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What Every SAP Customer
Needs to Know About the
Latest Reporting, Analysis, and
Dashboard Tools Available
with SAP NetWeaver BI
Dr. Bjarne Berg
MyITgroup, a VIP consulting company
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In This Session ...
This is a comprehensive guide to SAP NetWeaver® Business
Intelligence (SAP NetWeaver BI) 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 NetWeaver BI
environment.
You’ll 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
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The SAP NetWeaver BI Core Toolset
SAP NetWeaver BI is
an enterprise-wide
comprehensive
decision support
system (DSS) for the
analytical needs of an
enterprise.
Bjarne: As you know, we don’t
llow single-slide sections. Can
we move this slide to be in front
f the first What We’ll Cover
lide, as part of your
ntroductory material?
Also: Is this an SAP image? If
o, we need to say “Source:
AP”
BERG: Moved and referenced
Source: SAP
SAP NetWeaver BI can
also support some
degree of operational
reporting
The SAP NetWeaver BI tool set has many presentation
tools and options for companies to leverage.
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools & The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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The BEx Query Designer in SAP BW 3.5
The BEx query designer
is a simple tool that you
use to develop queries
for users.
While the Query
Designer is sued to
define the query, you
have many options on
how you deploy the
queries
You can deploy the
queries through web
templates, broadcasted
emails, portals, Excel,
and more.
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BEx Query Designer Gets a “Facelift” in SAP NetWeaver BI
7.0
The 3.5x BEx
Query Designer
BEx ad hoc Query
Designer
functionality is
replaced by BEx
Web Analyzer in SAP
NetWeaver BI 7.0
The new 7.0 Query designer was totally
redeveloped in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
This new property pane makes it easier to
format and control displays than in the
past.
The SAP NetWeaver BI
7.0 BEx Query
Designer
Note:
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BEx Analyzer (Excel Workbooks)
1. BEx Workbooks is Excel “on steroids.”
2. SAP 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
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BEx Web Analyzer Integrates Excel
The Excel integration in the BEx
Analyzer is far better tham older
versions of SAP BW
arne: What is the Excel
tegration in BEx Analyzer
tter than?
ERG: Spelled out
Source: SAP AG, 2008
Important: BEx browser goes
away in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
(so does BEx Download
Scheduler)
Unlike the old days of dynamic
HTML, you can now use the BEx
analyzer more as a real
application without refreshing the
whole page every time you click
on something (this is due to the
Java component in SAP
NetWeaver BI 7.0)
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BEx Analyzer Design Mode
1. Application building in Excel (similar to Web Application
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Designer)
New options for queries with two structures
Excel formulas allow access to any cell of the result set
Excel formatting options can be fully leveraged for BEx
workbooks (e.g., blank lines, fonts, etc.)
Combining Excel formulas and Excel formatting allows the
design of complex formatted workbooks
Integration of Business Planning is available
To use this tool you need BEx installed
Source: SAP, Zane Connally 2008
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools & The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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SAP BW Analysis Process Designer and Data Mining
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SAP BW Analysis Process Designer (APD) is for knowledge
discovery and exploration of large sets of data.
APD has been available in SAP BW since version 3.0 and can be
used to do complex analysis without having to restructure the data
and create hundreds of specialized data marts.
You can read from a variety of sources such as
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Flat files
Database tables
Data Store Objects (new name for ODS)
Infocubes
BW queries
Since BW 3.5, APD has been
integrated with the Data
Mining Workbench. You can
access it using transaction
RSDMWB
Image: SAP, UK
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DW Version 2.0
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•
In Data warehousing v2.0 (Bill Immon’s 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 create
updates based on BI findings (i.e. customer segmentation, risk,
profitability flagging, etc).
Images: Bhanu Gupta, ASUG 2005 Illinois chapter
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SAP BW Analysis Process Designer and Data Mining
Complex scenarios can be
built for structured analysis
such as risk modeling,
customer segmentation,
market basket analysis,
predictive modeling, and
much more
Image: SAP
“New data” based on the
findings can be loaded
back into data targets and
used by others for reporting
— example: CRM analysis.
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools & The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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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.
