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SAP BI Strategy

From ETL thru Data Warehouse to the Front End Layer

Mathias Phling Business Development EMEA

V 1.0

Agenda

1. Todays BI Solution 2. Visualization 3. Performance 4. Flexibility 5. Summary

1. Todays BI Solution

Bill Inmons Enterprise Data Warehousing Concept


DSS Applications Departmental Data Marts
Acctg Finance Marketing Sales ERP ERP ERP CRM ETL Staging Area

Changed Data

eComm.

EDW
Global ODS
Oper. Mart

Bus. Int.

ERP Corporate Applications

Exploration warehouse/ data mining

local ODS

Granularity Manager

Cross media Storage Management


Nearline Storage

Session Analysis Dialogue Manager Cookie Cognition Preformatted dialogues

Archives
Web Logs

Internet

Source:Bill Inmon

BI Solution on all architecture levels

Front-End Layer
Metadata Management / Business Content
SAP Business Objects BI Tools

Data Warehouse Layer

Operation

SAP NetWeaver BW & BW Accelerator

Extract

Transform

Load

ETL Layer

SAP NW BW ETL

SAP Business Objects Data Integrator

SAP Business Suite


Order Mgmt. ...

Customer & Partner Applications

Non SAP & Legacy

3 Success Factors For Todays BI Solution

Visualization that enables end users needs


CEO

Do you have a flexible software architecture that supports your business needs and reduces costs simultaneously?
LOB

CFO

Performance for people to increase insight Can your employees access the information they need when they need it fast without frontiers?
CIO

Flexibility to respond to the pace of your business


EMPLOYEE

Is your current BI solution capable of supporting the pace in your industry?

MANAGER

EMPLOYEE

2. Visualization

Product Directions for BI Solutions


Richest Offering for All Business Users
And Much More

Dashboards, Visualization
Web App Designer Xcelsius

Enterprise Reporting
Report Designer Crystal Reports

Polestar

Ad-hoc Query & Reporting


Web Intelligence

BI Widgets

Advanced Analysis
BEx Analyzer Voyager Predictive

Mobile BI

Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform


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Web Services

SAP NetWeaver BI and BIA

BusinessObjects Enterprise

Product Directions for BI Solutions


SAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions
And Much More

Dashboards, Visualization
Web App Designer Xcelsius

Enterprise Reporting
Report Designer Crystal Reports

Polestar

Ad-hoc Query & Reporting


Web Intelligence

BI Widgets

Advanced Analysis
Pioneer (OLAP Analysis) Predictive

Mobile BI

Enterprise Data Warehousing & BI Platform


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Web Services

SAP NetWeaver BI and BIA

BusinessObjects Enterprise

Dashboarding and Data Visualization


Product Integration Roadmap

Interactive Dashboards and Data Visualization

2008 STANDARD PREMIUM

2009

2010

Dashboards

Xcelsius

Xcelsius

Xcelsius

Web Application Designer

Web Application Designer

Web Application Designer

Xcelsius becomes the flagship product for dashboarding and data visualization BEx Web Application Designer will not be enhanced further. It will be available based on current SAP maintenance policy SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment including SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer continues to be the go-to product for creating composite applications
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Dashboarding and Data Visualization for SAP NetWeaver BI with Xcelsius


Enterprise-wide deployments enabled today off SAP NetWeaver BI
Leverage existing Crystal and/or Web Intelligence reports Leverage existing Universes Built upon Business Objects Web Services
BusinessObjects Enterprise

Integration to BI Consumer Services


Direct data access to SAP NetWeaver BI Consume BEx/Pioneer Queries and Views Deliver high performance data access Enable low TCO with simple architecture Currently planned availability in 2009
BI Consumer Services BEx/Pioneer Queries and Views

Xcelsius

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Enterprise Reporting
Product Integration Roadmap

Enterprise class formatted reporting

2008 PREMIUM

2009

2010

Enterprise Reporting

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports

STANDARD

Crystal Reports for SAP NetWeaver BI


BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer

BEx Report Designer will not be enhanced further. It will be available based on current SAP maintenance policy BEx Report Designer customers transition to Crystal Reports
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Crystal Reports for SAP NetWeaver BI


Transition Strategy Toward Enterprise Reporting
Transition strategy for BEx Report Designer

SAP NetWeaver Portal

Opportunities for building up skill set and resources Plan transition to SAP BusinessObjects solutions Easy move from Crystal Reports for SAP NetWeaver BI to Crystal Reports for BusinessObjects Enterprise
Ship with SAP NetWeaver

All standard report formatting capabilities


SAP NetWeaver BI

In-depth integration with SAP NetWeaver platform


Subset of enterprise deployment capabilities

Crystal Reports for SAP NetWeaver BI BEx/Pioneer Queries and Views

Access to SAP NetWeaver BI data only Limited number of reports in SAP NetWeaver BI No integration with BEx Broadcaster
Currently planned availability in 2010

