BOBJ introduction

By Sachin Malhotra

People

Process

Technology

SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Portfolio

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions provide business users with access to unified

information through a broad suite of BI tools for confident decision making and
alignment across people and teams on a single, scalable BI platform
Reporting

How do I access
reports
for greater
and
transform
insight?
corporate data into
highly formatted

Dashboards and

Interactive

Visualization

Analysis

How do I visualize
data for better
decisionmaking?

How do I answer ad
hoc questions and
interact with
information?

Analysis

How do I determine
forecasts?
trends from complex
historicaldata and
possiblymake better

Data Exploration

How do I find
immediate answers
to business
questions?

Crystal Reports
The de facto standard for reporting
Proven world standard for report design
Ubiquitous reporting assets and expertise
for fast
implementation
Chosen reporting solution by over 500
major
independent software vendors
Deploy a common framework for all
enterprise reporting needs
Build any kind of report such as business,
financial, legal, and regulatory reports
Sophisticated report formatting: create
multipage, multi-query, pixel-perfect reports
Templates and wizards to speed up report
creation
Secure, large-scale distribution of reports

Web Intelligence
Empower business users with
powerful, yet easy to use
analysis
Intuitive, Web-based interface with
offline capabilities
Start from a blank slate or use an
existing analysis or report
Multi-source access
Interactivity with filtering, ranking,
sorting, calculations, etc.
Data lineage
Lighten IT workload
Self-service analysis and reporting
Controlled and secure access with
tight BI platform integration
Intuitive, business-centric view of
information with universes

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Bring BI to all business users

Simplicity and speed of search
Intuitive data exploration and visualization
Fast response across mountains of
data anywhere in the organization
Accelerated version with in-memory
technologies

Help IT to be successful
Easy and efficient to manage and scale
More reactive to business with faster
delivery
Support for heterogeneous data
sources

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

onsume attractive, personalized

ashboards online or offline
Access to personalized, Flash-based
dashboards
Secure visualizations anywhere portal,
reports, PDF, MS Office documents

mpower business users with

nteractive information
Powerful what-if analysis with sliders
and other controls
Ability to drill-down into details
Pre-built components, skins, maps,
charts, gauges, and selectors

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for MS Office

Empower analysts to consume and

explore multi-dimensional data sets
Comprehensive OLAP data access
Multiple OLAP cubes in the same work
space
Available for Web based and Microsoft
Office focused deployments
Quickly find patterns, exceptions,
and other areas of interest
Comprehensive range of business and
time calculations
Stunning visualization options (e.g.,
scatter plot, bubble plot, radar chart,
etc.)
Exception highlighting
Ability to drill-down into details Web
Intelligence or Crystal Reports

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP

Allow power users & IT to create

purpose built analysis templates
and applications
Target User Group
IT, Designer, Power User

Functionality
Eclipse-based application design
environment for planning &
analytical apps
Access to BW via BICS
Integrated with SAP
BusinessObjects
Premium Alternative to BEx WAD

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

Semantic Layer for Exposing Business

Data Under a Single Umbrella

SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP ECC Customers

Legacy reporting technology

Analytics for sophisticated users
Limited report formatting capabilities

Modern user experience

Compelling analytics for all users
Best-of-breed BI solutions

SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions integrated

within the SAP Business Suite

SAP BusinessObjects BI
for SAP ECC Customers
Central idea
Using Crystal Reports as layout option for Web
Dynpro ALV and SAP GUI ALV
Leverage ALV lifecycle management (LCM)

Two Flavors
Generic Crystal report:
Enable usage of SAP BusinessObjects
tools
immediately across allALVs within the
whole
suite (e.g. for printout or as starting
point to
define Specific Crystal Reports)
Specific Crystal Report:
Using formatting features on top of
data of a

