Analytics Roadmap

Road Map for

Analytics Solutions from SAP

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Welcome Road map for Analytics Solutions from SAP

This road map is a consolidated reference on the current business intelligence

solutions from SAP as of December 2013.

It is organized into the following key sections:

Analytics solutions from SAP

SAP investment focus for analytics solutions

Current solution overview by functional area

Planned innovations by functional area

Future plans by investment area

Useful additional information


Release Information Road map for Analytics Solutions from SAP

Current solutions refer to software already released from SAP. At this point this refers to the

cumulative features represented by:

SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence platform 4.1, SP1

SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.0

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis software 1.4, edition for Microsoft Office

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.2

Planned innovations refer to the next major release of each of these components that are

due for release within 12-16 months of December 2013

Future innovations refer to intentions for releases beyond the next 12-16 months from

December 2013 and no specific timeframe is available

Analytics Solutions from SAP


How Analytics need to evolve to deliver collective insight

Raw

Data

Cleaned

Data

Standard

Reports

Ad Hoc

Reports

& OLAP

Agile

Visualization

Predictive

Modeling

Optimization

What

happened?

Why did it

happen?

What will

happen?

What is

the best that

could happen?

Us

er

En

ga

ge

me

nt

Maturity of Analytics Capabilities

Self Service BI

Generic

Predictive

Analysis

Co

lle

cti

ve

In

sig

ht

End-to-end

Easy adoption

Fast

implementation

Business focused

Enable

storytelling


Unleashing the power of collective insight

ENGAGE PREDICT VISUALIZE

Instantly predict market trends and

customer needs and innovate new

product and services quicker

Predict demand or supply across your

entire Supply Chain immediately

Provide exactly the right offers and

service levels to every customer

Understand what your customers &

potential customers are saying about

you, right now

Imagine the potential…


Analytic Solutions from SAP

Agile

Visualization

Advanced

Analytics

Big Data

Mobile

Collaboration

Cloud

Enterprise

Business Intelligence

SAP Investment Focus for

Analytics Solutions


Big Data

Explore new

opportunities

Build on SAP

HANA

strengths

Embrace new

emerging

data sources

Agile

Visualization

Unleash

user’s

creativity

Agility for the

business

Able to

leverage IT’s

expertise

SAP’s Strategic Focus on Analytics Solutions

Enterprise BI

Ubiquitous BI

for all users

and

landscapes

Collaborate

across the

organization

Scalable,

secure, and

mission critical

Advanced

Analytics

Gain the

competitive

advantage

Predict & act

faster

Share

insights

Cloud

Faster &

more

accurate

decisions

Broaden

deployment

options

Drive lower

TCO

Innovation without disruption


Enterprise BI - Vision & Strategy Ubiquitous, collaborative, scalable

Ubiquitous BI for all users and landscapes BI on mobile, cloud, on-premise

Ready for global operation

Flexible access to Enterprise governed data

Collaborate across the organization For anyone across the organization - individuals, teams, or department

Active sharing and collaborative decision making

Consistent and engaging experience

Scalable Scalable, secure, and mission critical

Open platform to extend and embed

For any size business, deployment, or organization

Enterprise BI

Ubiquitous

Collaborative

Scalable


Agile Visualization - Vision & Strategy Agility for the business

Unleash user’s creativity Unlock hidden patterns in data

Build beautiful, custom visualizations and stories

Bring together corporate and personal data

Agility for the business Download and use quickly – no IT involvement needed

Access and work with almost any data source independently

Personal edition for free – both desktop and cloud

Able to leverage IT’s expertise Connect back to, and leverage, IT infrastructure

View, publish and synchronize desktop data and visualizations from SAP Lumira, fully leveraging SAP HANA

Optimized for big data

Agile

Visualization

Creative

Agile

IT Friendly


Advanced Analytics - Vision & Strategy Predict and Act!

