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Bryan Katis
Business Objects, an SAP company
Agenda
© SAP 2008 / 2
Common Challenges You Are
Probably Facing Today
Adoption issues, and yet at the same time an underserved user community with a
burgeoning IT backlog
Better usability and more openness expands SAP NetWeaver® BI’s reach
All Business
Workers
BusinessObjects™
Web Intelligence®,
Business Objects Crystal Reports®,
Core Business Intelligence Xcelsius, Live Office,
User-Centricity
Voyager, Polestar, BI
Widgets, Mobile, etc.
Financial
SAP NetWeaver
Analysts
BI Accelerator (BIA)
BusinessObjects Data
Business Objects Services and Data
Enterprise Information Federator, Intelligent
MDM
While doing their job, native SAP tools sometimes constrained both information
supply and demand because of their SAP-centricity and engineering approach to
information delivery
“BI for the masses” becomes a more pragmatic game plan as its
ease-of-use helps reach a wider audience, and its openness enables
more compelling content
The new SAP Business Objects offering will fully leverage the SAP NetWeaver data
warehouse (BW), so there’s no reason to disrupt current data warehouse projects
Don’t abandon your current SAP NetWeaver BI investments unless you have a solid
business case to take advantage of new Business Objects functionality and features
You are not being forced down the path of “rip-and-replace,” but rather being given an
opportunity to “adopt-and-adapt”
© SAP 2008 / 8
The New, Joint SAP Business
Objects BI Platform
BI Platform
Information Enterprise
Discovery & Information
Delivery Management
Data
Reporting Analysis Publishing Data Staging
Warehousing
BI Widgets
© SAP 2008 / 9
What Are the Opportunities for the
Business Users?
© SAP 2008 / 10
Inverting the User Pyramid with
Business Objects
Xcelsius
High visual appeal and
usability “BI for the Masses”
Executives
Dashboards Highly aggregated data “Mashboards”
and visualization and Pervasive BI
Presentations Mass distribution
Interactive
Information Consumers Crystal Consumers
Formatted Reporting and Report consumption as is Online
Printing Seamless integration with and
Interactive
SAP environment (ERP and BI) Reporting
© SAP 2008 / 11
What Are the Opportunities for
Enterprise IT?
© SAP 2008 / 12
What Happens to My Existing
Development? Is It Throwaway?
© SAP 2008 / 13
How Business Objects Tools Protect
Your Work
Xcelsius Business Objects tools leverage your
existing investments by primarily accessing
information objects instead of the data
Live Office
directly
SAP NetWeaver BI
SAP BEx Queries
OLAP
BAPI
SAP InfoProviders
© SAP 2008 / 15
How Do Challenges, Roles, and Tools
Fit?
TASK/DESIRED CUSTOMER CHALLENGES ROLES AND RECOMMENDED TOOLS AND APPS
OUTCOME RESPONSIBILITIES
REPORTING Building presentation-quality reports, Business and IT are both producers Crystal Reports, BEx Query
Web-enabling, exceptions, of content, depending on complexity Designer, BEx Web Application
customization without tech resources, – IT provides infrastructure support Designer, BusinessObjects
queries against multiple data sources Universes
(SAP and non-SAP)
ANALYSIS Ad hoc design and customization, Business users are “prosumers” Web Intelligence, BEx Web
drill-down, calculations, Excel vs. Web (producer and consumer), while IT Analyzer, and Voyager
supports the tools and
infrastructure
DASHBOARDS AND KPI definition, formatting, deployment Business and IT are both producers Visual Composer (SAP
COCKPITS through Web or portal, static versus of content depending on complexity NetWeaver CE), Xcelsius, and
dynamic content – IT provides infrastructure support Dashboard Builder
DATA INTEGRATION Integrating SAP and non-SAP data, Business users are consumers of Data Services (Data Integrator,
AND DATA QUALITY structured and unstructured data de- the content IT produces Data Quality and Metadata
duplication, data cleansing, metadata Management Unified) and Text
management, and managing a Analysis (Unstructured Data)
“single version of truth”
PLANNING, Rolling re-forecasting, fast close, top- Business users own and maintain SAP Business Planning and
CONSOLIDATIONS, AND down target versus bottom-up their planning applications, while IT Consolidation (BPC), Business
PERFORMANCE MGMT
consensus setting, closed loop supports the tools and Objects Financial Consolidation,
analysis infrastructure – other applications SAP Profitability and Cost
are born out of the traditional Management (PCM) and SAP
development life cycle Strategy Management (SSM)
© SAP 2008 / 16
Resources
On your conference CD
Detailed tool selection matrix
Glossary of Business Objects acronyms
Product catalog section of the Business Objects, an SAP company, Web site
www.businessobjects.com/product/
© SAP 2008 / 17
7 Key Points to Take Home
For reports and dashboards, the most notable Business Objects tools are Crystal
Reports, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, Dashboard Builder, and BI Widgets
For analysis, the most notable Business Objects tools are Web Intelligence (again),
Voyager, and Polestar
For publishing reports (i.e., Crystal and Web Intelligence), there is notably
Microsoft Office integration (Live Office) and handheld device integration (Mobile)
