SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
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Agenda
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
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Introduction
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Capabilities
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Introduction
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
What is a dashboard ?
Interactive analytics is an analytic capability and
“Dashboard” is an information delivery capability.
– Gartner
Visual display of the most important information needed
to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and
arranged on a single screen so the information can be
monitored at a glance.
– Stephen Few, visualization guru
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Business Value
BI for casual users
 Engage users with through guided
navigation
Casual Users
 Tailored solutions
 Easy to understand visualization
Percentage of users using BI tools at least once a week
Pervasive Business Intelligence – Wayne Eckerson TDWI Oct. 2008 Report
Not a comprehensive BI solution
 Not an enterprise reporting tool: no paging, no export to Excel or PDF
 Not an ad hoc analysis tool: analysis paths are predefined by dashboard author.
 Interoperates with Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports or Analysis Web Ed. for reporting or
analysis needs.
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
BI Dashboards An Evolutionary Process
Today’s dashboard characteristics
 VISUAL and FUNCTIONAL
 Highly INTERACTIVE
 FLEXIBILE in deployment
 INSPIRATIONAL in design
 EASE of design
 PERSONALIZABLE for ANY user
 SCALABLE to MANY users
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
BI Dashboards An Evolutionary Process
To remain competitive
 retaining and growing the customer base
 Time-to-market is valuable
 Gain instant insight into company performance
Ability to keep costs under control
 Know you are on track at all times
 Dashboards provide insight to those key cost metrics
Accelerating business process improvements
 Dashboards and scorecards offer fast time-to-value
and a low entry price
 Quickest way to improve the bottom line
Regulations and compliance
 Maintain transparency to business
 Accountability
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Who needs dashboards ?
Business needs
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High-impact interactive visualization of key metrics
Intuitive user interface and navigation
Ability to manage and monitor metrics effortlessly
Drill down or through for root-cause analysis
Personalized content and display
Technology needs
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Easy dashboard building capabilities
Flexibility as the needs of an organization change
Security to ensure proper user access
Scalable for a growing organization
Integration to leverage existing BI investments
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
User Alignment
Executive Management
Strategic Dashboards
Financial and Operational
Management
Operational Dashboards
“Information Consumer”
Tactical Dashboards
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Experience Unparalleled Interactivity
Track
dashboards for
with
ready
successful
with
interactive insights across
your
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Gain Unrivaled Flexibility
Visualize
information
and
Embed and interact with dashboards
within
and
BW
Extend dashboards to include
visualization
components
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Design Inspirational Dashboards
Visualizations that
Design
dashboards
can use
or
decision making with dashboard
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Capabilities
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
BI Platform Integration
BI Platform back-end optimized for dashboard flash front-end
Dashboards Processing server
 Provides a thin processing layer between data source and dashboard front-end
Dashboards Cache Server
 Caches query result set per security profile
 Query caching policy define in management console (CMC)
Flash
Dashboard
CSL
Connector
Web
Application
Server
HTTP
Dashboard
Web
Services
Business Objects Enterprise
CORBA
WebI
Processing
Server
CMS
Dashboards
Processing
Server
Dashboards
Cache
Server
Security and SQL
generation
New
SQL execution
and cache results
CSL Connection Server
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
User Auditing and System Monitoring
Audit events
 Dashboard User: View, refresh, prompt, logon, logout
 Dashboards Designer: create, delete, modify
Server monitoring metrics include
 Processing time, cache size & hits, requests (served,
queued, failed), connections, threads, data transfers,...
