SAP BI is an enterprise-wide comprehensive decision support (DSS) system for analytical needs of an enterprise. BI can also support some degree of operational reporting. Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAP NetWeaver BI tools to make your system more flexible and adaptive to the needs of end users.
SAP BI is an enterprise-wide comprehensive decision support (DSS) system for analytical needs of an enterprise. BI can also support some degree of operational reporting. Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAP NetWeaver BI tools to make your system more flexible and adaptive to the needs of end users.
SAP BI is an enterprise-wide comprehensive decision support (DSS) system for analytical needs of an enterprise. BI can also support some degree of operational reporting. Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAP NetWeaver BI tools to make your system more flexible and adaptive to the needs of end users.
Portfolio - with performance options Bjarne Berg Director SAP BI Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 2 This is a comprehensive guide to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence presentation tools We will take an overview tour of the Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC), Web Application Designer (WAD), Report Designer, Web publishing, Java Server pages (JSP) and the new SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer. We will look at the strengths and limitations of each tool and see how they can be used independently or collectively in a SAP BI environment. Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAP NetWeaver BI tools to make your system more flexible and adaptive to the needs of end users.
Learning Points Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 3 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 4 The SAP BI Core Toolset SAP BI is an enterprise-wide comprehensive decision support (DSS) system for analytical needs of an enterprise.
BI can also support some degree of operational reporting
The SAP BI tool set has many presentation tools and options for companies to leverage. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 5 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 6 BEx Query Designer gets a facelift in BI 7.x The 3.5x BEx Query Designer The NWBI 7.0 BEx Query Designer The new 7.x Query designer was totally re-developed in MS-Visual Basic .NET
This new property pane makes it easier to format and control displays than in the past. BEx Ad-Hoc Query Designer functionality is replaced by BEx Web Analyzer in BI 7.0 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 7 BEx Analyzer (Excel Workbooks) 1. BEx Workbooks is Excel 'on steroids'.
2. BW queries can be opened in Excel
3. Queries can be refreshed and standard Excel functions can be used
This is a great tool for financial analysts and power users. To use this tool you need BEx installed Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 8 BEx web Analyzer integrates Excel The Excel integration in the BEx analyzer is far better.
Unlike the old days of dynamic HTML, you can now use the BEx analyzer more like a real application without refreshing the whole page every time you click on something (this is due to the Java component in BI 7.0)
Source: SAP AG, 2008 Important: BEx browser goes away in SAP BI 7.0 (so does BEx Download Scheduler)
Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 9 BEx Analyzer Design Mode 1. Application building in Excel (similar to WAD) 2. New options for queries with two structures 3. Excel formulas allow access to any cell of the result set 4. Excel formatting options can be fully leveraged for BEx workbooks (e.g., blank lines, fonts, etc.) 5. Combining Excel formulas and Excel formatting allows the design of complex formatted workbooks 6. Integration of Business Planning is available To use this tool you need BEx installed Source: SAP, Zane Connally 2008 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 10 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 11 Creating new data inside SAP BI In Data warehousing v2.0 (Bill Immons new terminology), we are using BI applications to create new data that needs to be fed to the data warehouse, and /or the transactional system
Tools are now available to build association data sets that creates updates based on BI findings (i.e. customer segmentation, risk, profitability flagging etc).
