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A Comprehensive Guide to

Reporting, Analytics, Dashboards,


and Planning with SAP and Business
Objects

Bryan Katis
Business Objects, an SAP company
Agenda

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© 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

“BW takes a lot of time


“I’m being audited by the SEC.
and resources to
implement and maintain.” I need the last 5 years of “Analyzing non-SAP
revenue data today!” data is difficult or not
possible!”

Mfg, Supply Chain Sales &


IT Finance HR
& Logistics Marketing

“IT is not keeping up


“Reports are not
with my new “BEx is too suitable for
business needs (to complicated for my management or
keep up with analysts.” executives!”
competition and new
practices).”
© SAP 2008 / 3
You Now Have More BI Options

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

SAP NetWeaver Management Search, Text Analysis,


BI etc.
Data
Modeling
Experts
SAP-Only Any Data Source
Open
© SAP 2008 / 4
Why You Need Even More Options

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

SAP BW BEx Query Designer ABAP Programming SAP Reporting

Printing Loading data into BW


© SAP 2008 / 5
What You Get with Business Objects

“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

Any Data Source Pervasive Flexible, Traceable

Simple, Self-service Reporting Presentation-ready Information


© SAP 2008 / 6
What Better BI Means to the
Business

BI-enabled business processes in the way of Performance Management redefine BI


in business terms
Performance Optimization Applications (POA)
Instead of
Governance, Risk and
Compliance (GRC)
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) custom-
Financial GRC, Supply Chain Financial Performance Operational Performance building
GRC, Environmental GRC Management (FPM) Management (OPM) analytic
Risk Access Process Strategy Planning Consol- Profit Retail Spend
applications,
idation apps
Analytic Supply
consider a
Trade Environ.

Apps Chain
pre-packaged
one
BI Platform
Information Discovery and Delivery
Query, reporting, analysis Advanced analytics
Business
Reporting Analysis Dashboards Search Office
Integration
In
Memory OEM Intelligence is
the unifying
platform for
Enterprise Information Management
Performance
Data integration, quality, federation, master data management
Management
Data Data Data Meta- Master data Data-Mart
Integration Quality Federation Data management Solutions
Your Game Plan …

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”

If you’re running SAP BW 3.x …


„ You’ll technically be able to run Business Objects XI 3.0, but it is strongly
advisable to migrate to 7.x in order to leverage future enhancements (and BI Accelerator)

© 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

Crystal Web SAP


Live Office Data Services
Reports Intelligence NetWeaver BI

Dashboarding Voyager Mobile SAP MDM

Xcelsius Polestar Business Objects dominates the


front end while it augments SAP
NetWeaver in the back end
Dashboard
Builder

BI Widgets

© SAP 2008 / 9
What Are the Opportunities for the
Business Users?

Self-service BI helps business users help themselves:


„ Enterprise tool as an alternative to the spreadsheet
„ Enables rapid, role-relevant reporting content and task-specific analysis for ad hoc needs
by making the information consumer the producer (a.k.a., “prosumer”)
„ Enables prosumers to “mashup” (i.e., mix-and-match) content from various sources (such
as peer or IT developments) into their own “mashboard” co-creations (i.e., customized
dashboards)
„ Presentation-ready reports in a wide variety of delivery options (such as email, mobile,
portal, or print) makes SAP data easier to share and communicate
„ Frees up IT resources from reporting and analysis development

© 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

Voyager, Web Intelligence Information


Analysts „ High visual appeal and self- “Prosumers”
service usability Self-Service Reporting
OLAP Analysis „ For business user and IT and
Ad Hoc Analysis
„ SAP and non-SAP data

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?

New enterprise back-end tools facilitate providing business users an “information


smorgasbord”
„ Data Integrator and Data Federator functionality enables the integration of more SAP and
non-SAP data
„ Data Quality and SAP NetWeaver MDM ensures that the data can be trusted
„ SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator diminishes the need to predict user behavior in order to
deliver fast and responsive data
„ Intelligent Search and Text Analysis opens the possibility of bringing unstructured data into
structured BI analysis

© SAP 2008 / 12
What Happens to My Existing
Development? Is It Throwaway?

