sap bi strategy
TRANSCRIPT
Mathias Pöhling
Business Development EMEA
V 1.0
SAP BI Strategy
From ETL thru DataWarehouse to the FrontEnd Layer
1. Today’s BI Solution
2. Visualization
3. Performance
4. Flexibility
5. Summary
Agenda
1. Today’s BI Solution
DSS ApplicationsDepartmental Data Marts
EDW
MarketingAcctg Finance
Sales ERPERP
ERP
CRM
eComm.
Bus. Int.
ETL
GlobalODS
Oper.Mart
Explorationwarehouse/data mining
Source:Bill Inmon
Stag
ing
Area
localODS
DialogueManager
CookieCognition
Preformatteddialogues
Cross mediaStorage Management
NearlineStorage
Web Logs
SessionAnalysis
Internet
ERPCorporate
Applications
ChangedData
GranularityManager
Archives
Bill Inmon’s Enterprise DataWarehousing Concept
Front-EndLayer
BI Solution on all architecture levels
SAP Business Suite Customer & PartnerApplications
OrderMgmt. ...
Non SAP &Legacy
ETLLayer
SAP Business Objects Data Integrator
SAP Business Objects BI Tools
SAP NetWeaver BW & BW Accelerator
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Data WarehouseLayer
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Extract Transform Load
SAP NW BW ETL
3 Success Factors For Today’s BI Solution
Flexibility to respond to the paceof your businessIs your current BI solution capable of supportingthe pace in your industry?
Visualization that enables end user’s needsDo you have a flexible software architecture thatsupports your business needs and reduces costssimultaneously?
CFO LOB
CEO
EMPLOYEE
MANAGER EMPLOYEE
CIO
Performance for people to increase insightCan your employees access the information theyneed when they need it – fast without frontiers?
2. Visualization
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Product Directions for BI SolutionsRichest Offering for All Business Users
BEx Analyzer Voyager
Web App Designer
Predictive
Report Designer
Web Intelligence
Crystal Reports
Xcelsius
BI Widgets
Web Services
And MuchMore…
Polestar
Mobile BI
Enterprise DataWarehousing& BI Platform
AdvancedAnalysis
EnterpriseReporting
Dashboards,Visualization
Ad-hocQuery &
Reporting
BusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BI and BIA
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Product Directions for BI SolutionsSAP BusinessObjects BI Solutions
Predictive
Web Intelligence
Crystal Reports
XcelsiusWeb App Designer
Report Designer
Pioneer (OLAP Analysis)Pioneer (OLAP Analysis)
BI Widgets
Web Services
And MuchMore…
Polestar
Mobile BI
Enterprise DataWarehousing& BI Platform
AdvancedAnalysis
EnterpriseReporting
Dashboards,Visualization
Ad-hocQuery &
Reporting
BusinessObjects EnterpriseSAP NetWeaver BI and BIA
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Dashboards
Dashboarding and Data VisualizationProduct Integration Roadmap
Xcelsius becomes the flagship product for dashboarding and data visualizationBEx Web Application Designer will not be enhanced further. It will be available based oncurrent SAP maintenance policySAP NetWeaver Composition Environment including SAP NetWeaver Visual Composercontinues to be the go-to product for creating composite applications
Interactive Dashboardsand Data Visualization
PREM
IUM
STAN
DAR
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2008 2010
Xcelsius
2009
Xcelsius Xcelsius
Web Application Designer Web Application Designer Web Application Designer
Enterprise-wide deployments enabled today off SAP NetWeaver BILeverage existing Crystal and/or Web Intelligence reportsLeverage existing UniversesBuilt upon Business Objects Web Services
Integration to BI Consumer ServicesDirect data access to SAP NetWeaver BIConsume BEx/Pioneer Queries and ViewsDeliver high performance data accessEnable low TCO with simple architectureCurrently planned availability in 2009
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Dashboarding and Data Visualization for SAPNetWeaver BI with Xcelsius
BEx/Pioneer Queries and Views
BusinessObjects Enterprise
Xcelsius
BI Consumer Services
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Enterprise ReportingProduct Integration Roadmap
BEx Report Designer will not be enhanced further. It will be available based on current SAPmaintenance policyBEx Report Designer customers transition to Crystal Reports
Enterprise classformatted reporting
EnterpriseReporting
20092008 2010
BEx Report Designer
Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports forSAP NetWeaver BI
BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer
PREM
IUM
STAN
DAR
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SAP NetWeaver Portal
Crystal Reports for SAP NetWeaver BITransition Strategy Toward Enterprise Reporting
Transition strategy for BEx Report Designer
Opportunities for building up skill set and resourcesPlan transition to SAP BusinessObjects solutionsEasy move from Crystal Reports for SAP NetWeaverBI to Crystal Reports for BusinessObjects Enterprise
Ship with SAP NetWeaver
All standard report formatting capabilitiesIn-depth integration with SAP NetWeaver platform
Subset of enterprise deployment capabilities
Access to SAP NetWeaver BI data onlyLimited number of reports in SAP NetWeaver BINo integration with BEx Broadcaster
Currently planned availability in 2010
SAP NetWeaver BI
BEx/PioneerQueries and Views
Crystal Reportsfor
SAP NetWeaver BI
