WHAT’S NEW IN SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS 4 0 SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS 4.0 MAY 5, 2011 6 Time SAP Business Objects Partner of the Year
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WHAT’S NEW INSAP BUSINESS OBJECTS 4 0SAP BUSINESS OBJECTS 4.0
MAY 5, 2011
6 Time SAP Business Objects Partner of the Year
Decision First Technologies (DFT)g ( )
Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing experts
End-to-End Implementation Provider For SAP BusinessObjects™ Technology
SAP Onsite Education Partner of the Year 2010
6 Time SAP BusinessObjects Partner of the Year
SAP BusinessObjects Pinnacle award winner
SAP Gold Partner
Founded in 2001
Over 1000 customers
Decision First Partners
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What’s New is Data Services 4.0What s New is Data Services 4.0BOE 4.0 New Product NamesWhat’s New in BOE 4 0What s New in BOE 4.0BI Launch Pad / BI WorkspaceC l RCrystal ReportsWeb IntelligenceDeployment ChangesThings to rememberBob’s Favorites
What’s New in Data Services 4.0
Common repository shared with BOECommon repository shared with BOEInformation Steward a combination of Metadata Management and Data InsightManagement and Data InsightData Services to include Text Analysis allowing to source unstructured datasource unstructured dataSingle interface for all application functionalitySAP Data Source Support (BW and HANA Support)SAP Data Source Support (BW and HANA Support)Alert information through SAP Solution Manager support which can connect to products like Tivolisupport which can connect to products like Tivoli
4.0 Renamingg
Renaming GuideRenaming GuideFormer Name New Name
SAP® BusinessObjects™ Enterprise SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform
SAP® BusinessObjects™Xcelsius Enterprise > Xcelsius Enterprise Interactive Viewing
SAP® BusinessObjects™Dashboards> SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Interactive Viewing
SAP® BusinessObjects™Advanced Analysis, Web Edition (This was the Pioneer project – it replaces Voyager)
SAP® BusinessObjects™Analysis, edition for OLAP SAP® BusinessObjects™Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office
SAP® BusinessObjects™Advanced Analysis, Office Edition
SAP® BusinessObjects™Web Intelligence SAP® BusinessObjects™Web Intelligence (Installer name and documentation refers to “Interactive Analysis”)
Crystal Reports SAP® Crystal ReportsCrystal Reports SAP® Crystal Reports
Former Feature Name New Feature Name InfoView BI launch pad BI Widgets Widgets Universe Designer Universe design toolDashboard Builder BI Workspace
What’s New in BOE 4.0
What’s New PDF document
Feature Evolution Guide PDF document
Common query interface across all reporting tools built in the Information Design Tool. Many new features here including multiple data connection.
Data Federation included
Crystal Reports Enterprise – online report development based on universes built / converted in Information Design Tool
Installs many ERP and Portal integrations by default – recommended to only install what you need
Alert information through SAP Solution Manager support which can connect to products g g pp plike Tivoli
CMC Monitoring of Servers and thresholds related to their performance
New Search Engineg
LCM installed by default
Many more items!
BI Launch Pad
BI Workspacep
Crystal Reportsy p
In BOE4.0, two Crystal Reports versions are being released:, y p gSAP Crystal Reports 2011 (desktop installation required)
SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise (desktop installation required)
T t A di f C t l R t E t iTarget Audience for Crystal Reports EnterpriseExisting or New customers with no Crystal investments
Existing or New customers with Crystal reports connecting to BW only
Existing customers with Crystal Reports via universes or New customers that want to take advantage of the Common Semantic Layer
Target Audience for Crystal Reports 2011g y pExisting or New customers that must leverage direct-to-data sources
Existing or New customers that use reports on top of SAP ERP data
Existing or New customers that are embedding reporting into custom Existing or New customers that are embedding reporting into custom applications
Crystal Reports Enterprise 4.0y p p
Web Intelligence 4.0g
New development interfaceNew development interfaceRibbon style toolbarsNew charting interfaceNew charting interfaceFit (scale) to pageN i E l 2007 ll i f 65k Native Excel 2007 export support, allowing for 65k plus rows of dataT l Abili bl k i h Templates: Ability to create a blank report without a data source
Webi Report Queryp y
Webi Report Designp g
Deployment Changesp y g
Similar deployment topology
Native 64bit application. Still able to connect to 32bit data source drivers if needed.
Default deployment is MS SQL Server 2008 and Tomcat 6 64bit
New Paths for the web applications. The application build is very different. Full SDK not available until 4.1. CMC and BI Launch Pad are a single applicationa single application.
Wdeploy GUI – to help deployment and removal of web applications
LifeCycle Manager (LCM) automatically LifeCycle Manager (LCM) automatically deployed and Import Wizard is no longer available. All report promotion through this tool
Upgrade Mgmt Tool – Complete or incremental t t i il bl Mi t f XIR2 content move is available. Migrate from XIR2,
XI3.0 or XI3.1
Client tools are separate and are not included in the server installation
Things to rememberg
BOE 4.0 will be available end of Q2 – 2011 / Edge at the end of 2011
Desktop Intelligence is no longer supported. The conversion tools is still available but looks back at your XIr2/3 install and converts them to webion BOE 4
QaaWS is being deprecated in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards in later versions
64 bit platform needed to run BOE64 bit platform needed to run BOE
Better virtualization support but please work with DFT on licensing if you are not a new customer
64 bit SharePoint integration (IONS) will be release in a 4.0 support pack soon (not with the initial release candidate in May)
Web applications are a single app and locking down the CMC will be more difficult
Bob’s Favorites (not as cool as Oprah’s Favorites)
BI Launch Pad – tab interface that allows for BI Launch Pad tab interface that allows for tacking contentWebi charting is better and utilizing new central Webi charting is better and utilizing new central chart libraryWebi – Copy and Paste between reportsWebi Copy and Paste between reportsContent Linking in BI WorkspaceSAP Dashboards native access to the semantic layerSAP Dashboards native access to the semantic layerUniverse connections can now be managed in folders and connections can be shared between folders, and connections can be shared between software applications
Upcoming Eventsp g
What’s New in BusinessObjects 4.0 jDeep Dive Summer Series Begins June 2011
Using The New SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise for ReportingUsing The New SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise for Reporting
Preview the New Features & Enhancements Around Dashboards
Web Intelligence 4.0 in Action
Data Services 4.0 in Action
Using The New Information Design Tool For Creating & Publishing SAP BusinessObjects Universes
Will be on our Web Site Soon
Upcoming Eventsp g
Accelerate Your BusinessObjects DashboardsAccelerate Your BusinessObjects DashboardsMay 25th @ 2:00 pm Eastern
Supercharging SAP BusinessObjects BI with Sybase IQSupercharging SAP BusinessObjects BI with Sybase IQThu May 26th @ 2:00 pm Eastern
Sapphire – Joint Booth with Aster Group (BPC Partner)Sapphire Joint Booth with Aster Group (BPC Partner)Orlando, FL - Booth #2346Private Cocktail Party @ Café Tu Tu Tangoy @ gTue, May 17th 6:00 to 8:00
DFT Extended Business Partners
Q iQuestionsBob Zenker Practice ManagerBob Zenker, Practice [email protected] – 678-569-1150Cell – 615-416-2505Cell 615-416-2505
Amanda Wierling, Director of Marketingamanda wierling@decisionfirst [email protected] – 678-569-1169Cell – 678-522-7575
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