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SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2

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About this presentation

Target audience

Intended to be a mid-level product overview of what is new in 4.2

Assumes working knowledge of BI 4.1 suite and features

Scope of the presentation

Mid-level feature overview of what is new in 4.2

For more detailed information and features in each area, refer to: What’s New in 4.1 (Includes what’s new up to SP5)

Product Road Map documents

https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40283

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir4/en/xi4_whats_new_en.pdf

https://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000749387&


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Big Data

Explore new

opportunities

Build on SAP

HANA strengths

Embrace new

emerging data

sources

Agile

Visualization

Unleash user’s

creativity

Agility for the

business

Able to leverage

IT’s expertise

Enterprise BI

Ubiquitous BI for all

users and landscapes

Collaborate across

the organization

Scalable, secure, and

mission critical

Smart BI

Gain the

competitive

advantage

Predict & act faster

Share insights

Cloud

Faster & more

accurate decisions

Broaden

deployment options

Drive lower TCO

Run Simple

SAP’s Analytics Investments


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Theme

Simplify

• Reduced downtime for patch upgrade

• Improved upgrade process

• Remove upgrade barriers

• Improved collaboration experience

Innovate

• Innovation in platform and clients

• New Platform support

• Customization, developer experience

Enhance

• Platform & client enhancements

• SAP BW and SAP HANA enhancements

QUALITY

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


SAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 Top 5

SAP HANA

Online

Direct

Access to

SAP HANA

Views

Recycle BinParallel Data

Provider

Refresh

Commenting

BI PlatformBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 - Platform

Simplification for IT

• User Notification

• Recycle Bin

• Publications

• Rest API

Performance

• Promotion Manager

• Audit

• Installer

Enhancements for BI

Administration

• Commentary Service

• Upgrade Manager

• Administrators Cockpit

• Promotion Manager


QUALITY


SIMPLIFICATION for IT

User Notification

• Easily broadcast information to a single user/group

or all users.

• Specify the timeline for the notification to be visible

• Also send notification as a email

• Notifications to show up in BI Launchpad

• Notification available in “My alerts” as well




Recycle Bin

• Easily restore accidently deleted content.

• Only Public Folders / Content is supported

• Documents are automatically removed after set threshold

Publications

• Delete Publication when no recipient is processed

• Log File Enhancements for Dynamic Recipients




Rest API

• Rest API for User Management

Add / Create / Modify Workflows

• Rest API for Publications : All Workflows

• Uploading and Downloading of SAPBI Documents



Enhancements for BI Admin

Commentary

• A service provided by the platform for all clients

• Centralized and managed by rights

• The comments are context sensitive




Administrator Cockpit

• A simplified visual page with key information

• Drillable to see the details

• Specific actions are possible

• Key statistics information is available




Upgrade Manager

• Specify the log level on the UI

• New filter option for selection

• Export pending/recurring instances

• Do not migrate security

• View approximate size of selected content




Performance

Promotion Manager

• Selective retrieval of objects from an LCMBIAR file

• Distributed dependency computation.

• Revamped Overrides workflow

• Removal of Flash dependency

• Performance improvements

• Lesser load on app server



Performance

Audit

Improved audit scalability especially when all events are turned on and a large number of users are

accessing the repository



Performance



Installer

• Reduce install startup screen time

• Split install – Install caching separately to reduce downtime

• Improve Error reporting

• Ability to add new supported language through Support Pack

• Tomcat 8 is now default bundled Web Application Server

• SAP SQL Anywhere 16 is bundled as default CMS and Audit DB


Web IntelligenceBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 - Web Intelligence

Trusted Foundation

• Parallel Queries

• Big Numbers

SAP Backend

Integration

• Direct Access to SAP HANA

• SAP HANA Online Mode

Enable the Business

• Commentary

• Shared Elements

• Geo Maps

• Visualization Extensions


QUALITY


Trusted Foundation

Parallel Queries

• Activated by defaults

• Can be disabled

• Max number of concurrent refresh jobs configurable



Trusted Foundation

Big Numbers

• Integration of the IEEE “Decimal Floating Point” format

• Increase precision from 15 to 40 digits

• New Web Intelligence calculator function to convert to Decimal format

• Contextual Menu to convert any measure to Decimal format



Enable the Business

Commentary

• Add / View / Remove Comments

• Comments to be stored by platform service



Enable the Business

Shared Elements• Share Web Intelligence content (report part) with other users, as shared elements

• Shared element is saved with the report part, corresponding data source, data providers, variables

and formats

• Browse and reuse Web Intelligence content created by other users

• Factorize Web Intelligence content to ease the update process with reference persistence



Enable the Business

Geo Maps

• Create Geomaps using Web Intelligence

• Integrated geographical Database covering countries, regions, sub-region and cities (100K+)

• New Geo Choropleth, Geo Bubble and Geo Pie charts



Enable the Business

Visualization Extensions

• Empower Web Intelligence with third-party visualizations

• Can be inserted and consumed as any other Web Intelligence element

• Configured centrally via the Central Management Console



SAP Backend Integration

Direct Access to SAP HANA Views

• Browse HANA Views directly on Relational or OLAP Connection

• HANA Hierarchies supported via OLAP Connection

• No Authoring of Universe Required




SAP HANA Online

• Connect directly to SAP HANA Views

• Web Intelligence calculations are delegated to SAP HANA whenever possible

• No Query Panel

• No Microcube

• Optional “Go Back to Standard Mode”to get additional reporting features


Semantic LayerBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Semantic Layer

