673 A Complete Guide To Bi 70 Reporting Tools

The Complete Guide to Reporting Tools
in SAP NetWeaver & the BusinessObjects

Portfolio - with performance options
Bjarne Berg
Director SAP BI
[ Learning Points
This is a comprehensive guide to SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence
presentation tools
We will take an overview tour of the Analysis Process Designer (APD), SAP
NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC), Web Application Designer (WAD),
Report Designer, Web publishing, Java Server pages (JSP) and the new SAP
NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer.
We will look at the strengths and limitations of each tool and see how they
can be used independently or collectively in a SAP BI environment.
Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAP

NetWeaver BI tools to make your system more flexible and adaptive to the
needs of end users.
Real Experience. Real Advantage. 2

[ Agenda
The SAP BI Tool Revolution
SAP NetWeaver BI Query Designer & BEx Analyzer
Analysis Process Designer (APD),
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (VC)
Web Application Designer (WAD)
Report Designer
Web publishing
Java Server pages (JSP) and the old Business Server Pages (BSP)
The BOBJ Roadmap for front-end tools
Empowering the users a mind shift
Who Should get access
Wrap-up
Bonus material: All SAP BOBJ tools

[ The SAP BI Core Toolset
SAP BI is an
enterprise-wide
comprehensive
decision support (DSS)
system for analytical
needs of an enterprise.
BI can also support

some degree of
operational reporting
The SAP BI tool set has many presentation tools

and options for companies to leverage.

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing

Wrap-up

[ BEx Query Designer gets a facelift in BI 7.x
The new 7.x Query designer was
The 3.5x BEx totally re-developed in MS-Visual Basic
Query Designer .NET
This new property pane makes it

easier to format and control displays
than in the past.
BEx Ad-Hoc Query

Designer functionality is
replaced by BEx Web The NWBI 7.0 BEx
Analyzer in BI 7.0 Query Designer

[BEx Analyzer (Excel Workbooks)
1. BEx Workbooks is Excel 'on steroids'.
2. BW queries can be opened in Excel
3. Queries can be refreshed
and standard Excel functions can
be used
This is a great tool for financial

analysts and power users.
To use this tool you

need BEx installed
[ BEx web Analyzer integrates Excel
The Excel integration in the

BEx analyzer is far better.
Unlike the old days of dynamic

HTML, you can now use the
BEx analyzer more like a real
application without refreshing
the whole page every time you
click on something (this is due
Source: SAP AG, 2008
to the Java component in BI
7.0)
Important: BEx browser goes away

in SAP BI 7.0 (so does BEx
Download Scheduler)

[BEx Analyzer Design Mode
1. Application building in Excel (similar to WAD)
2. New options for queries with two structures
3. Excel formulas allow access to any cell of the result set
4. Excel formatting options can be fully leveraged for BEx
workbooks (e.g., blank lines, fonts, etc.)
5. Combining Excel formulas and Excel formatting allows the design
of complex formatted workbooks
6. Integration of Business Planning is available
To use this tool you

need BEx installed
Source: SAP, Zane Connally 2008

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[Creating new data inside SAP BI
In Data warehousing v2.0 (Bill Immons new terminology), we
are using BI applications to create new data that needs to be
fed to the data warehouse, and /or the transactional system
Tools are now available to build association data sets that

creates updates based on BI findings (i.e. customer
segmentation, risk, profitability flagging etc).

Images: Bhanu Gupta, ASUG 2005 Illinois chapter
[APD Analysis Process Designer and data mining
Complex scenarios can be
built for structured analysis
such as risk modeling,
customer segmentation,
market basket analysis,
predictive modeling and much
more
Image: SAP
New data based on the

findings can be loaded back into
data targets and used by others
for reporting i.e. CRM analysis.
[ Agenda
Analysis Process Designer (APD)
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[ Visual Composer
A Visual Composer is a tool to visualize the data. It is a browser-based
modeling and design tool for rapid application development & prototyping
in a code-free development environment.

[ Visual Composer for Complex cockpits
Modeling of BI applications using the BI kit of the Visual Composer
allows business users to create analytical content for SAP portal. It
offers the integration with BI infoproviders, views, BEx web
applications, PDF and more via WEB API as access to
other data
sources such
as OLAP and
relational data
sources) via
Java
connectors
Image source: Cubeserv

[ Visual Composer Data Methods
Can integrate data from multiple data sources, including SAP
and non-SAP systems, into one model
Different options available for data access include:
BI Extension Kit
Remote Function Call (RFC)
Web services
BI Extension Kit allows access
to the following DataSources
SAP NetWeaver 2004 BI
(BW 3.5 Support Package 14)
SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
JDBC
XMLA

[ Visual Composer is Easy for Power Users to Learn
Visual Composer is a power user tool that is simple to learn for

someone with a little bit of technical background (i.e. controllers,
report writers, analysts).
No coding required to
create great-looking
Web-based cockpits
Source: SAP
Take advantage of prebuilt analytic business packages

