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Purpose Of Business Objects BO-BI

BO is a tool to support primarily WARE HOUSE Business Intelligence It generates BI in the form of Abstraction Process Data Federator

Data Cleansing BO Data Quality

Ad hoc Reports Canned Reports Dashboards Score Cards Mobile Reports

Extract Transform Load BO Data Services

Standard Business Content SAP/NON SAP BO Rapid Marts

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Customers of SAP Business Objects-BI

Customers/Projects who already prepared the warehouse and looking to generate smart Business Intelligence from:

Any Database (ex: Oracle Database) Any ERP (SAP/NON SAP) (ex: People Soft) SAP Warehouse (SAPBW) SAP Applications (SAPR3)
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SAP Business Objects-BI

After SAP Acquired Before SAP Acquired BO Reporting Tool 65000 Customers 14+ Years Old Supports Only Databases Structured/Unstructured Data SAPBO Reporting Tool 3+ Years 65000 + SAP&ERP Customers Supports Database ERP SAPBW SAP Applications Structured/Unstructured Data
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Technical Scenario of SAP BO-BI Implementation

SAPR3 SAPBW SQLDB (DataSource

Integration& Custom BAPI

ODBC Connection (Configuration Management)

Semantic Layer Generating BI Business Intelligence

Deployment

Administration & Security

Publications

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Phase vs Purpose vs Modules vs Scenario of SAP BO-BI Implementation

Phase : Integration To create a connectivity between BO-tool & SAPBW & SAPR3

Purpose :

Modules to be Used : BO-SAP Integration Kit BO-Central Management Console Scenario : Create a Webi report using Sales overview Infocube

Note: In order to access the cubes/key date variables/Hierarchies in BO environment, we have to execute custom BAPI in BW environment
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Phase vs Purpose vs Modules vs Scenario of SAP BO-BI Implementation

Phase

ODBC Connection To create a connectivity between BO Tool and Non SAPDWH

Purpose :

Modules to be used : ODBC Connector or 32-Bit ODBC Connection Scenario : To Create a Webi report using Oracle Database

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Phase vs Purpose vs Modules vs Scenario of SAP BO-BI Implementation

Phase: Semantic Layer

w.r.t SAP

Purpose
To enhance the Existing SAP Info Objects to generate SAP BO-BI instead of SAPBI. To create logical schema without disturbing the original Schema to generate BO-BI.

w.r.t Non SAP

Modules to be used

BO Designer For Universe BO-BVM For Business view BO-Voyager For Voyager Slice and Dice

Scenario

To create a Webi report where the user A and B have different hierarchies for the same dimension object.
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Phase vs Purpose vs Modules vs Scenario of SAP BO-BI Implementation

Phase Purpose : : Business Intelligence To represent data smartly from Heterogeneous Data sources in the form of Adhoc reports Canned reports Dashboards Scorecard Modules To Be Used Infoview Crystal reports Xcelsius Widget QAWS Live Office Deski Webi Rich Polestar Webi/Analytics/Dashboards/Scorecard/Voyager Operational reports Interactive Dashboard Mobile reports Web service Microsoft based reports Two tier reports (from VB macro) 3 tier report (from any DS) KPI Dashboard

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SAP Business Objects-BI Web Intelligence

What is Web Intelligence? Powerful ad hoc reporting tool helping users turn business insights into effective decisions When to use? Ad hoc analysis and self service reporting. Benefits/Features Self-service access to data and intuitive information analysis are available in one product Ease of use/exploration Web based reporting Seamless integration with SAP BW environment Report scheduling and bursting Alerting, Ranking and Drill Down.

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SAP Business Objects-BI Webi-Rich Client Connectivity

What is Webi-rich client? It is a canned reporting tool which can connect to Universes and Textfiles to generate reports Benefits/Features It is created in local sandbox and uploaded to portal It can take the source as Webservice and txt files apart from Universe It has all the features of Webi reports

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Webi-Rich Client-Report

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SAP Business Objects-BI Desktop Intelligence Connectivity

What is Deski? It is canned reporting tool which can take source as Universe,XML,VB Macros. Stored Procedures to create Adhoc and canned reports Benefits/Features It can be created in online and offline and generates the reports from universe and 3rd party datasources.