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer for Complex Cockpits
Modeling of BI applications using the BI kit of the SAP
NetWeaver 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
as access to
other data
sources
(such as
OLAP and
relational
data sources)
via Java
connectors
via Web API
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Image source: Cubeserv
Details about SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Cockpits
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Delivered as part of Enterprise Portal in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 Usage
Type (SPS8 and higher)
Different options available for rendering SAP NetWeaver Visual
Composer output
 Flash
 Web Dynpro (HTML)
Flash provides high-end visualization of SAP NetWeaver Visual
Composer models
Since a cockpit may have
many different DataSources
(queries), it can take quite
some time to execute them
if the memory cache is not
used consistently
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Data Methods
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Can integrate data from multiple data sources, including
SAP and non-SAP systems, into one model
Different options available for data access include:
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SAP NetWeaver BI Extension Kit
Remote Function Call (RFC)
Web services
SAP NetWeaver BI Extension Kit allows access
to the following DataSources
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SAP NetWeaver 2004 BI
(SAP BW 3.5 Support Package 14)
SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
JDBC
XMLA
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer DataProviders
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You can use BI queries and views as DataProviders for SAP
NetWeaver Visual Composer models
You also can use BI query functionalities for exceptions and
variables along with SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer
models
• SAP NetWeaver
Visual Composer
allows access to BI
history, favorites,
and roles
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Is Easy for Power Users to
Learn
SAP NetWeaver 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).
No coding required to
create great-looking
Web-based cockpits
Source: MyITgroup
Take advantage of prebuilt
analytic business packages
Source: SAP
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Visual Composer Cockpit Demo
Bjarne: Can you insert here a
slide title that briefly describes
what it is you'll be demoing at
this point?
BERG: Done
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The Future of SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer
Source: SAP, July 2008
Composition Environment including SAP NetWeaver Visual
Composer continues to be the go-to product for creating
composite applications
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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•
•
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools
The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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BEx Web Application Designer (WAD)
BEx Analyzer/
Query Designer
BEx Web Application Designer
WAD is an intuitive
tool to build powerful
web applications and
to interact with portals
and custom templates.
Bjarne: Should this be “HTML”
templates?
OLAP Processor
BERG: Yes
Web Service
Charting Engine
Web Browser
HTLM Templates
InfoProvider
BW queries can be
manipulated in WAD
for better display
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Web Application Designer for Custom Applications
WAD can also incorporate other
non-SAP web items into
powerful cockpits and custom
report centers.
BEx Analyzer/
Query Designer
BEx Web Application Designer
OLAP
OLAP Processor
Processor
Web
Web Service
Service
Charting
Charting Engine
Engine
HTLM Templates
InfoProvider
Source: SAP AG
While WAD can be used by
developers without extensive HTML
and Java scripting knowledge, these
skills will be useful on most
projects.
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Web Application Designer (WAD) Gets Better
The Web Application Designer is improved with new chart types (Heat Map, Gantt and
Milestone Trend Analysis), as well as new layout elements such as “tab strips.”
WAD also has new step-bystep wizards for maps,
command editing to create
Web API commands and
charts, as well as a
simplified wizard for layout
elements such as radio
buttons, action buttons etc.
This reduces the amount of
custom coding required
with the help of Command
WAD is a key tool for all SAP BI shops and in SAP NetWeaver
Wizards, auto complete and 2004s the tool is simplified and more powerful.
support for HTML tags.
New: integration with SAP NetWeaver 2004s BEx Report
Designer.
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Some of SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 Web AD New
Features
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Web Items: Tab Pages, Button, Script Item (SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
Support Package Stack 7)
Drag and drop using Analysis item
New chart types (heat map, Gantt, milestone trend analysis)
Export SAP NetWeaver 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
User can change the XHTML
source code of any web template
either directly, or using the ABAP
program RS_TEMPLATE_MAINTAIN_70,
or in any external XHTML editor.
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SAP NetWeaver BI Web API Commands
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You can use SAP NetWeaver BI Web API commands for carrying
out certain actions in SAP NetWeaver BI Web Applications
 Export to Excel, PDF, etc.
 OLAP functions: Apply Filter values, remove drill downs
Command Wizards guide you through the steps for creating a
SAP NetWeaver BI Web API command
Commands appear together for easy access
 Data Provider
 Web Items
 Web Templates
Reduce the amount of custom
coding required with the help of
Command Wizards, auto complete,
and support for HTML tags
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Command Wizard and JavaScript
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Use Command Wizard for generating JavaScript code for the
Script Item to use in custom cockpit applications
BEx Web Application Designer
will not be enhanced further
beyond Release 7.1 in 2008 29
What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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•
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools
The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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BEx Report Designer Is Here!
This new tool was created to
simplify the formatting of
reports and fix many of the
printing issues in previous
versions of SAP 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
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BEx Report Designer Is New in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
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Customizable font styles (i.e.
bold, italic), colors, etc.