Increase ROI, Minimize TCO Gain the competitive advantage

Get up and running quickly, low learning curve

Predict to solve difficult business problems

Application in every industry or Line of Business

Intuitive for business users, yet robust enough for data scientists

Predict and act faster then ever before Predictive solutions built to leverage big data and SAP HANA in-memory

platform

Open and extendable - leverage custom code or 1,000’s of open source predictive workflows

Deploy Predictive solutions anywhere, anytime Leverage existing data sources, from local to the enterprise data warehouse

Share predictive insights easily within your LOB or with the entire enterprise

Integration with SAP HANA-based applications and LOB solutions

Advanced

Analytics

Adaptable

Open

Everywhere


Cloud - Vision & Strategy Exceed Your Business Expectations

Faster and more accurate decisions Leverage on-premise pre-aggregated data anywhere, anytime and on any

device

View, publish and synchronize desktop data and visualizations from SAP Lumira, fully leveraging SAP HANA

Broaden deployment options Amazon Web Services

Partner Solutions; Your own hosted environment

SAP Lumira Cloud; SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Drive lower TCO Turn-key BI Packages

Native to SAP HANA

Multi-tenant private and public cloud support

Cloud

Simple

Fast

Flexible


Big Data Analytics - Vision & Strategy Real-Time Insight with Big Data

Explore new opportunities The variety of big data also means new formats, new paradigms and new

opportunities.

Our research projects are driven by the objective to mine big data for more value, quicker and at a lower cost

Build on SAP HANA strengths Thanks to in-memory, predictive, federation and more, SAP HANA offer un-

preceded opportunities for big data analytics.

We will keep driving innovation end-to-end, from data to analytics in order to help customers get the most value out of their big data

Embrace new emerging data sources SQL-like access via *DBC drivers offer opportunities to embrace emerging big

data sources with existing investments

We will selectively extend the support to big data sources based on their technical maturity and market demand

Big Data

Explore

Speed

More Data


Support of both net new and

updated platforms

Focus on quality and innovation

deserving of a professional

grade BI platform

New capabilities around self-

service, dashboarding and mobile BI

First point release of SAP’s market leading

Business Intelligence

Suite

4.1

All existing XI R2 and XI3

customers can migrate to this

newest platform of SAP’s BI

Suite

Core stability and capability improvements

from new innovations to

incremental product

advances from 4.0 to re-

introduced features from

XI3

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

What’s different about this release?


• Improved interoperability

and usability across the

SAP BusinessObjects BI

suite

• Deliver engaging

information to users when

and where they need it

• Create custom experiences

with embedded analytic

extensions

• Monitor your business with

specialized charting and

geospatial analytics

• Empower end users with

industry focused

visualizations and spatial

analytics

• Detect outliers and discover

areas to optimize your

business

• Create and consume BI

content from any mobile

device

• Empower teams to deliver

collaborative decisions

• Simplified deployment to

accelerate time to value

Powerful

Visualizations

Faster, More

Accurate Decisions

Unified and Highly

Personalized

Key Capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 One Suite for All Insight


• Support for Amazon

Elastic MapReduce and

Hadoop Hive

• Improved access to Oracle

Exadata, Oracle OLAP

and Oracle Essbase

• Enhanced workflow

features in conjunction

with the SAP HANA®

platform and the SAP

NetWeaver® Business

Warehouse (SAP

NetWeaver BW)

application

• Immediate response time

regardless of data volume

• Improved usability to build

pervasive BI applications

• Integrate with monitoring

functionality from SAP,

lifecycle management,

search, and user

management

• Enhanced design

experience with new

creation wizard and

integrated data

federation

• Automated universe

deployment and lifecycle

management

Scale and Power Speed to Deliver Big Data Ready

Key Capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 One Place for All Information


• For any size business,

small to large

• For any type of

deployment, on-premise

or on-demand

• For anyone across the

organization, individuals,

teams, or department

• Increased efficiency to

enhance decision making

capability and productivity

• Non-disruptive production

delivery and information

governance across the

organization

• Simplified architecture for

increased IT responsiveness

• Open and agnostic suite

of products that can

leverage existing BI

investments

• Supported by global best

practices for enhanced

adoption

• Enable speedy

deployment with

shortened time to value

Quality Focused Superior Breadth

of Ecosystem

Professional Grade BI

Platform

Key Capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 One Standard for Enterprise BI


