12 BI Platform, WebI, AnalysisOffice
12 BI Platform, WebI, AnalysisOffice
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BI content management
Secured storage of BI content
Platform administration
Central web based administration tool
Management of BI content life cycle
Auditing
Audit trail for compliance or capacity planning
Information delivery
Distribution of personalized BI content to mass audience
in an automated manner
Progress to date
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira Discovery & Lumira Server running on BI Platform
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Lumira Analysis Lumira BW acquisition mode
Improved visualization and story authoring
Interoperability
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP Applications Large-scale WAD adopting DS
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Scorecard control
Improved UNX support
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office
SAP BusinessObjects Live Office
Analysis Office Office Integration EPM Add-in converged
EPM Add-In
SAP BEx Analyzer
Interoperability
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office
Live Office
EPM Add-In Analysis Office Office Integration
SAP BEx Analyzer
Mobile BI 6.4
Offline Lumira support for a
subset of Lumira chart types
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Now Is the Time to Move to BI 4.2
More than 2,500 live BI 4.2 customers already!
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Priority 1
BI 4.1 Mainstream Maintenance
Support
BI 4.3
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BI Platform 4.2 Themes
3 BEST ON SAP
Provide the best BI and integration on HANA, BW, S/4 data
Fit in the customer landscape, expand access to 3rd party data
2 TRUSTED FOUNDATION
• Recycle Bin
• Installation
• Reduced downtime
• Improved error reporting
• Improved language update
• Performance and new selection options
• Upgrade Manager
• Promotion Manager, selective retrieval
• REST API for user management and publications
3 BEST ON SAP
• New OS, browser, database and app server support
• Support for new data sources (MS Azure, Apache Spark, Amazon EMR Redshift)
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BI 4.2 SP3 and Future
Directions
SAP Business Objects BI Platform 4.2 SP3
Released August 2016
Admin Cockpit
• Data access driver for CMS DB, and sample unx and reports
• Add license usage info to Admin Cockpit
Recycle Bin
• Now for personal documents, universes and connections (in
addition to public documents)
Multi-tenancy improvements
• Assign Server groups to user/groups for scheduling
• Onboard multiple tenants
BI Platform
• New, optional Fiori based Launchpad
• Sharepoint app model support
• Remove Flash
• Change BI Launchpad preferences for
all users
• Improved Multi-tenancy support
• Assign Server groups to folders of
documents (runtime as well)
• Provide UI for multi tenant feature
• Promote content between tenants
• OpenDoc enhancements
• Redirect to an external page
• Enable/disable toolbars, details panel and
others
2 TRUSTED FOUNDATION
• Big Numbers
• Linked Universes
• HTML Client near parity with Java client
• Set Analysis
3 BEST ON SAP
• Direct Access to HANA, HANA Online Mode
• UNX on BEx queries
• BW and HANA enhancements
• Activated by default
• Parallel activities on database at the execution
and data fetch
• Supported on UNV, UNX, SAP HANA Direct
Access, FHSQL, and Text Files
• Groups Management
• LOV dynamic filtering
• Display selected values (Filter Path)
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Analysis, edition for Office
SAP® BusinessObjects™ Analysis, Edition for Microsoft® Office
What do Microsoft Office users need?
Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office is an add-in to Microsoft Office that facilitates multidimensional analysis on SAP sources.
As of release 2.1, it also contains the EPM Add-In that supports BPC and MDX-based sources.
Analysis Office 2.3 (May 2016) Analysis Office 2.4 (Q4 2016)
BPC Support BIP: Variants supported, also for scheduling
Business Process Flow fully integrated in Excel Table Design: formulas in rule editor
requires BPC 10.1 SP10 / BW 7.4 SP15 or BW 7.5 SP4 • Enable Analysis formulas in crosstab
• Restricted measures for planning
Continuous enhancements Enhanced reporting features
Enhancements on BW • Axis sharing: Define master and slave queries with
Report to Report Interface as Receiver / Dynamic RRI common navigation and filter status
Create restricted measures on BW • Grouping (hierarchy on the fly)
BIP: workbook caching • Support of sheet protection
API enhancements: save data, open workbook EPM: EvDRE support
Cancel long-running queries
Full dpi support
Table Design Rule Editor
Future Directions
Renaming Dimensions, Attributes, Measures Asymmetric reporting
Conversion support for BEx workbooks Universe connectivity support
Integration with SAP BusinessObject Cloud
Integration with BIP Comments
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Analysis Plug-In
Multidimensional Analysis of SAP BW and SAP HANA
Modern and familiar
Microsoft Office user
experience
(*) You can connect to SAP (**) In exceptional cases, you can use
HANA via MDX EPM plug-in. See SAP note 2327742
Scenario
Feature
Scenario
For EPM scenarios, BPF process can be launched by the end user
directly in Analysis Office backstage using EPM connections.
Feature
Scenario
For Analysis scenarios, BPF process can be launched by the end user
directly in Analysis Office backstage using HTTP connections.
Feature
From BPC menu in Office Backstage, Connect and Open Activity
The logon windows is displayed to select a system connection or
create a new connection.
Prerequisites
SAP GUI 7.40 and enable SAP UI Landscape format (see notes
2075150, 2220930 and 2112449)
Configuration
Configuration via Analysis Office Runtime
Default: user variants
Note: there are no authorization checks for global variants (i.e. every user can
change/delete variants)
Features
Store workbook on BI server and store/retrieve variants
Variant maintenance (e.g. changing type if configured)
Prerequisites
BI 4.2 SP4
Scheduling
Use BI platform variants as input for workbook scheduling
Features
Note: Variants need to be activated in the settings
Choose a variant that pre-fills all variables
You can possibly change/add/delete variables
Prerequisites
BI 4.2 SP4
Configuration
Specify database to store comments in CMC (via BI Commentary Application)
Recommendation: use separate database other than audit database
You can save and load comments from the BI platform
Prerequisites
BI 4.2 SP3
Improvements
Simplified Layout
New Info Charts and Feeding Component
Drag & Drop
Custom Measures and Top N Filters
Navigation Panel Action Area
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Design Studio 1.6 SP2 (released June 2016)
2. Offline support
• Interact with most charts offline (6.4, 6.5)
3. SDK Improvements
• Citrix wrapping solution support for both iOS and Android
Mobile SDK (6.4)
• Good containerization support
• Airwatch SDK support
Key links
• What’s new in BI 4.2 What's New 4.2 L0, L1, L2
• Choosing the Right BI Client http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-38981
• SAP BI Resource Center http://www.sapbusinessobjectsbi.com
• Roadmaps on SAP Service Marketplace http://service.sap.com/saproadmaps
• SAP Community Network http://scn.sap.com/
• Official tutorials for SAP BI http://sap.com/learnbi
• Product Documentation http://help.sap.com/
• Product Availability Matrix https://support.sap.com/release-upgrade-maintenance/pam.html
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