© SAP 2008 / 18
7 Key Points to Take Home (cont.)
© SAP 2008 / 19
Agenda
© SAP 2008 / 20
SAP Business Objects Portfolio
BI Platform
Information Discovery and Delivery
Query, reporting, analysis Advanced analytics
Office In
Reporting Analysis Dashboards Search OEM
Integration Memory
Enterprise
Reporting Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports
BASE
Products not explicitly mentioned here continue on their existing roadmap. Examples (not a
complete list) are SAP NetWeaver BI (EDW), SAP NetWeaver BIA, SAP NetWeaver
Composition Environment and Visual Composer, BusinessObjects Rapid Marts, etc.
Business Objects
© SAP 2008 / 22 SAP
Business Objects Enterprise Server
Architecture and Connectivity to SAP
SAP
ERP/ECC
SAP
NetWeaver
BI
© SAP 2008 / 23
Integration Kit for SAP – ERP/ECC
Reporting
© SAP 2008 / 24
Integration Kit for SAP – SAP
NetWeaver BI Reporting
© SAP 2008 / 25
Agenda
© SAP 2008 / 26
Introducing “Business Intelligence
Platform” Premium Packages
Interactive visualization
Enterprise Query, Reporting Easy data exploration and search
and Analysis like query
All data (including unstructured)
© SAP 2008 / 27
Visualization and Reporting Package
Interactive data
visualization
Enterprise class
formatted reporting
© SAP 2008 / 28
Enterprise Reporting with Crystal
Reports
Where does Crystal Reports add value?
In the area of highly formatted reporting, such as
management reports or legal reports
It enables the creation and modification of formatted reports:
On top of SAP NetWeaver BI
Leveraging the solid data warehousing foundation
Report off of all sources of information in your organization
Key capabilities
Highly formatted management reports
Operational and tactical applications with low interaction rate (view static and parameterized reports)
Professional report layout (one-to-many approach)
Form-based, print-optimized reports
Develop powerful data mashups
© SAP 2008 / 29
Crystal Reports Connectivity to SAP
NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 30
Interactive Visualization with
Xcelsius
Key capabilities
Fast to deploy dashboards on SAP and/or non-SAP data
Empower business users who are not savvy using analysis tools
Simplify BI information with innovative and intuitive visuals
SAP connectivity
Via Live Office, Crystal Reports can be connected to Xcelsius
Via Query as a Web Service (QaaWS), which leverages BusinessObjects Universes
© SAP 2008 / 31
Xcelsius Connectivity to SAP
NetWeaver BI
Live Office allows the deployment and access of BI reports and dashboards within
Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
Key capabilities
Seamless integration of BI into Microsoft Office
Easy self-service and sharing of BI data embedded into MS Office documents
© SAP 2008 / 33
Live Office Connectivity to SAP
NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 34
Query as a Web Service Overview
IT or business users define their own query from a Universe, and then easily and
securely publish that query as a standalone Web Service
Enables Crystal Xcelsius to aggregate multiple disparate data sources into a trusted
BI view
SAP
NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 35
Query as a Web Service Connectivity
to SAP NetWeaver BI
SAP
NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 36
Roadmap for Enterprise Reporting
Enterprise class
Business Objects
formatted reporting SAP
Crystal Reports
for SAP NetWeaver BI
BASE
Key Points
The strategic focus going forward and the key investments will go toward the premium offerings based on
today’s Business Objects product portfolio.