Analytics Solutions from SAP One Suite for All Insight

Reporting Agile

Visualization

Dashboards

and Apps

Deliver engaging information to users where they need it

Track key performance indicators and summary data

Build custom experiences so users get what they need quickly

Securely distribute information across your organization

Answer related questions by interacting with pre-defined reports

Build printable reports for operational efficiency

Discover areas to optimize your business

Adapt data to business needs

Tell your story with beautiful visualizations

Discover. Predict. Create.

Build Engaging Experiences

Distribute Information


Agile Visualization Discover. Predict. Create.

Agility for business analysts and business users

Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your business

Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and

enriching data

Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics

Forecast and predict future outcomes

Portfolio

SAP Lumira™

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

SAP Predictive Analysis*

*SAP Predictive Analysis details are part of Advanced Analytics


Dashboards and Apps Build Engaging Experiences

Build engaging, visual dashboards

Powerful environment to build interactive and visually

appealing analytics

Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down,

crosstabs, charts…

Use custom code to extend and build workflows

Portfolio

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

(formerly SAP BusinessObjects

Xcelsius Enterprise) software


Reporting Share Information

High productivity design for report designers

Quickly build formatted reports on any data source

Securely distribute reports both internally and externally

Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users

to easily create and modify their own reports

Enhance custom applications with embedded reports

Portfolio

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®

SAP Crystal Reports®


BI Platform Professional Grade

Enterprise Portals

MS Office On Demand Services

Browsers Mobile Devices

ERP SAP Business Suite

Oracle E-Business Suite

PeopleSoft

JD Edwards

Unstructured data in

Social Media and

Hadoop

Embedded Content

MS Excel Oracle, IBM DB2,

Microsoft SQL Server

and other relational data

sources

Universe Semantic Layer

Business Intelligence Platform

EDW SAP NetWeaver BW

TeraData

Other data warehouses

SAP HANA platform

Reporting Agile Visualization Dashboards and Apps

Essbase

Microsoft AS

Oracle OLAP

Current solution overview by

functional area


Solution today Planned innovations Future direction

Road Map for Analytics Solutions from SAP Overview

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI Business Intelligence Platform and Developer

Solution today

Key needs Key innovations

Decreased time to value with improvements for rapid

system deployments

Simplified server deployment

Multi-tenant private and public cloud support

BI platform – deployment simplification

User-friendly, more robust, and quicker installation

experience

Server configuration tool enhancement

Ability to manage resource allocation to tenants actively,

with enhanced provisioning tool for universe

management

Enhanced multisource workflow to manage the company’s

big data environment, including SAP HANA

BI platform – semantic layer

Enhanced federation with top down modeling

Reduce the TCO and increase the reach of your BI

project by zero modeling cost to SAP HANA while

accessing all its functionalities

Embed and Extend BI through all business workflows

Developer - enablement

Embed and extend BI in mobile and cloud applications

New Mobile Analytics SDK

Expanded REST Web Services

Improved range of visualizations with greater visual

flexibility and interactivity

Developer – enhanced visualization

Designed for BIG DATA with greater data point support

Mobile and Web interactive charts allowing users to

intuitively navigate and reorganize information


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI BI for SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW

Solution today


Real time analytics on data from SAP Business Suite

software

Support for SAP HANA Live offerings

Access the virtual data model in SAP HANA Live from

the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite.

Enablement of powerful reporting directly on application

data within SAP Business Suite without setting up a data

warehouse.

BI for customers of SAP ERP – embedded analytics

Operational data providers (ODP) that feed analytic

and hierarchical data directly from SAP transactional

software.

