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SAP Analytics Cloud ExplorerSearch and explore your data with self-service exploration

One service for all users that enables intelligent ways to explore for 360° insights


Augmented capabilities

help you find the most

valuable insights

SMART

Live and governed

connectivity guarantees real-

time data access

FAST & SECURE

Designed for both governed

and self-service information

distribution and corporate

scalability

ENTERPRISE READY

One solution combining

Business Intelligence,

Planning and Predictive

Analytics to monitor, project

and simulate

END-TO-END

SAP Analytics Cloud is ___________.


SAP Analytics CloudBusiness Intelligence | Planning | Predictive | Analytics Designer

Sharing

Simulation

Data Preparation

Enterprise Reporting

Data Visualization & Explorations

Storytelling

Forecasting

Automated Insights

SAP Analytics Cloud

Digital Boardroom

CloudOn Premise

Custom Apps

SDK Extensions

Mobile SAP Analytics Hub

Hybrid


SAP Lumira Desktop / Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SBOP Explorer

SAP Analytics Cloud

The journey to the cloud has started

SAP BusinessObjects BI suite

Analytics Cloud Stories ✓

Analytics Designer ✓

Analytics Cloud Explorer ✓

▪ Create stories and explore with modern self-service data discovery and visualization

paradigms

▪ Meet sophisticated requirements by developing applications that behave according to

user expectations.

▪ Interact with your stories and presentations securely from anywhere, across browsers,

iOS and Android devices.


Start to Explore today in SAP Analytics Cloud

▪ Intuitive and easy to use self-service data exploration in the cloud

▪ Explore any size of data in real-time or acquired

▪ Dive deep into your data source using the Explorer facets and understand the big picture

Find Insights and drive business goals

▪ Search and filter on key KPI’s and Dimensions

▪ Drill into details and continue further exploring valuable trends and patterns

▪ Add variances to compare values

Create your own views

▪ Flexibly build charts and widgets that can be added to a story.

▪ Focus what is important and create new views from stories

▪ Save, export, share and collaborate

Explore your data in the cloud


Built for the Business User

Access Explorer Easily

▪ Explorer Mode is available inside the stories data option

and directly accessed from individual charts and widgets.

Start by Experimenting

▪ Start to explore data by simply uploading

an Excel or CSV file.

▪ Use existing models build from SAP BW, BW4/HANA,

S/4HANA, HANA, Universe live or acquired connections

and more

▪ Use Explorer to understand data relationships and enrich

your dataset with calculated measures, hierarchies

and predictive etc.

Benefit from build-in rich capabilities

▪ Easy to use single click filtering, sorting, grouping of

facets, renaming of measures and dimensions and more.


Create new views

▪ Work in split view mode or full

visualizations only view

▪ Create bookmarks for views inside the

story

▪ Pass parameters and generate on the

fly variables

Search for the data

▪ Use global search “search to insight”

on the home page without accessing

explorer or story

▪ Search for data and show measure

values inside dimension facets

▪ Bring in more dimensions to explore

Charting

▪ Explorer shares same UI charting

elements with the SAC Story

▪ Compare, Analyze Trends,

Understand Correlations

▪ Use auto suggest to select the best

chart for the data

Built for the Business User


Adobe Flash end of support.

▪ BusinessObjects Explorer and Dashboard will go unsupported Dec 31 2020 due to Flash end of support.

▪ Both products rely on Flash Technology

▪ BusinessObjects 4.3 will no longer support Explorer an Dashboard products.

Explorer and Dashboards > SAP Analytics Cloud

▪ SAP Analytics Cloud solves the Explorer use case today

▪ Analytics Cloud & Digital Boardroom solves the Dashboard use cases.

▪ Live access to on-premise data enables the Explorer use case to be solved without migrating data.

▪ Most important SBOP Explorer features are all covered. The user experience might slightly differ in SAC for some capabilities

End Of Life for BusinessObjects Explorer


New Smart Features Explorer users can benefit from

▪ Use Smart Insights in SAP Analytics Cloud to create predictions to Explore

▪ Bring Smart Discovery (what-if analytics, correlations and unexpected values) together with Data Exploration

Data Preparation and Quick Start options

▪ Link datasets together and further enrich data models

▪ Quick start with Templates

End-to-End and Collaboration

▪ Leave comments on data points and views.

▪ Extend to planning capabilities to do what-if simulations

▪ Use Analytics Designer to build robust applications with exploration capabilities

Value of SAC Features and Explorer

Migration from SBOP Explorer to SAP

Analytics Cloud Explorer


How to proceed with a migration of SBOP Explorer

Replicate SBOP

Explorer Infospace

in SAC

Collect feedback to

mass adopt SAC

Find users who use

those reports

frequently

Collect most

frequently used

reports

▪ Use Auditing and Universe to quickly find this information

▪ With SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 (4.2SP05) we will add explorer objects so information will be accessible from a sample

universe

▪ Easily replicate Explorer Infospaces on SAP BusinessObjects Universes with live or acquired SAC universe connections


With the migration service for SAP Analytics Cloud we showcase the migration of SAP BusinessObjects content: SBO Explorer, SBO Lumira Discovery and SBO Dashboards (aka Xcelsius) to SAP Analytics Cloud. Based on existing productive content provided by the customer equivalent SAP Analytics Cloud stories are prepared for the customer to experience the value and benefits.

