Last week, Jason Rose and Manikandan Srinivasan provided a webcast on SAP Visual Intelligence. Here is the link to the PDF of the presentation and a link to the replay. This was a joint ASUG/SCN webcast. Our next joint ASUG/SCN webcast is July 18th with Ingo Hilgefort providing an update on BI4 Integration with SAP – register here.
This week, version 1.0.1 was just released. What is new in Version 1.0.1? This slide from last week’s webcast shows what is included in 1.0.1:
Figure 1: Source: SAP
In version 1.01 you have the following features:
- Ability to use .CSV as a data source
- Ability to use Excel as a data source
- For StreamWork integration you need the SAP StreamWork Enterprise license
Experiences:
- Installs quickly and you can use it in less than 10 minutes
- You need a 64 bit machine
- Easy to get started
Here is the initial screen:
Figure 2
At the bottom right of Figure 2 you see links to the social sites. Twitter takes you to @businessobjects
In the bottom middle are links to the tutorials by @SAP_Learn_BI product team.
At the lower left of Figure 2 is the help. Talk to the community of experts takes you to the SCN BusinessObjects Explorer space
Figure 3
I followed the initial screen steps and double clicked on the eFashion sample shown in Figure 3
Figure 4
Now you click “Acquire” to load the data
Figure 5
In Figure 5 it shows 5 semantic elements. At first I didn’t know what that meant, but when you click on it you appreciate what it does for your visualization document.
Figure 6
Semantic enrichment turned the attributes into measures, which allows for calculations, etc.
Figure 7
When you click Visualize it displays a graph and you drag over the measures to the axes
Figure 8
Figure 8 shows another map visualization
I’ll have more experience to share in another blog.
Related Links:
FAQ:
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-29031
Official Product Tutorials for SAP Visual Intelligence
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-26507
You can also follow the discussion on Twitter using #SAPVisi hashtag.
Join SAP on July 17 at 1pm EST for the virtual launch of SAP Visual Intelligence and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 FP3. Click here (http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-29411) for more information.