Increased performance, resulting in a better consumer

experience

BI for customers of SAP NetWeaver BW

Enhanced performance when creating or refreshing a

report based on a query in SAP Business Explorer (SAP

BEx) tools

Enhanced metadata support for SAP NetWeaver BW


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI Overview: Ability to capture the decision; information in context;

ability to leverage the network

Solution today


Enable easier and smoother collaboration on business

data, information sharing, and inclusive decision making

Collaboration on business data, information sharing,

and inclusive decision making Comment while viewing report instances from BI launch

pad Send reports to SAP StreamWork® from within the

launch pad New integration with SAP Jam social software platform


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI Reporting

Solution today


Customize and extend the product

Improved access to SAP HANA

Better control of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

when displayed in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for interactive

reporting

Ability to embed and extend via RESTful APIs and UI

customization

Enhanced user experience with new reporting capabilities

Improved workflow for SAP HANA, and other data

sources with support of WebI query stripping

Continued broad access to data in any source, especially

SAP HANA

SAP Crystal Reports for production reporting

Access to SAP HANA

Improved and harmonized mobile user experience

Freehand SQL support

Support for existing SAP BusinessObjects Desktop

Intelligence™ documents within SAP BusinessObjects BI

4.0

SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence – SAP

BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is the way forward

Connect to SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0 to save

documents


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI Overview: Core innovation; complete BI suite; continued leadership

Solution today


Deploy dashboards to mobile users to make quicker, more

informed decisions

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards – for dashboards

and visualization

Mobile dashboard with the support of frequently used

components and support for third party add-ins and

support for Android

Data connectivity enhancements for browser, desktop,

and mobile

Create interactive and visually compelling applications no

matter where your data is stored.

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – for BI Apps on

the Web and Mobile

Richer visualizations and components

Deeper integration directly into the landscape of both the

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform and the SAP

NetWeaver technology platform


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Agile Visualization Used by Business but Managed by the Enterprise


Increased simplicity and ease of use & improved

integration with SAP HANA

Data discovery with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer –

fast time to answers

Enhance the performance of SAP BusinessObjects

Explorer through free facet loading

Extend exploration views by allowing users to edit

visualization titles

Explore Information spaces and Exploration views within

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile

Extend the value and reach of SAP Lumira for desktop

users in an enterprise

Data discovery with SAP Lumira – empowering the

business analyst

Enhance data manipulation capabilities with better merge

functionality, replay manipulation steps & improved

formula editor

Extend acquisition to more data sources & support

different data formats during acquisition

Solution today




Simplify the experience of consuming multidimensional

data and analyses

Take full advantage of in-memory capabilities of SAP

HANA

Connect to SAP and non-SAP data sources

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP, for

analysis over the Web

Share your analysis by creating web and mobile

applications in a few clicks

Custom grouping of members on Microsoft SSAS and

Oracle Essbase

Connectivity to Oracle Essbase and OLAP and Teradata

Leverage existing investments in workbooks of SAP BEx

Send Excel and PowerPoint based analytics to a broad

audience

Easily combine personal and corporate data

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft

Office, for analysis in Microsoft Excel

Workbook scheduling

Integration with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Support for workspaces for SAP NetWeaver BW to

upload personal data and combine it with corporate data.

Solution today


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Advanced Analytics Overview: Predictive; real time; big data

Solution today


Simplified analyses

Visualization of large data volume

Predictive analysis - uncover hidden trends and insights to take

proactive action

Share and Save options for Analysis and Models using SAP Lumira

functions. Increased ease of use

Expanded support of algorithms, universes and SAP NetWeaver BW



Enable data analysts to independently access any data,

and share it with their business

Turn-key analytical solutions for SAP Business Suite

SAP Lumira Cloud platform - powered by SAP HANA

– complete, intuitive, turnkey

View, publish and synchronize desktop data and

visualizations from SAP Lumira, fully leveraging SAP

HANA.