SAP BusinessObjects BI
for SAP ECC Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI
for SAP ECC Customers
Operational Reporting
Direct connectivity towards SAP ERP can be established with Crystal Reports 2011 only
Starting with SAP ERP 6.0 EnhancementPackage 05 (Innovations 2010) the Transient Provider allows to
leverage a BEx

query based on a classic InfoSet and in that way expose operationaldata

via a common interface

Crystal Reports for Enterprise is able to leverage the connection towards Rapid Marts, SAP HANA , and the
Transient

Provider

Self Service Reporting

Self Service reporting capabilities with Web Intelligence are enabled by leveraging the Transient Provider
technologyand the
semantic layer in combination with SAP HANA

Data Visualization
SAP BusinessObjectsDashboards can leverage the connection towards Universes, Live Office,and BI Web
Services to

leverage

data from the operational systems, Rapid Marts, and SAP HANA

Analysis

SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts

Rapid Mart data model uses

star design principle
Information-rich:
Content stored in ~50 tables
Pre-build universes included with
access to all objects
Pre-build WebI reports
Pre-build Xcelsius dashboards
All ready to use right from the start!

Rapid Marts can be implemented

individually, or in any combination, to
form a single platform that delivers
the infrastructure of internal and
external information needed.

SAP BusinessObjects Rapid Marts Packages

For SAP ERP Supported Analysis

Available
Rapid Marts for SAP solutions :
General Suite
Ledger
Fnancials

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable

Cost Center

Human
Capital
Management Suite
Operational
Suite
HR
Sales
Sales

Inventory
Purchasing

Manufacturing Suite

Project Systems

Production Planning

Plant Maintenance

Please Note: Rapid Marts

are jump-start data mart
offerings useful for rolling out
quick, subject-area specific BI
solutions for departmental
needs. Rapid Marts aim is to
simplify and shorten data
mart deployment cycles. They
are not replacements for an
Enterprise Data Warehouse
like BW.

SAP High-Performance Analytic

Appliance (SAP HANA) Operational Data Marts
Scenario
Replication of operational data into memory
New Business Content provides immediate
access to analytic models on operational data
Modeling environment enables customization of
content and creation of new models

Benefits
Outstanding query performance on operational
data
High flexibility to create new models or to
customize SAP Business Content
No materialization of analytic models
Direct access for SAPs BI clients and MS Excel
Risk free passage to in-memory computing

SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP

HANA)
Operational Data Marts
Objective:
Access and transform transactionaldata into actionable, dynamic analyticsand reduce the cost and
time for a DWH solution

Best practice solution:

SAP HANA with SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP NetWeaver BW Customers

Operational Reporting

Direct connectivity towards SAP ERP and non-SAP based business applications can be established with Crystal Reports 2011 o

Starting with SAP ERP 6.0 EnhancementPackage 05 (Innovations 2010) the Transient Provider allows to leverage a BEx query

based on a classic InfoSet and in that way expose operationaldata via a common interface

Crystal Reports for Enterprise is able to leverage the connection towards the Transient Universe (BICS), Universes , SAP HANA
and the Transient Provider

Self Service Reporting

Self Service reporting capabilities with Web Intelligence are enabled by leveraging the Transient Universe (BICS) on top of SAP
NetWeaverBW and the Transient Provider technology for SAP ERP and the semantic layer in combination with SAP HANA

Data Visualization

SAP BusinessObjectsDashboards can leverage the connection towards the BI Consumer Services, Universes, Live Office,and B
WebServices to leverage data from the operationalsystems, SAP NetWeaverBW,and SAP HANA

Analysis

SAP BusinessObjectsAnalysis, edition for Microsoft Officeis able to leverage the BI Consumer Services in combination with SAP

NetWeaverBW and is able to leverage SAP HANAs analytical capabilities and provide users these capabilities inside the Microso

SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP HANA Customers
Other Applications

MDX

SAP BusinessObjects

SQL

SQL

BICS

PreconfiguredAnalytical Appliance

In-Memory software + hardware

(HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Cisco)