Images: Bhanu Gupta, ASUG 2005 Illinois chapter Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 12 Complex scenarios can be built for structured analysis such as risk modeling, customer segmentation, market basket analysis, predictive modeling and much more Image: SAP Image: SAP APD Analysis Process Designer and data mining New data based on the findings can be loaded back into data targets and used by others for reporting i.e. CRM analysis. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 13 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD) SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 14 Visual Composer A Visual Composer is a tool to visualize the data. It is a browser-based modeling and design tool for rapid application development & prototyping in a code-free development environment. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 15 Visual Composer for Complex cockpits Modeling of BI applications using the BI kit of the Visual Composer allows business users to create analytical content for SAP portal. It offers the integration with BI infoproviders, views, BEx web applications, PDF and more via WEB API as access to other data sources such as OLAP and relational data sources) via Java connectors Image source: Cubeserv Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 16 Visual Composer Data Methods Can integrate data from multiple data sources, including SAP and non-SAP systems, into one model Different options available for data access include: BI Extension Kit Remote Function Call (RFC) Web services BI Extension Kit allows access to the following DataSources SAP NetWeaver 2004 BI (BW 3.5 Support Package 14) SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 JDBC XMLA Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 17 Visual Composer is Easy for Power Users to Learn Visual Composer is a power user tool that is simple to learn for someone with a little bit of technical background (i.e. controllers, report writers, analysts).
Source: SAP Take advantage of prebuilt analytic business packages No coding required to create great-looking Web-based cockpits
Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 18 The future of Visual Composer Composition Environment including Visual Composer continues to be the go-to product for creating composite applications (SAP, 2008) Source: SAP, July 2008 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 19 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 20 BEx Web Application Designer (WAD) OLAP Processor BEx Web Application Designer BEx Analyzer/ Query Designer Web Service Charting Engine Web Browser HTLM Templates InfoProvider WAD is an intuitive tool to build powerful web applications and to interact with portals and custom templates.
BW queries can be manipulated in WAD for better display Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 21 New Features of SAP NetWeaver SAP BI 7.0 Web AD Web Items: Tab Pages, Button, Script Item (in SAP BI 7.0 Support Package Stack 7) Drag and drop using Analysis item New chart types (heat map, Gantt, milestone trend analysis) Export BI Web applications in PDF format Command Wizard for generating Web API commands Integration with SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 BEx Report Designer for formatted reports
NEW: User can change the XHTML source code of any web template either directly, or the ABAP program RS_TEMPLATE_MAINTAIN_70, or in any external XHTML editor. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 22 Command Wizard and JavaScript You can use Command Wizard for generating JavaScript code for the Script Item to use in custom cockpit applications
Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Source: SAP 20009 Product Directions for BI Solutions
And Much More Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform Advanced Analysis Enterprise Reporting Dashboards, Visualization Ad-hoc Query & Reporting SAP BEx Analyzer SAP BEx Analyzer Voyager Voyager Web App Designer Web App Designer Predictive Predictive Report Designer Report Designer Web Intelligence Web Intelligence Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Xcelsius Xcelsius BI Widgets BI Widgets Web Services Web Services Polestar Polestar Mobile BI Mobile BI BusinessObjects Enterprise BusinessObjects Enterprise SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Source: SAP 20009 Product Directions for BI Solutions
Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform Advanced Analysis Enterprise Reporting Dashboards, Visualization Ad-hoc Query & Reporting SAP BEx Analyzer SAP BEx Analyzer Voyager Voyager Web App Designer Web App Designer Predictive Predictive Report Designer Report Designer Web Intelligence Web Intelligence Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Xcelsius Xcelsius BI Widgets BI Widgets Web Services Web Services And Much More Polestar Polestar Mobile BI Mobile BI BusinessObjects Enterprise BusinessObjects Enterprise SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 25 BI Web Application Designer Roadmap InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal SAP BOE Platform SAP NW BW BEx Web Templates Pioneer Web Server Workspace PIO Web Tab BEx Web Tab
BI Consumer Services BEx Queries/ InfoProviders Pioneer Web Client BEx Web App Designer SAP BOE Platform Pioneer Web Server Workspace PIO Web Tab BEx Web Tab
BI Consumer Services Pioneer Web Client Pioneer Designer/ SDK SAP NW BW BEx Web Templates BEx Queries/ InfoProviders BEx Web App Designer Migration options via Pioneer SDK
InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal planned 2010 future Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 26 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 27 The BEx Report Designer This new tool was created to simplify the formatting of reports and fix many of the printing issues in previous versions of BW.