Bjarne:
I have changed
the with
• Group-level
changes
esignation
of “Crystal
Report
individual
formatting
n the text at bottom right – is it
k?• Layout options, e.g.: Height
of OK
rows, width of columns
BERG:
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Multi-line column headers
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Flexible field positioning
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Merging cells
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Support for hierarchies
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Rules for the presentation of
special characteristic values
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Integration of text, pictures,
and charts
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Header and footer for
reports
BEx Report Designer 7.1, (last release in
2008) will be available under maximum
maintenance until 2016 and will be replaced
with the Crystal Report for SAP NetWeaver BI.
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Crystal Reports® Is Available (Also in SAP BW 3.x)
•
With SAP’s BI offerings, you get access to Crystal Reports. In fact,
many predeveloped reports are already available. Currently, you can
modify, or develop and deploy, a few of those reports without
additional licensing cost.Bjarne: I have slightly
rephrased the first bullet
to satisfy
some
SAP
• Crystal Reports is a great(mainly
tool
for
batch
reporting
of
branding/product naming
controlled” formatted reports.
requirements) – is it ok?
“pixel
BERG: OK
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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•
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools
The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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Web Cockpit in the Portal
You can integrate queries and
Bjarne: I’ve removed the SAP
Web applications into the
ogo …
portal through publishing,
BERG: OK
broadcasting, or Web calls
The portal can either receive
designed pages passively or
actively create communities,
Web pages, collaboration
rooms, or cockpits
Publishing
Broadcasting
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Web Cockpit In SAP NetWeaver Portal (cont.)
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The SAP Strategic Enterprise
Management (SEM) Corporate
Performance Monitor cockpits
are already part of the portal,
so you can access them there
iViews can build custom
portal cockpits with iViews
from many data sources (SAP
Web AD, SAP BW, SAP SEM,
SAP R/3, the Web) and in
many formats (graphs,
pictures, figures, and tables)
iViews can also be interactive
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Web AD Cockpits in SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0
You can directly publish BI Web cockpits to Portal Content
Catalog using the Publish option from Web AD
Portal and BI system connection should
be set up as per SAP Note 917950
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Broadcast Cockpit Views and Templates Using WAD
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In SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0, use Information Broadcaster to broadcast BI
Web applications (i.e., cockpit views) to SAP Enterprise Portal
knowledge management (KM) folders and via email in various formats
(PDF, MHTML, HTML)
Information Broadcaster/Reporting Agent (BI 3.x) can precalculate BI
Web applications to enhance performance
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools
The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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Web Templates Using BSP (in SAP BW 3.5)
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The most common way of deploying BW queries used to be through a standard,
or customized web template with built-in navigational features.
BW provided a global web template that could be enhanced with logos, colors,
fonts and additional features at a low cost of development and ownership.
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SAP NetWeaver BI Java SDK-Based Cockpits in SAP
NetWeaver BI 7.0
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SAP NetWeaver BI Java SDK can be used for custom applications
based on SAP NetWeaver BI and non-SAP data
SAP NetWeaver 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
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
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Source: SAP AG, 2005
SAP NetWeaver BI Java SDK-Based Cockpits (cont.)
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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
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools & The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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More Administrative Tools for Management and
Development
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Enhanced Dataflow control (split delta)
Administrator Cockpit (Web-based)
SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator (for high BI performance)
Enhanced InfoSets with InfoCubes
This section of your
Remodeling and repartitioning of Bjarne:
InfoCubes
agenda consists of one slide
New Data Transfer Process (DTP)only, and we don’t allow singleslide sections. Can you delete
Write-optimized DataStore objectsthe section and use this slide
elsewhere?
New Admin Workbench
BERG: Done
Bjarne: I took out the “BIA”
reference because SAP
branding requirements do not
allow its use.
BERG: OK
SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 has many improved tools
for developers and system administrators
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SAP’s Premium Offerings
SAP Acquired Business Objects in 2007/2008 and is working on
integrating its products into the core SAP NetWeaver BI offerings
rne: I slightly rewrote the
t bullet – is it ok?
RG: OK
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New Tools Roadmap
Source SAP AG, June 2008
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Business Objects capabilities – Dashboards and Reports
• Dashboards
animation
on this can be built using Xcelsius.
or the
Crystal will be launched in 2009, and will
• Xcelsius+
eenshot to
be “the flagship product for data
ly fade in after the
wn – visualization
is that what & dashboards”
d?
