SAP BusinessObjects 4.0
Presenter: Steven Gray
5/17/2012
Agenda
Instructor/Company Profile
SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 – What’s New?
Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?
Technical Requirements
Benefits and challenges
How can Kalvin help?
Q&A
About Steven Gray
Steven is a Senior Principal Consultant/Trainer
Steven has implemented solutions in a number of
industries, including government, both national and local,
financial, retail, healthcare, and insurance
Steven is an SAP certified architect in both SAP
BusinessObjects Enterprise XIr2 and XI 3.1
Steven is a certified SAP trainer for SAP BusinessObjects
Administration and Security and Universe Designer
Steven is a seasoned consultant with over 9 years
experience in engineering, project management, and
consulting services
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Promotion Impact
/Marketing Mix
Predictive Analysis
Agenda
Instructor/Company Profile
SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 – What’s New?
Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?
Technical Requirements
Benefits and challenges
How can Kalvin help?
Q&A
BusinessObjects 4.0 - Overview
Latest Major release of SAP
64-bit release running on Tomcat 6 with Java 1.6
Single WAR file
Smaller footprint
Most complete offering
Streamlined and Usability
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Product Name Changes
SAP BO
Xcelsius
Enterprise
SAP BO
Dashboards
SAP Business
Objects
Enterprise XI 3.x
SAP BO BI
platform 4.0
Xcelsius
Enterprise
Interactive
Viewing
SAP BO
Dashboards
Interactive Viewing
SAP BO
Xcelsius
Designer
SAP BO
Dashboard
Design
Dashboard
Builder
SAP BO BI
workspaces
Crystal Reports
SAP Crystal
Reports 2011
Universe
Designer
Universe Design
Tool
Infoview
New Products
Products Retained
SAP BO BI
launch pad
• Information designer Tool
• Upgrade Management Tool
• Lifecycle Management Console
• Translation Management Tool
• Report Conversion Tool
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Mobile Business Intelligence
Easy navigation with fewer clicks
Get key information on your mobile device
Get analysis and critical alerts on the go
Make fact based decisions
Improve customer relationships
Boost productivity
Keep business processes running smoothly
Lower total cost of ownership
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What’s New in BusinessObjects 4.0?
One Unified Business Intelligence Suite
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New Visual experience with modern styling and look
New charting options, improved workflow
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What’s New in Business Objects 4.0?
New Semantic
Layer Design tool
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Supports multisource
universes
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Cleaner look and feel
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What’s New inBusinessObjects 4.0?
Redesigned User
Interface
Higher Usability
Easy to customize
Monitoring
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What’s New in BusinessObjects 4.0?
BI availability in mobile
devices wherever and
whenever
Unified information
view
More meaningful
Auditing
Monitoring
Enhanced Alerting
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What’s New in BusinessObjects 4.0?
Auditing
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Audit all events
Simplified system
wide configuration
Auto-purge old
data
Enhanced audit
reporting.
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Agenda
Instructor/Company Profile
SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 – What’s New?
Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?
Technical Requirements
Benefits and challenges
How can Kalvin help?
Q&A
Why Upgrade to BusinessObjects 4.0?
Take advantage of the new
functionality and features
Upgrade management tool
End of support for XIr2
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Administration Console Features
Simulating common workflow through
Monitoring and Probes
Data Security including a two-key encryption
system and FIPS -140 compliant mode of
operation
Data Federation query engine integrated with
BO platform
Add-on products are now part of the complete
install
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Data Exploration
Simplicity of Internet search
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Google-like search experience – business
information instantly ranked based on autoscoring.
Search across all BI resources and data
Self-service access to relevant information
without predefined report or query
Trust and power of BI
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Guided data exploration
Share trusted insights with others
Rapid deployment
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Fully leverages existing BI investments
Up and running in days
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Lifecycle Management
Replaces import wizard
Connection override in bulk
automatically.
Version control, Rollback
Auditable
Scripting facility
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SAP Crystal Reports – Enhancements
SAP Crystal Reports Enterprise
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A New design of Crystal Reports design client – streamlines report creation
Better support for the SAP BusinessObjects semantic layer and SAP BW
SAP Crystal reports 2011
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Integration with Visual Studio 2010
New Read only format
Exporting reports into MS Excel
SAP Crystal Reports Viewer 2011
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Integrate Crystal Reports Enterprise and Crystal reports 2011
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Agenda
Instructor/Company Profile
SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 – What’s New?
Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?
Technical Requirements
Benefits and challenges
How can Kalvin help?
Q&A
BI 4.0 Architecture
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O/S for BO Enterprise Server Components
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O/S for BO Enterprise Client Components
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Agenda
Instructor/Company Profile
SAP BusinessObjects(BO) 4.0 – What’s New?
Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?
Technical Requirements
Benefits and challenges
How can Kalvin help?
Q&A
Benefits
64 bit server install
Existing XI 3.x universes still work in the 4.0 platform
Data Federator functionality inbuilt along with Universe
Access to multiple data sources
SAP Integration
Automatic version control
Web Application consolidation
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Challenges
Installation often poses challenges if not well planned
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SAP Mobile deployment should be on dedicated hardware
Post-installation configurations have changed
Need to migrate universe to use Explorer 4.0 or Crystal
Reports for Enterprise 4.0
Proper knowledge sharing to get familiar with features
Can only upgrade directly if you are on BOE version XIr2
SP2 or higher
No more Import Wizard, and Desktop Intelligence
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Agenda
Instructor/Company Profile
SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 – What’s New?
Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?
Technical Requirements
Benefits and challenges
How can Kalvin help?
Q&A
Kalvin’s Offerings …
With BO 4.0, Kalvin can help you with:
 Desktop Intelligence retirement
 BO 4.0 readiness assessment of customer's existing
environment
 BO 4.0 architecture and sizing
 BO 4.0 Installation
 Reporting/Analytics
Web Intelligence
Crystal Reports
Dashboard
Explorer
 Training/Education
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Agenda
Instructor/Company Profile
SAP BusinessObjects (BO) 4.0 – What’s New?
Why Implement/Upgrade to BO 4.0?
Technical Requirements
Benefits and challenges
How can Kalvin help?
Q&A
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