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Ad-hoc Query, Reporting, & AnalysisProduct Integration Roadmap
SAP customers can invest in Web Intelligence today to empower business users with self-service BIThe strategy going forward is to strengthen the integration with SAP solutions and to expandthe reach of the product to a broader user baseWeb Intelligence will continue to take full advantage of the semantic layer, enabling a simpleand consistent user experience over any data
Web Intelligence is theleading ad-hoc query,
reporting, and analysistool on the market
PREM
IUM Ad-hoc
Query,Reporting, &
Analysis
20092008 2010
Web Intelligence Web Intelligence Web Intelligence
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Advanced OLAP AnalysisProduct Integration Roadmap
Pioneer (code name for 2010 releases) provides a superset of capabilities from BExAnalyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer (Web), and BusinessObjects VoyagerBEx Analyzer (Excel & Web) will not be enhanced further. It will be available based oncurrent SAP maintenance policySeamless transition for Voyager customers to Pioneer. BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzercustomers transition to Pioneer
OLAPAnalysis
2008 2009 2010
PioneerVoyager
BEx Web Analyzer
BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel)
BEx Web Analyzer
BEx Analyzer (Excel)
BEx Web Analyzer
Voyager
PREM
IUM
STAN
DAR
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Pioneer ProjectMerge the Best of Both Worlds
Tailored support for multiple user rolesFocus on the Business Analysts (Excel/Web) but also extend the footprint of advanced analysisthrough ease-of-use & tool interoperabilityEasy migration for existing BEx Analyzer & Voyager customersAbility to fully leverage SAP in-memory analytic engine capabilitiesBest TCO for SAP on Non-SAP platformsSingle architecture for both SAP NetWeaver and Business Objects customersRuns with BusinessObjects Enterprise side-by-side with SAP NetWeaver or with tighterintegration with SAP NetWeaver for TCO reductionCurrently planned availability in 2010
Multiple OLAPSources
VoyagerAdvanced OLAP
Leading Visualization
SAP NetWeaver BI /BW Accelerator
BEx (Web) Analyzer
Native Excel Integration
SAP Business Objects SAP NetWeaver BI
New Visualization Product: PolestarBring BI to All Business Users
Intuitively explore dataNo data model or dataknowledge required
Automated relevancyof results
Most relevant information isdisplayed firstBest chart type autogenerated
Share insights with othersExport to CSV and ExcelSave it locally as a browser bookmarkOne-click to send a link to the results by email
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BI Working Your User’s WayPersonalized and secure
Dashboards,Visualization
EnterpriseReporting
Ad-hocQuery & Reporting
Advanced
Analysis
3. Performance
Opportunities not HarvestedTraditional methods too inflexible, unreliable or not economical
THE TRENDSIncreased adoption of analytics
Data explosion, growing 50% p.a.
Frequent need for change
More users / usage of analytics
Users create queries despite having noknowledge of BI technology
THE CHALLENGESTraditional 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 performance-
Performance speedup factor between 10 and 100Without changing the BI user experience (transparent to users)Boost performance for BusinessObjects clientsPre-requisite: BI in SAP NetWeaver 7.0
SAP NetWeaver BI
BusinessWarehouse
CalculationDBMS BWA
Compressed and Column-basedOptimized for Analysis
Agile
Low TCO
Fast to Upload
Bypassedfor queries
Calculation on the fly
Fast as Lightning
Predictable query performance
Any query
User ExperienceFast Query response times (also for BOBJ usage)Highly consistent response timesHigher usage of BI and deeper analysis of company data or less time for BI interactionMore flexibility in Query definition
MaintenanceNo more need for maintenance of aggregatesReduced time for data loading (up to 80%)Reduce time for change runs (Example: 30h down to 45min)Reduce times of SEM Consolidation runs
HardwareNo more need for storage in aggregatesLess Hardware needs on application and DB server levelPossibility to consolidate different BI system landscapes
BW Accelerator - Value Proposition
SAP NetWeaver BW
BusinessWarehouse
CalculationBWA
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1
SAP BusinessObjects Polestar
Directly search and exploreindexed InfoCubes
Quickly find relevant information
Explore and gain new insights
Simple, fast, scalable
SAP BusinessObjectsEnterprise XI 3.1
Web Intelligence
Crystal Reports
Xcelsius
Polestar
SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator andSAP Business Objects Polestar Integration
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Business Objects BI Platform
Stand-Alone Open BI AcceleratorNewton Project
SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator / Newton
Calculation Engine
Aggregation EngineIndex
SAP NetWeaver BI
Data Warehouse
Xcelsius WebIntelligence PolestarCrystal
Reports
(Inbound)Universe
DataIntegrator
Stand-alone analytical engineHigh performance, low TCOAgile BI for business users to easilybuild in-memory data marts
Source-agnosticDI to load non-SAP data sourcesEnd-to-end universe integration
