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#askSAP Analytics Innovations Q3 2021 Community Call: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 SP02 + Options on the Journey to SAP Analytics Cloud Summary
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This webcast was held last week and hosted and moderated by Timo Elliott
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Attendee webcast survey results are shown above.
Agility top reason to move analytics to the cloud
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4 trends – business visibility – sensors; falling cost of sensors allows more visibility; cloud allows for more flexibility
Information needs to be used by someone; getting it to front line workers
Business Models – use it to transform business; data is key
People enablement – people can use, and let business people do as much as possible, such as with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
Where the webcast attendees are at with BusinessObjects
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Recap what BI4.3 is about
SAP continues to invest in on premise BI
Above shows the timeline
Entering phase to deliver SP every year
3 focus areas are above
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Themes for BI4.3 SP2
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Shared elements were in BI4.2
In 4.3 SP2 will provide an easier access to shared elements, access to them
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Moving to a unified query panel
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Overwrite icons that show property changes at a document level
Object tooltip – what was initial/new
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Toggle added to the query panel
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Huge effort on variables
More space to show formulas
Color coding (e.g. comments are in green)
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New feature called hidden reports
When design report, can hide the report as it may not be ready yet or make it conditional
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Auto refresh – change reports every 10 minutes
Choose to switch different reports to display
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More features, including a date/time picker
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Before called QwaaS
From a query, choose an Odata web service, which will create a URL for you
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Create a web service, to export data from Web Intelligence document
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Word of caution on this one; may not make SP2
Consume the results of a web service
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Google drive is a new data source repository
Offering the possibility to select Google Drive as a source for Web Intelligence
Screen shots show the sequence
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Looking ahead, plan a SP every year
Plans – not a commitment but an intention
Forward looking
Continue to improve user experience
Support more cloud storage providers
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Important messages communicated before
Over 1K customers live with BI4.3
No other versions of Lumira are planned
Investments in Web Intelligence and Platform
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BI4.3 is the last version available for on-premise; SP05 is last SP
For those moving to Private Cloud Edition will have a longer lifespan beyond 2027
Audience survey:
The rest of the webcast covered SAP BusinessObjects PCE which I wrote about already here
Subset of Q&A:
Q: Connections about SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, Big Query, Snowflake
A: See page 26 of BI4.3 Cloud
Q: When will SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) replace BusinessObjects?
A: SAP Analytics Cloud is a newer solution – can I extend BusinessObjects with SAC
SAC is modern
SAP said they would post all the Q&A this week.
Links:
Replay:
https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3374541/D5F4B69D895A186C5E0ABD1584EA0B75
Slides:
Resources:
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