BEx Report Designer, (last release in 2008) will be available under maximum maintenance until 2016 and
will be replaced with the Crystal Report for SAP NetWeaver BI product.
© SAP 2008 / 37
Roadmap for Dashboarding
Interactive
Dashboards and
Data Visualization
Key Points
Xcelsius+, a future release of Xcelsius, will become the flagship product for data visualization and dash-boarding
BEx Web Application Designer will not be enhanced further beyond SAP NetWeaver rel. 7.0.1 in 2008
Composition Environment including Visual Composer continues to be the go-to product for creating composite applications
Business Objects
SAP
© SAP 2008 / 38
Enterprise Query, Reporting, and
Analysis Package
Finding relevant
Enterprise Query information fast
and Reporting via with Search
the Web
Analysis and
Sharing of OLAP
Data – designed for
business analysts
© SAP 2008 / 39
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is the leading end-user reporting and analysis tool
Where can Web Intelligence add value?
In the area of ad hoc reporting
Easy-to-use interface for end-user reporting
Powerful query features
Leverage business-friendly “semantic layer” to hide complexity
Key capabilities
Self-service reporting and analysis; autonomy from IT
Simple user interface, designed for the masses
Combine data from SAP and non-SAP data in a
single report
Connectivity to SAP
Sits on top of BusinessObjects Enterprise Universes
Universes connect to SAP NetWeaver BI via OLAP BAPI
Access objects: BEx Queries and SAP NetWeaver
BI InfoCubes
© SAP 2008 / 40
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Connectivity to SAP NetWeaver BI
SAP
NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 41
BusinessObjects Voyager
Key capabilities
Tool designed for business analysts analyzing OLAP data and end users reviewing OLAP
data
Open data access
Access and analyze multiple OLAP sources in one workspace
Multiple views of the same OLAP cube in one workspace
Tight integration into MS PowerPoint and Word
© SAP 2008 / 42
Voyager User Interface Examples
Voyager Ajax UI
Multiple OLAP
connections, chart
sliders …
SAP connectivity
Direct access to SAP NetWeaver BI queries and InfoCubes via OLAP BAPI
© SAP 2008 / 43
Voyager Connectivity to SAP
NetWeaver BI
SAP
NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 44
Demo: Business Objects with SAP
NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 45
BI Widgets
Expand and accelerate BI usage — leverage existing data sources, reports, queries,
alerts, and dashboards with a simple drag and drop interface — no training or IT
required
Provide the confidence that users will always have access to the most up-to-date
information available
© SAP 2008 / 46
BusinessObjects Mobile
SAP connectivity
Via BusinessObjects Enterprise Universes that can leverage
SAP NetWeaver BI data via the OLAP BAPI
© SAP 2008 / 47
Roadmap: Ad Hoc Query and
Reporting
Ad Hoc Query
and Reporting via
the Web
Ad Hoc Query
and Reporting Web Intelligence Web Intelligence Web Intelligence
Key Points
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is the flagship product for ad hoc Web-based query creation and
reporting for the casual end user.
Business Objects
© SAP 2008 / 48 SAP
Roadmap: OLAP Analysis
Interactive OLAP
Analysis
Key Points
Pioneer (code name for 2009 release) provides a superset of capabilities from BEx Analyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer
(Web), and Business Objects Voyager.
Voyager customers migrate to Pioneer. BEx Analyzer and BEx Web Analyzer customers migrate to Pioneer.
Business Objects
© SAP 2008 / 49 SAP
Agenda
© SAP 2008 / 50
Universe: What Purpose Does It
Serve?
Serves as a “semantic layer” between the front-end reporting tool (i.e., Web
Intelligence) and the back-end data source (i.e., SAP NetWeaver BI)
Extend OLAP access to a wider audience — Web Intelligence, Xcelsius Enterprise, Polestar,
and Live Office users
Allows for dimensions and measures (InfoObject characteristics and key figures) to
be represented in meaningful business terms
Technical names are not exposed to the end user
Commonality of business terms can be implemented so there is consistency across all
Universes (regardless of data source!)
