BusinessObjects 4.0

Data Visualization Solutions

Eric Molner

February 8, 2013

Who Is Analytics8?

– Founded in 2002

– Offices in Chicago, Raleigh, Dallas, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne

– 100+ Consultants

– 150+ Customers

– Consulting, Training, Support/ Help Desk, Software Procurement

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What We Do

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Entire Data Warehousing “Stack”

Entire Lifecycle: From Strategy to Implementation

& Testing

Certified Training and Mentoring

All Levels of Customer

Sophistication

Multiple Approaches from Traditional BI, to Data

Visualization, to Hosted BI

Multiple Approaches

Traditional BI Stack

Data Warehouse / Data Marts

BI Semantic Layer

User Interface, Dashboards, Scorecards, Reports

Integration Layer (ETL)

Hosted BI

Data WarehouseData Marts

OLAP, Query and Reporting Tools

User Interface, Dashboards, Scorecards, Reports

Integration Layer (eTL)

ERPOtherData

• User Interface

• Chart and Report Engine

• Analysis Engine

• Integration

CRM

Data Visualization

ERPOtherData

CRMERPOtherData

CRM

Data Extract

QAQA

Project ManagementProject Management

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Advantages of Working With Us

– Not Just Technicians

– Accelerated Time to Value

– End-to-End Expertise

– Single-Source Solution

– Work with the Leading Business Intelligence Vendors

– Industry-Specific Domain Knowledge

– Structured, but Flexible Project Delivery Methodology

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Our Customers

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Financial Services

Insurance Manufacturing

Retail & CPG

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Eric Molner

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– Principal Consultant, based out of Chicago

– Over 8 years of Business Intelligence experience

– Held a variety of roles from lead developer to project manager

– Effectively worked with clients in the financial, retail, healthcare, and transportation industries

– Main areas of concentration:

SAP BusinessObjects Migrations

Deployment, Installation, and Configuration of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

Data Visualization/Data Discovery

Reporting Best Practices

Business Analysis

Logical database design for reporting

Testing/Data Quality Management

Agenda

– Review SAP Business Intelligence solution offering

– Demo – Explorer & Exploration Views

– Benefits (Business & IT) for supporting Explorer

– Demo – Visual Intelligence NEW

– Activity – Develop in SAP Visual Intelligence

– Differences between Explorer & Visual Intelligence

– Q&A

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SAP Business Intelligence Solutions

Multiple Options to choose from

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BI Platform

Dashboards

CrystalReports

WebIntelligence

Analysis

Explorer

Trusted Data

BI Platform

Dashboards

CrystalReports

WebIntelligence

Analysis

Explorer

Trusted Data

Data Discovery

Finding out something new via Self-Service BI

Traditional Business Intelligence

• Standard Reporting• Summary & Detail• Top X Customers• Transactional History

• Ad-Hoc Analysis

• Dashboards listing KPIs

Data Discovery (aka Business Discovery)

• Easy to combine multiple data sources

• Easy to analyze and understand associations with other data elements

• Easy to visualize

• Easy to share

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Performance

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Report

Report

Report

Report

Report

ETL DWH BI Layer

ERP

CRM

FilesFiles

Files

With SAP HANATraditional BI Stack

Paths to Connect to HANA

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SAP Explorer

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• Keyword Search on Data

• Analyze Data Faster

• Quicker User Adoption due to intuitive interface

• Share results multiple ways• .csv• Excel• Image of graphs• URL

• Integrates with WebI & Mobile

• Utilizes same semantic layer

SAP Explorer Benefits

Business• Better Success at User Adoption• Improved query response times• Search for data like using an online search engine• Multiple ways to share insights

IT• Improved query performance• Leverage existing SAP collateral

– HANA– Universes– Security

• Less Dependency• Integrates with WebI & Mobile

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SAP Visual Intelligence

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• Access enterprise and personal data

• Manipulate the data to meet business/reporting requirements

• Quickly develop complex visualizations to establish trends and uncover hidden insights into the data

• Share visualizations via e-mail

• Publish datasets to:• HANA• Explorer• Streamwork

SAP Visual Intelligence Activity

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• Do you have Visual Intelligence Installed?

• Locate the Emerging Market Analysis.xls

• Raise your hand if you are having technical issues

Explorer vs. Visual Intelligence

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Data Acquisition• Acquire data from different sources• Combine multiple data sources

Data Transformation• Massage the data to meet analytical requirements

Data Visualizations• Similar list of charting options• Save individual visualizations that can be referenced later

Questions?

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Eric Molner

Analytics8500 N. Michigan AveSuite 810Chicago, IL 60611

T: 312 878 6600F: 773 326 0749

www.Analytics8.com

Thank you!