Source: SAP AG We now get color control, header-footer control and many new features such as location control of cells and integration of pictures, charts and fixed text. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 28 BEx Report Designer is new in BI 7.0 Customizable font styles (i.e. bold, italic), colors, etc. Group-level changes with individual formatting Layout options, e.g.: Height of rows, width of columns Multi-line column headers Flexible field positioning Merging cells Support for hierarchies Rules for the presentation of special characteristic values Integration of text, pictures, and charts Header & footer for reports News: BEx Report Designer 7.1, (last release in 2008) will be available under maximum maintenance until 2016 and will be replaced with the Crystal Base product. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 29 Crystal Report is still available (also in SAP BW 3.x) With BW you get access to Crystal reports. In fact you have many pre- developed reports that comes with SAP-BW. Currently, you can modify, or develop and deploy a few Crystal reports without additional licensing cost. Crystal is a great tool for batch reporting of "pixel controlled' formatted reports.
Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 30 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 31 Web Cockpits in the Portal You can integrate queries and Web applications into the portal through publishing, broadcasting, or Web calls
The portal can either receive designed pages passively or actively create communities, Web pages, collaboration rooms, or cockpits Broadcasting Publishing Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 32 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 33 BI Java SDK-Based Applications in SAP BI 7.x BI Java SDK can be used for custom applications based on SAP BI and non-SAP data. BI Java SDK provides access to relational and OLAP data sources using JDBC, XMLA, ODBO etc. Access to 200+ data sources using the JDBC drivers. Source: SAP AG, 2008 Java programmers will recognize the standard development kit's (SDK) main libraries such as the abstract windowing toolkit (AWT) and the GUI-oriented Swing object library as well Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 34 BI Java SDK-Based Cockpits (cont.) SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio can develop BI Java SDK- based applications Can use along with SAP Java Web Dynpro Interested developers should familiarize themselves with SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 35 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 36 SAPs Premium Offerings SAP Acquired Business Objects in 2007/2008 and is working on integrating BOBJ into the core SAP BI offerings. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 37 BOBJ capabilities Dashboards and Reports Crystal Reports for pixel formatted reports has been available with SAP BI/BW since 2002. This tool can be integrated into your tool portfolio using existing SAP NetWeaver BI queries
(NOTE: Crystal & Crystal Base will be the core tools for formatted reports starting 2010) Dashboards can be built using Xcelsius. Xcelsius+ will be launched in 2009, and will be the flagship product for data visualization & dashboards Source SAP AG, 2009 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 38 BOBJ capabilities Analysis, Ad-hoc & Widgets The Web Intelligence tool from BOBJ is a tool for ad-hoc web based reporting, query & analysis. It is intended for end users and can leverage queries to both relational and OLAP sources. It will be the core offering for ad-hoc end user analysis starting 2009. With the current offering of BOBJ you can also use Desktop Widgets to place BI content direct onto a PC desktop and monitor reports and KPIs. Source SAP AG, June 2008 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 39 New Tools Roadmap Source SAP Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 40 The Move towards Pioneer Pioneer (for 1 st Quarter 2010 release) provides a superset of the capabilities in BEx Analyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer (Web), and Business Objects Voyager.
Voyager customers migrate to Pioneer.
BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzer customers migrate to Pioneer. (Note: BEx is planned to go into regular maintenance) Web based Excel based Source SAP, April, 2009 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ What can be Done in 2009- Implementations Suggestion Tool Purpose Visual Composer Visualization Web Intelligence Ad-hoc BI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop Intelligence Crystal Report Formatted reports BPC Consolidation & Planning BI Accellerator In memory performance Candidates for Implementations in 2009 Visual Composer Widgets BI Accelerator Web Intelligence (webi) Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ The two types of Universes There are currently 2 ways to get at the SAP BI data.