• BEx Web Application Designer will not be
thanks)
enhanced further beyond Release 7.1 of
SAP NetWeaver in 2008.
rewritten the note
m to reflect my
ing of what “Crystal
Crystal
y will
be – isReports
it ok? for pixel-formatted reports has
been available with SAP NetWeaver BI/BW since
2002. This tool can be integrated into your tool
portfolio using existing SAP NetWeaver BI queries
(NOTE: Crystal Reports and Crystal Report for SAP NetWeaver BI
(Crystal Light) will be the core tools for formatted reports starting 2010)
Source SAP AG,
June 2008
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Business Objects Capabilities — Analysis, Ad-hoc, and
Widgets
The Web Intelligence tool from
Business Objects is a tool for ad hoc
web based reporting, query and
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 Business
Objects you can also use Desktop
Widgets to place BI content direct
onto a PC desktop and monitor
reports and KPIs.
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Source SAP AG, June 2008
The Move towards Pioneer
Web
based
• Pioneer (code name for 2009 release)
provides a superset of the capabilities
in BEx Analyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer
(Web), and Business Objects Voyager.
• Voyager customers migrate to
Pioneer.
Excel
based
• BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzer
customers migrate to Pioneer. (Note:
BEx goes into regular maintenance)
Source SAP AG, June 2008
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools & The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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BEx Report Designer and WAD
You can also let your SAP NetWeaver BI users do
basic navigation on the formatted reports by
either integrating navigation, or adding this in the
Web Application Designer (WAD)
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer and WAD
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer integrates with Web AD-based
applications using Portal Eventing Framework
For example, BW Web API can pass a filter value from a BEx Web
application to SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer
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And vice versa
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SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer 7.0 Portal Publishing
•
SAP NetWeaver Visual
Composer Design time
deploys SAP
NetWeaver Visual
Composer models
directly as iViews to
Portal Content Catalog
•
You can then use SAP
NetWeaver Visual
Composer iViews in
portal pages, roles,
etc.
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What We’ll Cover …
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and BEx Analyzer
Bjarne: We appear to have skipped the
Analysis
Process Designer
section
“Empowering
the Users(APD)
– a Mind
Shift”
Can you check
the sequence
of (VC)
SAP NetWeaver
Visual
Composer
your slides and the organization of your
Web Application Designer (WAD)
agenda?
ReportFixed
Designer
BERG:
Web publishing
Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP)
Administrative tools
The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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Who gets to do what?
The major decision for a SAP NetWeaver 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
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Tool Access – Who should do what…..
Other tools
Web Tools
Query tools
There are many options and decisions to be made on who
should be able to access all the different tools.
Query Designer
Ad-hoc query designer
Web Application
Designer
SAP NetWeaver
Visual Composer
Regular
users
Power
users
Authors
Developers
BW
Admins
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Broadcaster -wizard
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Bex Broadcaster
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Crystal Reports
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Analysis Process
Designer
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Web Tools
Query tools
Deciding Which Reporting Tool Is Right for You
Workbooks
Web
reports
Fixed
format
Web
Applications
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What We’ll Cover …
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The SAP NetWeaver BI tool revolution
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SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer and 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)
Administrative tools
The Business Objects Roadmap for front-end tools
Using two or more tools together
Empowering the users – a mind shift
Wrap-up
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Resources
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Bjarne: The third URL doesn’t
appear to be valid – could you
Documents
- Interfaces for Enterprise
check it, please?
SAP
Analysis,
MayDone
2007
BERG:
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http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/BB_index_main.htm
SAP NetWeaver BI - NetWeaver BI 7.0 - what is New? SDN
presentation
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f52e9
cc1-0d01-0010-d88b-d808b69391a4
Dr. Bjarne Berg’s web site (85+ presentations)
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Reporting, Query, and
http://csc-studentweb.lrc.edu/swp/Berg/articles/NWBI70_what_is_new.ppt
SAP Business Intelligence (BI) by Norbert Egger, Jean-Marie
Fiechter, Sebastian Kramer, Ralf-Patrick Sawicki, and Stephan
Weber.
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Galio Press - Hardcover, 653 pages, ISBN 978-1-59229-082-6
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7 Key Points to Take Home
1. Pick the right tools based on what you want to accomplish
“Everything in the world is a nail, when you only have a hammer …”
2. The BW tool set has evolved substantially over the last 2 years
— have you?
3. Today’s presentation developer is much more than a query developer.
More than one skill set is needed.
4. Work hard on empowering your end users. You are not doing your
organization any favors by keeping BI in the IT organization
5. Consider integrating more than one tool for your analytical needs
6. You may want to consider splitting your back-end BI operations and
creating a new reporting group focusing on the front end
7. Budget “real money” to get your organization proficient in the new
tools. This is not done overnight, nor cheaply.
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Your Turn!
How to contact me:
Bjarne Berg
[email protected]
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