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What is SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,

Edition for Microsoft Office?

What is SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office?


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office includes the following features:

Ad hoc multidimensional analysis of OLAP sources in MS Excel through MS Office Ad-Ins,


Excel workbook-based application design as well as an intuitive creation of BI
presentations with MS PowerPoint
Evolvement into a fully-fledged productivity suite for MS Office by converging with SAP
BusinessObjects Live Office
Sophisticated workbook design (VBA, APIs, etc)
Ad Hoc embedding of BI data into MS PowerPoint presentations
Creation of Analysis content (PowerPoints and workbooks) that is centralized
Ad Hoc data analysis and data access, dicing and slicing, etc in MS Excel
Consuming pre-defined Business Intelligence content in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office is meant for use by power users/IT,
business analysts, business users and task users.
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What are the benefits of SAP BusinessObjects


Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office?
Here are the benefits from the Microsoft PowerPoint Add-In. It has a new design that eases the
navigation. The MS PowerPoint Add-In Analysis Views allow navigation, filtering and other
useful functionalities.
The information views provide general information on the workbook or the embedded data
source like created by, last data refresh, etc. These views also provide all data that is connected
to the current information through like filters, variables, etc. All this is in one convenient place
for great user experience.
The components views give the user information in a structured format. This data comes either
from the worksheet perspective or the data source.
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The navigation of the MS PowerPoint Add-In has a very simple drag and drop functionality. It
can be used in panels and grids so as to filter data. Navigation also includes slicing and dicing
functionality, replacing functionality, etc. The good thing is that it is synchronized with other
BusinessObjects clients.
Another benefits of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office come from its
design panel. It provides new functionalities for the end users like:

The former exception are now called conditional formatting and are developed even
further
Ability to define filters by measure which were previously called conditions
Functionality to add Excel comments on information cells
Definition of dynamic and easy calculations

The design panel of the SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft office also has
several new hierarchy features. These include hierarchical structures, displaying or removing
hierarchy levels and the sorting of breaking hierarchies.
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Overall, the benefits of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for MS Office can be put into four
groups:
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Workbook design
Easy consumption of Workbooks that have been created using Analysis, edition for
Microsoft Office
Excel formulas in a new API
Functionality for sharing workbooks and PowerPoint files

The workbook design of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office allows for an
improved summary of BW components in a workbook in Excel as well as adding of Excel-based
charts. Its other benefits are the intuitive insertion of multiple data sources and the free
formatting of cells with data.
The easy consummation of workbooks is expressed in adding data on the filters status, the
data sources (last update, name, etc) and the integration of the filter dialog. The new API for
the formulas is easy to use by developers right into the worksheet and the sharing of
workbooks and PowerPoints adds an ability to save these in the BusinessObjects Enterprise.
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for MS Office also makes it very easy to build
applications. You will need to have Microsoft Office installed. Note that the PowerPoint Add-In
supports only MS Office 2007 and above. You will also need SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 or higher.
That way you will have direct access to SAP NetWeaver BW InfoProvider and the query views.
The benefits here are that you will not need for migration of any queries or change of the BW
data models.
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Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office is very beneficial because it requires just a few
prerequisites. These include The BI platform which is a must for all SAP BusinessObjects clients
and Analysis for which there are two options:

Analysis 1.0 if you are using SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1


Analysis 1.1 for BI platform 4.0

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How can we help you?


M Mobile Solutions offers SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for MS Office inhouse training
which includes the following:

An overview of the Analysis, Edition for MS Office


Introduction to the components of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for MS Office
In-depth look at the functionalities of each of the components
Working with Analysis Office Excel
Working with Analysis Office PowerPoint

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