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Join us for these upcoming webcasts:
September 10 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise customers - Roadmap Update
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October 9 Making the Right Connections with SAP Analytics Cloud
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Fig 1: Source: SAP
What to expect; see live demo
Fig 2: Source: SAP
Project is is in the middle
Things might change
Everything is subject to change:
"SAP’s strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice." (source: SAP)
Fig 3: Source: SAP
SAP's message is above.
Continue to invest in BusinessObjects products
This is not a cloud only strategy, but a cloud first strategy
Source: SAP
Several customers use both SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BI Platform solutions
Fig 4: Source: SAP
Why use both solution? Move work loads to the cloud but on premise remains.
Several customers use both SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BI Platform solutions
Learn more at September 10 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise customers - Roadmap Update webcast
Fig 5: Source: SAP
3 innovation areas
Customers are moving applications and workloads to the cloud for cost-driven, or innovation-based reasons, but still a lot of systems remains on-premises.
On-premises BI spending will still be predominant for several years to come; protect investment
Fig 6: Source: SAP
Focusing on High Speed Innovation in Cloud
Continue to make improvements on premise
We realize customers will use both
Protect investment for existing on-premise customers
Hybrid Gives Best of Both – innovation in Cloud + Investment Protection
SAP Unique Differentiation: Don’t Move/Replicate Data – Bring Analytics to your Data!
Fig 7: Source: SAP
How the product are positioned
Fig 8: Source: SAP
Dates to keep in mind
BI4.3 beta will begin shortly
Early beta will begin mid-October
Standard beta will start mid-December - open to all if interested
Another phase of beta in 2020
GA planned for mid 2020
After GA deliver SP's
Fig 9: Source: SAP
Focus on 3 main areas
Hybrid - interoperability
User Experience - easy to use with a Fiori like experience
Enterprise Readiness - ease of deployment
Fig 10: Source: SAP
Hybrid - Live Universe Connector 2.1 is available now - consume from SAC the on-premise relational universes
BI4.3 will have 3.0 with more innovations and enhancements
- leverage data level security
- query panel
Data remains on premise; never leaves network
Fig 11: Source: SAP
With Live Universe 3.0 you can consume the Web Intelligence documents in SAC
Data in Web Intelligence document stays on premise
"Web Intelligence data model"
Fig 12: Source: SAP
Customers who have adopted SAC can leverage existing users in CMC
New functions - hybrid user management - provision on premise users in SAC
You don't want to recreate users from scratch
Fig 13: Source: SAP
Analytics Hub is a cloud catalog
View access, consume documents
Today you have to manually create these in Analytics Hub
With BI4.3, from BI platform, can select documents and push one button, would be made available in Analytics Hub
Fig 14: Source: SAP
New user experience is shown above
New BI Fiori Launchpad
BI4.2 SP4 - introduced, enhanced in subsequent SP's
In BI4.3, finalize enhancement - one BI launchpad - Fiori
Compatible with content in BI4.2
Fig 15: Source: SAP
Why a new WebI client?
Received feedback
Will be HTML5, no Java required, touch ready (work on modern tablets)
Improve workflows - one light menu
Fig 16: Source: SAP
Watch the demo in the replay
Fig 17: Source: SAP
Watch the demo in the replay
Fig 18: Source: SAP
Make sure your model can be reused
"WebI data model" - reuse what business user created
Fig 19: Source: SAP
You can create a query as a web service
Fig 20: Source: SAP
Select WebI document as a source, in the list of available objects
Fig 21: Source: SAP
Interactive analysis mode - propose interface, control scope of design interface
Fig 22: Source: SAP
New charts
Chart in cells will not be part of beta
Fig 23: Source: SAP
Update of SAP BI mobile app
Every WebI document will be consumable everywhere
Enable WebI viewer inside BI mobile app
First will work for tablet, then smart phone
Fig 24: Source: SAP
Updates for Crystal Reports are shown above
Fig 25: Source: SAP
Innovations in installation, security, administrator, audit, scheduling, publishing are shown above
Fig 26: Source: SAP
OUT :
BusinessObjects Explorer
Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)
BI Widgets
Lumira 1.x
Design Studio
IN:
Lumira Discovery 2.x
Lumra Designer 2.x
Webi Rich Client
UDT/IDT
Live Office
Analysis Office
Crystal Reports
Fig 27: Source: SAP
Hybrid with Live Universe Connector, end user provisioning from on-premise to SAC, improvement integration with Analytics Hub
New user experience with Fiori BI Launchpad, new HTML5 WebI client, new WebI Data Model
Open questions have been sent to the speaker
Comment: We expect minimum issues while moving to 4.3
Answer: This is why SAP has a beta program to test these issues
Q:Live Universe Connector 3.0 enhancements are for both UNX and UNV?
Only relational universes? What about universes on OLAP connections?
A: Please see https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOC/SAP Analytics Cloud Support Matrix#SAPAnalyticsCloudSupportMatrix-UniverseSupportMatrix
Learn more at September 10 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise customers - Roadmap Update webcast
Q: Will there be an Activity universe for BI 4.3?
A: predefined universe for BI4.3 - will be there
Q: Will the old Bi launch Pad be available? or all functionalities are convered on the new BI Launch Pad?
A: old launchpad not available
Link to replay: Discover SAP BusinessObjects BI4.3
Link to slides is here
Join us for these upcoming webcasts:
September 10 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise customers - Roadmap Update
September 11 - BI: SAP BW/4HANA Conversion
October 9 Making the Right Connections with SAP Analytics Cloud
Join ASUG at SAP TechEd for these influence sessions:
| AIN307 | Interactive ASUG Influence: SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence |
| AIN305 | SAP Analytics Cloud ASUG Influence Data Connectivity Agile Data Prep |
| AIN306 | Interactive Influence: SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform |
Fig 1: Source: SAP
What to expect; see live demo
Fig 2: Source: SAP
Project is is in the middle
Things might change
Everything is subject to change:
"SAP’s strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice." (source: SAP)
Fig 3: Source: SAP
SAP's message is above.