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Desktop Intelligence-Report

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SAP BO-BI - Analytics

What is Analytics? Analytics is the place hold where we keep all the metrics and which acts like a building block for dashboard Benefits/Features They are created from Bo Portal(Infoview) using SAP or Non SAP Universe and we have standard analytics in different categories like Process analytics, Performance mgr analytics
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SAP BO-BI Dashboard

What is Dashboard? It is a collection of Analytics with different templates Benefits/Features It includes the Bo Documents and analytics & We page templates which give Enterprise level information. These are created at Info view Level (BO Portal)

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SAP BO-BI Widgets

What is Widgets? They are free floating dashboards which can be used for even mobile reporting Benefits/Features These dashboards can be represented on Desktop and Mobile by configuring Bo defined web service and RSS Feeds

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SAP BO-BI Widgets

What is Widgets? They are free floating dashboards which can be used for even mobile reporting Benefits/Features These dashboards can be represented on Desktop and Mobile by configuring Bo defined web service and RSS Feeds

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SAP BO-BI Voyager Workspace Pioneer

What is Voyager? It is a Dashboard Utility which generates Slice and Dice reports in hierarchy mode by connecting to one or more cubes in SAP or NON SAP environment Pioneer Voyager is going to replace with Pioneer Web & Pioneer Office for OLAP Analysis

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SAP BO-BI Business Explorer & Accelerator

What is Business Explorer? Business Explorer is a exploration and search tool where we can do Slice and Dice the KPIs of the Organization Benefits/Features It generates auto templates It is used for Exploration of dimensions over measures It Provides Best-Fit Analysis It Provides a Bookmark feature with Live data using Bo defined Web service.
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SAP BO-BI QAWS- Web Service

What is QAWS?
It is WSDL (Web service description reporting tool) which generates XML data and structure reports

Benefits/Features
QAWS generates XML Soap method reports which are used in Xcelsius to create Real-time Dashboards and online reporting using BO SDK

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Query As Web service-Output (WSDL)

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SAP BO-BI Live Office

What is Live Office? Live office is an adhoc reporting tool which connects to Universe, Webi reports and Crystal reports to represent on Microsoft utilities Benefits/Features:It gives Live data via Universe and Webi & Crystal reports via BoDefined Web service connectivity It can be edited, refreshed and saved to the portal It can be used in Xcelsius and Widget dashboard creation.
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SAP BO BI-Land Scape Non-SAP ERP without DWH

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SAP BO BI-Land Scape SAP ERP without DWH

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SAP BO BI-Land Scape Non-SAP & SAP ERP / No DWH

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SAP BO BI-Land Scape ERP (SAP / non SAP) with non-SAP DWH

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SAP BO BI-Land Scape ERP system (SAP/non SAP) with SAP NetWeaver BW

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SAP BO BI-Land Scape ERP system (SAP / non SAP) with Non SAP DWH & SAP NetWeaver BW

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SAP BO Architecture

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SAP BO Modules

Web Based Info view: http:\\ sysname:8080:InfoViewApp\Logon.jsp Central Management Console http:\\sysno:8080\CmcApp\Logon.faces Polestar http:\\Sysname:8080\polestar (KPI--- Dashboard)

Window Based

BO Designer BO BVM Voyager Deski Webi-rich Crystal Reports Xcelsius QAWS Widgets Import Wizard Publishing Wizard Report Conversion Tool Live Office

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SAP BO Services

BO SAP Services Services J2ee Services ABAP Services System Table Services Apache Tomcat BW Publisher Service Intelligent Agent

Note Apache Tomcat BW-Publisher To Run Web Applications. To Publish the BO reports to SAP Portal.
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Server Intelligent Agent To Manage BO Logical Servers.

SAP BO Software
Made up of
JAVA C# .Net http:\\Sysname:8080\InfoviewApp\logon.jsp http:\\Sysname:8080\InfoviewApp\logon.Net Uses IIS Web Service Apache Tomcat Uses

Recommended when you work on SAP Platform

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SAP BO BI vs Other Tools

Cognos-BI Hyperion-BI Micro Strategy-BI SAP-BI SAPBO-BI

Data from any Database. Data from any Database Data from any Database. Data from SAPBW/SAPR3 systems. Data from 1) Any Database 2) Any ERP(SAP/NONSAP) 3) SAPBW 4) SAPR3 5) Any Structured/Unstructured data.