© SAP 2008 / 51
OLAP Universes Connecting to an
SAP NetWeaver BI Source Object
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OLAP Universes: Recommendations
and Considerations
Understand the BEx Query definition; the Universe design does not directly impact
the performance of a BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report
Rather, the design of the BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report and the InfoObjects
(dimension or measure) included in the report will impact performance
However, limiting the InfoObjects (dimension or measure) available in the query or Universe
will influence performance (by virtue of the fields not being available in the BusinessObjects
Web Intelligence report)
© SAP 2008 / 53
OLAP Universes: Recommendations
and Considerations (cont.)
© SAP 2008 / 54
Demo — Enterprise Reporting, Query,
and Analysis
© SAP 2008 / 55
Joint Roadmap for BI Tools —
Ad Hoc Query and Reporting
Ad Hoc Query
and Reporting via
the Web
Ad hoc Query
and Reporting Web Intelligence Web Intelligence Web Intelligence
Key Points
BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is the flagship product for ad hoc Web-based query creation and
reporting for the casual end user.
Business Objects
© SAP 2008 / 56 SAP
Joint Roadmap for BI Tools —
OLAP Analysis
Key Points
Pioneer (code name for 2009 release) provides a superset of capabilities from BEx Analyzer (Excel), BEx Analyzer
(Web), and Business Objects Voyager.
Voyager customers migrate to Pioneer. BEx Analyzer and BEx Web Analyzer customers migrate to Pioneer.
Business Objects
© SAP 2008 / 57 SAP
Data Integration and Data Quality
Management
Where can Data Integration and Data Quality Management add value for SAP
NetWeaver BI customers? Building an agile and trusted data foundation.
Enterprise agility
Easy and fast connectivity of SAP NetWeaver BI to heterogeneous sources based on
rich content
Users benefit from rapid visibility to critical information
Trusted data
Users gain single view of accurate and trusted data
Users can make decisions with confidence
IT can drive data consistency and deliver a single view of the truth
Customer requirements
Fast and flexible integration of Siebel, Oracle, or other applications
Central integration design time for a complex heterogeneous landscape
Extensive standards-based connectivity
Assess and solve data quality issues at the source
Connectivity to SAP
Data Integrator is certified for Staging BAPI of SAP NetWeaver BI
© SAP 2008 / 58
Rapid Marts for SAP
Where can BusinessObjects Data Quality (DQ), Data Integration (DI), and Rapid
Marts software add value for SAP ERP customers?
Built with Data Integrator, Rapid Marts are ready-made data marts for SAP and
Oracle-family applications
Pre-built data flows, business logic, and schema that understand the SAP metadata
Rapid Marts for SAP include content that is immediately consumable by business users
Rapid Marts can be rapidly deployed independently from an EDW implementation
Data profiling and cleansing
Rapid Mart can be the first step toward a holistic Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
program or global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) strategy
Provide understanding of data and data quality issues early
Connectivity
Rapid Marts are connected via Data Integrator
© SAP 2008 / 59
Demo — Data Integration/Data
Quality Management
© SAP 2008 / 60
Roadmap: Data Integration/Data
Quality Management
Data Quality
Master Data
Management Data Quality Data Quality Data Quality
PREMIUM
Master Data
Master Data Management Master Data Management
Management+
Key Points
SAP NetWeaver MDM will be able to consume content from BusinessObjects Data Quality
(DQ) in 2008 through data cleansing and de-duplication before load into master data
repository
By 2010 SAP will deliver tight integration of DQ with an enhanced version of Master Data
Management
DQ and MDM will also continue to be available as a standalone offering
Business Objects
© SAP 2008 / 61 SAP
Joint Roadmap for BI Tools –
Simple, Fast Information Exploration
Simple, fast
information
exploration for
Business Users
Simple, fast
exploration Polestar Polestar+BIA Polestar+BIA Polestar+BIA
Key Points
BusinessObjects Polestar is the flagship product for simple and fast search-based information
exploration for business users.