“No,” from the following perspectives:


„ Complex and mission-critical reports with adoption and stabilization that cannot be replicated
by users
„ Back-end information models, including InfoProviders and SAP BEx queries (theoretically)

“Yes,” from the following perspectives:


„ Report formats and distribution channels that need to be reworked with improved functionality
to increase usage
„ Further investment in “sunset” tools such as SAP BEx Web Application Designer is
generally ill-advised
„ Reports displaced by self-service reporting and ad hoc analysis
„ BEx queries that need to be redesigned for Business Objects tools (separate queries for each
tool is best practice)

© 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

BusinessObjects Web Voyager


Intelligence/Universe

SAP NetWeaver BI
SAP BEx Queries
OLAP
BAPI
SAP InfoProviders

Crystal Reports EDW DataStore Objects

InfoSets Queries Functions Tables SAP ERP


© SAP 2008 / 14
But Which BI Tool Should I Pick?

Customize this decision tree


to fit your organization

Decision tree criteria and


guidelines should be
focused on the job at hand

Technical interface and


deployment options (i.e.,
Web vs. desktop) should be
seen as job-at-hand criteria
in disguise

© 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

SAP FAQ on the future of SAP NetWeaver BI


„ www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects?rid=/webcontent/uuid/402bb884-72dd-2a10-c5
b2-9633b9fa26db#section39

SAP Business Intelligence Roadmap


„ www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/10c3bca6-7dbc-2a10-7aa8-81
d2731c7bb1

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

„ Business Objects, an SAP Company, brings two key capabilities to SAP-based


Business Intelligence: greater usability and more openness

„ 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)

„ For data staging, BusinessObjects Data Services enhances SAP NetWeaver BI


and SAP NetWeaver MDM

© SAP 2008 / 18
7 Key Points to Take Home (cont.)

„ BI self-service empowerment changes the roles and responsibilities between the


business and IT
„ It offloads IT, but creates new demands for governance, scalability, and more trusted data

„ The biggest impact BusinessObjects software has on SAP NetWeaver BI is


providing more front-end options to access and leverage existing investments in
the back end
„ There is now a tool for every job at hand in the world of SAP-based business intelligence

© SAP 2008 / 19
Agenda

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 20
SAP Business Objects Portfolio

Performance Optimization Applications


Governance, Risk, and
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Compliance
Financial, Supply Chain, Financial Performance Operational Performance
and, Environmental GRC Management Management
Profitability Retail
Risk Access Process Business Consol- Spend
Strategy and apps
Planning idation Cost Mgmt
Analytic Supply
Trade Environ. Apps Chain

BI Platform
Information Discovery and Delivery
Query, reporting, analysis Advanced analytics

Office In
Reporting Analysis Dashboards Search OEM
Integration Memory

Enterprise Information Management


Data integration, quality, federation, master data management
Data Data Data Meta- Master Data
Integration Quality Federation data Management

SAP Business Objects Rest of SAP Both (gray and blue)


© SAP 2008 / 21
SAP NetWeaver and Business
Objects BI Platform Roadmap
PREMIUM 2008 2009 2010

Enterprise
Reporting Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Crystal Reports

Crystal Reports
BASE

for SAP NetWeaver BI

BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer


PREMIUM

Ad hoc Query & Web Intelligence Web Intelligence Web Intelligence


Reporting
Analysis Voyager Pioneer Pioneer

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Web Analyzer BEx Web Analyzer


BASE

BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel)


BASE PREMIUM

Dashboards Xcelsius Xcelsius+ Xcelsius+

Web Application Web Application Web Application


Designer Designer Designer

Data Quality &


Master Data Data Quality Data Quality Data Quality
Management
Master Data
Master Data Management Master Data Management Management+

„ 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

Native API access


„ Full support for InfoSets, tables, and ABAP functions/queries
„ No additional metadata setup required

No ABAP programming required

Leverage SAP security directly


„ End-to-end single sign-on
„ Small amount of configuration required
„ Ease of maintenance and IT administration

No SAP upgrade required


„ Support all SAP R/3 versions since 4.6C
„ Support for SAP ECC 5.0 and 6.0

© SAP 2008 / 24
Integration Kit for SAP – SAP
NetWeaver BI Reporting

Built on a unique SAP NetWeaver BI API leveraging OLAP BAPI


„ SAP-developed and supported

Fully leverage SAP NetWeaver BI user interface


„ Use BEx query panel, directly from within Crystal Reports

Fully integrated into SAP NetWeaver BI life cycle


„ Store reports in the SAP NetWeaver BI repository, through development/test/production cycle

Leverage SAP security directly


„ End-to-end single sign-on
„ No additional configuration required
„ Ease of maintenance and IT administration

