Sap Businessobjects Explorer 3gt20

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 4.0

Agenda

 SAP

BusinessObjects Explorer Overview

 SAP

BusinessObjects Explorer - Accelerated

 SAP

BusinessObjects Explorer - What‟s New in 4.0

 Demo

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Overview

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Introduction

 Information Explosion  Challenge scaling to analyze large data sets  Conventional databases can‟t serve large datasets fast enough This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer on BI Applications

Base: 82 BI s

Source Forrester: August 2008 Global BI And Data Management Online Survey This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Value Proposition For s  Simple search  Fast response time across mountains of data  Intuitive data exploration  Visual analysis  Use personal data

For Companies    

Easy to install and deploy No end training Self service BI Great performance and scalability

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer What is SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Access any data  Type in business to start exploring data  Access data exposed by IT, or personal data  No report or data model knowledge required

Visual exploration  Look at top N values, sort or filter the data  Automatic chart generation  Interact with the data

Share Insight  Send link by email or bookmark  Use as starting point for further analysis  Access from iPhone or iPad This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Everyone is using Search

To instantly find facts  Weather  Stock Prices

To access information not readily available  New York city traffic map  Restaurant reviews

To investigate or do research  Ticket prices, hotels  Curiosity about a subject

Finding and analyzing corporate information should be this easy This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Everyone is using Search

Use familiar key-word search to find business information  Answers “on-the-fly” and investigative questions

Searches directly on pre-indexed data  No previous reports or metrics need exist  Provides fast search and exploration

Searches across all data sources  Any universe accessible source  Any Accelerator accessible source

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Everyone is using Search

Intuitively explore on data  No data model or data knowledge required  Web or Mobile

Automated relevancy of results  Most relevant information is displayed first  Best chart type auto generated

Share insights with others  Export to CSV or image  Save it locally as a browser bookmark  One-click send to email

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer What is SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Search

Visualize

Explore

Share

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Mobile Applications Apple: available on the App Store for XI 3.2, coming weeks for 4.0 Other devices: in development

iPad

iPhone

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer - Accelerated

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated Everything from Explorer…directly against SAP BW Accelerator

At the speed of thought 

Performance speedup factor between 10 and 100

20 million records

100 million records

500 million records

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated

SAP BusinessObjects – Accelerated     

Delivered as an appliance Using BWA or SAP HANA as the data engine Load from BW or any source (through data services) Scale to terabytes of data Index 200m records / hour

At the speed of thought Response Time in s

In-Memory Acceleration

10 million

100 million

1 billion

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided records records records without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated

Data Services Databases

Data Services

Applications

Legacy

 Use the „Cube Designer‟ to model BWA tables  Cube Designer ships with Data Services (DS) and can be launched from within DS Designer  Cube Designer generates the XML spec needed to create the BW tables, DS executes this and the tables are created during run-time

 Use DS to extract data from multiple sources, transform, cleanse and load it into BWA tables  DS uses BWA‟s bulk-load library (TREX thin-client) to load the data  Cube Designer can also be used to create the initial DS dataflows needed to populate the BWA tables

index designer

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What’s new in 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What‘s new in 4.0 Integration with BI Launchpad

3. Allows to launch Explorer

2. Infoview search can find Information spaces

1. Information Spaces appear in the Document list -Actions: “View” and “Properties”

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What‘s new in 4.0 Integration with BI Launchpad

2. Integrated Toolbar 1. Exploration performed in Infoview tabs

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What‘s new in 4.0 ed data sources

UNX    

Multi source universe New relational sources Performance improvements UNV to be converted to UNX for use in Explorer

Explorer

In Memory indexes Disk based indexes BWA Excel Files

Hana

Universes UNX

SAP HANA 1.0  for Analytic views, and calculation views

BWA 7.2

Desktop

Any Relational Data Source

SAP BW

SAP ERP

for Microsoft Excel files

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – Innovation Exploration Views  Empowers business s to easily create, navigate & share key business views.  Highly Personalized & Dynamic Experience  Leverage investments in Business Objects Enterprise, Explorer , in-memory data sources (HANA, BWA) & Semantic Layer  Smart visualization with auto adapting Views on mobile devices.- Interact and analyze make informed business decisions.

This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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This presentation and SAP‟s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. © 2011 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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