SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0+FP3

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.0 Administration Improvements Session Code: 0510 Henry Kam, Senior Solution Manager, BI Platform and Crystal Reports

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Table of Contents

 BI Platform Overview  SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.0  SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.0 Feature Pack 3 (aka “Support Pack 4”)

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SAP BusinessObjects BI platform SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform empowers organizations to share and discover information and to make better decisions. This flexible, scalable and reliable platform provides a common infrastructure for all BI tools, and includes such capabilities as:

BI content management  Secured storage of BI content

Scalable and robust service • Ability to scale up and scale out to suit the demand • Fault tolerance and load balancing

Platform administration  

Central web based administration tool Management of BI content life cycle

Auditing 

Analysis

Crystal Reports

Explorer

Audit trail for compliance or capacity planning

Information delivery 

Web Intelligence

Dashboards

BI platform

Distribution of personalized BI content to mass audience in an automated manner

Software development kit  Rich API for extending the solution or for process automation © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI Easy access to information

SAP BusinessObjects BI web based applications provides end users self-service access to BI content

BI content access and organization  Assist users to locate and consume BI content  Add and organize BI content in a secure fashion

Information discovery and sharing  Help users discover relevant information to solve their business problems  Enable information sharing among users

BI workspaces  Allow users to layout and link multiple BI assests for a holistic view of business information

Portal server integration  Access BI content from your portal server of choice

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SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0 and Feature Pack 3 (aka Support Pack 4)

System administration  Monitoring and diagnosis  Lifecycle management  Auditing enhancements  Hot backup of BI repository (FP3)  BI repository in HANA (FP3)  Multitenancy enhancements (FP3)  Solution Manager integration  64-bit platform  Multilingual Security  FIPS 140-2 encryption  Single sign-on to HANA (FP3)  Custom user attributes (FP3) Information access  Content search  Alerting  Insight to action (FP3)

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SAP BusinessObjects BI self-service access 4.0 and Feature Pack 3 (aka Support Pack 4)

Easy access to information    

BI launch pad BI workspaces Search BI launch pad customization (FP3)

Portal integration  Microsoft SharePoint (FP3)  Java portal servers  SAP Enterprise portal Collaboration

 Collaboration via SAP StreamWork (FP3)

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Maintenance Model – Strategy 

3 New Delivery Vehicles

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Maintenance Delivery Vehicles inspired from SAP maintenance model

XI 3.1 DELIVERY

BI 4.x DELIVERY

Service Pack

MINOR VERSION

FixPack

SUPPORT PACKAGE

LAFix

PATCH (Cumulative)

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Maintenance Model for BI 4.0 Aligning with Standard SAP Terminology XI 3.x Term

Service Pack

FixPack

LAFix

BI 4.x Equivalent

BI 4.x Contents Support Pack contents + • Selected new features • Selected new platforms (development and validation) • Priority 3 or more complex customer corrections • New languages • Complex internal corrections

Minor Version

Support Package

Patch

Patch contents + • Priority 2 issues • Internal corrections • New platforms (validation and minor corrections) • Small enhancements Urgent customer corrections • Priority 1 issues • Top Priority 2 issues

BI 4.x Frequency

Every 12-18 months for 5 years

No new minor version after the final release in the 5th year

0-4 years: Every 3-4 months 5-7 years: Every 6 months

Every 3 weeks

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SAP BusinessObjects Maintenance Strategy “7-2” Two distinct maintenance phases:  Mainstream Maintenance Provide corrections such as Patches, Support Packs, and Minor Releases  Priority One Support Provide corrections with Patches only on Priority One type of issues

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Example: SBOP Product Family SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Priority One Support

Mainstream Maintenance

Enterprise BI 4.5

Mainstream Maintenance

Enterprise BI 4.1 > = 2 years

Mainstream Maintenance

Enterprise BI 4.0

SBOP Enterprise BI 4.x family

Mainstream Maintenance

SBOP Enterprise XI 3.x family

2006

Priority One Support

Priority One Support

Mainstream Maintenance

2007

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SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0+FP3 Major product updates

