0909 asug sap businessobjects web intelligence influence council

September 9–11, 2013 Anaheim, California

#909 ASUG SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Influence Council

Gregory Botticchio ([email protected])

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Introduction to the Web Intelligence influence council

Web Intelligence in the BI4.1

Open discussion and feedback

Agenda

Introduction

Gregory Botticchio, Solution Manager Web Intelligence

Jason Olson, BI Architect, Kimberly-Clark

Web Intelligence IC leadership

Introduction

IC’s Objectives …

What we’ve heard about during 2011/2012:

DeskI catch-up features (WebI applet on Excel; FHQL;

Grouping)

BIMobile consumption

BI4.1 feature backlog

Introduction

IC’s Objectives … What we did in 2012/2013 :

Scope was BI4.2

Get prioritization and implementation feedback on: New visualizations types & options

Web Intelligence features in Mobile BI

UX/UI improvements

New interactive capabilities

Comments/annotations for a Web Intelligence report

Discussions on : What’s new in webI 4.1? ; Best practices ; …

Get additional feedback on the highest priority, outstanding other Web Intelligence capabilities

Customer Connection for Web Intelligence

Introduction

Customer Connection for Web Intelligence

In Total 98 Improvement Requests (IRs) were submitted

49 IRs with at least five “subscribed customers” qualified for further evaluation:

22 IRs scoped for 4.1 RTC or 4.1 SP02

49 IRs missed subscriptions – 4 of them are available with 4.1 RTC

Introduction

Web Intelligence in BI4.1

Key themes …

Focus on quality

Support the developer community

Simplify and enrich reporting

Enhance integration with SAP applications

Simplify global deployments

Migrate Desktop Intelligence deployments


Focus on Quality: Increase Stability Massive engineering focus on BI 4.0 customer feedback

Forward fit BI 4.0 patches to BI 4.1 GA to include SP04 up to Patch 4.13

SP05 up to Patch 5.7

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Focus on Quality: Increase Performance

Create/edit reports on BW/BEx queries 4.1 faster than 4.0 to open query panel Up to 80% (1) faster with BW 7.30

Up to 60% (1) faster with BW 7.01 / 7.0

Refresh reports with BW/BEx variables

4.1 faster than 4.0 to refresh reports with variables Up to 20% (1) faster to display variable screen

Up to 50% (1) faster to execute queries

Launch of the Web Intelligence Rich

Internet Application

(1) data collected in specific development lab conditions; may not be representative of production deployment conditions


Support the developer community

Embed Web Intelligence functionality with RESTful Web services API Create/consume/schedule documents

Create/edit data providers

Personalize Web Intelligence user experience Control UI elements and functions

User-based settings in CMC


Simplify and Enrich Reporting

Freeze table headers

Create custom color palettes

Merge objects in keeping hierarchies

Edit merged objects

Select members in lists of values in formula editor


Enhance Integration with SAP Applications

SAP BW Select members in Hierarchy Node variable

based on depth

Select members in Hierarchy variable based on levels

SAP HANA Single-sign-on through SAML Accelerate queries with query stripping

SAP ERP Set optional parameters with no default value in

universes


Simplify Global Deployments

Deploy to Arabic countries Right-to-left user experience

Arabic locale triggers right-to-left user interface (1)

Document created in Arabic locale reads right-to-left

Arabic support

(1): Rich client and applet interface only


Migrate Desktop Intelligence Deployment

Desktop Intelligence Compatibility Pack (DCP) Desktop Intelligence users can log in to BI 4.1 with Desktop

Intelligence Compatibility Pack

Desktop Intelligence users logged in to BI 4.1 can

open/edit/save Desktop Intelligence reports

BI 4.1 CMC lists Desktop Intelligence reports only for

administration purposes

Desktop Intelligence report scheduling limited to Windows

scheduling functionality

Availability with XI 3.1 Fix Pack 6.1 and above

BI 4.1

DCP

DeskI

XI 3.1 SP6

Server

Client


Convert Desktop Intelligence Reports to Web Intelligence Planned availability of Desktop Intelligence features in Web Intelligence

Desktop Intelligence features Planned availability in

Web Intelligence

Free-Hand SQL 2014

Custom grouping Late 2013

Excel data provider Late 2013

Export to HTML Late 2013 via REST API

Scheduling with export to HTML Late 2013 via REST API

Scheduling with export to TXT Late 2013

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.


Customer Connection for Web Intelligence :

Qualified requirements in scope for execution: 17 (1/2)


Improvement Request Subscribed

Customers

Planned availability /

Release (1)

14208 - Create Excel or text data providers from BI launchpad 15 4.1 SP02 (2) (3)

14178 - Grouping values 12 4.1 SP02

14596 - Template to apply consistent fonts/formats 11 4.1 RTC

14174 - Chart Series' Colors Selector 9 4.1 RTC

14580 - Insert Pre-Defined cell - Prompt 9 4.1 SP02

14591 - Icon % (to format as percentage in one click) 9 4.1 SP02

14322 - New functionality to freeze pane like in excel 8 4.1 RTC

14579 - Input Controls - Filter on All values 8 4.1 SP02

(1) only planned – no commitment concerning release dates (2) In Java clients only (3) Switchable feature


https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/ideas/14208










































Qualified requirements in scope for execution: 17 (2/2)


Improvement Request Subscribed

Customers


Release (1)

14603 - Run a single query from within the query panel 7 4.1 RTC

14194 - Display universe element description 6 4.1 SP02 (2)

14197 - autosize for Prompts summary 6 4.1 SP02 (2)

14199 - report name truncated in tab name 6 4.1 SP02

14201 - Cursor key tab does not work within the prompt box 6 4.1 SP02 (2)

14380 - Copy tables or variables from another report 6 4.1 RTC

14399 - Option to hide "All Values" entry for Input Controls 6 4.1 SP02

14610 - "Show List of values" when editing formula 6 4.1 RTC

14190 - Allow parameter order to be specified 5 4.1 RTC








































Requirements not qualified but available with 4.1 RTC (4)


Improvement Request # of subscribed

Customers


Release (1)

14182 - Freeze table headings when scrolling 4 4.1 RTC

14407 - CSV export: should give choice between query data or report content 4 4.1 RTC

14183 - Limit user's requesting large volumes of data (Server memory issue) 1 4.1 RTC

14594 - Hiding report elements (Already implemented) 1 4.1 RTC



















High Level Timeline

BI4.1 (RTC) •Start Ramp-Up

•10th May 2013

BI4.1 RU x •x > 1

•Planned Q2 2013

BI4.1 SP1 (GA) •End Ramp-Up

•Planned Q3 2013

•KPIs dependent

BI4.1 SP2 •Planned Q4 2013

Ramp-up



Future direction

FUTURE DIRECTION This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Developer support:

Additional RESTful APIs web services

Extension points

UI customizations

Mobile support enhancements:

Ease creation of reports for mobile consumption

Core capabilities enhancements:

Functional parity in HTML client compared to Java client

Report and charting interactive enhancements

Desktop Intelligence features (FHSQL)

Optimization for SAP data sources (BW/HANA):

Direct access to SAP HANA with hierarchies

and variables via transient universes and MDX

Parallel data provider execution

Open discussion and feedback

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