Roadmap

SAP NetWeaver
Business Intelligence
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Big Picture
The Solution at a Glance
SAP BW 3.5
SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004

SAPs 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

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Going beyond standalone Business Intelligence

SAP NetWeaver
Multi channel access

One Product

Portal

Synchronized release dates

Collaboration

One Foundation

INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Bus. Intelligence Knowledge Mgmt
Master Data Mgmt
PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration
Broker

Business
Process Mgmt

Web Application Server

Life Cycle Mgmt

Composite Application Framework

PEOPLE INTEGRATION

APPLICATION PLATFORM
J2EE

ABAP

One Package
Coherent installation process

One Solution
Integrated IT scenarios

All Apps
Business Suite and xApps
developed on NetWeaver

DB and OS Abstraction

SAP NETWEAVER
INFRASTRUCTURE INNOVATION
DELIVERED AS ONE INTEGRATED PLATFORM
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Accelerating NetWeaver Adoption with IT Scenarios

A Potential Value Roadmap for Analytics & Reporting
High

Ability to Change your Business

Right-time data access

ue
l
a
V

Are You Here?

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

Collaboration

Implement Collaboration Rooms

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

Information Delivery

Implement Portal
Low cost distribution of personalized
reports and alerts to a wide audience

Reports

Implement BW
Provide periodic operational reports to executives
from multiple source
Low
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Applications & Application Services Platform Integration

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High

SAP NetWeaver Customer Deployment Strategy

Think Big

Start Small

(Enterprise Service Architecture)

(One component, quick results)

SAP NetWeaver

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Step by Step Implementation

Achieve Exponential Value

(With pre-integrated components)

(Faster than the competition)

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Big Picture
The Solution at a Glance
SAP BW 3.5
SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004

SAP NetWeaver BI The Solution at a Glance

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

Data acquisition, data warehousing, OLAP,

planning framework, BI tools, dashboards and
analytical applications; with pre-configured
content using best-practice models.

SAP NetWeaver Business

Intelligence
is an enterprise-class, complete,
open and integrated solution that
delivers actionable insights.
Open, well documented
APIs and interfaces along
with full functionality to
integrate structured and
unstructured,
heterogeneous data

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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.

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Scalable and reliable BI

solution that is tightly
integrated with SAP
NetWeaver, source
transactional systems and
partners complementary tools

SAP NetWeaver BI Key Capabilities

Data Warehousing
Extraction, transformation, and loading
Data warehouse management
Business modeling

BI Platform
Online analytical processing (OLAP)
Data Mining
Alerting
Meta Data Repository
Planning Framework

BI Suite of Tools
Query Design
Managed Reporting and Analysis
Visualization Web Application Design
Collaboration

Measurement and Management

Business Content
Analytical Applications
Corporate Performance Management

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SAP NetWeaver BI Solution Focus

SAPs focus on delivering superior
customer experience through ease of
use, guided analysis and tight
integration with other userempowering applications within the
SAP portfolio

SAPs over-riding emphasis on

leveraging technology in the
service of business value and
industry-, function-, and rolespecific business scenarios

SAPs commitment to building techno-logically advanced and

sophisticated BI products that leverage industry standards where
available but that rely on SAPs expertise to build enterpriseclass BI products where no standards have emerged
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Big Picture
The Solution at a Glance
SAP BW 3.5
SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004

SAP BW 3.5
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
BEx Web Analyzer
Universal Data Integration
SAP NetWeaver Integration
Business Planning and Simulation
Analysis Process Designer
Customer/Partner Content

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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
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BEx Web Analyzer

BEx Web Analyzer

Feature description
Open and analyze any query in the BEx Web Analyzer
Zero footprint
Focus: usability, look and feel

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Universal Data Integration

Universal Data Integration
BI 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 platform
BI Java SDK for custom built Java Applications
2. Universal Data Connect
SAP BW Integration

JDBC
BI
Java
SDK

non
SAP
ODBO

Custom-built
Applications

1. BI Java Connectors

3. BI Java SDK

JDBC, XMLA, ODBO, SAP Query

Java API, Examples, Documentation

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SAP
Enterprise Portal

XMLA

Universal
Data
Connect

BEx

SAP
BW

BW
OLAP

SAP
Query

Staging

SAP
OLTP

SAP Exchange Infrastructure Integration

Scenario
Global spend scenario
SAP XI as single point to channel information exchange
between various systems
Using SAP XI as additional source for SAP BW
Event-driven and transaction-oriented
New 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
SAP BW
technologies
DB
JDBC
File
Proxy
(XML, http/SOAP) BAPI Connect
Compatibility
Prerequisite:
SAP XI 2.0
or SAP XI 3.0