© SAP 2008 / 25
Agenda

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© 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)

„ Market leader in enterprise reporting


„ Embedded, interactive visualization
Visualization and Reporting
„ All data (including unstructured)

„ Enterprise-class data integration


Data Integration and Data „ Market leader in data quality
Quality Management „ Deep integration with BI

© SAP 2008 / 27
Visualization and Reporting Package

Interactive data
visualization

Seamless Microsoft Office


integration

Enterprise class
formatted reporting

Source: BusinessObjects S.A. Public Information

© 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

Connectivity to SAP applications and SAP NetWeaver BI/SAP BW


„ InfoSet/ABAP Query driver – Access SAP NetWeaver BI InfoSets
„ Open SQL Driver – Access ODS objects
„ BW OLAP Kit
„ Connect to multidimensional SAP NetWeaver BI InfoCubes and BEx Queries

© SAP 2008 / 29
Crystal Reports Connectivity to SAP
NetWeaver BI

SAP ECC SAP NetWeaver BI

© SAP 2008 / 30
Interactive Visualization with
Xcelsius

Xcelsius is an environment to design and consume highly-interactive, Flash-based


dashboards in PDFs, documents, presentations, and SAP NetWeaver Portal
Where can Xcelsius add value?
„ In the area of data visualization
„ Intuitive design environment, enabling you to easily create professional-looking models
quickly using skins, maps, charts, gauges, and selectors
„ Add visualization to Crystal Reports
„ End-user personalization

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

SAP ECC SAP NetWeaver BI


Microsoft Office Integration with
Live Office

Live Office allows the deployment and access of BI reports and dashboards within
Microsoft Office PowerPoint, Word, and Excel

Where can Live Office add value?


„ Live Office integrates refreshable BI data within documents,
spreadsheets, and presentations
„ The result is an Office document you can share with others for
secure, collaborative decision-making
„ Using intuitive wizards and toolbars, easily connect to and
select data from a BusinessObjects Crystal Report or Web
Intelligence document
„ Once the data is placed into your Microsoft (MS) document,
you can format, reorganize, and perform calculations — all
while using familiar features in MS Word, PowerPoint,
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 ECC SAP NetWeaver BI

© SAP 2008 / 34
Query as a Web Service Overview

Query as a Web Service is an intuitive, wizard-based Web Service definition tool

Allows BI content to be delivered to any user interface that can process


Web Services
„ In the case of this presentation, the user interface discussed is an Xcelsius visualization

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

2008 2009 2010


PREMIUM

Enterprise Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Crystal Reports


Reporting

Crystal Reports
for SAP NetWeaver BI
BASE

BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer BEx Report Designer

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

2008 2009 2010


PREMIUM

Dashboards Xcelsius Xcelsius+ Xcelsius+


BASE

Web Application Web Application Web Application


Designer Designer Designer

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

Voyager is a Web-based OLAP client with an advanced, highly intuitive, user


interface based on Web 2.0 (Ajax) technology
Where can Voyager add value?
„ Multiple connections to multiple OLAP servers (SAP NetWeaver BI/BW, Microsoft Analysis
Services (MSAS), Essbase, IBM DB2)
„ Multiple pages in a workspace
„ Advanced charting engine with new chart capabilities especially designed for OLAP analysis
„ Capable of standard OLAP navigation
„ Business calculations: % diff, % contribution, variance …
„ Time-based calculations: prior period, YTD, QTD, MA …
„ Filter, sort, ranking – top/bottom, by value by %

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 …

Multiple pages, data


analysis …

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

BI Widgets simplify access to SAP NetWeaver BI and increase productivity by having


key information available at users’ fingertips

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

Where can Mobile add value?


„ Increased Business Intelligence adoption to more BI users
„ Shortened sales cycles
„ Faster, more accurate account services
„ Increased customer satisfaction

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

2008 2009 2010


PREMIUM

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

2008 2009 2010


PREMIUM

OLAP Voyager Pioneer Pioneer


Analysis

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Web Analyzer BEx Web Analyzer


BASE

BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel)

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

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© 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!)