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SAP BO Security Model

SAP BO uses Enterprise LDAP Windows NT Windows AD SAP Authentication
SAP BO converts SAP Roles into BO groups. SAP BO has standard access levels Full Schedule View View On Demand SAPBO also gives a facility to create Custom Access Level using General, System, Custom ,Context level.

Search Mode ApplicationUser SecurityGroupAccess level Pre Requisites User should be created and mapped to group. Create Access level and provide restriction to Access level.
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SAP BO Best Practices

Use OLAP than MDX drivers when using SAP Data Sources Use BW Accelerator in SAPBO architecture. Use SAPBO Data Services when you are trying to connect SAPR3 from B.O. Apply Indexing mechanism on NONSAPDWH before using by B.O to generate BI. Create Objects at Semantic layer than at BI level.

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SAP BO DataServices (BO-DS)

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SAP BO Data Services(BO-DS)

Market-leading, unified solution for enterprise-class data integration and data quality
nSingle, easy-to-use user interface to build, test and deploy projects nConnect, transform and make the information available from virtually any source nComprehensive data quality solution for cleansing and enriching all types of data nScalable solution for high data volumes with high throughput (batch and real-time)

SAP Business Objects Data Services is a leader in the Data Integration and Data Quality Magic Quadrants from Gartner, as well as in the Data Integration Forrester Wave. SAP has 5000+ customers on our Data Integration and Data Quality solutions.

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SAP BO Data Federator(BO-DF)

Data federator creates a virtual data store from Heterogeneous data stores and gives output in the form of .ATL or .XML also it creates Universe semantic layer from heterogeneous data sources.

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SAP BO Rapid Marts(BO-RM)

SBOP RAPIDMARTS SBOP RAPIDMART SAP SALES SBOP RAPIDMART SAP PURCH SBOP RAPIDMART SAP PROJECT SYS SBOP RAPIDMART SAP PROD PLAN SBOP RAPIDMART SAP PLANT MAINT SBOP RAPIDMART SAP INVENTORY SBOP RAPIDMART SAP GL SBOP RAPIDMART SAP HR SBOP RAPIDMART SAP COSTCENTER SBOP RAPIDMART SAP ACC REC SBOP RAPIDMART SAP ACC PAY SBOP RAPIDMART PSFT HR SBOP RAPIDMART PSFT GL SBOP RAPIDMART PSFT ASSET MGT SBOP RAPIDMART PSFT ACC REC SBOP RAPIDMART PSFT ACC PAY SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL SALES SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL PURCH SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL PROJECTS SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL INVENTORY SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL HR SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL GL SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL FIX ASSETS SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL FED FINAN SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL CONTRACT SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL ACC PAY SBOP RAPIDMART ORCL ACC REC Rapid mart is a prepackaged Standard Business Solution which requires BusinessObjects Enterprise and Business Data services to be installed. It will provide Standard .ATL (ETL Solution).BIAR (Universe & Webi reports).DDL (Data definition language) .XML (Real time docs) .DOC (Installation docs ).XLF (Xcelsius docs) Objects Consultancy Services

SAP BO XI RE New Features

Xcelsius + Google SAP Businessobjects Explorer (Standard/Accelerator) SAP BO Pioneer (Web/Office). SAP BO Webi-Extension points. SAP BO GIS SAP BO Mobile Info Center.

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Future Face of SAP BO-BI (BO with ERP-EPM-EIM- GRC-IDD)

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Future Face of SAP BO-BI (BO with OLAP-MDX-BWA)

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Future Face of SAP BO-BI (BO with Heterogeneous Datasources)

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Future Face of SAP BO-BI (BO with Xcelsius + Google maps)

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Consulting

Contract Contract-to-Hire Hire Mode Job Oriented Online Classroom Corporate

Training

Sub Contracting Production Support Onsite/Offshore Model Freelance

Outsourcing

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