Continue to invest in BusinessObjects products
This is not a cloud only strategy, but a cloud first strategy
Source: SAP
Several customers use both SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BI Platform solutions
Fig 4: Source: SAP
Why use both solution? Move work loads to the cloud but on premise remains.
Several customers use both SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BI Platform solutions
Learn more at September 10 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise customers - Roadmap Update webcast
Fig 5: Source: SAP
3 innovation areas
Customers are moving applications and workloads to the cloud for cost-driven, or innovation-based reasons, but still a lot of systems remains on-premises.
On-premises BI spending will still be predominant for several years to come; protect investment
Fig 6: Source: SAP
Focusing on High Speed Innovation in Cloud
Continue to make improvements on premise
We realize customers will use both
Protect investment for existing on-premise customers
Hybrid Gives Best of Both – innovation in Cloud + Investment Protection
SAP Unique Differentiation: Don’t Move/Replicate Data – Bring Analytics to your Data!
Fig 7: Source: SAP
How the product are positioned
SAP BusinessObjects BI4.3
Fig 8: Source: SAP
Dates to keep in mind
BI4.3 beta will begin shortly
Early beta will begin mid-October
Standard beta will start mid-December - open to all if interested
Another phase of beta in 2020
GA planned for mid 2020
After GA deliver SP's
Fig 9: Source: SAP
Focus on 3 main areas
Hybrid - interoperability
User Experience - easy to use with a Fiori like experience
Enterprise Readiness - ease of deployment
Hybrid
Fig 10: Source: SAP
Hybrid - Live Universe Connector 2.1 is available now - consume from SAC the on-premise relational universes
BI4.3 will have 3.0 with more innovations and enhancements
- leverage data level security
- query panel
Data remains on premise; never leaves network
Fig 11: Source: SAP
With Live Universe 3.0 you can consume the Web Intelligence documents in SAC
Data in Web Intelligence document stays on premise
"Web Intelligence data model"
Fig 12: Source: SAP
Customers who have adopted SAC can leverage existing users in CMC
New functions - hybrid user management - provision on premise users in SAC
You don't want to recreate users from scratch
Fig 13: Source: SAP
Analytics Hub is a cloud catalog
View access, consume documents
Today you have to manually create these in Analytics Hub
With BI4.3, from BI platform, can select documents and push one button, would be made available in Analytics Hub
User Experience
Fig 14: Source: SAP
New user experience is shown above
New BI Fiori Launchpad
BI4.2 SP4 - introduced, enhanced in subsequent SP's
In BI4.3, finalize enhancement - one BI launchpad - Fiori
Compatible with content in BI4.2
Fig 15: Source: SAP
Why a new WebI client?
Received feedback
Will be HTML5, no Java required, touch ready (work on modern tablets)
Improve workflows - one light menu
Fig 16: Source: SAP
Watch the demo in the replay
Fig 17: Source: SAP
Watch the demo in the replay
Fig 18: Source: SAP
Make sure your model can be reused
"WebI data model" - reuse what business user created
Fig 19: Source: SAP
You can create a query as a web service
Fig 20: Source: SAP
Select WebI document as a source, in the list of available objects
Fig 21: Source: SAP
Interactive analysis mode - propose interface, control scope of design interface
Fig 22: Source: SAP
New charts
Chart in cells will not be part of beta
Fig 23: Source: SAP
Update of SAP BI mobile app
Every WebI document will be consumable everywhere
Enable WebI viewer inside BI mobile app
First will work for tablet, then smart phone
Fig 24: Source: SAP
Updates for Crystal Reports are shown above
Enterprise Readiness
Fig 25: Source: SAP
Innovations in installation, security, administrator, audit, scheduling, publishing are shown above
Fig 26: Source: SAP
OUT :
BusinessObjects Explorer
Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)
BI Widgets
Lumira 1.x
Design Studio
IN:
Lumira Discovery 2.x
Lumra Designer 2.x
Webi Rich Client
UDT/IDT
Live Office
Analysis Office
Crystal Reports
Fig 27: Source: SAP
Hybrid with Live Universe Connector, end user provisioning from on-premise to SAC, improvement integration with Analytics Hub
New user experience with Fiori BI Launchpad, new HTML5 WebI client, new WebI Data Model
Q&A
Open questions have been sent to the speaker
Comment: We expect minimum issues while moving to 4.3
Answer: This is why SAP has a beta program to test these issues
Q:Live Universe Connector 3.0 enhancements are for both UNX and UNV?
Only relational universes? What about universes on OLAP connections?
A: Please see https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOC/SAP Analytics Cloud Support Matrix#SAPAnalyticsCloudSupportMatrix-UniverseSupportMatrix
Learn more at September 10 BI: SAP Analytics Cloud for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise customers - Roadmap Update webcast
Q: Will there be an Activity universe for BI 4.3?
A: predefined universe for BI4.3 - will be there
Q: Will the old Bi launch Pad be available? or all functionalities are convered on the new BI Launch Pad?
A: old launchpad not available
Link to replay: Discover SAP BusinessObjects BI4.3
Timestamps:
- Intro: 2:30
- SAP BI Portfolio: 3:30
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3: 7:00
- Demo: 20:00
- Q+A: 55:00
Link to slides is here
- SAP Managed Tags:
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