BI4.

1 Value Proposition
SAP BI GTM
August 15, 2014

Customer

Market conditions and customer expectations

are changing rapidly
Volatility

Globalization

Cost conscious

New generation

The Forrester Wave: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

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The reality of the Internet of Everything

Data
doubles

1 billion
Facebook
users

5 billion
in emerging
middle class

every 18
months

4 billion
YouTube views
per day

15
billion
web-enabled
devices

Unlocking the value of Big Data

Use Analytics
10% Today

IT is not agile enough and

the business wants to get
involved
Ability to manage and
consume all data is getting
harder

Missing new insights

Not utilizing all the
information out there

75%

Need
Analytics
by 2020

Nucleus Research, Gartner, Fortune Magazine

Not leveraging the power of

collective insight

Key Trends shaping the future of BI

$10.66

33%

80%

>10x ROI

$1

of BI consumed on handhelds
in 2013

Nucleus Research, Gartner, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Forrester

Forrester
Self-Service
Business
Platforms, Q2 2012
The
2014
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or an SAP
affiliate company.
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of information needs handled

by end users

Spent on BI

Return

Top Reasons to upgrade to SAP BI 4.1

Enable Answers
on the Go

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Deliver Trusted Data

Discovery to the Entire
Team

Get the most out of

your BI Solution

Analytics solutions from SAP

Cloud

Mobile

Agile
Visualization

Big Data

Advanced
Analytics

Enterprise
Business Intelligence

Collaboration

Value Drivers of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1

Native

Native

SAP
HANA

SAP
BW

Mobile

support

Reduced

TCO

support

Designed to
support

Focus on

future

Quality

innovations

Upgrade

DeskI

Ready

Compatibility

Native SAP HANA support

Support of HANA by every BI Client of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Suite

Platform Integration with Native HANA supported BI Clients as Design

Studio, Analysis Office and Lumira

Combine SAP HANA data with any other data source using Multi Source
Universes

No performance degradation

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Mobile

Embedded within installer & Central Management Console

Support of ALL SAP BusinessObjects Client tools

Integrated Explorer support including Exploration Views

Support of SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server

Support for every Web Application Server and OS as recorded in PAM for the
BI Platform

Removal of legacy Third Party Communication Layer

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Native SAP BW support

SAP BW Business Intelligence Consumer Service (BICS) connection

embedded in BI Platform

No need for BW JAVA deployment to SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Clients to

SAP BW

Improved performance for reporting against BW*

Query Stripping and Auto Refresh by BI CLients

* Depending on BW Version
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Reduced TCO

Available as Cloud Deployment in public and private cloud options

Ability to generate Multi Source Universes

Leverage any investment made in SAP BW for reporting by BI4.1

Backup without Down Time

Embedded Monitoring Functionality including integration to SAP Solution Manager, IBM Tivoli
and JMX clients

Embedded Promotion Management

Improved Auditing Engine

Enabled for parallel patching and on-going improvements for Near Zero Downtime

Support of ALL SAP BI Clients in a single platform

Enablement of Self Service Support

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Designed to support future innovations

64 Bits Server Architecture to support modern Hardware

Building up for Near Zero Downtime

Full support for Virtualization

Platform Integration with Analysis Office, Design Studio, Lumira* and Lumira
Server*

Support for Big Data sources as Hadoop Hive and Amazon EMR

HTML 5 Clients and Mobile Content

Common (extendable) Chart Engine for BI Clients

Universe Support for the Latest and New Databases

* planned

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Focus on Quality

BI4.1 is better in quality compared to XI3.1

Complete new Quality Process to ensure quality driven development and

software delivery

Ramp Up Target completion within 4 months

Best Practices Solutions Embedded

Customer Feedback
FedEx: "in the 15-yrs Ive worked with BOBJ -- 4.1 is the best code
release ever
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Upgrade Ready

Upgrade Management Tool is a dedicated product to upgrade XIR2 and XI3x

content to BI4.1

Improved upgrade performance

Support for Incremental* and Full upgrades

Available as Command Line or by GUI*

* Windows Only
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Desktop Intelligence Compatibility

Ability to upgrade Desktop Intelligence Documents into BI4.1 CMS

Ability to manage and secure Desktop Intelligence Documents in BI4.1

Central Management Console

Ability to connect Desktop Intelligence Client to BI4.1 CMS*

Improved Report Conversion Tool for higher conversion success

Customer Feedback
Arun District Council: DeskI compatibility is exactly what we needed. It
worked nicely
* As of XI3.1 SP6 Fixpack 6.1
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BI Innovation Value Calculator

Calculate your own Return on Investment when using SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1

SAP BI Innovation Value Calculation

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0 The SAP Difference

Complete

#1

end-to-end analytics
solution

leader in analytics*

65,000+
analytics customers
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7,000+
partners with proven
track record of success
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Key Links
sap.com/upgradebi
sap.com/learnbi

sap.com/bivirtualization
sap.com/bisizing
service.sap.com/roadmap

How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment

SAPs Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI

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Where to get these slides?

The slides are publicly available on the SAP Community Network (SCN)
BI4.1 Value Proposition Level 0 : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55412
BI4.1 Value Proposition Level 1 : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55411
BI4.1 Value Proposition Level 2 : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55417

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Thank you

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