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Ad-hoc Query, Reporting, & Analysis


Product Integration Roadmap

Web Intelligence is the leading ad-hoc query, reporting, and analysis tool on the market

2008 PREMIUM

2009

2010

Ad-hoc Query, Reporting, & Analysis

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

SAP customers can invest in Web Intelligence today to empower business users with selfservice BI The strategy going forward is to strengthen the integration with SAP solutions and to expand the reach of the product to a broader user base Web Intelligence will continue to take full advantage of the semantic layer, enabling a simple and consistent user experience over any data
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Advanced OLAP Analysis


Product Integration Roadmap

2008 STANDARD PREMIUM

2009

2010

OLAP Analysis

Voyager

Voyager

Pioneer

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Analyzer (Excel)

Pioneer (code name for 2010 releases) provides a superset of capabilities from BEx Analyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer (Web), and BusinessObjects Voyager BEx Analyzer (Excel & Web) will not be enhanced further. It will be available based on current SAP maintenance policy Seamless transition for Voyager customers to Pioneer. BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzer customers transition to Pioneer
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Pioneer Project
Merge the Best of Both Worlds
SAP Business Objects
Advanced OLAP Voyager Leading Visualization Multiple OLAP Sources Native Excel Integration SAP NetWeaver BI / BW Accelerator BEx (Web) Analyzer

SAP NetWeaver BI

Tailored support for multiple user roles Focus on the Business Analysts (Excel/Web) but also extend the footprint of advanced analysis through ease-of-use & tool interoperability Easy migration for existing BEx Analyzer & Voyager customers Ability to fully leverage SAP in-memory analytic engine capabilities Best TCO for SAP on Non-SAP platforms Single architecture for both SAP NetWeaver and Business Objects customers Runs with BusinessObjects Enterprise side-by-side with SAP NetWeaver or with tighter integration with SAP NetWeaver for TCO reduction Currently planned availability in 2010
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New Visualization Product: Polestar


Bring BI to All Business Users
Intuitively explore data
No data model or data knowledge required

Automated relevancy of results


Most relevant information is displayed first Best chart type auto generated

Share insights with others


Export to CSV and Excel Save it locally as a browser bookmark One-click to send a link to the results by email

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BI Working Your Users Way


Personalized and secure

Ad-hoc Query & Reporting

Enterprise Reporting

Advanced Dashboards, Visualization Analysis

3. Performance

Opportunities not Harvested

Traditional methods too inflexible, unreliable or not economical

THE TRENDS
Increased adoption of analytics
Data explosion, growing 50% p.a. Frequent need for change More users / usage of analytics Users create queries despite having no knowledge of BI technology

THE CHALLENGES
Traditional BI platforms are bottlenecks
Unpredictable response times Inability to meet demand for change (tuning or boutique hardware)

SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator


SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator for high performance BI - A new transparent approach to boost BI query performancePerformance speedup factor between 10 and 100 Without changing the BI user experience (transparent to users) Boost performance for BusinessObjects clients Pre-requisite: BI in SAP NetWeaver 7.0
Calculation on the fly
Fast as Lightning Predictable query performance Any query

Compressed and Column-based Optimized for Analysis


Agile Low TCO Fast to Upload

DBMS

Calculation Business Warehouse


Bypassed SAP NetWeaver BI for queries

BWA

BW Accelerator - Value Proposition User Experience


Fast Query response times (also for BOBJ usage) Highly consistent response times Higher usage of BI and deeper analysis of company data or less time for BI interaction More flexibility in Query definition

Maintenance
No more need for maintenance of aggregates Reduced time for data loading (up to 80%) Reduce time for change runs (Example: 30h down to 45min) Reduce times of SEM Consolidation runs

Hardware
No more need for storage in aggregates Less Hardware needs on application and DB server level Possibility to consolidate different BI system landscapes

SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and SAP Business Objects Polestar Integration

Polestar Web Intelligence Crystal Reports Xcelsius SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1

SAP BusinessObjects Polestar

BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1


Directly search and explore indexed InfoCubes
Quickly find relevant information Explore and gain new insights Simple, fast, scalable

Calculation Business Warehouse SAP NetWeaver BW

BWA

Stand-Alone Open BI Accelerator


Newton Project
Stand-alone analytical engine
High performance, low TCO Agile BI for business users to easily build in-memory data marts
Xcelsius Web Intelligence Crystal Reports

Polestar

Universe (Outbound) Business Objects BI Platform

Source-agnostic
DI to load non-SAP data sources End-to-end universe integration

Built-in analytical capabilities


Ranking, top N / bottom N analysis Exception aggregation MultiProvider aggregation

Calculation Engine Index Aggregation Engine SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator / Newton

Advanced capabilities
Access to DataStore Objects Write-back and planning services (beyond 2009)