Simplification

• Linked UNX Universe

SAP Backend

Integration

• Authored SAP BEx Universe

Enable the Business


QUALITY


Simplification

Linked UNX Universes• Parity with Universe Design Tool

• Changes to a core UNX are propagated to all derived UNX universes

• Derived UNX universes are independent universes and can be amended




Authored BW Universe• Provide access to SAP BEx queries in a user-friendly way

• Utilize the fast BICS Connector to fully leverage SAP BW performance

• Auto-generated Business Layer with ability to rename, regroup and delete objects from SAP BEx


Crystal Reports for EnterpriseBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Crystal Reports for Enterprise

Simplification

• Vertical Alignment of Text

PerformanceEnable the Business

• QR Code and Bar Code

• Waterfall Chart

• Direct to Data

Enhancements


QUALITY


Simplification

Vertical Alignment of Text• Set vertical Alignment of Text



Enable the Business

QR Code and BAR code• Native support for QR and BAR codes

Waterfall Chart• New Waterfall Chart

Direct to Data Enhancements• Added Data Sources for support with Direct to Data


Crystal Reports 2016BI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Crystal Reports 2016

Simplification

• Vertical Alignment of Text


• Show Parameter value

descriptions

• Conditional Formatting for

Line / Box

• Direct to Data

Enhancements


QUALITY


Simplification

Vertical Alignment of Text• Set vertical Alignment of Text



Enable the Business

Show Parameter value description(s)• Enrich reports with the Parameter Descriptions

• Supporting multiple values of a parameter

Conditional Formatting for Line and Box• Influence Line and Box layout based on conditions

Direct to Data Enhancements• Added Data Sources for support with Direct to Data


Analysis for OLAPBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Analysis for OLAP

Simplification

• HTTP Connector for SAP

HANA

• Alias Table Support in

Essbase


• Currency Conversion for

SAP BW

• Break Hierarchy while

sorting


QUALITY


Simplification

HTTP Connector for SAP HANA• Improved connectivity to SAP HANA

• New Connection type for OLAP Connections in CMC

• Support for SAP HANA SPS09 and SPS10

Alias Table Support in Essbase• Improved connectivity to Oracle Essbase

• Added support for Oracle Essbase 9 and 11



Enable the Business

Currency conversion for SAP BW• Enable utilization of SAP BW’s currency conversion

• Currency Conversion available if Currency translation is available in the SAP BEx Query

Break Hierarchy while sorting• Break Hierarchy Sorting results now in sorting taking precedence over hierarchy


Mobile BIBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Mobile BI


• Broadcast Notifications to

Mobile users


• Support of iOS Push Alerts


QUALITY



Enable the Business

Support for iOS Push Alerts• Broadcast admin messages to Mobile BI

• Subscribe to push alerts on document updates

• Subscribe to push alerts on new BI Inbox shared documents

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Mobile BI

SDKBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – SDK


• Extended SDK functionality



QUALITY



Extended SDK functionality• User Management API

• Content Management API

• OpenDocument Enhancements

• Translation Manager Ehancements

• Crystal Reports SDK

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – SDK

Platform SupportBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Platform Support


• Operating Systems

• Browsers

• Application Servers

• CMS / Audit DB

• Java Update

• LDAP Server

• AD and Security

• Other



QUALITY

Data AccessBI4.2 What’s New


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Data Access


• Big Data

• SFDC

• oDATA

• Security

• Web Services

• Data Access

Performance

• SAP ECC

• SAP BW

• Big Data

Enable the Business


QUALITY


Key Links (1)

SAP Generic Links

• SAP Community Network : http://scn.sap.com

• SAP Road Maps in SMP : service.sap.com/roadmap

• Product Documentation : http://help.sap.com

• Product Availability Matrix : https://support.sap.com/release-upgrade-maintenance/pam.html

• Maintenance schedule : https://support.sap.com/release-upgrade-maintenance/package-stack-

schedules/analytics-maintenance-schedule.html

• Design-thinking methodology: http://scn.sap.com/community/design-thinking

• Remote Supportability: https://support.sap.com/remote-support.html

http://scn.sap.com/

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

http://help.sap.com/

https://support.sap.com/release-upgrade-maintenance/pam.html

https://support.sap.com/release-upgrade-maintenance/package-stack-schedules/analytics-maintenance-schedule.html

http://scn.sap.com/community/design-thinking

https://support.sap.com/remote-support.html


Key Links (2)

SAP BI Recommended Links

• SAP BI Statement of Direction : http://www.sap.com/bin/sapcom/en_us/downloadasset.2014-09-sep-19-

21.business-intelligence-solutions-from-sap-statement-of-direction-pdf

• SAP BI Recourse Center : www.sapbi.com

• Official tutorials for SAP BI : http://sap.com/learnbi

• IT Planning Resources : https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001160122012E

• Choosing the right BI Client : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981

• SAP BI Sizing : www.sap.com/bisizing

• SAP BI Pattern Books :

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+Business+Intelligence+Platform+Pattern+Books

• SAP BI Platform Support Tool :

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+BI+Platform+Support+Tool

http://www.sap.com/bin/sapcom/en_us/downloadasset.2014-09-sep-19-21.business-intelligence-solutions-from-sap-statement-of-direction-pdf.bypassReg.html

http://www.sapbi.com/

http://sap.com/learnbi

https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001160122012E

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981

http://www.sap.com/bisizing

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+Business+Intelligence+Platform+Pattern+Books

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+BI+Platform+Support+Tool


Where to go to provide product feedback and ideas

Where to go to provide product feedback and ideas

• SAP Idea Place : https://ideas.sap.com

• Influence programs : http://service.sap.com/influence

• SAP User Groups : http://www.sapusergroups.com/

https://ideas.sap.com/

http://service.sap.com/influence

http://www.sapusergroups.com/


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