The Complete Guide to Reporting Tools in SAP NetWeaver & the BusinessObjects Portfolio - with performance options Bjarne Berg Director SAP BI
Oct 26, 2014
The Complete Guide to Reporting Tools in SAP NetWeaver & the BusinessObjects
Portfolio - with performance options
Bjarne BergDirector SAP BI
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
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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) 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.
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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) 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 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)
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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) 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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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
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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.
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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) 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
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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
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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
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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
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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) 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
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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
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Source: SAP 20009
Product Directions for BI Solutions
And Much More…And Much More…
Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform
Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform
AdvancedAnalysisAdvancedAnalysis
EnterpriseReportingEnterpriseReporting
Dashboards,VisualizationDashboards,Visualization
Ad-hocQuery &Reporting
Ad-hocQuery &Reporting
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
PolestarPolestar
Mobile BIMobile BI
BusinessObjects EnterpriseBusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWASAP NetWeaver BW and BWA
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Source: SAP 20009
Product Directions for BI Solutions
Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform
Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform
AdvancedAnalysisAdvancedAnalysis
EnterpriseReportingEnterpriseReporting
Dashboards,VisualizationDashboards,Visualization
Ad-hocQuery &Reporting
Ad-hocQuery &Reporting
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
BusinessObjects EnterpriseBusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BW and BWASAP NetWeaver BW and BWA
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BI Web Application Designer Roadmap
InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal
SAP BOE Platform
SAP NW BW
BEx Web Templates
Pioneer Web ServerPioneer Web Server
WorkspacePIO Web Tab
BEx Web Tab
…
BI Consumer ServicesBI Consumer Services
BEx Queries/ InfoProviders
Pioneer Web Client
BEx Web App Designer
BEx Web App Designer
SAP BOE Platform
Pioneer Web ServerPioneer Web Server
WorkspacePIO Web Tab
BEx Web Tab
…
BI Consumer ServicesBI Consumer Services
Pioneer Web Client
Pioneer Designer/ SDKPioneer Designer/ SDK
SAP NW BW
BEx Web Templates
BEx Queries/ InfoProviders
BEx Web App Designer
BEx Web App Designer
Migration options via Pioneer SDK
InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal
planned 2010 future
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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) 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.
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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 positioning
Merging cells
Support for hierarchies
Rules 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.
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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.
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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) 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
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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) 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
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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
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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) 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
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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)
Webbased
Excel based
Source SAP, April, 2009
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[ What can be Done in 2009- ImplementationsSuggestion Tool Purpose
Visual Composer VisualizationWeb Intelligence Ad-hocBI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop IntelligenceCrystal Report Formatted reportsBPC Consolidation & PlanningBI Accellerator In memory performance
Candidates for Implementations in 2009
Visual Composer
Widgets
BI Accelerator
Web Intelligence (webi)
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[ The two types of Universes
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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[ 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
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[ Comparison
BW 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)
Xcelsius
Polestar
Suggestion Tool PurposeXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine
Pioneer BEx web & Excel
Worth a Prototype
Keep an Eye on, but wait until the new release
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[ What can be Done in 2009- Prototype
Consider building a Xcelsius Prototype to get used to really interactive dashboards and what-if analysis.
Xcelsius
Image source: Adobe, 2009
Suggestion Tool PurposeXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine
Pioneer BEx web & Excel
Worth a Prototype
Keep an Eye on, but wait until the new release
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
[ What can be Done in 2009- Keep doing…
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 away WAD will continue to be the
development environment for 2009.
Suggestion Tool PurposeWeb 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.
[ Stop As soon as possible
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.
Suggestion Tool PurposeReport Designer Formatted reportsCustom JSP pages Custom applications
Stop when possible
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[Training SAP Business Objects for SAP NetWeaver BW
future
New 2 day course offering from SAP Education for training on Business Objects integration with SAP NetWeaver BW
Two dates are currently scheduled in June for virtual course delivery
June 1 – 2, 2009
June 25 – 26, 2009
See the following link to the Course Description for more detailed information on the content covered
http://www.sap.com/usa/services/education/usacourse.epx?context=%5b%5b|SAPBO||1|091|US|%5d%5d|
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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)
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.