Business Objects
© SAP 2008 / 62 SAP
SAP NetWeaver – Roadmap for BI in
Visual Composer
2008 Future
SAP NetWeaver
SAP List viewer as Visual Supports jumps from Visual
Visual Composer Composer BI control Composer models to Pioneer,
Access to selected 3rd Party Xcelsius Dashboards and
relational and Crystal Reports
multidimensional sources Embed Xcelsius dashboards
via BI Consumer Services
via Flash Islands
(BICS)
Support of Planning
Native Web Dynpro for Visual
functions in VC Composer (WD4VC) Analysis
Web Dynpro component control in Visual Composer
integration support (VC)
Flash Island integration Runtime Authorization &
support Personalization
Key Points
Embed BI into business processes
Dissolve boundaries between BI and operational applications
Leverage Xcelsius dashboards within composites
© SAP 2008 / 63
Final Thoughts
© SAP 2008 / 64
7 Key Points to Take Home
© SAP 2008 / 65
Legal Disclaimer
This document is intended to outline future product direction, and is not a commitment by SAP to deliver any
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relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
© SAP 2008 / 66
Agenda
© SAP 2008 / 67
Emerging Trends Are Dramatically
Reshaping the Business Environment
Business Users
Demographics
Multi-nationalism
Mobile workforce
Rise of “digital natives”
Web 2.0
Consumer-like expectations
Lean consumption platform
Third-party mashups
Nature of Work
Management by exception
Collaboration across boundaries
Context over information
Task
Workers
© SAP 2008 / 68
Convergence Allows Organizations
to Optimize Their Performance
© SAP 2008 / 69
Convergence Allows Organizations
to Optimize Their Performance
Align strategic Optimize operational
decision-making decisions inside and
across teams outside the company
Strategy
Insight Business
Decisions
Unified Collaborative
Network
Information Decisions
Optimization
Business Intelligence Platform
Execution
across multiple
transaction systems
Generate insight from Manage compliance and risk, and
structured/unstructured optimize performance across the
and internal/external data business network
© SAP 2008 / 70
Two Areas Within SAP’s Solution for
Enterprise Performance Management
Office In
Reporting Analysis Dashboards Search OEM
Integration Memory
© SAP 2008 / 72
Current Financial Performance
Management (FPM) Build-Out Strategy
Immediately, in areas where there are overlaps and wherever possible, SAP will seek
to select one application in each area to build on, placing duplicate products in
maintenance mode with clearly articulated maintenance rules, availability of migration
kits, and declarations of functional parity for most of the solutions
In the near-term, SAP will seek to build fast integration between the applications
(e.g., EPM, GRC) and the business intelligence platform (e.g., IDD, EIM) to bring the
power of the end-to-end proposition of business process optimization
© SAP 2008 / 73
Four Key Elements of Enterprise
Performance Management
1
Strategy
Management
4
2
Profitability & Business
Cost Mgmt Planning
3
Financial
Consolidations
© SAP 2008 / 74
1 – Strategy Management
Integrates goals,
initiatives, and metrics Help companies improve performance and
align execution with strategy
Measure performance
Quickly assess strategic performance and
execute on areas that require action
Deploy
© SAP 2008 / 75
SAP Solutions for Strategy
Management
Note: All dates are for Release-to-Customer version, not GA, and are subject to change.
© SAP 2008 / 76
SAP Strategy Management 7.0
Architecture
SAP Strategy Management and SAP NetWeaver Three-Part Integration
Web
MS Replacement of JBoss with
Web Container Web Report Excel SAP NetWeaver 7.1
EJB Container App
Analyzer Designer Add-in Application Server
J2EE Services Designer
BI Consumer Services
PAS ODBO
SAP NetWeaver BI
Pass-through approach
NetWeaver BI
BI
Analytic Engine Meta Data Mgr 3 leveraging time-intelligence
Platform capabilities of PAS while
SAP
© SAP 2008 / 77
Demo: Strategy Management
© SAP 2008 / 78
2 – Business Planning
With Familiar Tools for Business Users
Business process-centric
Analyze
© SAP 2008 / 79
SAP Solutions for Business Planning
Note: All dates are for Release-to-Customer version, not GA, and are subject to change.