If you implement this year, you need to make conscious decisions about which method you select. There are pros and cons of each 42 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.0 BW
Data Federator RDBMS Analytic Engine OLAP BAPI ODBO XMLA Universes QT ODA SQL Access MDX Access WebI Xcelsius QaaWS BIA Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 44 Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.01 BW
DF Fascade Data Federator RDBMS Analytic Engine OLAP BAPI ODBO XMLA Universes QT ODA SQL Access MDX Access WebI Xcelsius QaaWS BWA Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Comparison BW Server Feature MDX SQL BW Hierarchies
Restricted and Calculated Key Figures
Security
BW Variables
Currency and Unit Conversion
Exceptions, Conditions
SUM, MIN, MAX Aggregations
AVG, COUNT, COUNT DISTINCT, Aggregations
OLAP Cache
Navigational Attributes
Mass Data Enabled
Federation (e.g. BW RDBMS, BW BW)
= fully supported = limited support / workaround Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ What can be Done in 2009- Take a Look at Polestar is an interesting technology that companies may start a prototype with and see how it can help them access BI data from a variety of sources (NW and others)
Xcelsius Polestar Suggestion Tool Purpose Xcelcius Dashboards Polestar Search engine Pioneer BEx web & Excel Worth a Prototype Keep an Eye on, but wait until the new release Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ What can be Done in 2009- Prototype Consider building a Xcelsius Prototype to get used to really interactive dashboards and what-if analysis. Xcelsius Image source: Adobe, 2009 Suggestion Tool Purpose Xcelcius Dashboards Polestar Search engine Pioneer BEx web & Excel Worth a Prototype Keep an Eye on, but wait until the new release Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ What can be Done in 2009- Keep doing There are many classical SAP NetWeaver tools that should still be used by companies that are planning go-lives in 2009.
Integrated planning is still supported. Pioneer is still 12 months away WAD will continue to be the development environment for 2009. Suggestion Tool Purpose Web Application Designer Web development BEx Web Web reporting BEx Excel Excel reporting Analysis Process Designer Structured Analysis Integrated Planning Planning Keep doing for a while longer Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Stop As soon as possible If you need Formatted Reports in 2009, you should seriously consider Crystal Reports. The current roadmap calls for moving Report Designer into regular maintenance at the end of 2009, and stop further development of this tool.
Looking forward to Xcelsius and Pioneer, it may be advisable to limit further custom development in JSP unless it is not intended to be migrated at a future date. Suggestion Tool Purpose Report Designer Formatted reports Custom JSP pages Custom applications Stop when possible Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Training SAP Business Objects for SAP NetWeaver BW future New 2 day course offering from SAP Education for training on Business Objects integration with SAP NetWeaver BW Two dates are currently scheduled in June for virtual course delivery June 1 2, 2009 June 25 26, 2009 See the following link to the Course Description for more detailed information on the content covered http://www.sap.com/usa/services/education/usacourse. epx?context=%5b%5b|SAPBO||1|091|US|%5d%5d| Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 51 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP)
The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Why BI-A? Disk speed is growing slower than other HW components In-memory data stores
Multi-channel UI, high event volume, cross industry value chains
Application- aware and intelligent data management Disk based data storage
MIPS/$ CPU Technology Drivers 400 MBPS 5 MBPS Disk Data Transfer
80x 100 x 10 Gbps 100 Mbps Network Speed 2 64 2 48 x Source: 1990 numbers SAP AG 2009 numbers Dr. Berg Physical hard drive speeds only grew by 80 times since 1990. All other hardware components grew faster. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ BI Accelerator Works by Indexing InfoCubes in Hardware memory BI Accelerator has been simple to install and operate for established SAP BI teams
You use process chains to maintain the BI-A engine after each data load IBM, Sun, HP & Fujitsu have standard solutions ranging from $32K to $300K+ that can be installed and tested in as little as 2-4 weeks (+SAP license fees) 32 GB Blades are certified by SAP SAP BW Any tool Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ BI Analytical Engines Query executing priorities Query Execution Without BI Accelerator Query Execution With BI Accelerator Information Broadcasting / Precalculation Query Cache Aggregates InfoProvider Information Broadcasting / Precalculation Query Cache SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator Aggregates can be replaced with BI-A, while the memory cache is still useful. Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ BIA Currently reads data from InfoCubes. DSOs & InfoObjects are still read from base/physical tables (even when the InfoObject is indexed as part of master data). Performance is Near-Linear: Benchmarks