[ Why BI-A? Disk speed is growing slower than other HW components
In-memory data stores
Multi-channel UI, high event volume, cross industry value chains
Application-aware and intelligent data management
Disk based data storage
Simple consumption of apps (Fat client UI, EDI)
General-purpose, application-agnostic database
1990 2009
Architectural Drivers
Improvement20091990
216 Addressable Memory
425x8.51MB/$
0.02MB/$
Memory
166x8.30MIPS/$
0.05MIPS/$
CPU
Technology Drivers
400MBPS
5MBPS
Disk
Data Transfer
80x
100 x10Gbps
100Mbps
Network Speed
264 248x
Source: 1990 numbers SAP AG
2009 numbers Dr. Berg
Physical hard drive speeds only grew by 80 times since 1990. All other hardware components grew faster.
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[BI Accelerator Works by Indexing InfoCubes in Hardware memory
BI Accelerator has been simple to install and operate for established SAP BI teams
You use process chains to maintain the BI-A engine after each data load
IBM, Sun, HP & Fujitsu have standard solutions ranging from $32K to $300K+
that can be installed and tested in as little as 2-4 weeks (+ SAP license fees)
32 GB Blades are certified by SAP
SAP
BW
Any
tool
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[ BI Analytical Engine’s Query executing priorities
Query ExecutionWithout BI Accelerator
Query ExecutionWithout BI Accelerator
Query ExecutionWith BI Accelerator
Query ExecutionWith BI Accelerator
Information Broadcasting /Precalculation
Information Broadcasting /Precalculation
Query CacheQuery Cache
AggregatesAggregates
InfoProviderInfoProvider
Information Broadcasting /Precalculation
Information Broadcasting /Precalculation
Query CacheQuery Cache
SAP NetWeaver BI AcceleratorSAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator
Aggregates can be replaced with BI-A, while the memory cache is still useful.
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BIA Currently reads data from InfoCubes. DSOs & InfoObjects are still read from base/physical tables (even when the InfoObject is indexed as part of master data).
Performance is Near-Linear: Benchmarks
BIA’s strength resides in its near-linear scalability
Performance is measured in terms of:
1. BI-A index creation time
2. Multi-user throughput per hour
3. Average report response time
4. Average number of records touched by each report
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Many companies, have spent 2-5 days in BIA training (total for 1-2 administrators) and a work through a single interface:
RSDDBIAMON (Checks available at: RSRV)
Most customers have found BIA Admin to be minimal
The training & admin to run BI Accelerator has proven to
be minimal. Training is included in the SAP courses:
BW310, BW360 and in the online course BW361
In the past, SAP has also offered a 2 day workshop called “BI Upgrade & Accelerator” (WNABIA)
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Once you exceed a few hundred critical users and/or 3-4 TB of data you
should seriously consider SAP BIA
BIA is becoming mainstream
BIA is no longer something exotic.
Many of the large BI systems have already implemented BIA and
many more projects are under way in Europe and in the Americas.
Some of SAP reference clients
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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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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) 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
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Resources
COMERIT (Presentations, guides and accelerators) www.comeritinc.com
SAP Documents - Interfaces for Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/
prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f52e9cc1-0d01-0010-d88b-d808b69391a4
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-
1-59229-082-6
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Key Learnings
Suggestion Tool PurposeVisual Composer VisualizationWeb Intelligence Ad-hocBI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop IntelligenceCrystal Report Formatted reportsBPC Consolidation & PlanningBI Accellerator In memory performanceXcelcius DashboardsPolestar Search engine
Web Application Designer Web developmentBEx Web Web reportingBEx Excel Excel reportingAnalysis Process Designer Structured AnalysisIntegrated Planning PlanningReport Designer Formatted reportsCustom JSP pages Custom applications
Pioneer BEx web & Excel
Candidates for Implementations in 2009
Worth a Prototype
Keep an Eye on, but wait until the new release
Stop when possible
Keep doing for a while longer
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Questions and Answers
How to contact me:
Dr. Bjarne [email protected]
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Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset
Source: SAP March, 2009
This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ
tools, not just tools for the SAP market
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Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset
Source: SAP March, 2009
This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ
tools, not just tools for the SAP market
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset
This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ
tools, not just tools for the SAP market
Source: SAP March, 2009
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset
This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ
tools, not just tools for the SAP market
Source: SAP March, 2009
Real Experience. Real Advantage.
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Bonus Material – The total BOBJ toolset
This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ
tools, not just tools for the SAP market
Source: SAP March, 2009