Enhances the Cube


„ Add calculated measures, calculated members, and sets to enhance the functionality without
changing the SAP NetWeaver BI Query
„ Add additional parameters (SAP variables)
„ Enable filters, prompts, and data formatting

© SAP 2008 / 51
OLAP Universes Connecting to an
SAP NetWeaver BI Source Object

Universes can connect to the following objects in BI:


„ InfoCubes
„ MultiProviders
„ Can be a MultiProvider built on any source InfoProvider
(Cube, DSO, InfoSet, etc.)
„ BEx Query
„ Can be a query on any source InfoProvider
(Cube, MultiProvider, DSO, etc.)
„ Must be released for external access (“Release for OLE DB for OLAP” option in the
Advanced tab in query properties)
„ Features of BEx Queries, such as navigational attributes, calculated key figures, restricted
key figures, variables, etc., can be leveraged
– http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir3/en/xi3_sap_olap_universes_en.pdf

© SAP 2008 / 52
OLAP Universes: Recommendations
and Considerations

The recommended approach is to create a query (or set of queries) on InfoCubes or


MultiProviders that are in scope for ad hoc analysis, and then create an OLAP
Universe on each of them
„ Using a BEx Query as the basis for the Universe allows you to leverage such functionality as
navigational attributes, calculated key figures, restricted key figures, variables, etc.
„ This setup also allows you to make performance optimizations by hard-coding characteristic
restrictions (thus limiting data), or reducing the characteristics and key figures that can be
displayed in BusinessObjects Web Intelligence or other front-end tools using Universes (i.e.,
to prevent line item data from being displayed)

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.)

The default OLAP Universe generated based on BI metadata (InfoProvider or query-


based) should typically be customized to make it more user-friendly and “business
flavored”
„ This is really the whole purpose of having the “semantic layer” of the Universe in between the
user and the back-end source of the data (i.e., making it as straight-forward and user-friendly
as possible — no technical names)

Take into consideration the Multidimensional Expression (MDX) restrictions and


unsupported query features
„ Review SAP Notes 820925 and 838800 for specific features that are not supported
„ Review the MDX Specification for details on MDX Syntax and functionality
„ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms145506.aspx

© 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

2008 2009 2010


PREMIUM

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

2008 2009 2010


PREMIUM

OLAP Voyager Pioneer Pioneer


Analysis

BEx Web Analyzer BEx Web Analyzer BEx Web Analyzer


BASE

BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel) BEx Analyzer (Excel)

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

2008 2009 2010

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

Existing solutions 2008 2009 2010


PREMIUM

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

Combine analytical and


operational data from SAP
and non-SAP data sources
with transactional
services

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

You can start now


„ If you want to upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 and perform a technical upgrade, you can
immediately take advantage of the Business Objects tools

Two main approaches to identifying a starting point:


„ Top-down
„ Based on end-user requirements
„ Bottom-up
„ Select a tool
„ Implement the tool
„ Recommendation
„ A combined approach usually works best
„ Determine which tool you use for a specific scenario and build this into your reporting
strategy

© SAP 2008 / 64
7 Key Points to Take Home

„ Business Objects information delivery and information discovery (IDD) front-end


tools will further enable IT autonomy and reduce the need of IT involvement to
meet business reporting requirements
„ Implement a unified front-end reporting solution that reduces overall TCO and
increases business user satisfaction and adoption
„ Existing SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 queries can be leveraged to connect to the
Business Objects IDD front-end tools
„ The Premium Packages are recommended as this is SAP’s future direction
„ Choose the right tool for the right purpose based on business requirements
„ A solid data warehouse provides a “foundation” upon which reporting solutions are
built and delivered
„ The performance optimization techniques leveraged to improve BEx Query
performance can also be leveraged to improve performance in the Business
Objects IDD front-end tools including BI Accelerator, aggregates, data model,
logical partitioning, etc.

© SAP 2008 / 65
Legal Disclaimer

This document is intended to outline future product direction, and is not a commitment by SAP to deliver any
given code or functionality. Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-
looking statements. SAP undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All
forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expectations. The timing or release of any product described in this document remains at the sole
discretion of SAP. This document is for informational purposes and may not be incorporated into a contract.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and they should not be
relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

© SAP 2008 / 66
Agenda

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© 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

Enterprise Performance Management


Governance, Risk, and Compliance

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

Governance, Risk and


Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
Compliance
Financial GRC, Supply Chain Financial Performance Operational Performance
GRC, Environmental GRC Management Management

Business Consol- Profitability & Retail


Risk Access Process Strategy Cost Mgmt Spend
Planning idation apps
Analytic Supply
Trade Environ. apps Chain

