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Target Audience: An audience interested in both an SAP application-centric message and an agnostic message. Covers ERP, ERP + BW, and non-ERP customers Delivered by: AE’s, BI Specialists, Solution Sales, Presales Date: March 26 2012 Content: BI 4.0 FP3 Whats New. It assumes a working knowledge of whats new in BI 4.0. Objective: Introduce the new features and benefits of BI 4.0 FP3. Key Message: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 FP3 delivers new investments organized around 5 major themes: Mobility, richer insight, big data, social collaboration, and SAP application integration. Intended Impact: Customers will understand what’s new in BI 4.0 FP3 and be able to make an educated decision about the value of adopting FP3.
Date Who Change Dec 13 2011 Blair Wheadon Update disclaimer slide.
Remove Android support from mobile slide Update mobile slide and speaker notes Update semantic layer slide to remove direct access to SAP HANA dimensional models, and API support for creating custom attributes. Minor update to developer slide – change ‘semantic layer authoring API’ to ‘universe management API’ Remove auto-create Universes from HANA models on HANA slide. Minor updates to Web Intelligence slide. Add SM to speaker notes for each solution.
January 3 2012 Blair Wheadon Add Value statements. Remove Query Stripping from SL slide – it’s not strictly speaking new in FP3. Minor consistency updates. Remove redundant feature from Dashboards slide ‘Improved access to BW via semantic layer’
January 15 2012 Blair Wheadon Update the Analysis Office slide to identify the individual AOffice releases, and to reposition ‘Bex Analyzer Parity’ as ‘Closing the Gap with Bex Analyzer’
February 9 2012 Blair Wheadon Add Hadoop support to the semantic layer and relevant client slides. Add StreamWork integration to the Mobile slide.
February 23 2012 Blair Wheadon Update the SAP HANA support slide to remove the feature ‘Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office can access SAP HANA hierarchies and prompts’. Add 2nd dimension support for Explorer.
Big Data High Performance Analytics on Petabyte Scale Data
Uncover more data value and improve overall business velocity
� Hadoop Support n Access Hadoop Hive in Universes n Support single and multisource Universes n Join with other data sources n Supported by Crystal Reports, Web
Intelligence, Dashboards, Explorer
� Deeper SAP HANA Support n Access Analytic and Calculation Views from
SAP Crystal Reports and Analysis for OLAP n Use SAP HANA as a repository and audit
database n Single signon support with Kerberos
Key New Capabilities
� Consume data in the modern, distributed, in-memory formats required to handle big data.
� Apply existing BI knowledge and solutions to new big data realities.
Delivering Richer Insight SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
Provide all users with a simple and intuitive experience for immediate, interactive access to information to answer common business questions on the fly
� Casual users create their own compositions of multiple Explorer visualizations (Exploration Views)
� Exploration views support iOS � Time and geography awareness – new
semantic types for these dimensions � Add 2nd nested dimension to analyses – ie
chart by geo > product � Natural visualization and navigation for
time and geo dimensions � Improved search – auto-correction and
‘did you mean’ feature � Support for Hadoop
Key New Capabilities � Empower casual users to experience self-
serve data discovery on the web or on device
� Improve adoption with intuitive behavior for date, time, and geographical dimensions
� Richer data access n Restore direct connectivity for most popular
data sources, leveraging connection server n Access SAP ERP and Essbase via UNX n Support SAP BW Scaling Factor n SAP HANA analytic and calculation views n Hadoop Hive via UNX
� Extensible with next-generation API n JavaScript API n Restful Web services API n Odata support for data push
� More productive report designers n Online library of report templates n More powerful set data source location n New charts: tree map, tag cloud, box plot
� Support Insight to Action framework n Invoke RRI and other targets – requires
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for interactive reporting
� Improved BW integration [Improved OLAP support]
n Hierarchies supported in more workflows –input, navigation, and display.
n Input controls with hierarchies n Charts with hierarchical dimensions n Drill up, drill down, expand, collapse on charts n Support for BEx scaling factor n Merge on attributes n Filter out 0 values (equivalent to BEx zero
suppression) n Member selection by level on all OLAP sources n Prompt on hierarchy
� Richer Data Access n Hadoop Hive via UNX
� More productive n Customizable document style (WebI CSS file) n Waterfall chart n Customizable document Save as *.txt export
� Faster n Performance improvements on opendocument
and interactive workflows n Web Intelligence rich client in system tray
Dashboard and Visualization SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Conventional designer–consumer metaphor � Query panel, direct binding, prompt selector
in the design experience � Enterprise-level dashboards and applications � Highly customizable (Flex SDK) � Flexible deployment options Use case � Ideal for monitoring KPIs and performance � Alerting, scorecards and what-if analysis � No data manipulation required Typical users (consumers) � Executives and CxOs � Managers
Search and Exploration SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
User driven data discovery � Google keyword search meets BI � Free-form navigation � Automated best chart generation � No need to know metadata � Secure and trustworthy access Use case � On-the-fly, intuitive data exploration � Personalized information views � Mobile enabled information access – online
and offline Typical users � Executives and CxOs � Managers
Appendix #2 Changing Maintenance Model and Terminology
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