Roadmap.pdf

RoadmapSAP NetWeaver™ Business Intelligence

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Big Picture

The Solution at a Glance

SAP BW 3.5

SAP NetWeaver™ BI beyond 2004

© SAP AG 2004, slide 3 http://www.sap.com/bi

SAP’s Focus On Business Intelligence

Henning Kagermann"For example, by embedding analytics with NetWeaver's Business [Intelligence] …into the applications and exposing applications through the SAP portal, SAP seeks to deliver much of the value traditionally associated with specialized query & reporting tools"

Goldman Sachs Technology Conference February 23, 2004


Going beyond standalone Business Intelligence

SAP NETWEAVERINFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION

DELIVERED AS ONE INTEGRATED PLATFORM

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PEOPLE INTEGRATION

Multi channel access

Portal Collaboration

INFORMATION INTEGRATION

Bus. Intelligence

Master Data Mgmt

Knowledge Mgmt

PROCESS INTEGRATIONIntegration Broker

BusinessProcess Mgmt

APPLICATION PLATFORM

J2EE

DB and OS Abstraction

ABAP

Life Cycle M

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One ProductSynchronized release datesOne FoundationWeb Application ServerOne PackageCoherent installation processOne SolutionIntegrated IT scenariosAll AppsBusiness Suite and xApps developed on NetWeaver


Accelerating NetWeaver Adoption with IT ScenariosA Potential Value Roadmap for Analytics & Reporting

ReportsImplement BWProvide periodic operational reports to executives from multiple source

Applications & Application Services Platform Integration

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Value Collaboration

Implement Collaboration Rooms

Right-time data accessImplement XI

Information DeliveryImplement PortalLow cost distribution of personalized reports and alerts to a wide audience

share documents; collaborate with colleagues for planning and resolution of business issues

Reports for real-time data to complement the batch-oriented data access of analytic applications and operational reporting;

Are You Here?

Low High

High


SAP NetWeaver Customer Deployment Strategy

Step by Step Implementation (With pre-integrated components)

Achieve Exponential Value(Faster than the competition)

SAP NetWeaver

Think Big(Enterprise Service Architecture)

Start Small(One component, quick results)

Big Picture


SAP BW 3.5



SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence

is an enterprise-class, complete, open and integrated solution that

delivers actionable insights.

SAP NetWeaver BI – The Solution at a Glance

Data acquisition, data warehousing, OLAP, planning framework, BI tools, dashboards and

analytical applications; with pre-configured content using best-practice models.

Open, well documented APIs and interfaces along with full functionality to integrate structured and unstructured, heterogeneous data

Scalable and reliable BI solution that is tightly integrated with SAP NetWeaver, source

transactional systems and partner’s complementary tools

Support decision-making requirements of the entire enterprise regardless of data sources of access methods

Convert data into information, and ensure information is delivered at the right time to the right person in

the right format to support business decision making.


SAP NetWeaver BI – Key Capabilities

Data WarehousingExtraction, transformation, and loading Data warehouse managementBusiness modeling

BI PlatformOnline analytical processing (OLAP) Data MiningAlertingMeta Data RepositoryPlanning Framework

BI Suite of ToolsQuery Design Managed Reporting and AnalysisVisualization – Web Application DesignCollaboration

Measurement and ManagementBusiness ContentAnalytical ApplicationsCorporate Performance Management


SAP NetWeaver BI Solution Focus

SAP’s over-riding emphasis on leveraging technology in the

service of business value and industry-, function-, and role-

specific business scenarios

SAP’s focus on delivering superior customer experience through ease of use, guided analysis and tight integration with other user-empowering applications within the SAP portfolio

SAP’s commitment to building techno-logically advanced and sophisticated BI products that leverage industry standards where

available but that rely on SAP’s expertise to build enterprise-class BI products where no standards have emerged

Big Picture


SAP BW 3.5



SAP BW 3.5

Information Broadcasting

BEx Web Analyzer

Universal Data Integration

SAP NetWeaver Integration

Business Planning and Simulation

Analysis Process Designer

Customer/Partner Content

SAP BW 3.5 is designed to deliver seamless integration capabilities into all of the SAP NetWeaver components as well as to offer robust business intelligence infrastructure capabilities and services.