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Multi-lingual dashboards
Publish a dashboard to the BI platform to allow Translation expert(s) to create
localized text for the dashboard
 The Translation expert(s) use the Translation Manager to localize:
– Component Text Properties: Titles, subtitles, series names, category names
– Ranges in Excel marked as translatable by the dashboard designer
– Note: Text in Excel formulas is not translatable
 They publish the text translations to the BI platform
 The platform combines these translations with the dashboard to create a localized
dashboard
 At runtime the platform displays the
localized dashboard that matches the
user Preferred Viewing Locale (PVL)
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Multi-lingual dashboards
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Query Panel
 Improved authoring via query integration and direct access to semantic layer
 Define a query by dragging and dropping relational universe objects, dimensions and
measures
 Query sorting
 Create filters or single or multi selection query prompts with or without List of Values than
can be used with a Prompt Selector
 Query data preview
Drag and
drop to
create a
query
Query data
preview
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Query Browser
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Quick access to Query Panel to add and edit queries
Query summary view to see result objects, filters and prompts
Delete and refresh queries
Drag and drop prompts to the canvas to create a Prompt Selector
Pin to auto-hide
Query
summary
Optionally insert into
the spreadsheet
Region Prompt
Selector
drag prompt to canvas
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Direct Data Binding
 Bind directly from chart and selectors to query result objects
– The component will show more or less values depending on the number of rows returned by the query
(no need for Ignore End Blanks)
– Optionally bind query results to the spreadsheet
 Live data preview at design time when using query data
 Multi column components allow you to bind directly to multiple result objects
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Direct Semantic Layer Connection – Prompts
 Auto prompt based on the prompt data type and whether is single or multi value prompt or
cascading list of values
 Directly uses the available List of Values
 Search or page through list of values as well as show or hide selected values
Single value
Multiple select (in
list) from list of
values
Single value showing list of
values
Search or
page through
list of values
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Design Enhancements
Labels on charts
 Variety of different positions options, including
best fit
Dynamically set colors
 By series
 Can use hex, rgb, vga or decimal Scorecard
 Enhanced grid with icon alerting and sorting
Canvas Container
 Canvas with no background
Bullet Chart
Spark lines
Forecasting
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Supporting Global Requirements
Regional Formatting
 Display data using region specific settings that
match your Preferred Viewing Locale (PVL)
 All Dashboards 4.0 have support
for regional formatting built in
 To enable change from General number format
to one of the following number formats and select
default format in the appearance tab:
Supported
data types
Examples
English (US)
German (Germany)
Date
Monday, March 1,
2010
Montag, 1. März 2010
Time
10:20:00 PM
22:20:00
Numeric
1,000.00
1.000,00
Currency (*)
$1,000.00
$1.000,00
Dashboard
Designer
Dashboard
with Regional
Data Formatting
support enabled
(see below)
Publish to
Platform
Dashboard
automatically
uses data
format that
matches the
current viewing
locale in
InfoView
Enable regional
data formatting
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Dashboards on EPM applications data
New data connector based on EPM 7.5 Extended Analytics Analyzer
 Analyzer is an Excel Add-in allowing slicing and dicing of EPM data within Excel
 Dashboards EPM connector is delivered as an add-on (EPMConnector.xlx) with Analyzer
SP05
– Uses EPM ODBO provider for design time and XMLA web services connectivity for runtime
 Currently available for SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation 7.5, Planning and
Consolidation 7.5, Profitability and Cost Management 7.5 SP06
Key Capabilities
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Retrieve data from Analyzer report
Display databases/catalogs/application Sets
Display cubes/models/applications
Display dimension members
BPC specific operations
Enter and save data (write-back)
Display business process flows
Display current view
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Dashboards on EPM applications data
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight - Real Time Dashboard Monitoring
Monitoring Business Events
 Meter Readings, Shipping status, Stock Trades,
Call Center Complaints
Events from Business Processes
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Order to Cash
Procure to Pay
Hire to Retire
Approvals, workflow, authorizations
Workforce management
Dashboard
Event Insight
Value Scenarios
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Event Federation - Complex Event Processing
Situation awareness
Sense and Response
Track and Trace
Fraud detection
ERP
CRM
Active
RFID
Web
Databases
JMS
Service
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SCM
BI / BW
Business Processes - Business Events
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