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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The BEx Report Designer
This new tool was created to simplify the formatting of reports and fix many of the printing issues in previous versions of BW.
Source: SAP AG
We now get color control, header-footer control and many new features such as location control of cells and integration of pictures, charts and fixed text.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BEx Report Designer is new in BI 7.0
Customizable font styles (i.e. bold, italic), colors, etc.
Group-level changes with individual formatting
Layout options, e.g.: Height of rows, width of columns
Multi-line column headers
Flexible field positioningMerging cellsSupport for hierarchiesRules for the presentation of special characteristic values
Integration of text, pictures, and charts
Header & footer for reports
News: BEx Report Designer 7.1, (last release in 2008) will be available under maximum maintenance until 2016 and will be replaced with the Crystal Base product.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Crystal Report is still available (also in SAP BW 3.x)
With BW you get access to Crystal reports. In fact you have many pre-developed reports that comes with SAP-BW. Currently, you can modify, or develop and deploy a few Crystal reports without additional licensing cost.
Crystal is a great tool for batch reporting of "pixel controlled' formatted reports.
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Web Cockpits in the Portal
You can integrate queries and Web applications into the portal through publishing, broadcasting, or Web calls
The portal can either receive designed pages passively or actively create communities, Web pages, collaboration rooms, or cockpits
Broadcasting
Publishing
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BI Java SDK-Based Applications in SAP BI 7.x
BI Java SDK can be used for custom applications based on SAP BI and non-SAP data.
BI Java SDK provides access to relational and OLAP data sources using JDBC, XMLA, ODBO etc.
Access to 200+ data sources using the JDBC drivers.
Source: SAP AG, 2008
Java programmers will recognize the standard development kit's (SDK) main libraries such as the abstract windowing toolkit (AWT) and the GUI-oriented Swing object library as well
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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BI Java SDK-Based Cockpits (cont.)SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio can develop BI Java SDK-based applications
Can use along with SAP Java Web Dynpro
Interested developers should familiarize themselves with SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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More Administrative tools for management & development
Enhanced Dataflow control (split delta) Administrator Cockpit (Web-based) BI Accelerator (high performance BIA) Enhanced InfoSets with InfoCubes Re-modeling and repartitioning of InfoCubes New Data Transfer Process (DTP) Write-optimized DataStore objects New Admin Workbench
SAP BI 7.0 have many improved tools for developers and system
administrators
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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SAP’s Premium Offerings
SAP Acquired Business Objects in 2007/2008 and is working on integrating BOBJ into the core SAP BI offerings.
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BOBJ capabilities – Dashboards and Reports
Crystal Reports for pixel formatted reports has been available with SAP BI/BW since 2002. This tool can be integrated into your tool portfolio using existing SAP NetWeaver BI queries
(NOTE: Crystal & Crystal Base will be the core tools for formatted reports starting 2010)
•Dashboards can be built using Xcelsius.
•Xcelsius+ will be launched in 2009, and will be “the flagship product for data visualization & dashboards”
Source SAP AG, 2009
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BOBJ capabilities – Analysis, Ad-hoc & Widgets
The Web Intelligence tool from BOBJ is a tool for ad-hoc web based reporting, query & analysis.
It is intended for end users and can leverage queries to both relational and OLAP sources.
It will be the core offering for ad-hoc end user analysis starting 2009.
With the current offering of BOBJ you can also use Desktop Widgets to place BI content direct onto a PC desktop and monitor reports and KPIs.
Source SAP AG, June 2008
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New Tools Roadmap
Source SAP
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The Move towards Pioneer
•Pioneer (for 1st Quarter 2010 release) provides a superset of the capabilities in BEx Analyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer (Web), and Business Objects Voyager.
•Voyager customers migrate to Pioneer.
•BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzer customers migrate to Pioneer. (Note: BEx is planned to go into regular maintenance)
There are currently 2 ways to get at the SAP BI data.
If you implement this year, you need to make conscious decisions about which method you select. There are pros and cons of each
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.0
BW
Data Federator
RDBMS Analytic Engine
OLAP BAPI ODBOXMLA
UniversesQT ODA
SQL Access MDX Access
WebIXcelsius
QaaWS
BIA
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Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.01
BW DF Fascade
Data Federator
RDBMS Analytic Engine
OLAP BAPI ODBOXMLA
UniversesQT ODA
SQL Access MDX Access
WebIXcelsius
QaaWS
BWA
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ ComparisonBW Server Feature MDX SQL
BW Hierarchies
Restricted and Calculated Key Figures
Security
BW Variables
Currency and Unit Conversion
Exceptions, Conditions
SUM, MIN, MAX Aggregations
AVG, COUNT, COUNT DISTINCT, … Aggregations
OLAP Cache
Navigational Attributes
Mass Data Enabled
Federation (e.g. BW – RDBMS, BW – BW)
= fully supported
= limited support / workaround
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ What can be Done in 2009- Take a Look at…
Polestar is an interesting technology that companies may start a prototype with and see how it can help them access BI data from a variety of sources (NW and others)
There are many classical SAP NetWeaver tools that should still be used by companies that are planning go-lives in 2009.
Integrated planning is still supported.
Pioneer is still 12 months awayWAD will continue to be the
development environment for 2009.Suggestion Tool Purpose
Web Application Designer Web developmentBEx Web Web reportingBEx Excel Excel reportingAnalysis Process Designer Structured AnalysisIntegrated Planning Planning
Keep doing for a while longer
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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If you need Formatted Reports in 2009, you should seriously consider Crystal Reports. The current roadmap calls for moving Report Designer into regular maintenance at the end of 2009, and stop further development of this tool.
Looking forward to Xcelsius and Pioneer, it may be advisable to limit further custom development in JSP unless it is not intended to be migrated at a future date.
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Deciding which reporting tool is right for you
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Bex Broadcaster
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Who gets to do what?
The major decision for a SAP BI driven enterprise is to determine who gets access to each tool.
There is often a temptation for the IT community of wanting to keep the tools under their domain – That is a mistake
The IT community should actively work with the power and casual users to improve human capabilities and thereby teach them to become more productive employees.
Chinese Proverb
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Tool Access – Who should do what…..
There are many options and decisions to be made on who should be able to access all the different tools.
Bex Broadcaster
Powerusers
Regularusers Authors Developers BW
Admins
Ad-hoc query designer
Query Designer
Analysis ProcessDesigner
Crystal Reports
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Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages
(BSP) Administrative tools The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Resources
COMERIT (Presentations, guides and accelerators) www.comerit.net
SAP Documents - Interfaces for Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/
SAP Business Intelligence (BI) by Norbert Egger, Jean-Marie Fiechter, Sebastian Kramer, Ralf-Patrick Sawicki, and Stephan Weber. Galio Press - Hardcover, 653 pages, ISBN 978-1-
Web Application Designer Web developmentBEx Web Web reportingBEx Excel Excel reportingAnalysis Process Designer Structured AnalysisIntegrated Planning PlanningReport Designer Formatted reportsCustom JSP pages Custom applications