Business needs

▪ Harmonize multiple SAP discovery scenarios into a single platform and user experience.

▪ Replace existing SAP on premise discovery scenarios with the cloud based SAC solution.

▪ Modernize data discovery solutions by adopting SAP Analytics Cloud as primary data discovery solution

Delivery approach and scope

▪ Customer has onboarded to SAP Analytics Cloud

▪ During a validation workshop existing discovery scenarios are selected based on feasibility and migration effort

▪ Connectivity setup, model creation and visualization migration is performed for selected scenarios.

▪ Handover workshops and stakeholder presentation is included.

▪ Options available for: SBO Explorer, SAP Lumira Discovery or SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius).

▪ This service provides a Proof-of-Concept, no Go-Live services are included.

Value and benefits

▪ Achieve a harmonized user experience across data discovery scenarios

▪ Demonstrate a modernized and cloud based solution for data discovery and visualization

▪ Gain insight in the migration workflow based on SAP Best Practices

▪ Gain insight for planning a follow-up end-to-end migration

SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerCustomer Migration


▪ Allow for partial termination of on-premise maintenance when replaced by a cloud subscription

▪ Annual value of the subscription must exceed the annual value of the terminated maintenance

▪ Cloud subscriptions include operations and infrastructure in addition to support and new versions

Maintenance Cloud Subscription

Cost

▪ License

▪ Infrastructure (servers, data center)

▪ Operations (patching)

▪ Support

▪ New versionsCloud extension policy

SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerExtend Analytics

Available Resources


SAP

Analytics Cloud

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer End of Life

Based on Adobe Flash, these two products will be going end-

of-life on December 31, 2020. Existing installations may

continue to work, but will no longer be supported by SAP.

Replaced by

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/08/29/sap-businessobjects-explorer-and-sap-businessobjects-xcelsius-end-of-life.-considerations-as-your-plan-next-steps-using-sap-analytics-cloud/

Benefit of SAP Analytics Cloud and its Analytics Designer

Technical Guidance of Rebuilding Documents in New Product

Cloud Extension Policy

Migration Pilot and Use Case Examples

Migration Service Provided by SAP DBS (chargeable)

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/02/journey-to-the-cloud-for-sap-businessobjects-explorer-and-sap-businessobjects-dashboardaka-xcelsius-customers/

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/08/29/sap-businessobjects-explorer-and-sap-businessobjects-xcelsius-end-of-life.-considerations-as-your-plan-next-steps-using-sap-analytics-cloud/



1. 2679783 - SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

roadmap

2. 2824537 - What happens to Explorer after

upgrading to BI 4.3?

Explorer SAP Notes Dashboard SAP Notes

1. 2579982 - SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

(Xcelsius) roadmap

2. 2739919 - What happens to SAP BusinessObjects

Dashboards after upgrading to BI 4.3?

https://i7p.wdf.sap.corp/sap/support/notes/2679783










1. Status and Plan of Dashboards and Explorer

2. SAP Analytics Strategy and Go-to Product

3. SAC Website Intro, Tutorial, Help etc.

The Announcement Blog Journey to the Cloud Blog

1. Value of SAC and Analytics Designer

2. Comparison of Story and Analytics

3. Designer SAC Plan and Roadmap

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/02/journey-to-the-cloud-for-sap-businessobjects-

explorer-and-sap-businessobjects-dashboardaka-xcelsius-customers/https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/02/journey-to-the-cloud-for-sap-businessobjects-

explorer-and-sap-businessobjects-dashboardaka-xcelsius-customers/





Dashboards Migrate Deep-dive

1. Functional Deep-dive:

Data Connectivity, Charting, Maps, What-if, Export,

Global Themes, Trend Analyzer, Excel Modelling,

Dynamic Dashboards. Etc.

Dashboards Migrate Example

Explorer Migrate Deep-dive Explorer Migrate Example

1. Use Cases Migration Example

- High Tech

- Hospital & Healthcare

2. Advantages in Using SAC among similar use cases

1. Functional Deep-dive:

Data Connectivity, Creating Infospaces, Charting,

Exploring Infospaces, Maps, Bookmarks, Search,

Predefined Objects.