In-Memory Computing Engine Software

SAP HANA

Data Modeling and Data Management

Real-time Data Replicationvia Sybase Replication

Modeling

Server

Studio

Row & Column

Calculationand
Storage
PlanningEngine
In-Memory Computing Engine

Data Services for ETL capabilities from SAP

Business Suite, SAP BW and 3rd Party Systems

Capabilities Enabled

Analyze information in real-time at unprecedented

speeds on large volumes of non-aggregated data

RealTime

and historic business data

Replication

Data

Services

Services

SAP Business

SAP NetWeaver

Suite

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BW

Create flexible analytic models based on real-time

3rd Party

Foundation for new category of applications

(e.g., planning, simulation)

applicationsin category
to significantlyoutperform current
Minimizes data duplication
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SAP BusinessObjects BI
For SAP HANA Customers

SAP In-Memory Computing Studio

JDBC

ODBC

ODBO

Authentication
Content mgmt

BICS

MDX

SQL

Admin& model

SAP BusinessObjects BI clients

SAP
BusinessObjects
BI 4.0

SQL
DBC

SAP In-Memory
Database

SAP Business

Server

SAP HANA

sync

Replication

DB Server

load

Application

Replication

SAP BusinessObjects

Agent

Data Services4.0

Any
source

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SAP Integration

Lifecycle Management
SAPBusinessWarehouse

SAPBusinessObjectsEnterprise

Controller

AdesignatedBWserverconfiguredasaDomain
Controller(TransportHost)inTransport
ManagementSystem(STMS)

AdesignatedBusinessObjectsEnterpriseserverwith
LifeCycleManagerAdd-on

Route

PredefinedontheControllerthroughTransport
routeconfiguration

DefinableperTransport(Promotion)byassigninga
sourceandadestinationsystems

Systems

Sourceandtargetserverspredefinedonthe
ControllerthroughTransportrouteconfiguration

DefinableperTransport(Promotion)byassigninga
sourceandadestinationsystems

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SAP Integration

Lifecycle Management

feCycle Manager is a Web-Based tool that enables you to

Promote Business Intelligence resources from one BusinessObjects system to another

BusinessObjects system
Manages dependencies of BI resources
Rollbacks a promoted resource to restore the destination system to its previous state
Manages different versions of BI resources
No additional licensing required
Available now at the SAP
Service Marketplace extranet

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SAP Integration

SAP Enterprise Portal Integration

Portlet providing BI launch pad

features enabling rapid deployment
of BI frontend application in portal
Feature parity with BI launch pad all BI
contents, all actions (view, edit, create,
schedule)

Viewing portlet for building custom

portal application
UI driven workflows to display documents
Supports browsing the SAP
BusinessObjects Enterprise repository

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

Improve Efficiencies with Deeper Platform
Integration
Data Services
Single tool to define all extraction, validation and cleansing rules

Enables native access to the Business Suite, BW extraction is not required

Ensures data from SAP and non-SAP systems is cleansed and reconciled before
load BW

with Business Content Extractors

Loads run faster

Job setup is much easier to deploy and maintain

Delta loads fully supported (Changed Data Capture)

High quality data is prerequisite for accurate analysis and informed decision
making
SAP Business Suite
SAP

NetWeaver

SAP extractors
All third-party
data sources

BW

SAP BusinessObjects
Data Services

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

Improve Efficiencies with Deeper Platform
Integration
Auto generate Data Services extraction jobs, from within BW,
to load data in from any source
Integrated Data Services connectivity in NetWeaver BW 7.3
From within the BW workbench, browse external metadata through Data Services
connectivity
Native loading in BW 7 data stores through new staging BAPIs
No longer required to go via BW 3.5 emulation mode

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SAP BusinessObjects Data Services

Improve Efficiencies with Deeper Platform
Integration
Data Services is the engine to load all data into NewDB (in-memory)
The HANA Modeler will generate initial loading jobs
Modeler will use Data Services to browse and import external metadata
Modeler will generate initial flows to load data into NewDB tables
Further modifications to flows done via Data Services Designer

Modeler

Repository
BW

Server
Open Hub

Designer and

Data Load

NewDB
(in-memory)

Management
Console
Any Source

Data Services 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects

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