Multi-tenant private and public cloud support BI platform – deployment simplification

Ability to manage resource allocation to tenants actively,

with enhanced provisioning tool for universe

management

Analytics Solutions from SAP – Cloud Used by Business but Managed by the Enterprise

Solution today


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Big Data

Solution today


Quickly publish new analytical views and share

with wide audiences

BI built for SAP HANA – breakthrough visual data discovery native

on SAP HANA

SAP HANA native visualization

BIG DATA exploration and display

Quickly leverage the unique value of SAP

HANA

SAP BusinessObjects BI on SAP HANA – high-performance

analytics

Improved single sign-on (SSO) for SAP HANA that does not require

Active Directory

Zero new cost to benefit from all SAP HANA functionality. Direct

access and full support variables and input parameters and

hierarchies of SAP HANA across the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite

Apply the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite to real

time data from the SAP Sybase® Event Stream

Processor (SAP Sybase ESP) engine and SAP

Sybase RAP software

SAP Sybase ESP and SAP Sybase RAP

Build exciting real time and event driven dashboards and

visualizations

BI project enablement on big data

Enhanced support of SAP HANA for all tools

Big data – high-performance analytics on petabyte-scale data

Wider adoption of functionalities of SAP HANA in all BI client tools

Single BI view on top of multiple data sources in the big data

deployment


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Mobile Overview: Make better decisions everywhere; realize rapid time to value;

extend the power of mobile analytics throughout and beyond your organization

Solution today


Deliver one application for access to all Mobile

Analytics

Extend the reach of Mobile Analytics to a broader set of

business users

Customize and extend the Mobile Analytics and integrate

with third party security solutions.

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile – extending the reach

of analytics

Extend support to include SAP BusinessObjects

Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and

interactive SAP Crystal Reports software in SAP

BusinessObjects Mobile

Integration of exploration into SAP BusinessObjects

Mobile

Introducing the Mobile Analytics SDK to enable

customization of Mobile Analytics and integration with

third party security solutions.

Planned innovations by

functional area


Future direction Solution today Planned innovations

Road Map for Analytics Solutions from SAP

Overview

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI Business Intelligence Platform and Developer

Planned Innovations


Minimize system downtime for periodic system

maintenance

Provide fine grained system resource allocation in Shared

Services environments

Compare BI content before and after system upgrades and

patches to validate system automatically

BI platform

Near Zero Downtime when applying software updates

Allocation of system resources to specified content

Content validation tool

Reportable System metadata

Reduce TCO, and increase functionality on SAP HANA

and on SAP NetWeaver BW

More flexibility for consumer and for IT designers

Enable the OEM market

BI platform – semantic layer

Enable WebI free hand SQL

Complete authoring and consumption SDK

Linked Universe coverage

Embed and extend compelling BI experiences for business

users

Connect partner client applications directly to trusted data

sources through universes

Developer - enablement

Embed custom visualizations

Extend SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP

BusinessObjects Dashboards using custom components

Connect to universe data sources directly through a Web

Services interface

Make sense of massive data instantly through interactive

visualizations

Customize and extend with industry or company specific

visualizations

Developer – enhanced visualization

Common visualizations across nearly all BI clients

Customizable and extensible library of chart types

Support for 3rd party GIS and geo map providers


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI BI for SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW

Planned Innovations


Empower the analyst with richer data manipulation and

self-service capabilities on SAP data

Allow users to enrich a data set with annotations and

make collaborative decisions

Agile reporting for the analyst with less upfront

development effort from IT

BI for customers of SAP NetWeaver BW

Direct connectivity to SAP NetWeaver BW from SAP

Lumira

Cell-level annotations in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,

edition for Microsoft Office

Creation of customized hierarchies from SAP

BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

Broader coverage of SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and other SAP

Business Suite applications to enable real-time analytics

Allow analysts to enrich a data set and make collaborative

decisions.

Provide richer data manipulation capabilities to the

analyst.

Increase the efficiency of analyst and end users.

BI for customers of SAP ERP – embedded analytics

and SAP HANA Live

Enhanced SAP HANA Live content for SAP CRM, SAP

ERP, materials management and project system.