SAP XI

D
E

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SAP Web AS Integration

BI Web services
Scenarios and features
Following features are released as web services and can be accessed
via open standards
XML data load
XML for analysis: connection of third-party front-end vendors to
BW OLAP engine
XML query result set (additional query format XML in addition to
XLS and CSV)
Example: XML data load
The metadata for the XML data load (function module, DataSource,
data fields) can be queried via WSDL
The caller can now use XML and HTTP/SOAP to push data into the
SAP BW delta queue
Compatibility
Prerequisite: SAP Web AS 6.40

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SAP Enterprise Portal and KM Integration

KM document integration
Feature 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 BW
Enables KM services on top of these documents (indexing and
search, rating, subscription, etc.).
Compatibility
Prerequisite: SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0 SP3

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Planning and Simulation

Business Planning and Simulation (BW BPS) in SAP BW
Planning and simulation scenarios
Research/prognosis
Estimating future situations and evaluating their impact on the
enterprise
Target setting
Setting goals and milestones
Budgeting
Evaluating and allocating resources for the achievement of targets
Examples
Sales plan, resource plan, cost center plan, profitability plan
Benefits of offering BW-BPS with SAP BW 3.5
No installation of SAP SEM Add-On necessary for usage of planning
functionality
One software installation only
One support package cycle
One project budget for planning and analysis

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BI Platform Features
Analysis Process Designer
Scenario
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 datasets
Development of Scoring information

Feature description
Interactive modeling workbench (drag and drop) for
analysis processes
Infrastructure to link up process elements, being sources
(selection of data), targets (deployment of results), preprocessing (transformation), and visualization tools as well
as data analysis methods

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BI Platform Features (cont.)

Customer/partner content
Scenario
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 description
Release of feature, which has been piloted in SAP BW 3.0B
Content for objects in SAP BW as well as extractors in Service API in
SAP source systems
This denotes content in addition to SAP delivered Business Content
Content can be shipped via transports
Support of partner content only by partner
Partner content is certified by SAP

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Big Picture
The Solution at a Glance
SAP BW 3.5
SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004

SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004

BI for the Expanded Enterprise
Enterprise-wide Data Warehousing
Enterprise-wide Business Intelligence
Integrated Technology Stack
Active Business Intelligence
Real-time Data Warehouse
Active Information Delivery and Collaboration
BI Integrated Planning
Enhanced User Experience
Embedded Business Intelligence
Real-time analytics and BI Web Services
Focus on Information Consumer

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SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 BI for the Expanded

Enterprise
Enterprise-wide Data Warehousing
Trex-based aggregation & calculation layer
More flexible BW data model
Archiving and Near-Line Storage
Offline support
Creation of MSFT .cub files and distribution through Open Hub interface

Meta-Model Repository
Visual modeling tool
Industry standard based Metadata Repository
Separation of logical modeling (business model) and physical modeling

Data Quality
Integration of MDM
Easy Content Administration
Graphical modeling of Data Flow & Transformations
Remodeling Toolbox

Administration Cockpit
Monitors focusing on critical system situations, e.g. alerts, system
failures, bad performance
Active links to transactions to help solve these critical situations and
speed up reaction time
Statistics and history data to support strategic tuning of the BW system

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SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 BI for the Expanded

Enterprise
Enterprise-wide Business Intelligence
Integrated solution for reporting and analysis
Java-based Web UI for mass deployment
Web-based component for multidimensional analysis
New focused tool for formatted and layout-driven reports
Integration of 3rd party tools for pixel-oriented layout and formbased reporting

Application development tools for business users and

developers
Report Designer integrated into Web Application Designer and
Eclipse
BI application design in BEx Analyzer

Adobe integration to generate PDF files from Web Applications

Ad-hoc Query for Information Consumer
Intelligent search to access queries or create new queries
Natural language processing user interface

Open for 3rd party or custom UI components

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SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 Active Business

Intelligence
Active Business Intelligence
Right-time at the intersection of ETL and EAI
Real-time data acquisition
XI data integration

Active Information Delivery and Collaboration

Information Broadcasting
Ad-hoc Work Flow and Collaboration Rooms
Universal Worklist

BI Integrated Planning
Integrated design time tools
Integration of planning and analysis engine
Web 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

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SAP NetWeaver BI beyond 2004 Enhanced User

Experience
Enhanced User Experience
Embedded Business Intelligence
BI Patterns embedded into operational systems
Services-oriented BI

Real-time Analytics and BI Web Services

Analysis Process Designer and Intelligent Services
Optimal recommendations and personalized services in real-time
based on BW data
Real-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 Consumer

Ease-of-use
Information democracy through Self-service, subscriptions, etc.
BEx Portfolio for easy information access

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Further Information

SAP Service Marketplace:

Use ALIAS: BW at
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SAP NetWeaver
Business Intelligence Roadmap

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Questions?

Q&A

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