Built-in analytical capabilitiesRanking, top N / bottom N analysisException aggregationMultiProvider aggregation
Advanced capabilitiesAccess to DataStore ObjectsWrite-back and planning services(beyond 2009)
Currently planned availability in 2009
Universe (Outbound)
Offline Archive
RDBMS
InfoCube
Near-line StorageBWA
Staging
Indexing Archiving
BI
Access - very frequently frequently not frequently rarely
NLS• alternative storage types with direct accesscapabilities for reporting and loading
• extraction of non-frequently used, read-onlyInfoProvider data partitions
• extracted partitions are deleted in RDBMS• NLS storage and Online Storage togetherconsistently reflect the BI data persistencyof an InfoProvider
• NLS data is read-only• NLS partitioned portions of an InfoProviderare write-protected
BWA• Replication of the BI Star Schema includingmaster data
• DB volume not affected• Roll-Up and Change Run possible afterdata loads
• optimized for fast BI Query access
Near-line Storage and BI Accelerator
Accelerated Upgrade to Business Suite
Use the predefined content for:upgrade to NetWeaver 7.x BIupgrade to ERP 6.0 EhPx (upcoming)upgrade to any SAP Product based onthe NetWeaver 7.x Platform (upcoming)create/modify own content (XML based)
Complete Business Suite 7.0connectivity (with EhP1):
abap - java connection (available) forconnection BI-IP, EP, ESS/MSS, etc.abap - abap (with EhP1) for backendconnection e.g. ERP, CRM, BI, PI, etc.java - java (upcoming) for frontendconnection e.g. FPM, etc.
Lower your TCO and time effortsby Managing your Upgrade with innovative tools
1. ASU toolbox (incl. BI Content)one single truth for all pre/post Upgrade Steps
(Note 1000009)
2. CTC for BI-Javaautomatic connection between Abap and Java
(Note 983156)
4. Flexibility
Tailored for Your Industry and ProcessBest practices to maximize value
1,000+ data models5,000+ queries
10,000+ metrics & dimensions
Best Practicesserving 26 Industries
“ Business content ..allowed a fast-trackimplementation.
“It would have takenus 10 times longer ifwe had to createown... cubes fromscratch.”
Visualization
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Business Objects Business ContentsComplementing Existing Business Content
Pre-defined and delivered Crystal reports and Xcelsius dashboardsBusiness Suite customers will have access to new Business ContentEmbedded within the standard business processes of the Business SuiteAcross all Business Suite applications: ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, and SRM
Low TCO with deep integration to NetWeaver PlatformDirect access to transaction data in the Business SuiteLeverage standard Business Suite metadataUnified life cycle management to deploy reports and dashboards
Integrated design-time to build/embed within custom business processesCrystal Reports and Xcelsius Designer integrated to Web Dynpro and CE/VCBusiness Objects customers can re-use pre-defined reports and dashboardsBusiness Objects customers can design new reports and dashboards
Currently planned availability with SAP Business Suite EhP 5 in 2009
Process Integration,ETL
Information Discovery and Delivery End-to-end BI solutionscombining the strengths ofdata warehousing and datamarts
Agnostic and flexibledeployment options viaextensive data acquisition anddistribution options
Data profiling and cleansingfor MDM, BW, marts to delivertrusted information
Empowering the nextgeneration of informationdriven applications throughembeddable analytics
SAP Business Suite Non-SAPData stores
Non-SAPApplications
Cloud
Data Integrator
BW
BWA
Data Quality
Rapid Marts
BWA*
Data Quality
MasterData
Management
Data Quality
* Planned Newton© SAP 2008 / Page 30
The Business Network with TrustedUbiquitous Information
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
Polestar for BW Accelerator
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5. Summary
Summary
VisualizationWeb 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
FlexibilityBI and DWH in Enterprise Information Management
Creating trust in corporate Information
Enabling Enterprise-SOA
PerformanceEnabling business driven innovation
Analyzing information at the speed of thought
Closed-loop Business planning based on live data
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCEBWAPolestarNetWeaver BIRed. TCO with CTC
SAP NETWEAVER DELIVERS CONTINUOUS Performance, Visualization AndFlexibility WITHIN ONE INTEGRATED OPEN PLATFORM
FLEXIBILITYSOA Platform (CE)BO PortfolioPolestarPioneer/WebI
VISUALIZATIONBO PortfolioXcelsius DashboardsBEx/WebI/CREnterprise Portal
Start your NetWeaver BI Transformation - todayUse The Power Of Performance, Visualization And Flexibility
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Thank you for your attention
Other Resources
Service Marketplace: SDN:http://service.sap.com/bi https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/bia
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Thank you!
Mathias PöhlingBusiness Development Manager
SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
Office of the EMEA CTO
SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG
Phone: +49-62277-69270Mobile: +49-160-90821528Email: [email protected]
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