[ The future of Visual Composer
Source: SAP, July 2008
Composition Environment including Visual Composer

continues to be the go-to product for creating
composite applications (SAP, 2008)

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[ BEx Web Application Designer (WAD)
BEx Analyzer/
BEx Web Application Designer Web Browser
Query Designer
WAD is an intuitive tool

to build powerful web
applications and to
interact with portals and
custom templates.
OLAP Processor
BW queries can be
Web Service
manipulated in WAD for
Charting Engine HTLM Templates InfoProvider better display
[New Features of SAP NetWeaver SAP BI 7.0 Web AD
Web Items: Tab Pages, Button, Script Item (in SAP BI 7.0 Support Package
Stack 7)
Drag and drop using Analysis item
New chart types (heat map, Gantt, milestone trend analysis)
Export BI Web applications in PDF format
Command Wizard for generating Web API commands
Integration with SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 BEx Report Designer for
formatted reports
NEW: User can change the XHTML

source code of any web template
either directly, or the ABAP program
RS_TEMPLATE_MAINTAIN_70, or in
any external XHTML editor.

[ Command Wizard and JavaScript
You can use Command Wizard for generating JavaScript code for
the Script Item to use in custom cockpit applications

[ Product Directions for BI Solutions
And Much
More
Dashboards,
Visualization
Web App Designer Xcelsius
Enterprise Polestar
Reporting
Report Designer Crystal Reports
Ad-hoc BI Widgets
Query &
Reporting
Web Intelligence
Mobile BI
Advanced
Analysis
SAP BEx Analyzer Voyager Predictive
Web Services
Enterprise Data
Warehousing
& BI Platform SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA BusinessObjects Enterprise
Source: SAP 20009
Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Product Directions for BI Solutions
And Much
More
Dashboards,
Visualization
Web App Designer Xcelsius
Polestar
Enterprise
Reporting
Report Designer Crystal Reports
Ad-hoc BI Widgets
Query &
Reporting
Web Intelligence
Mobile BI
Advanced
Analysis
SAP BEx Analyzer Voyager Predictive
Web Services
Enterprise Data
Warehousing
& BI Platform SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA BusinessObjects Enterprise
Source: SAP 20009

[ BI Web Application Designer Roadmap
planned 2010 future
InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal
Pioneer Web Client Pioneer Web Client

Workspace Workspace
PIO Web BEx Web PIO Web BEx Web
Tab Tab Tab Tab
SAP BOE SAP BOE

Platform Platform
Pioneer Designer/ SDK

Pioneer Web
Server
Pioneer Web Server
BI Consumer Services BI Consumer Services
BEx Queries/ BEx Web BEx Web

BEx Queries/ BEx Web
Migration
BEx Web
App App
InfoProviders Templates
Designer InfoProviders Templatesoptions via
Designer
Pioneer SDK
SAP NW BW SAP NW BW

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[ The BEx Report Designer
This new tool was created
to simplify the formatting of
reports and fix many of the
printing issues in previous
versions of BW.
Source: SAP AG
We now get color control, header-footer control and many new features such
as location control of cells and integration of pictures, charts and fixed text.
[ BEx Report Designer is new in BI 7.0
Customizable font styles (i.e.
bold, italic), colors, etc.
Group-level changes with
individual formatting
Layout options, e.g.: Height of
rows, width of columns
Multi-line column headers
Flexible field positioning
Merging cells
Support for hierarchies
Rules for the presentation of
special characteristic values News: BEx Report Designer 7.1, (last release in
2008) will be available under maximum
Integration of text, pictures,
and charts maintenance until 2016 and will be replaced with
the Crystal Base product.
Header & footer for reports
[ Crystal Report is still available (also in SAP BW 3.x)
With BW you get access to Crystal reports. In fact you have many pre-
developed reports that comes with SAP-BW. Currently, you can modify, or
develop and deploy a few Crystal reports without additional licensing cost.
Crystal is a great tool for batch reporting of "pixel controlled' formatted
reports.

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[ Web Cockpits in the Portal
You can integrate queries

and Web applications into
the portal through
publishing, broadcasting, or
Web calls
Publishing
The portal can either

receive designed pages
passively or actively create
communities, Web pages,
collaboration rooms, or
cockpits
Broadcasting

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[ BI Java SDK-Based Applications in SAP BI 7.x
BI Java SDK can be used for custom applications based on SAP BI

and non-SAP data.
BI Java SDK provides access to relational and OLAP data sources
using JDBC, XMLA, ODBO etc.
Access to 200+ data sources using the JDBC drivers.
Java programmers will

recognize the standard
development kit's (SDK)
main libraries such as the
abstract windowing toolkit
(AWT) and the GUI-
oriented Swing object
library as well Source: SAP AG, 2008

[ BI Java SDK-Based Cockpits (cont.)
SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio can develop BI Java SDK-based
applications
Can use along with SAP Java Web Dynpro
Interested developers
should familiarize
themselves with SAP
NetWeaver
Developer Studio

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[ SAPs Premium Offerings
SAP Acquired Business Objects in 2007/2008 and is working on
integrating BOBJ into the core SAP BI offerings.