Information Broadcasting

Information Broadcasting allows the distribution of BI information

... via different channels ...( ) E-Mail (works independently from an EP installation, available with NW Ramp Up)

( ) Enterprise Portal (needs NetWeaver 04 Stack 2, available April 26)

... in different formats ...( ) HTML, MHTML

( ) BEx Analyzer Workbooks

( ) ZIP Files

… of different sources …( ) BI Web Applications - Dashboards, cockpits

( ) BEx Analyzer Workbooks

( ) Queries

… in different modes…( ) Online & pre-calculated


BEx Web Analyzer

BEx Web AnalyzerFeature description

Open and analyze any query in the BEx Web AnalyzerZero footprintFocus: usability, look and feel


Universal Data Integration

Universal Data IntegrationBI Java Connectors to provide access to any data (relational, OLAP)Based on industry standards for interoperability (JDBC, XMLA, ODBO) Universal Data Connect to integrate data into the BW platformBI Java SDK for custom built Java Applications

SAP OLTP

nonSAP

SAPQuery

XMLA

JDBC

ODBO

BIJavaSDK

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Custom-builtApplications

SAP

Enterprise Portal

UniversalData

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1. BI Java Connectors JDBC, XMLA, ODBO, SAP Query

2. Universal Data ConnectSAP BW Integration

3. BI Java SDKJava API, Examples, Documentation

BEx

BW

StagingSAPBW


SAP Exchange Infrastructure Integration

ScenarioGlobal spend scenarioSAP XI as single point to channel information exchange between various systemsUsing SAP XI as additional source for SAP BW

Event-driven and transaction-orientedNew guideline with SAP BW 3.5

Guideline of integrating SAP XI 2.0 and 3.0 as a SAP BW source on basis of existing technologies (XML, http/SOAP)

CompatibilityPrerequisite:SAP XI 2.0or SAP XI 3.0

BAPI DBConnect File Proxy

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SAP XIB C

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JDBC

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SAP Web AS Integration

BI Web servicesScenarios and features

Following features are released as web services and can be accessed via open standards

XML data loadXML for analysis: connection of third-party front-end vendors to BW OLAP engineXML query result set (additional query format XML in addition toXLS and CSV)

Example: XML data loadThe metadata for the XML data load (function module, DataSource, data fields) can be queried via WSDLThe caller can now use XML and HTTP/SOAP to push data into the SAP BW delta queue

CompatibilityPrerequisite: SAP Web AS 6.40


SAP Enterprise Portal and KM Integration

KM document integrationFeature description

Seamless integration of BW documents via the KM Repository Manager

BW documents can be displayed in the portal via the Repository Manager. The storage remains in BW.Provides access to all SAP BW metadata, master data, and transactional documents that are stored in BWEnables KM services on top of these documents (indexing and search, rating, subscription, etc.).

CompatibilityPrerequisite: SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP3


Planning and Simulation

Business Planning and Simulation (BW BPS) in SAP BWPlanning and simulation scenarios

Research/prognosisEstimating future situations and evaluating their impact on the enterprise

Target settingSetting goals and milestones

BudgetingEvaluating and allocating resources for the achievement of targets

ExamplesSales plan, resource plan, cost center plan, profitability plan

Benefits of offering BW-BPS with SAP BW 3.5No installation of SAP SEM Add-On necessary for usage of planning functionalityOne software installation onlyOne support package cycle One project budget for planning and analysis


BI Platform Features

Analysis Process DesignerScenario

Data in SAP BW can be explored within a multilevel process, applying advanced analytical methods in order to gain new insights from the data. The analytical results remain again within SAP BW.Examples

ABC-classification (e.g., customer/vendor)Determination of the frequency distribution in datasetsDevelopment of Scoring information…

Feature descriptionInteractive modeling workbench (drag and drop) for

analysis processes

Infrastructure to link up process elements, being sources (selection of data), targets (deployment of results), pre-processing (transformation), and visualization tools as well as data analysis methods


BI Platform Features (cont.)