Data Integrator (Inbound) Universe

Data Warehouse SAP NetWeaver BI

Currently planned availability in 2009

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Near-line Storage and BI Accelerator


BI
InfoCube

NLS
alternative storage types with direct access capabilities for reporting and loading extraction of non-frequently used, read-only InfoProvider data partitions extracted partitions are deleted in RDBMS NLS storage and Online Storage together consistently reflect the BI data persistency of an InfoProvider NLS data is read-only NLS partitioned portions of an InfoProvider Offline Archive are write-protected

BWA BWA

Indexing Staging

Archiving

Near-line Storage

Replication of the BI Star Schema including master data RDBMS DB volume not affected Roll-Up and Change Run possible after data loads optimized for fast BI Query access

Access - very frequently

frequently

not frequently

rarely

Accelerated Upgrade to Business Suite

Lower your TCO and time efforts by Managing your Upgrade with innovative tools
Complete Business Suite 7.0 connectivity (with EhP1):
abap - java connection (available) for connection BI-IP, EP, ESS/MSS, etc. abap - abap (with EhP1) for backend connection e.g. ERP, CRM, BI, PI, etc. java - java (upcoming) for frontend connection e.g. FPM, etc.

2. CTC for BI-Java


automatic connection between Abap and Java (Note 983156)

Use the predefined content for: 1. ASU toolbox (incl. BI Content)


one single truth for all pre/post Upgrade Steps (Note 1000009)
upgrade to NetWeaver 7.x BI upgrade to ERP 6.0 EhPx (upcoming) upgrade to any SAP Product based on the NetWeaver 7.x Platform (upcoming) create/modify own content (XML based)

4. Flexibility

Tailored for Your Industry and Process


Best practices to maximize value
Visualization 1,000+ data models 5,000+ queries 10,000+ metrics & dimensions

Best Practices serving 26 Industries

Business content .. allowed a fast-track implementation. It would have taken us 10 times longer if we had to create own... cubes from scratch.

Business Objects Business Contents


Complementing Existing Business Content Pre-defined and delivered Crystal reports and Xcelsius dashboards
Business Suite customers will have access to new Business Content Embedded within the standard business processes of the Business Suite Across all Business Suite applications: ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, and SRM

Low TCO with deep integration to NetWeaver Platform


Direct access to transaction data in the Business Suite Leverage standard Business Suite metadata Unified life cycle management to deploy reports and dashboards

Integrated design-time to build/embed within custom business processes


Crystal Reports and Xcelsius Designer integrated to Web Dynpro and CE/VC Business Objects customers can re-use pre-defined reports and dashboards Business Objects customers can design new reports and dashboards

Currently planned availability with SAP Business Suite EhP 5 in 2009


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The Business Network with Trusted Ubiquitous Information


End-to-end BI solutions combining the strengths of data warehousing and data marts Agnostic and flexible deployment options via extensive data acquisition and distribution options Data profiling and cleansing for MDM, BW, marts to deliver trusted information Empowering the next generation of information driven applications through embeddable analytics
SAP Business Suite Non-SAP Data stores Non-SAP Applications Cloud

Information Discovery and Delivery

Master Data Management


Data Quality

BWA BW
Data Quality

BWA*
Rapid Marts Data Quality

Process Integration, ETL

Data Integrator

* Planned Newton
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Polestar for BW Accelerator

Bring BI to All Business Users


Simplicity and speed of search Intuitive data exploration and visualization High performance and scalability

Help IT to be Successful
Easy and efficient to manage and scale Fast to deliver Based on proven reliable infrastructure

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5. Summary

Summary

Visualization
Web 2.0 user experience to broaden business intelligence adoption Easy self-service access to corporate information for end users Embedded intelligence within the business process context

Performance
Enabling business driven innovation Analyzing information at the speed of thought Closed-loop Business planning based on live data

Flexibility
BI and DWH in Enterprise Information Management Creating trust in corporate Information Enabling Enterprise-SOA

Start your NetWeaver BI Transformation - today


Use The Power Of Performance, Visualization And Flexibility
FLEXIBILITY
SOA Platform (CE) BO Portfolio Polestar Pioneer/WebI

VISUALIZATION

BO Portfolio Xcelsius Dashboards BEx/WebI/CR Enterprise Portal

PERFORMANCE

BWA Polestar NetWeaver BI Red. TCO with CTC

PERFORMANCE
SAP NETWEAVER DELIVERS CONTINUOUS Performance, Visualization And Flexibility WITHIN ONE INTEGRATED OPEN PLATFORM

Thank you for your attention

Other Resources Service Marketplace:


http://service.sap.com/bi
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SDN:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/bia

Thank you!
Mathias Phling Business Development Manager SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Office of the EMEA CTO

SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG


Phone: +49-62277-69270 Mobile: +49-160-90821528 Email: mathias.poehling@sap.com

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