Information Discovery and Delivery


Query, reporting, analysis Advanced analytics

Office In
Reporting Analysis Dashboards Search OEM
Integration Memory

Enterprise Information Management


Data integration, quality, federation, Master Data Management
Data Data Data Meta- Master Data
Integration Quality Federation Data Management

SAP Business Objects Rest of SAP Both


Agenda

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© 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

Over the long term, we will:


„ Move to a unified application experience for the full set of applications, starting with planning
and consolidations
„ Merge our applications on a common business intelligence platform consuming enterprise
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services that abstract the user layer from the data layer
and ensure a unified application environment for business users

© 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

Clearly communicate business goals


Align

Integrates goals,
initiatives, and metrics „ Help companies improve performance and
align execution with strategy

Connects goals, initiatives, and metrics


„ Drive operational alignment
Manage

Initiative Management to Cascade strategy across departments


ensure execution toward
and divisions
goals
„ Ensure that individuals understand how they
can impact key business goals

Monitor outcomes and results


Monitor

KPI Monitoring and „ Show how an organization is performing


Management toward its strategic goals

Measure performance
„ Quickly assess strategic performance and
execute on areas that require action
Deploy

Integrates with SAP and


non-SAP systems

© SAP 2008 / 75
SAP Solutions for Strategy
Management

SAP Strategy FPM Suite 8.0


SAP Strategy „ Unified FPM Studio for
Management 7.0 Management 7.5 business user application
„ Integrated goals, metrics,
SAP Strategy „ BusinessObjects administration
initiatives
Management 2007 tools/infrastructure „ Unified end-user
„ Risk-adjusted strategy
integration experience
„ Initiatives, goals, metrics management
management „ Central KPI library „ External content in „ Unified integration with
„ HTML model builder operational reviews ERP, GRC, Business
„ SAP NetWeaver „ Enhanced scorecarding Objects, SAP NetWeaver,
integration and Duet™

Availability: Q2 2007 Q2 2008 1H 2009 The Future

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

SAP NetWeaver Portal


NetWeaver

SSO w/SSM 1 Single Sign-On and ability to


Portal
SAP

and SAP launch SSM from the SAP


NetWeaver
Portal
NetWeaver Portal

BEx Web BEx SAP NetWeaver Application


SAP NetWeaver

BI Pattern Analyzer Server


SSM 2
AS Java

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

directly accessing SAP


Data DB Service NetWeaver BI 7.0
BAPI File XML/A
Warehouse Connect API

© SAP 2008 / 77
Demo: Strategy Management

© SAP 2008 / 78
2 – Business Planning
With Familiar Tools for Business Users

Report and distribute plans


User-focused
Report

and analyze variances to drive „ Enables rapid adoption by leveraging native


re-forecasts Microsoft Office tools and Web browsers
„ Business users manage processes, models,
and reports, with little dependence on IT

Business process-centric
Analyze

„ Configurable business process flows guide


Consolidate and model
users and drive process consistency
multiple scenarios
Forward-looking
„ Predictive analytics that proactively warn of
negative variances and provide an early-
warning system for KPIs at risk of
Collect

Collaboratively create plans underperforming in the future


and forecasts according to
corporate guidelines Unified planning and consolidation
„ Single application reduces maintenance,
improves data integrity, and simplifies
deployment
Communicate

Communicate top-down Open, adaptable application


targets, timelines, and
guidelines
„ Extend the value of your investment in both
SAP and non-SAP environments

© SAP 2008 / 79
SAP Solutions for Business Planning

SAP BPC 7.0M


„ Runs on Microsoft
SQL Server/Analysis
SAP BPC 5.0/5.1 Services SAP BPC 7.5M FPM Suite 8.0
„ Runs on Microsoft SQL „ New management „ Support of Business Objects „ Unified FPM Studio
Server/Analysis Services console for system reporting (Voyager) for business user
„ Business process flows monitoring and logging „ SQL Server 2008 support application
unifying operational and „ SQE performance „ Functional enhancements administration
analytical processes enhancements „ Unified end-user
„ Context-driven action „ Microsoft Vista support SAP BPC 7.0 SPs 1…x (*) experience
panes „ Functional enhancements „ Unified integration
„ Support of Excel 2007 with ERP, GRC,
including business process flows
SAP BPC 7.0 Business Objects,
SAP NetWeaver
„ Runs on SAP „ Support of both
NetWeaver BI platform Microsoft and SAP
„ Performance NetWeaver platforms
optimizations with BIA

Availability: 1H 2007 Q3 2008 1H 2009 THE FUTURE


(*) Between BPC 7.0/7.0M and BPC 8.0, SAP will deliver new functionality as enhancements. The delivery mechanism may be a new release (BPC 7.5) or
through enhancement packs or support packs. Methodology of delivery TBD.