Customer/partner contentScenario

Customers centrally create templates which can be rolled out to subsidiaries (Enterprise Data Warehouse)Partners create own content that can be delivered individually to interested customers

Feature descriptionRelease of feature, which has been piloted in SAP BW 3.0BContent for objects in SAP BW as well as extractors in Service API in SAP source systemsThis denotes content in addition to SAP delivered Business ContentContent can be shipped via transports

Support of partner content only by partnerPartner content is certified by SAP

Big Picture


SAP BW 3.5



SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004

BI for the Expanded EnterpriseEnterprise-wide Data Warehousing Enterprise-wide Business IntelligenceIntegrated Technology Stack

Active Business IntelligenceReal-time Data WarehouseActive Information Delivery and CollaborationBI Integrated Planning

Enhanced User ExperienceEmbedded Business IntelligenceReal-time analytics and BI Web ServicesFocus on Information Consumer


SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 – BI for the Expanded Enterprise Enterprise-wide Data Warehousing

Trex-based aggregation & calculation layerMore flexible BW data modelArchiving and Near-Line StorageOffline support

Creation of MSFT .cub files and distribution through Open Hub interfaceMeta-Model Repository

Visual modeling toolIndustry standard based Metadata RepositorySeparation of logical modeling (business model) and physical modeling

Data QualityIntegration of MDMEasy Content Administration

Graphical modeling of Data Flow & TransformationsRemodeling Toolbox

Administration CockpitMonitors focusing on critical system situations, e.g. alerts, system failures, bad performanceActive links to transactions to help solve these critical situations and speed up reaction timeStatistics and history data to support strategic tuning of the BW system


SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 – BI for the ExpandedEnterprise

Enterprise-wide Business IntelligenceIntegrated solution for reporting and analysis

Java-based Web UI for mass deployment Web-based component for multidimensional analysisNew focused tool for formatted and layout-driven reportsIntegration of 3rd party tools for pixel-oriented layout and form-based reporting

Application development tools for business users and developers

Report Designer integrated into Web Application Designer and EclipseBI application design in BEx Analyzer

Adobe integration to generate PDF files from Web ApplicationsAd-hoc Query for Information Consumer

Intelligent search to access queries or create new queriesNatural language processing user interface

Open for 3rd party or custom UI components


SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 – Active Business Intelligence

Active Business IntelligenceRight-time at the intersection of ETL and EAI

Real-time data acquisitionXI data integration

Active Information Delivery and CollaborationInformation BroadcastingAd-hoc Work Flow and Collaboration RoomsUniversal Worklist

BI Integrated PlanningIntegrated design time toolsIntegration of planning and analysis engineWeb and Excel based UI for manual plan data entry Set of planning and analysis services for automated manipulation of plan data (Data management, Rolling Forecast, Data Mining…)Process support for the management of planning and analysis processes/applications


SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 – Enhanced User Experience

Enhanced User ExperienceEmbedded Business Intelligence

BI Patterns embedded into operational systemsServices-oriented BI

Real-time Analytics and BI Web ServicesAnalysis Process Designer and Intelligent ServicesOptimal recommendations and personalized services in real-time based on BW dataReal-time analytics based on data mining models leveraged by using open standard PMML 2.0 (Predictive Model Markup Language)Real-time access to key performance indicators in BW

Focus on Information ConsumerEase-of-useInformation democracy through Self-service, subscriptions, etc.BEx Portfolio for easy information access


Further Information

SAP Service Marketplace:Use ALIAS: “BW” athttp://service.sap.com/BW

SAP NetWeaver™Business Intelligence Roadmap


Questions?

Q&A


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