Cell level comments in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,

edition for MS Office

Create custom hierarchies with support from SAP

BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, for

manual entry of prompts in the SAP BusinessObjects BI

suite

Broader support for variants within the SAP

BusinessObjects BI suite


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI Reporting

Planned Innovations


Empower end-users (Free Hand SQL, Interactivities)

Reduce TCO when accessing SAP HANA

Increase functionality on SAP NetWeaver BW

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence features

(Free Hand SQL)

Direct access to SAP HANA with hierarchies

Report interactivities and charting enhancements

Functional parity in HTML client compared to Java client

Embed reporting insights into native applications (XS) for SAP HANA without requiring the full BI Platform.

Embed SAP Crystal Reports into custom mobile web applications.

Utilize new ways to visualize data to better convey information

SAP Crystal Reports

Support for content on a platform running just SAP HANA

Improved RESTful SDK’s and embeddability of the

HTML Viewer

Waterfall and Geographical Map support and 3rd party

Charting extensibility


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Enterprise BI Overview: Core innovation; complete BI suite; continued leadership

Planned Innovations


Deploy to a wide audience and support Bring-your-own-

device policies

Create a richer, more interactive mobile experience

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards – for dashboards

and visualization

Further Mobile enhancements:

Additional components

Improved performance

New device support

Design and runtime enhancements

Use applications while disconnected from source systems

Create experiences personalized to each user

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – for BI Apps on

the Web and Mobile

SAP NetWeaver BW Integrated Planning

Personalization; variants; bookmarking

Offline access

Report to Report Interface

Support for web services and embedded data




Quickly understand your business through interactive, gorgeous,

and flexible visualizations

Increased business user autonomy and richer information

context

Enhanced Mobile experience for Business Users

Data discovery with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – fast

time to answers

New & Enhanced user interface

Advanced facetted navigation features

Leverage speed, models calculation & other services of SAP

HANA

Jump start by automatically discovering insights through visual

recommendations

Touch optimized interface for optimized tablet experience

Leverage investments in SAP NetWeaver BW

More functions to manipulate data

Simple authoring of boards

Extend charting functions of SAP Lumira

SAP Lumira– empowering the business analyst

Direct connectivity to SAP NetWeaver BW.

Extend support for other data sources: structured and

unstructured

Merging made easy; custom hierarchies

Assemble composite boards to create compelling stories

Customize look & feel: color palette, layout

Planned Innovations




Agile reporting for the analyst with less upfront development

effort from IT

Support key features in third party OLAP Servers

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP, for

analysis over the Web

On the fly currency conversion for SAP NetWeaver BW

Drill through for SSAS

Enhanced Essbase support with Alias Tables, DTS

calculations, and Single Sign On

Allow users to enrich a data set with annotations and make

collaborative decisions

Agile reporting for the analyst with less upfront development

effort from IT

Consolidate on a single Microsoft Office add-in for your BI needs

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office,

for analysis in Microsoft Excel

Cell-level annotations

Creation of customized hierarchies

Relative positioning of charts and cross tables on an Excel

worksheet while exploring a data set

Support for data sources from non-SAP software

Planned Innovations


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Advanced Analytics SAP Predictive Analysis

Planned Innovations


Enhanced data visualizations, mapping and granularity

SDK to allow customization

Embed SAP Predictive Analysis in apps

SAP Predictive Analysis

HTML 5 edition in conjunction with SAP Lumira

Algorithm and Partner SDK

Integration with SAP Business Suite applications



Easily connect to enterprise data sources

Empower decision makers with intuitive data and

visualizations

Simple sharing of boards

Extend charting functions

SAP Lumira Cloud platform – empowering the decision

maker

SAP HANA Cloud Integration technology for direct

connectivity to on-premise and cloud data sources

Assemble composite boards to create compelling stories

Summarize complex analytics with key points

Customize look & feel: color palette, layout

Analytics Solutions from SAP – Cloud SAP Lumira Cloud platform

Planned Innovations


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Big Data SAP HANA and Big Data

Planned Innovations


Reduce TCO and increase functionality on SAP HANA

Open big data to analysts workflows

Increase the reach of big data with the support of faster

engines

SAP HANA and Big Data

Enhanced support of SAP HANA functionality: Text analysis;