© SAP 2008 / 80
SAP BPC Product Architecture
unchanged, only
Tier
SAP NetWeaver BI
Tier
Services
(Relational) All persistency moved
(OLAP)
to ABAP database Relational/OLAP/Documents
(incl. files)
Stored File
Tier
Procedures System
© SAP 2008 / 81
Planning and Reporting Architecture
BI-IP (BI 7.0) and BPC 7.0 NW
BPC Engine
Replicated
Plan Actuals Actuals Plan
Architected Data Marts Architected Data Marts DWH
/BI0 & /BIC Namespace /CPMB Namespace
EDW ODS
Shared
IT Owned/Administered Business Owned/Administered
Business Supported IT Supported
BPC 7.0 SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
BI / BI-IP 7.0 Any SAP Supported DB/OS (i.e., Oracle, Microsoft, IBM) DB/OS
BPC Enhancements: Easier to Use
Reduce reliance on IT
Familiar and easy to use planning interfaces
(Office 2007 and Web) facilitate broader use
and more collaborative planning
Business user-driven reporting and
administration means you don’t have to rely
on IT to create reports or manage the
application
No data modeling required – add dimensions
and members on the fly so you don’t have to
wait for IT to make changes to the
application
© SAP 2008 / 83
BPC Enhancements: Increased
Performance and Scalability
© SAP 2008 / 84
Demo: Business Planning with
SAP BPC
© SAP 2008 / 85
3 – Financial Consolidation
For Management and Statutory Reporting
Faster Close
Data Model
Power and agility
Combines the power to unify all legal and
management reporting needs with the agility to
blend corporate control with local flexibility
Compliance
© SAP 2008 / 86
BPC 7.0 Highlights
Time-dependent hierarchies
All hierarchy changes are reflected in the database.
In-memory acceleration
Improved read performance vs. database on massive data volumes with BIA.
© SAP 2008 / 87
BPC 7.0 Highlights (cont.)
Platform neutrality
Bulk of system works on any operating system and any database SAP NetWeaver supports.
© SAP 2008 / 88
Roadmap – Overall Direction
Over time, it is planned that the two products will overlap less and less
BPC, version for SAP NetWeaver, will be optimized for SAP customers through
integration to other SAP customers and the EPM solutions
BPC, version for the Microsoft Platform, will continue to be invested in as a best of
breed, unified planning and consolidation system
Today Future
Æ Æ Æ Time Æ Æ Æ
Roadmap – Potential Areas of
Investment
SAP is planning to invest in both products going forward, and the below diagram is intended to outline the
future product direction, but is not a commitment by SAP deliver and code or functionality. All dates,
releases and planned functionality are subject to change.
2010
2008
© SAP 2008 / 90
SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation is SAP’s direction
© SAP 2008 / 91
SAP Solutions for Business
Consolidations
SAP Financial Consolidations
7.0 (Cartesis)
Cartesis Support of Vista/Excel 2007
Additional languages support
SAP Financial Consolidations
Intercompany 5.1 7.5 (Cartesis)
LDAP support Integration with Business
Objects platform Integrations with SAP
Business Objects security
support (security/authoring/publishing) NetWeaver BI
Support for BusinessObjects Integration with SAP ERP
Improved reporting
IDD tools and data entry period FPM Suite 8.0
in Designer Unified FPM Studio for
SAP BPC 7.0M business user
Runs on Microsoft SQL application
SAP BPC 5.0/5.1 SAP BPC 7.5M administration
Server/Analysis Services
Support of Business Objects Unified end-user
Runs on Microsoft SQL New Management Console for
Server/Analysis Services reporting (Voyager) experience
system monitoring and logging
SQL Server 2008 support Support of both SAP
Business process flows SQE performance enhancements
Functional enhancements BPC and SAP Financial
unifying operational and Microsoft Vista Support
analytical processes Consolidations as the
Context-driven action platforms for
panes SAP BPC 7.0 SAP BPC 7.0 SPS 1…x (*) Consolidations
Support of Excel 2007 Runs on SAP NetWeaver BI Functional enhancements
platform including business process
Performance optimizations with flows
BIA
SEM-BCS 6.0 Ehp II SAP SEM-BCS 6.0 EHpIII SAP SEM-BCS 6.0 EHpIV
Web-based user Legal and statutory Support for tax rate changes
experience enhancements through 2013 Support new accounting
Restatement support Integration of GRC Process requirements (i.e., FAS160,
Multi-period consolidation Controls FAS141R, etc…)
Automated sign-off Integration with Financial MDM
Enhanced workflow
Optimize resources
Understand
Model and
© SAP 2008 / 93
SAP Solutions for Profitability and
Cost Management
Note: All dates are for Release-to-Customer version, not GA, and are subject to change.