Note: All dates are for Release-to-Customer version, not GA, and are subject to change.

© SAP 2008 / 80
SAP BPC Product Architecture

BPC 7.0M BPC 7.0


UI and Web service
layer mainly
Client

unchanged, only
Tier

MS Office Admin Browser smaller adaptations MS Office Admin Browser


(e.g., replacing MS
Reporting Services)

.NET Server .NET Server


Web Services Web Services
Few application
services remain in Application
.NET, but persistency Services
moved to ABAP

Application Services Most application AS ABAP


services moved to
ABAP (incl. stored
procedure logic) Application Services
Application

SAP NetWeaver BI
Tier

replaces MS Analysis SAP NetWeaver BI ABAP Core


Services and
DTS/SSIS
Analysis ABAP Database
SQL Server
Persistency

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

Business Explorer Suite (BEx)/ Business Planning


SAP Business Objects Tools & Consolidation Application

BPC Engine

Planning Planning Platform


BI Analytic Engine (incl. BIA)
Functions Modeler
VirtualProvider*

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

Develop larger and faster planning SAP NetWeaver InfoCubes


applications
„ More dimensions and dimension members per
cube so applications can scale as required
„ 64-bit support and sophisticated performance
monitoring boost application performance
„ SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator delivers faster
query performance
SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator

© SAP 2008 / 84
Demo: Business Planning with
SAP BPC

© SAP 2008 / 85
3 – Financial Consolidation
For Management and Statutory Reporting
Faster Close

Processing Simultaneous Legal No Compromise on


Speed and Management
Reporting Views
Audit Trail Accelerate processing and reporting for a
faster close
„ Helps you recover critical time in your closing
and management reporting cycles – without
sacrificing any of the controls or auditing you
need for today’s global compliance environment
Dimensionality Unlimited Designed Financial
Power and

and Extensible Simulations for Finance Intelligence


Agility

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

Compliance, trust, and reliability


Financial

Validations Audit Trail From Data Access


and Controls Source to Security
Disclosure „ Intelligent control and comprehensive process
management to deliver trusted information to all
stakeholders
„ Audit trail from source to disclosure
„ Comprehensive data access security
Leverage BI Open IT Global
Platform Architecture Standards Customer „ Transparent and auditable change management
Base

© SAP 2008 / 86
BPC 7.0 Highlights

Vastly increased dimensionality


„ Removed 65,000 member limit per dimension from BPC 5, with many more total dimensions
possible per cube. This allows customers to build much larger applications, especially in
operational domains with hundreds of thousands of customer and product SKUs.

Life cycle management


„ DEV to TEST to PROD support. BPC 5 does not have this capability, nor do any of our
competitors’ products.

Comprehensive validation framework


„ Support for validation of dimension member combinations across all modules (Journals, Data
Manager, Script Logic, Parameter Driven Logic, Manual Planning from Excel or Web). BPC 5
only supports validation minimally with journals.

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.

Comprehensive statistics framework


„ Allows for fine-grained performance monitoring and tuning.

Sophisticated remote debugging support


„ ABAP stack implementation allows for much greater supportability.

64-bit application server support


„ For ABAP stack, which is where 80+% of the logic is, vs. 32-bit only for BPC 5.

Multi-system support for the client


„ Single client can hook up to multiple servers.

Multi-language on single instance (planned)


„ Single instance of BPC can support many different languages, which is great for global
deployments. Current BPC is only one language per install.

© 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

SAP BPC, version SAP BPC, version


SAP BPC, version SAP BPC, version
for the for the
for SAP NetWeaver for SAP NetWeaver
Microsoft Platform Microsoft Platform

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.

