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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETL BI Platform BI Suite SAP NetWeaver 04 Integration Business Content
Roadmap
SAP AG 2004, slide 2
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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETL BI Platform BI Suite SAP NetWeaver 04 Integration Business Content
Roadmap
SAP AG 2004, slide 3
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Openness: Allows to incorporate data from heterogeneous systems and to distribute to other data warehouses. Supports industry standards such as XML for Analysis or ODBO for reporting and analysis.
TCO: Minimal costs for implementation and administration of SAP BI. Performance/Scalability: A proven solution with that generated and loaded a 5.5 Tb data warehouse. Productive customer installations with >6TB. Quick ROI through Business Orientation: Integrates business processes. Provides a centralized metadata repository with a consistent business semantic. Ready-to go templates and best-practices horizontal and vertical business content. Actionable Information: Supports decision-making requirements of every user.
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BI Platform
Online analytical processing (OLAP) Data Mining Alerting Meta Data Repository Planning Framework Query Design Managed Reporting and Analysis Visualization Web Application Design Collaboration
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Integration
Integration of technology, tools and applications allowing crossenterprise analytics and closed-loop scenarios Integration into the Enterprise Portal as single point of entry Integration of unstructured information such as documents, files, etc.
Web Offering
Interactive analysis of information via web and mobile devices
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Sources
Data Warehousing
Access
BI Platform
BI Suite
Data Presentation
Data Acquisition
User
SAP Business Intelligence integrates all your corporate information so you can turn information into insight, insight into action, and action into improved business operations.
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SAP BI Architecture
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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETL BI Platform BI Suite SAP NetWeaver 04 Integration Business Content
Roadmap
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Data Warehouse
Non volatile Granular Integrated Historical foundation Built with ODS Objects
Multidimensional Models
Multidimensional analysis Aggregated view Integrated Built with InfoCubes
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BW Process Chains
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Controlled distribution of consistent data Target: file or DB table Central monitoring Select filter criteria and columns
Scheduling
Full or delta mode
ODS Objects
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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETL BI Platform BI Suite SAP NetWeaver 04 Integration Business Content
Roadmap
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Business Logic
Open Interface and Web Services
Business Calculations Planning and Forecasts Exception Scanning Alerting Query Pre-Calculation Caching Background Printing Data Mining
Presentation
Drill-Down, Drill-Through, Drill-Across Pivoting What If Slice and Dice Gallery of ready-to-use Web Templates / Items
Master Data
RDBMS
Data Partitioning Indexing Parallel Querying
BI Services
BI Suite
Data Warehousing
BI Platform
BI Suite
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USER Interaction
Data Acquisition
ODS
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Data (available through all SAP BW storage media) can be explored within a multilevel process, applying advanced analytical methods in order to gain new insights from these data. The analytical results are persisted again within SAP BW.
Examples
ABC-classification (e.g. customer/vendor) Determination of the frequency distribution in datasets Development of Scoring information
Feature Description
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Research / Prognosis
Estimating future situations and evaluating their impact on the enterprise
Target Setting
Setting goals and milestones
Budgeting
Evaluating and allocating resources for the achievement of targets
Examples
Sales Plan, Resource Plan, Cost Center Plan, Profitability Planning
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Manual Planning
Planning and analysis user interfaces
Automatic Planning
Planning functions
Process Control
Control and distribution of data
Multidimensional Business Structures Definition of work packages Hierarchy maintenance Version concept User authorizations Variables maintenance
Planning in Excel Planning in Web Interface Document management Analysis in Business Explorer (Excel and Web)
Copy/delete Revaluate Top-down distribution Bottom-up aggregation Trend analysis What-if-analysis Simulation Planning
Status and Tracking Monitor Retractors for distribution of data to operational systems
sequences
Automatic
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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETL BI Platform BI Suite SAP NetWeaver 04 Integration Business Content
Roadmap
SAP AG 2004, slide 27
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BI End User Requirements Business Explorer (BEx) Product Capabilities Query, Analysis & Reporting BEx Web & BEx Analyzer BEx Information Broadcasting Conclusion
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BI End User Requirements Business Explorer (BEx) Product Capabilities Query, Analysis & Reporting BEx Web & BEx Analyzer BEx Information Broadcasting Conclusion
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Information consumers
Need a snapshot of a particular data set to perform their operational tasks Do not interact extensively with the data.