1. Use Cases Migration Example

2. Advantages in Using SAC among similar use cases

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/04/key-functional-deep-dive-between-sap-businessobjects-

dashboards-aka-xcelsius-and-sap-analytics-cloud/https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/06/key-functional-deep-dive-between-sap-businessobjects-

explorer-and-sac/


https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/04/key-functional-deep-dive-between-sap-businessobjects-dashboards-aka-xcelsius-and-sap-analytics-cloud/

https://blogs.sap.com/2019/09/06/key-functional-deep-dive-between-sap-businessobjects-explorer-and-sac/


https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOC/Journey+to+the+Cloud+for+BusinessObjects+Explorer+and+Dashboard+%28aka+XCelsius%29+Customers

Wiki pages

1. Detailed information

2. Regular updates

3. Sections dedicated to Explorer & Dashboard


https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOC/Journey+to+the+Cloud+for+BusinessObjects+Explorer+and+Dashboard+%28aka+XCelsius%29+Customers



BI on your BI system

▪ Explorer data access drivers

▪ Universe focused on SAP BusinessObjects Explorer content

– Linked universe (core universe is BI Platform CMS database.unx)

– 2 classes specific to Explorer : Explorer and Explore Viewset

▪ Web Intelligence sample content:

– 1 report on global metrics

– 4 reports on SAP BusinessObjects Explorer documents (IS, IS details, eViews, eViews details)

– 1 report on the actual usage of Information Spaces and eViews

▪ A pdf explaining how to install and use the sample

▪ Part of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3

▪ Also available for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP04+

– https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2885216

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2885216


Explorer view mode in a SAC Story

https://www.sap.com/documents/2019/09/86474bbd-657d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Information Space

Sales reps like exploring their data with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. In this use case we illustrate how the same scenario could be

reproduced in SAP Analytics Cloud.

SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerDetailed Migration Example


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP Analytics Cloud ExplorerFunctional Examples


SAP Analytics Explorer- Facet Navigation

SAP Analytics ExplorerSAP BusinessObjects Explorer Information Space

▪ Use faceted navigation to allow for quick filtering

▪ Use measure display for data exploration

▪ Easily navigate along several hierarchies and large set of dimensions


SAP Analytics Explorer - Chart Interactions

▪ Quickly change chart type

▪ Configure dimensions and measures used

▪ Leverage advanced formatting, such as Reference Lines, Ranking, and Variances



SAP Analytics Explorer - Exploration Views

▪ Create your own dashboard / story on-the-fly

▪ Leverage additional capabilities, such as Input Controls for enhanced interactivity

▪ Personalize you analytical experience



SAP Analytics Explorer - Ranking

▪ Sort dimension members / measures dynamically in each facet

▪ Use Ranking on the fly to focus on Top / Bottom members



SAP Analytics Explorer- Bookmarking

▪ Sort dimension members / measures dynamically in each facet

▪ Use Ranking on the fly to focus on Top / Bottom members



SAP Analytics Explorer - Search


• Leverage global search across models / stories

• Create new insights based on search results


Explorer migration Example: Sales Analysis

Explorer view mode in a SAC Story


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Information Space

Sales reps like exploring their data with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. In this use case we illustrate how the same scenario could be reproduced

in SAP Analytics Cloud.


Appendix - SAP Analytics Cloud ExplorerAdded Functionalities


SAP Analytics Cloud Explorer- Smart Insight

• Click on a data point or on a variance point to get smart textual and visual

insights

• Example: What to know more about your Revenue in the Enterprise

Segment? Our Smart Insights panel will give you an explanation.

• Smart Insights examines each of the dimensions in the data and detects

members that have a significant influence on the data point we are

interested in

• Dive deeper with an entry point to the Smart Insights panel for continuous

data exploration

• Manually a user would need to investigate each dimension individually


SAP Analytics Cloud Explorer - Smart Discovery

• Uncover key influencers of KPIs by using classification and

regression techniques

• Interact with insights and explore hidden structures and

relationships

• Find the answer to business questions through intuitive charts

and natural language

Examples: Uncover the business drivers of your revenue, churn,

or employee productivity


SAP Analytics Cloud Explorer- Variance Charts

• Leverage permanent or ad-hoc variances to quickly compare

planning versions or time series data

• Combine Variance charts with Smart Insight to quickly identify

the root cause for the variance


SAP Analytics Cloud Explorer - Time Series Forecasting

• Project expected values in future time periods in planning and charting use cases

• Include additional factors (such as weather information) to simulate expected

values in future time periods

• Create forecasts with time series trend charts and line charts

• Example: Forecast future sales or margin


SAP Analytics Cloud Explorer –

Visualize and analyze with no limits

R is an open-source programming language that leverages machine

learning and statistical capabilities for data analysis

Native R Visualization support in SAP Analytics Cloud

• Insert R-visualizations into your story, applying data filters and linked

variables

• Share stories that include R-visualizations

• Visualizations respect row-level security of users

• Write R script in built-in IDE on top of existing data models

Example: Create a 3D plot chart for your customer data


SAP Analytics Cloud Explorer - Focused Views

• Integration between Chart, Table, and Explorer allow the

story designer to provide a guided navigation to data

exploration

• Predefine list of dimension and measure to provide a

focused navigation step


SAP Analytics Cloud Explorer - Customized Views

• Use the ability to create personalized views to

provide quick access to different analysis

• Use your personalized view as new default for

your Data Exploration