BPC 7.0 MS BPC 7.5 MS BPC 8.0 MS


SAP • Management • Business Objects BI • Functional
Console integration enhancements
BPC, version for
• SQE improvements • Updated Microsoft • User Interface
the Microsoft • Multiple time platform support enhancements
Platform hierarchies
Ramp Up: August 15, 2008

BPC 7.0 NW BPC 7.5 NW BPC 8.0 NW


• NetWeaver BI • Dashboarding • Functional
SAP integration • Functional enhancements
BPC, version for • Validations Engine enhancements • EPM suite-wide
SAP NetWeaver • Transports • Further SAP ERP integration
• Performance Stats and BI integration
Planned Ramp Up: September 10, 2008

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

Availability: 1H 2007 Q3 2008 1H 2009 THE FUTURE


(*) Between SAP BPC 7.0/7.0M and BPC 8.0, SAP will deliver new functionality as enhancements. The delivery mechanism may be a new release (BPC 7.5) or through
enhancement packs or support packs. Methodology of delivery TBD.
© SAP 2008 / 92 Note: All dates are for Release-to-Customer version, not GA, and are subject to change.
4 – Profitability and Cost
Management

Understand what drives costs


Test and
Improve

Test out scenarios to assess


the impact of possible „ ABC as an integrated part of FPM helps
changes – then act optimize costs and maximize profit
through superior business information
and agility
Identify and

Know exactly where profit is made


Analyze

Analyze results to develop a


deep insight into where profit „ Effective and accurate measurement of
is made and what drives costs product, channel, and customer
profitability – and process costs

Optimize resources
Understand
Model and

Costs „ Understand what drives internal cost


Rapidly build models using
Activities structures – where there are non-value
best practice methodology
Cost Objects
adding activities to eliminate
„ Align capacity with demand

Keep shared services aligned


Collect

Collect and collate system „ Understand the costs of IT and bring


and non system data using transparency to cross charges
Web-based data entry

© SAP 2008 / 93
SAP Solutions for Profitability and
Cost Management

SAP PCM 7.0


„ Scalability with high SAP PCM 7.5
volume transactional ABC
using multidimensional
„ Integration with the FPM Suite 8.0
Integrated Data Model to „ Unified FPM Studio for
and relational structures share data and metadata
„ Windows 32-bit AWE business user
with other FPM application
support applications with a single administration
SAP PCM „ Embedded rules engine point of maintenance
„ Unified end-user
„ Acquired from and additional calculation „ Populate financial and
options experience
Business Objects driver data from and serve
„ Unified integration with
„ Ability to manage models Profitability and Cost
and view books through ERP, GRC, Business
Management results via
BusinessObjects Infoview the SAP Data Warehouse. Objects, SAP
NetWeaver, and Duet™
„ Closer integration with „ Tighter integration into
BusinessObjects Voyager Business Objects BI
(multidimensional OLAP BI platform and tools
platform)

Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Q4 2008 THE FUTURE

Note: All dates are for Release-to-Customer version, not GA, and are subject to change.

© SAP 2008 / 94
Agenda

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 95
Information Requirements for
Procurement Performance

Pressing procurement needs: Key requirements:

„ Drive improvement in „ Enterprise-wide visibility to spend


sourcing strategies and buying patterns
„ Effectively manage savings „ Complete, accurate, trustworthy
opportunities data
„ Develop healthy supplier „ Powerful information at the hands
relationships of the business user
„ Improve compliance

© 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

ƒ SAP Extractors 3rd party data services: ƒ SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0


Technology

ƒ Web browser with


ƒ Business Objects ƒ Supplier business ƒ Flex-based application Flash player
Data Integrator compendium layer ƒ Integrates with
ƒ Self-service data ƒ “Predictive coding” E-Sourcing
management portal

© SAP 2008 / 97
SAP Spend Analytics

„ Aggregate spend data


„ Rationalize suppliers
„ Strategize sourcing
„ Drive sourcing efficiency

© SAP 2008 / 98
What Is Supply Chain Performance
Management?

“Supply Chain Performance Management is the practice of managing the


effectiveness and value of the Supply Chain by aligning trading partners,
employees, service providers, process, and systems to a common set of
business goals. It includes gaining insight into operational results and
interactions by identifying root causes and understanding the impact of
various corrective actions. It also includes the business activity analysis that
allows you to optimize operational processes.”

Source: Ventana Research: Supply Chain Performance Management Research Agenda for 2006.