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High
Authoring Authoring and and Ad-hoc Query Ad-hoc Query 10 % 10 %
High
OLAP OLAP Analysis Analysis andPower Power Reporting and Reporting 30 % 30 % Information Information Consumption, Consumption, Portal-based Portal-based Deployment, Deployment, and Executive Reporting and Executive Reporting 60 % 60 %
Low
Low
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BI End User Requirements Business Explorer (BEx) Product Capabilities Query, Analysis & Reporting BEx Web & BEx Analyzer BEx Information Broadcasting Conclusion
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Alert framework
The system can push BI alerts to endusers via SMS, e-mail and Portal Apps.
1:n
Personalization allows for one query to serve multiple users
Business Content
Broad range of extendable dataproviders and queries provided
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Intelligent Services
Alerting to identify and handle exceptions,
Pro-active notification
OLAP cache
Multi-user cache for BW queries for enhanced performance
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Data (available through all SAP BW storage media) can be explored within a multilevel process, applying advanced analytical methods in order to gain new insights from these data. The analytical results are persisted again within SAP BW.
Examples
ABC-classification (e.g. customer/vendor) Determination of the frequency distribution in datasets Development of Scoring information
Feature Description
Interactive modeling (drag&drop) workbench for analysis processes Infrastructure to link up process elements, being sources (selection of data), targets (deployment of results), pre-processing (transformation) and visualization tools as well as data analysis methods. Analysis of data at every step of the analysis process
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BI End User Requirements Business Explorer (BEx) Product Capabilities Query, Analysis & Reporting BEx Web & BEx Analyzer BEx Information Broadcasting Conclusion
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Quick ROI
Packaged BI web applications and predefined BI Patterns
Alerting
Pro-active notification
Performance
HTML Compression Precalculated or cached data optional usage of the Portal cache
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low BI knowledge
Pattern 4 (Analyst)
high
Distribution channel
Product group
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Web Browser
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BEx Analyzer
Share and analyze information via a Windows Desktop using MS Excel
Queries & Solution Workbooks embedded in MS Excel Wide Range of delivered content Additional MS Excel Functionality (Calculations, Charts etc.) VBA Programming Workbook Precalculation Seamless integration of Query Designer Seamless integration between BEx Web & BEx Analyzer
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BI End User Requirements Business Explorer (BEx) Product Capabilities Query, Analysis & Reporting BEx Web & BEx Analyzer BEx Information Broadcasting Conclusion
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of different sources
() BI Web Applications - Dashboards, cockpits
in different modes
() Online & pre-calculated
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() Ad hoc
BEx Broadcasting Wizard for one-step distribution
() Scheduled
BEx Broadcaster Guided scheduling times (for end users / information consumers) Scheduling at any time (for power users / administrators)
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BI End User Requirements Business Explorer (BEx) Product Capabilities Query, Analysis & Reporting BEx Web & BEx Analyzer BEx Information Broadcasting Conclusion
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Executives and Knowledge Workers: BEx delivers.. Executives and knowledge workers Easy to use web applications with eg. push buttons,
downs, interactive charts drop Require personalized information in context via an intuitive user interface Role based and personalizable access from any web and mobile devicepaths and the option of in browser Want predefined analysis depth analysis of summary data drilldown capabilities Pro-active alerting with extensive
Information Consumers: BEx delivers.. Pattern based Business Content (e.g. for casual users, Information consumers
consumers) information Need a snapshot of a particular data set to perform their flat reports and/or operational tasks guided navigation KM services Integrated Do not interact extensively with the data.