 For BI content life cycle management usage, Import Wizard in XI 3 is replaced by the Lifecycle Management Console in BI 4.0  For repository upgrade across product versions, Import Wizard in XI 3 is replaced by the Upgrade Management Tool in BI 4.0  Integration kits for connecting to SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards and Oracle EBS systems are no longer separate add-on packages in BI 4.0. The capabilities are included as part of the BI platform.  Starting from BI 4.0 Feature Pack 3, Lifecycle Management Console is integrated into Central Management Console as the promotion management application and the version management application.

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Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0+FP3 Major product updates

 BI 4.0 launch pad replaces the Java InfoView of former SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise releases  BI 4.0 IOMS replaces the .NET InfoView of former SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise releases  BI 4.0 workspaces replaces the Dashboard Builder product in previous versions of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise. BI workspace is fully integrated with the BI launch pad and installed with the core BI platform

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Monitoring

Monitoring Capabilities  Server metric and probes  User-defined watch condition

 Visualization dashboard in the CMC  Alert email

 Integration with SAP Solution Manager, Tivoli, and JMX compatible tools © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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BI Content Lifecycle Management

LCM Enhancements

Lifecycle Management Console

 Lifecycle Management Console replaces Import Wizard  Connection override in bulk automatically  Version control, rollback  Scripting facility  Auditable

 Integration to standard SAP LCM tool for combined landscape, via CTS+ © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

Development & Testing

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Auditing

Auditing Enhancements  For all events

 Simplified system wide configuration  Auto purging of old data  Enhanced audit data store for simpler audit reports and applications

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Upgrade and Deployment Global Readiness and Scalability  Multilingual BI delivery across geographic locations  Enhanced scalability with virtualization and 64-bit support  Continued heterogeneous platform and database support

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Search

Search Enhancements  New search engine  Search document attributes and content  Unified search integrated with BI launch pad

 Facetted navigation on search results for refined results

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Alerting

Alert Subscription

 Alert consumers subscribe to alerts easily  All subscribed alerts managed in one place  Administrators and users can subscribe for others  Consistent workflow for any alert source

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BI Launch Pad

Bring Relevant Information Forward  Home page widgets for easy access to common features  Quick access to applications and search  Recently viewed reports, scheduled documents, and alert notifications  Configurable start location

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BI Launch Pad

Reduce Manual Steps  Schedule and Send to action from document viewers  Create new folder on save  Clean up all Inbox documents in one click  Open several documents at the same time  Keep document opened in a permanent tab

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BI Launch Pad

Customization and Administration  Preference set by user or administrator  Role-based personalization – preference and home page settings for user group  Application fine tuning with property files – preserved during maintenance

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BI Workspace Centralize and personalize information and analytics needed for daily work activities while reusing existing relevant BI content

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BI Workspace

Workspace Creation and Consumption  Simpler workspace creation workflow  Improved content linking capabilities  Integrated search capabilities (BI platform  Better viewing experience with tabs and multiples viewers

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Integration with SAP NetWeaver Portal and Java Portal

Portal Integration

 SAP NetWeaver Portal : iView  Java portal servers : JSR168  Feature parity with BI launch pad – all BI contents, all actions  Single sign on  Document listing portlet – enable rapid deployment of BI applications  Document viewing portlet for building custom portal application

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Upgrade and Deployment

Upgrade Management Tool  New easy to use tool  Combine the best of import wizard and database migration tool  Performance improvement over import wizard  Choice of upgrades: complete or incremental  Direct upgrade from XI R2 SP2 or later, and from XI 3.x

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Table of Contents

 BI Platform Overview  SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.0  SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.0 Feature Pack 3 (aka “Support Pack 4”)

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SAP HANA Support Broad and Deep BI Integration Key New Capabilities  Shared repository reduces system administration overhead 

