SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
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September 2012
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Table of Contents
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Visualization enables decision making
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Three categories of visualization user needs
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Business Challenges
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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Key Benefits
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Summary
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What is data visualization?
What is Data Visualization?
o Information presented in a graphical form
o Allows people to quickly understand the data
o Simplifies the context
o Strong elements of creative design
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Good visualization help you see patterns and discern
meanings that otherwise might be difficult to detect
Why do you need great
visualizations?
o Efficiency: allow people
to digest the petabytes
of information
o Understand root
causes
o Can align people
around one shared
version of the truth and
needed actions
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Your data contains insights and innovations but you need
to simplify the complexity
The greatest value of
a picture is when it
forces us to notice
what we never
expected to see.
John W. Tukey
Exploratory Data Analysis, 1977
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Professionally authored visualizations tend to be
Dashboards
A DASHBOARD is…

A visual display of…
o Information for strategic decisions
down to operational for daily
decisions
o Multiple dashboards can be linked
based role to provide a storyline

Created for the purpose of…
o Alignment of organization to
objectives
o Monitoring of KPIs
o Decision making and actions to
improve business results
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We are moving from traditional dashboards to BI Apps
Traditional Dashboards

Started out as reports adding in
visual charts for overview of KPI’s

Moving to more interactivity like drill
downs, traffic lights, gauges
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BI Apps

An application is usually prebuilt
and designed to help the user
perform a certain activity

Moving into high levels of user
interactivity (i.e. changing chart
type, filters and interactive charts)
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SAP’s visualization strategy aligns along use cases
Professionally Authored

IT created and deployed globally

Focus company on key KPIs with
broad publication
Business Analyst Driven

Analyst driven for a small audience

Answer specialized questions
quickly
Self Service
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Business user analysis

Intuitive exploration of data
relevant for daily decision making
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Each solution is tailored to its use case
Professionally Authored
SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards and Design Studio
Business Analyst Driven
Visual Intelligence
Self Service
Explorer and exploration views
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Introducing SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Design Studio Overview
Easy to design
environment
Easy to create web
applications
Mobilize your
content
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Freeform layout
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Solve your business challenges with Design Studio:
Challenge Set 1:
Trusted Metrics for Alignment
Available Anywhere Business Users Work
1- Trusted, aggregated numbers whose accuracy is confirmed
2- Mobile or Desktop
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Trusted accuracy comes from having IT built and verified
KPIs
1
Connect directly to your
system of record in BW
Eliminate any possibility of errors in
connecting to your critical data
Built on existing queries
and analysis
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Designed natively for Mobile First experience
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Immediately use on standard web browsers and
mobile devices
BOBJ Mobi integration
(with BI 4.0 FP3SP05)
Rapid deployment
using QR Code to send
to iPad
Application Designtime
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Runtime on iPad
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Solve your business challenges with Design Studio:
Challenge Set 2:
Push BI Adoption
Leverage to maximize ROI
3- Interactive, multi-dimensional visualizations for dashboards
4- Scalable and publish broadly across your organization
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Stunning, interactive visualizations with flexibility to
design to your user’s demands
3
Guided
navigation via
filters
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User can change chart
type and style
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Foundation is set for scalability and Enterprise readiness
4
Native BI Consumer
Services to get access
to HANA and BW
Integration to
the BI platform
bring lifecycle
management
and central
supportability
System connections on BI Platform
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Solve your business challenges with Design Studio:
Challenge Set 3:
Reduce IT Cost
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Reduce Development Time
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Reuse existing analysis assets & integrate
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Flexibility and ease of design
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Exploit your existing assets and save IT cost
5
Consumer
Direct and
native
support for
SAP
HANA®
platform
and SAP
NetWeaver
BW
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Designer
Hierarchies and OLAP
capabilities from BW and
HANA out-of-the-box
Operates directly on
BEx Queries,
InfoCubes and
Hana views
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Flexibility and ease of design shorten development time
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Intuitive WYSIWYG (embedded runtime
to enable what you see is what you get)
design principle
Freeform layout options
Leveraging
central library
of design
components
(buttons, tabs,
dropdown
menus etc.)
Easy design
environment
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Pre-delivered templates and wizards to enable rapid
implementation
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Desktop template example
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iPad template example
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Conclusion
The bottom line
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
helps you to:

Align the business with trusted KPI’s at the finger tips of business users
anywhere they work by creating mobile, by creating compelling
dashboards with your trusted BW data

Drive BI adoption and ROI through broadly published dashboards with
high adoption rates by providing scalable dashboards to BI apps with
multi-dimensional, interactive visualizations

Reduce development time and cost with native BW and HANA
connection by capitalizing on already defined analysis by operating
directly on BEx Queries, InfoCubes and Hana views
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Resources
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Community
http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-designstudio
Screen Cams
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-30943
Design Studio Tutorials
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-30272
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Thank you
Contact information:
Anita Gibbings, Business Intelligence Solution Marketing
Contact: anita.gibbings@sap.com
Mobile: +33 6 03 79 60 58
Twitter: @AnitaGibbings or @BusinessObjects
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