© SAP 2008 / 94
Agenda
© SAP 2008 / 95
Information Requirements for
Procurement Performance
© SAP 2008 / 96
Information Requirements for
Procurement Performance (cont.)
Data classification
Data integration Spend specific data model, business user
and supplier
interface, actionable insight
normalization
Supplier Spend
Normalization Classification
Process
DataStores InfoCubes
ERP 1
GL
T&E
P-Cards
© SAP 2008 / 97
SAP Spend Analytics
© SAP 2008 / 98
What Is Supply Chain Performance
Management?
Source: Ventana Research: Supply Chain Performance Management Research Agenda for 2006.
© SAP 2008 / 99
Challenges Faced Today
SAP recommends customers look at BPC for their planning and consolidation
projects
Your existing investments in BPS/BI-IP are protected and can co-exist with BPC
You can migrate your existing planning applications at your own pace
SAP will evaluate the migration effort from BPS to BPC in 2009
Supply Chain
Perf Mgmt
SCPM 1.0 SCPM 2.0 SCPM 3.0 Risk Adjusted SCPM
Scenario Modeling
Pilot RTC RTC Industry specific content
3-Year Roadmap Solutions for Enterprise
Performance Management
Strategy Integration with Enterprise Risk Enhanced collaboration and integrated Intra-application data sharing
Management Management sensitivity analysis through common master data
Initiative scoring and KPI Initiative sharing with SAP Business Planning SSM and BPC use a common
Integration with Business Objects dashboards model
repository
Business Netweaver version with BI Integration with BusinessObjects Drastically improved
Planning and Accelerator support BI Platform consolidation capability
Consolidation Shared Query engine optimization Close feature gap between MS Full model integration with SSM
and NW versions
in Microsoft Version
XBRL Reporting
Financial Integration with Business Packaged solution for SAP Continued legal enhancements
Consolidation Objects BI platform General Ledger Data load Simplified setup for faster
Support for IT standards Write consolidated results to implementations
NW BI
XBRL Reporting
Profitability Transaction costing engine Shared drivers with Business Tighter integration with BPC and
and Cost Integration with Business Planning SSM through closer NW BI
Management Objects BI Platform Integration with SAP NetWeaver integration
BI
Financial Financial Information Financial Information Management across Enhanced rules and mapping
Information Management for Financial EPM logic
Management Consolidation
Spend Spend Analytics 2.0 broader on Integrated spend classification Expanded EPM integration
Analytics premise deployment capabilities Expanded GRC integration
Spend Advisor Savings & BOM analysis Expanded Business Objects BI
Integration with E-Sourcing Business Objects BI integration integration
Impact Analysis - KPI relationship Risk Adjusted Supply Chain Business Objects BI integration
Supply Chain
across supply chain Performance Management What-if simulation and
Performance
SCPM Pilot release Common data model with predictive capabilities
Management
Spend Analytics Expanded EPM integration
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Resources
SDN
www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects
Check out the blogs and forums – there is already some great content posted
– SAP’s definitive strategy for planning technologies moving forward: What's the word on
BPC, BI-IP and SRC? (www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/10100)
SAP BPC enables rapid adoption by leveraging native Microsoft Office tools (e.g.,
Excel) and Web browsers accessing a central database
Configurable business process flows guide users and drive process consistency
The strategic sourcing process begins by gaining visibility into spend information
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Business Objects, an SAP company
Bryan.katis@sap.com
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