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OLAP BAPIs
Business Application Programming Interface Based on Remote Function Call (RFC) RFC library available on any SAP platform
Web API
aimed at Web designers that want to create Web applications for highly individual scenarios based on Java Script, Dynamic HTML and/or ABAP OO
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BI Java SDK
Object Oriented Java API for consuming XMLA services Encapsulates communication protocol (HTTP,SOAP), MDX generation and parsing
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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETL BI Platform BI Suite SAP NetWeaver 04 Integration Business Content
Roadmap
SAP AG 2004, slide 62
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One Product
Synchronized release dates
INFORMATION INTEGRATION
Life Cycle Mgmt Bus. Intelligence Knowledge Mgmt Master Data Mgmt
One Foundation
Web Application Server
One Package
Coherent installation process
PROCESS INTEGRATION
Integration Broker Business Process Mgmt
One Solution
Integrated IT scenarios
All Apps
Business Suite and xApps developed on NetWeaver
DB and OS Abstraction
Collaboration
Reports for real-time data to complement the batch-oriented data access of analytic applications and operational reporting;
Implement Collaboration Rooms share documents; collaborate with colleagues for planning and resolution of business issues
Reports
Implement BW Provide periodic operational reports to executives from multiple source Low
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High
Knowledge Management
Integrate & unify multiple sources of unstructured content Common services
Information Integration
Knowledge Management
Indexing, classification, search Publish & subscribe Authoring, versioning, Rating, discussion forum,
DB and OS Abstraction
Common context for reports & documents Annotate BI data and meta-data Participate in knowledge management services Enterprise search
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Portal
Simplify the life of the user
Portal
Information Integration
DB and OS Abstraction
Disseminate the right information to the right user at the right time Alert timely and allow for immediate action BI for the masses Task context Seamless navigation
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Collaboration
Enable teams
Collaboration
Information Integration
Easily share information and applications across roles Communicate in real-time or asynchronously Manage team activity
DB and OS Abstraction
Broadcast BI data to teams and individuals Integrate data into collaboration rooms Send alerts to teams & individuals Subscription services
Information Integration
Homogeneous infrastructure for J2EE-based and ABAP-based applications Brings together the benefits of a proven, scalable and reliable infrastructure with the interoperability and flexibility of Web Services technology Powerful Java platform
Process Integration
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OLAP
SAP BW
XMLA
JDBC
non SAP
ODBO
BI Java SDK
Custom-built Applications
1. BI Java Connectors
JDBC, XMLA, ODBO, SAP Query
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3. BI Java SDK
Java API, Examples, Documentation
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BEx
Staging
SAP OLTP
SAP Query
BW
BI Java Connectors
BI JDBC Connector
Industry Standard API for relational DBMS Connectivity to 190+ JDBC drivers providing data access to: Oracle, MS SQL
Server, Teradata, MS Access, DB2, Sybase, Excel, text files (CSV), etc. See http://java.sun.com for more information
OLAP Sources
BI XMLA Connector
Web Service-based, platform-independent access to OLAP sources
Connectivity to MS Analysis Services, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, MIS, SAP BW
A Web Service is a software component that can be described, discovered and executed using open Internet standards such as WSDL (Web Service Description Language), SOAP, XML, HTTP For the caller or sender, a service is a black box that may require input and delivers a result. Web Service cover the provision of services for integration within an enterprise, as well as cross-enterprise services on top of any communication technology stack, whether synchronous or asynchronous Web Services are a new feature of SAP Web AS 6.40 Following Features are released as web services and can be accessed via open standards
XML Data Load XML for Analysis: Connection of 3rd party front-end vendors to BW OLAP Engine XML Query Result Set (additional query format XML in addition to XLS and CSV)
WSDL The caller can now use XML and HTTP/SOAP to push data into the SAP BW delta queue
Compatibility
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Existing alerting scenarios (using the Reporting Agent alerting options) can be adapted easily for alerting scenarios using the central alert framework of the WebAS. Both scenarios may be run in parallel.
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Other Applications
Send an E-Mail
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Exchange Infrastructure
Provides a technical infrastructure for XML-based message exchange Delivers business-process and integration knowledge to the customer Provides an integrated toolset for building new business scenarios by defining and maintaining all integration-relevant information
Information Integration
Process Integration
Exchange Infrastructure
DB and OS Abstraction
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Global Spend Scenario SAP XI as single point to channel information exchange between various systems Using SAP XI as additional source for SAP BW
Event-driven and transaction-oriented
Guideline of integrating SAP XI 2.0 and 3.0 as a SAP BW source on basis of existing technologies (XML, http/SOAP)
Compatibility
SAP BW
BAPI DB Connect File JDBC Proxy
D E
SAP XI
F
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Information Integration
DB and OS Abstraction
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MATNR
MATNR
MATNR
SAP ERP
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SAP MDM
2
Global and local Attributes
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XI
SAP ERP
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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing - ETL BI Platform BI Suite SAP NetWeaver 04 Integration Business Content
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SAP AG 2004, slide 81
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Healthcare
High Tech Media Oil&Gas
Pharmaceuticals
Public Sector Real Estate Retail
Banking Insurances
Service Providers
Telco Utilities
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Feature Description
Release of feature, which has been piloted in SAP BW 3.0B Content for objects in SAP BW as well as extractors in Service API in SAP source systems
This denotes content in addition to SAP delivered Business Content Content can be shipped via transports
Support of partner content only by partner Partner Content can be certified by SAP
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Agenda
Positioning / Value Proposition Data Warehousing BI Platform BI Suite Netweaver Integration Business Content
Roadmap
SAP AG 2004, slide 87
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SAP BW 3.5
Information Broadcasting Universal Data Integration Embedded BI Integration into SAP Netweaver Business Planning & Simulation Unicode
BI for the Expanded Enterprise Active Business Intelligence Integrated planning Advanced user experience
Start of Ramp-Up
Q1/2003
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Q1/2004
2005