Geospatial

Wider Big Data access: New Hadoop distributions supported

in BI; Access to Hadoop through SAP HANA

Global orchestration of Big Data for the business analyst


Analytics Solutions from SAP – Mobile Overview: Make better decisions everywhere; realize rapid time to value;

extend the power of mobile analytics throughout and beyond your organization

Planned Innovations


Embed Mobile analytics in operational and

transactional workflows

Extend the reach of Mobile Analytics to a broader set of

business users

Quick and easy onboarding of users

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile – extending the reach

of analytics

Extend support to include SAP Lumira (desktop, Cloud

and web) in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile

Enhanced offline functions for SAP BusinessObjects

Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio,

and SAP Lumira

Support for SSO and importing of policies and

configuration for easy onboarding using SAP Afaria®

mobile device management solution.

Authoring of dashboards from the device.

Embedding of Mobile Analytics into operation and

transactional workflow apps from SAP and also other

third party apps.

Future plans by investment

area


Future direction Planned innovations Solution today

SAP Road Map for Analytics Solutions from SAP Overview

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization

Big Data

Enterprise BI

Cloud

Advanced Analytics

Agile Visualization


SAP’s Future Strategic Direction on Analytics Solutions

Big Data

BI project

enablement

on big data

Directly

connect to

SAP HANA

Use Hadoop

Agile

Visualization

Compress

information to

insight

Empower

analysts

Empower IT

Enterprise BI

Ubiquitous BI

for all users

and

landscapes

Consistent

experiences

Scalability,

security, and

integration

Advanced

Analytics

Analytics first

experiences

High

resolution BI

Low latency

extreme data

performance

Cloud

Publish and

synchronize

data and

visualizations

Native to

SAP HANA

Multitenant

cloud support

Innovation without disruption


Analytics Solutions – Enterprise BI

Reliable BI Platform

Future Direction

RELIABLE PLATFORM Build TRUST with users by operating a platform that is non-stop and always

available. With proven 99.9% uptime, near zero-downtime upgrades and

enhancements and continuous monitoring.

RELIABLE ACCESS Ensure that users can trust that all their BI content is in one place by bringing

BI content from non-SAP software into the BI management environment and

accessible via BI Launchpad.

RELIABLE MANAGEMENT Ensure that trust by leveraging the suite of BI management tools built into BI to

ensure smooth operations with continuous user feedback.


Analytics Solutions – Enterprise BI

Open BI Network

Future Direction

OPEN ACCESS TO DATA Any BI tool can now leverage the business knowledge in your Enterprise BI

Solution ensuring consistency of information without limiting the

experiences

OPEN VISUALIZATIONS Leverage the community to access and utilize any visualization for any

information in any tool. New visualizations can be deployed and leveraged

across the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite like never before.

OPEN DATA MANIPULATION Expand the range of functions for the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite with

community developed models and data functions, no matter the source.


Analytics Solutions

Agile Visualization for the Enterprise

Future Direction

AGILE VISUALIZATION EXPLORATION Ask questions from corporate data more easily on larger collections than ever

before by leveraging the power and speed of SAP HANA

AGILE VISUALIZATION SEMANTICS Develop and extend semantics and business views of data locally with

personal or departmental versions.

AGILE VISUALIZATION DATA For the first time users can share new information via their corporate analytical

infrastructure with a single click and IT remain able to manage and govern

what information reaches who.

Useful Additional

Information


Key links for more information SAP customers and partners

SAP named worldwide market-share leader for business intelligence in 2011: Gartner

Road maps on SAP Service Marketplace

SAP’s release strategy on SAP Service Marketplace

• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions on sap.com

Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Solutions

BI 4 Upgrade Resources

Choosing the Right SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Client

Sizing and Deploying SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4

eLearning product tutorials

SAP Business Intelligence Newsletter

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http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/press/newsroom/press.epx?pressid=15099

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

http://www.service.sap.com/releasestrategy



http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/business-intelligence/index.epx





http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-27193




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http://www.sap.com/learnbi

http://www.sap.com/learnbi

http://www.sap.com/ACT

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