BIAs strength resides in its near-linear scalability
Performance is measured in terms of: 1. BI-A index creation time 2. Multi-user throughput per hour 3. Average report response time 4. Average number of records touched by each report Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Many companies, have spent 2-5 days in BIA training (total for 1-2 administrators) and a work through a single interface: RSDDBIAMON (Checks available at: RSRV) Most customers have found BIA Admin to be minimal The training & admin to run BI Accelerator has proven to be minimal. Training is included in the SAP courses: BW310, BW360 and in the online course BW361
In the past, SAP has also offered a 2 day workshop called BI Upgrade & Accelerator (WNABIA) Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ Once you exceed a few hundred critical users and/or 3-4 TB of data you should seriously consider SAP BIA BIA is becoming mainstream BIA is no longer something exotic.
Many of the large BI systems have already implemented BIA and many more projects are under way in Europe and in the Americas. Some of SAP reference clients Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 58 Who gets to do what? The major decision for a SAP BI driven enterprise is to determine who gets access to each tool. There is often a temptation for the IT community of wanting to keep the tools under their domain That is a mistake The IT community should actively work with the power and casual users to improve human capabilities and thereby teach them to become more productive employees.
Chinese Proverb Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 59 Agenda The SAP BI Tool Revolution SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC) Web Application Designer (WAD) Report Designer Web publishing Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP) The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools Empowering the users a mind shift Who Should get access Wrap-up Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 60 Resources COMERIT (Presentations, guides and accelerators) www.comeritinc.com
SAP Documents - Interfaces for Enterprise Reporting, Query, and Analysis https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/libr ary/uuid/f52e9cc1-0d01-0010-d88b-d808b69391a4
SAP Business Intelligence (BI) by Norbert Egger, Jean-Marie Fiechter, Sebastian Kramer, Ralf-Patrick Sawicki, and Stephan Weber. Galio Press - Hardcover, 653 pages, ISBN 978-1-59229- 082-6 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 61 Key Learnings Suggestion Tool Purpose Visual Composer Visualization Web Intelligence Ad-hoc BI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop Intelligence Crystal Report Formatted reports BPC Consolidation & Planning BI Accellerator In memory performance Xcelcius Dashboards Polestar Search engine Web Application Designer Web development BEx Web Web reporting BEx Excel Excel reporting Analysis Process Designer Structured Analysis Integrated Planning Planning Report Designer Formatted reports Custom JSP pages Custom applications Pioneer BEx web & Excel Candidates for Implementations in 2009 Worth a Prototype Keep an Eye on, but wait until the new release Stop when possible Keep doing for a while longer Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 62 Questions and Answers How to contact me:
Dr. Bjarne Berg bberg@comerit.net Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 63 Bonus Material The total BOBJ toolset Source: SAP March, 2009 This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the SAP market Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 64 Bonus Material The total BOBJ toolset Source: SAP March, 2009 This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the SAP market Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 65 Bonus Material The total BOBJ toolset This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the SAP market Source: SAP March, 2009 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 66 Bonus Material The total BOBJ toolset This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the SAP market Source: SAP March, 2009 Real Experience. Real Advantage. [ 67 Bonus Material The total BOBJ toolset This Bonus Material Include all SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools for the SAP market Source: SAP March, 2009