Use SAP HANA as a BI repository and audit database

 Single sign-on from BI client tools to HANA database improves usability 

SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions

SQL

BICS

Other query tools

SQL

MDX

SAP HANA SAP In-Memory Computing Studio SAP In-Memory Database Calculation and Planning Engine

Row & Column Storage

Single Sign-on support with Kerberos Real-Time Data Replication

SAP Business Suite

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SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse

Other data sources

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Convert Insight to Action Enable Closed Loop Business Processes from BI to Transactions Invoke operational transactions in both SAP and non-SAP applications

Key New Capabilities  Supported by SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards  Reuse action defined in SAP BW  Supported actions 

Generic web addresses like Google maps

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BEx and BW web applications

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Crystal Reports and Dashboards

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Transactions

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ABAP reports

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BW and Infoset queries

Web Services

SAP Applications BI Documents

 Contextual information passed through © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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Insight to Action

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OEM Enablement Faster to Develop, Easier to Redistribute Key New Capabilities  Repackage and customize the BI Suite 

Installer includes only desired features and keycodes

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Customized branding and theme for installer and BI launchpad

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Changes persist after patch installation

 Reduced TCO for multi-tenant deployment 

Delegated administration

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Tool to automate tenant provisioning

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Archive and restore BI content of individual tenants

 Custom user attributes simplifies data security 

Import user attributes from external directory systems or via API

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Filter data in semantic layer based on user attributes

r attributes

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TCO Reductions Reduce IT support effort and cost Key New Capabilities  Hot backup 

Backup repository database and files while system is running

 Lifecycle management console enhancements 

Integrated into Central Management Console

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Enhanced CTS+ integration workflow

 Improved monitoring 

Graphical view of BI deployment topology

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Improved problem reporting and root cause drilldown

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User-defined KPIs in monitoring dashboard

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Integrating Social Collaboration with BI SAP StreamWork SAP StreamWork brings together people, information, and business methods to drive fast, meaningful results

Value  Make better decisions by combining social collaboration with BI  Add value to BI documents by augmenting them with social insights

Key New Capabilities  Send BI documents to a SAP StreamWork activity to collaborate with colleagues  Link from SAP StreamWork to BI documents  Schedule BI documents to send to SAP StreamWork  Follow and collaborate on BI documents within BI launch pad  Stay up-to-date with SAP StreamWork feed in BI Workspaces  Integrate StreamWork access with the Mobile BI solution

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Self-service access to SAP BusinessObjects BI Collaboration

See recorded demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVo9epbGjUY

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Integration Option for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Integration: BI launch pad for a Microsoft environment Key New Capabilities  Integration option for Microsoft SharePoint replaces InfoView (.Net version) of prior releases  Deeper platform integration 

Support SAP authentication for SSO

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Auditing of view actions

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Support SharePoint 2010

 More productive 

Native SharePoint look-and-feel

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Enhanced search

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Display recently viewed and recently searched documents

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Multilingual support

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Web Part for supporting new BI content types

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Web Part linking

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Key links for more information

Key links  Road maps on SAP Service Marketplace

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

 SAP Community Network

http://www.sdn.sap.com/

 Product Availability Matrix (PAM)

www.service.sap.com/pam

 Release Strategy Brochure

www.service.sap.com/releasestrategy

 Maintenance Strategy

www.service.sap.com/maintenance

 SAP BusinessObjects Support

http://service.sap.com/bosap-support

 BI 4.0 eLearning Tutorials

http://www.sap.com/learnbi

 Product Documentation

http://help.sap.com/

 BI 4.0 Sizing Estimator

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/105 5c550-ce45-2f10-22ad-a6050fff97f1

Where to go to provide product feedback and ideas  SAP Idea Place

https://ideas.sap.com

 Influence programs

http://service.sap.com/influence

 SAP User Groups

http://www.sapusergroups.com/

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Thank You! Session Code: 0510

Henry Kam, Senior Solution Manager, BI Platform and SAP Crystal Reports [email protected]