© SAP 2008 / 99
Challenges Faced Today

Lack of alignment in operational and financial goals and strategy

Lack of structured framework for managing supply chain performance

Data spread across heterogeneous data sources

Inflexible metrics model with no relation between metrics

Long implementation times and hard to use solution

BI system modeled as per the “need” and by “experience;” no dedicated framework


for KPI modeling

© SAP 2008 / 100


SAP Supply Chain Performance

SAP Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM) is a turnkey solution


consisting of the following main components:
„ Strategy Management
„ To develop and define supply chain strategy and manage, monitor, and measure
its progress
„ Impact Analysis
„ To understand the relationship between metrics and their impact on each other
„ Operational Analysis
„ To provide end-to-end visibility into all supply chain functions to perform root-cause
analysis

© SAP 2008 / 101


SAP SCPM – Strategy Management

Define supply chain strategy and align


it with corporate strategy

Define flexible, hierarchical supply


chain metrics model – out of the box
support for SCOR®-based model

Set and cascade metrics targets

Assign accountability for metrics

Manage metrics using an integrated


metrics management framework

© SAP 2008 / 102


Demo: SAP Spend Analytics and SAP
Supply Chain Performance Management

© SAP 2008 / 103


Agenda

1. What the Business Objects acquisition means to you


2. Overview: Functional Solution Map for SAP Business Objects
3. Business Objects Connectivity with SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
4. OLAP Universes and SAP NetWeaver BI (Demo)
5. What's new with SAP’s Solutions for Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM): Overview
6. Optimizing financial operations with Financial EPM
7. Tracking spending and supply chain activities with Operational EPM
8. Wrap-up

© SAP 2008 / 104


Final Thoughts

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

© SAP 2008 / 105


EPM Summary Product Roadmap
2007-2010
2007 2008 2009 2010
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

Profitability & BPM 6.0 PCM 7.5 PCM 8.0 Next-Gen


PCM 11.3 PCM 7.0
RTC RTC RTC EPM Suite
Cost Mgmt Mass Ship RTC
ƒ Unified, highly
SSM 2007 SSM 7.0 SSM 7.5 SSM 8.0 usable EPM
Strategy Mgmt
Mass Ship RTC RTC RTC end-user and
authoring
environment
Business BPC 8.0
BPC 5.0 BPC 5.1 BPC 7.0 BPC 7.5
Planning and RTC ƒ Unified master
Consolidation Mass Ship RTC RTC RTC
data, business
rules, metadata
FinCons10.5 FinCons FinCons
8.0 RTC for all
Mass Ship FinCons 7.5 RTC
applications
7.0 RTC
Consolidation SEM-BCS Ext Ana4.1 Ext Ana Ext Ana
ƒ Unified
Mass Ship Mass Ship Ext Ana 7.5 RTC 8.0 RTC
workflow and
7.0 RTC
Intercom5.1 Intercom Intercom process
Mass Ship 7.5 RTC 8.0 RTC orchestration
across the
Fin Info suite
Interface for Fin Info
Suite Mgmt 7.5 Mgmt 8.0

„Spend Performance Management


Spend SSA 1.0 SSA 2.0 SSA 3.0 „SSA On Demand
Analysis RTC RTC RTC

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

Draft 2008 2009 2010

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
© SAP 2008 / Page 107 This presentation is a preliminary version and not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement with SAP. This document contains only intended strategies, developments, and
functionalities of the SAP® product and is not intended to be binding upon SAP to any particular course of business, product strategy, and/or development. Please note that this document is subject to change and may be
changed by SAP at any time without notice. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document.
Resources

Business Objects, an SAP company, Support Site


„ http://support.businessobjects.com
„ Wealth of information including product guides, product overviews, install guides,
supported platforms information, samples, etc.

Business Objects Developer Community – DIAMOND


„ http://boc.sdn.sap.com
„ Business Objects version of SDN
„ Communities, beta product downloads, Webinar information, e-books, Developer
Conference 2007 slides, free trial downloads, and more!...
„ Recently moved to SDN (hosting) and will be further integrated later
„ If necessary, you can use your SDN/BPX user ID and password to login

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 2008 / 108


7 Key Points to Take Home

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

Predictive analytics proactively warn of negative variances and provide an early-


warning system for KPIs at risk of underperforming in the future

BPC provides a single, integrated application that reduces maintenance, improves


data integrity, and simplifies deployment while enabling flexible planning and
consolidation functions

Develop larger and faster planning applications by leveraging SAP NetWeaver BI


Accelerator

The strategic sourcing process begins by gaining visibility into spend information

SCPM is a turnkey Supply Chain Performance Management solution consisting of


Strategy Management, Impact, and Operational Analysis

© SAP 2008 / 109


Questions?

Bryan Katis
Business Objects, an SAP company

Bryan.katis@sap.com
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