BusinessObjects Co-Existence: The New Reality Rajesh Ponnurangam, Infosol © InfoSol 2019
BusinessObjects Co-Existence: The New Reality
Rajesh Ponnurangam, Infosol© InfoSol 2019
[ Why BusinessObjects Co-existence
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➢ More than 40% of companies using BusinessObjects also use Tableau
➢ About 10% of companies using BusinessObjects also use PowerBI
➢ Both are popular for Self-Service Data Discovery and data visualization▪ Not good solution for BI reporting
➢ BO customers have strong investment in universes and Webi reports• Keep Webi for reporting• Leverage universes and Webi for validated data© InfoSol 2019
[Co-existence Challenges
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➢ Supporting 2 BI Solutions/Tools➢ Limited or no integration➢ Self-service discovery tools usually brought in/sold to the
business without consideration of IT enterprise requirements➢ Poor or re-created data flows➢ Poor or no data governance➢ Risk of anarchy behavior or shadow IT/BI groups emerging
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[Co-existence Needs
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➢ Right tool for the right job➢ Right tool for the right user➢ Collaboration between IT and Business➢ Integration and Leveraging strengths of both solutions
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➢ Access UNX Universes from Tableau Desktop
➢ Create Filters on the Universe
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Pull Model for Tableau
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InfoBurst TabData Cache
➢ Loading Webi report data to XML Data cache
➢ Access Webi Report via Tableau Desktop
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Push Model for Tableau
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➢ Connecting to universe only leverages part of BO
➢ Webi reports with defined business and report logic offers a lot more▪ Better data governance▪ One version of the truth
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WebI to Tableau
A BusinessObjects Tableau Love Affair
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Universe to Tableau
A BusinessObjects Tableau Love Affair
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InfoBurst Tab
TDE File
Reporting Data
UNV/UNX
Tableau Cloud
Tableau On-Premise
Network Drive
BO Tableau Integration Architecture
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A BusinessObjects PowerBI Love Affair
The Future of BusinessObjects : Co-existenceBO and PowerBI© InfoSol 2019
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InfoBurst
Reporting Data
UNV/UNX
BO and Power BI Integration
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Tableau
1. WebI Document and Tableau dashboards can be combined in a single PDF
InfoBurst
PORTAL
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[Case Study 1
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➢ Publicly traded commercial property company➢ No Data Warehouse and No BI
➢ All reporting done in Crystal and Excel
➢ POC to prove value of BI➢ Created main BI application for portfolio analysis in SAP BO
Dashboards (Xcelsius HTML5)➢ Created visual interactive drill down reports in Webi➢ Used Tableau for data discovery and ad-hoc dashboards➢ Created SQL Server data mart and created universes on this for
Webi➢ Loaded data into high-speed cache for shared access between
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➢ Fortune 50 Oil and Gas Exploration Company➢ Many SAP BO Dashboards using High Speed Data Cache
➢ Directive from management to move off Dashboards and use only PowerBI
➢ Cost prohibitive to convert all existing dashboards to PowerBI➢ Used Odata connector of PowerBI to connect to high speed data
cache and redeveloped dashboards only without needing to change any back-end queries from Webi that are feeding the cache
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[Case Study 3
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➢ Large Healthcare Provider➢ Multi-year investment in BO universes and Webi reports
➢ Tableau deployment relatively new and wanted to leverage trusted data from BusinessObjects reports
➢ Tried ODBC connector but did not scale and not reliable
➢ Wanted to better schedule and control Tableau refreshes in batch without throttling Tableau server➢ Limitation of 4 batch processes on core licensed server
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