[ BOBJ capabilities Dashboards and Reports
Dashboards can be built using Xcelsius.

Xcelsius+ will be launched in 2009, and
will be the flagship product for data
visualization & dashboards
Crystal Reports for pixel formatted reports has

been available with SAP BI/BW since 2002. This
tool can be integrated into your tool portfolio
using existing SAP NetWeaver BI queries
(NOTE: Crystal & Crystal Base will be the core tools for formatted
reports starting 2010)
Source SAP AG, 2009

[ BOBJ capabilities Analysis, Ad-hoc & Widgets
The Web Intelligence tool from BOBJ is
a tool for ad-hoc web based reporting,
query & analysis.
It is intended for end users and can
leverage queries to both relational and
OLAP sources.
It will be the core offering for ad-hoc
end user analysis starting 2009.
With the current offering of BOBJ you can

also use Desktop Widgets to place BI
content direct onto a PC desktop and
monitor reports and KPIs.
Source SAP AG, June 2008

[ New Tools Roadmap
Source SAP

[ The Move towards Pioneer
Pioneer (for 1st Quarter 2010 release) provides

Web a superset of the capabilities in BEx Analyzer
based (Excel), BEx Analyzer (Web), and Business
Objects Voyager.
Voyager customers migrate to Pioneer.
Excel BEx Analyzer & BEx Web Analyzer customers

based
migrate to Pioneer. (Note: BEx is planned to go
into regular maintenance)
Source SAP, April, 2009

[ What can be Done in 2009- Implementations
Suggestion Tool Purpose
Visual Composer Visualization
Web Intelligence Ad-hoc
Candidates for BI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop Intelligence
Implementations in 2009 Crystal Report Formatted reports
BPC Consolidation & Planning
BI Accellerator In memory performance
Visual
Composer
BI Accelerator
Web Intelligence Widgets

(webi)
[ The two types of Universes
There are currently
2 ways to get at
the SAP BI data.
If you implement
this year, you need
to make conscious
decisions about
which method you
select. There are
pros and cons of
each

[ Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.0
Xcelsius
WebI
QaaWS
QT Universes ODA
SQL Access MDX Access
Data Federator XMLA OLAP BAPI ODBO
BW Analytic Engine
RDBMS
BIA

[ Overview: Options for Universe-Based Access to BW 7.01
Xcelsius
WebI
QaaWS
QT Universes ODA
SQL Access MDX Access
Data Federator XMLA OLAP BAPI ODBO
BW DF Fascade Analytic Engine

RDBMS
BWA

[ Comparison
BW Server Feature MDX SQL
BW Hierarchies
Restricted and Calculated Key Figures
Security
BW Variables
Currency and Unit Conversion
Exceptions, Conditions
SUM, MIN, MAX Aggregations
AVG, COUNT, COUNT DISTINCT, Aggregations
OLAP Cache
Navigational Attributes
Mass Data Enabled
Federation (e.g. BW RDBMS, BW BW)
= fully supported
= limited support / workaround

[ What can be Done in 2009- Take a Look at
Xcelsius
Polestar is an interesting
technology that companies may
start a prototype with and see Polestar
how it can help them access BI
data from a variety of sources
(NW and others)

Xcelcius Dashboards
Worth a Prototype
Polestar Search engine
Keep an Eye on, but wait
Pioneer BEx web & Excel
until the new release
[ What can be Done in 2009- Prototype
Consider
building a Xcelsius
Xcelsius
Prototype to
get used to
really
interactive
dashboards
and what-if
analysis.
Xcelcius Dashboards
Worth a Prototype
Image source: Adobe, 2009

[ What can be Done in 2009- Keep doing
There are many classical SAP
NetWeaver tools that should still be
used by companies that are planning
go-lives in 2009.
Integrated planning is still supported.

Pioneer is still 12 months away
WAD will continue to be the development
environment for 2009.

Web Application Designer Web development
BEx Web Web reporting
Keep doing for a while longer BEx Excel Excel reporting
Analysis Process Designer Structured Analysis
Integrated Planning Planning

[ Stop As soon as possible
If you need Formatted Reports in 2009, you should seriously
consider Crystal Reports. The current roadmap calls for
moving Report Designer into regular maintenance at the end
of 2009, and stop further development of this tool.
Looking forward to Xcelsius and Pioneer, it may be advisable

to limit further custom development in JSP unless it is not
intended to be migrated at a future date.

Report Designer Formatted reports
Stop when possible
Custom JSP pages Custom applications

[ Training SAP Business Objects for SAP NetWeaver BW
future
New 2 day course offering from SAP Education for training on

Business Objects integration with SAP NetWeaver BW
Two dates are currently scheduled in June for virtual course
delivery
June 1 2, 2009
June 25 26, 2009
See the following link to the Course Description for more
detailed information on the content covered
http://www.sap.com/usa/services/education/usacourse.epx?c
ontext=%5b%5b|SAPBO||1|091|US|%5d%5d|

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing

Wrap-up

[ Why BI-A? Disk speed is growing slower than other HW
components
Technology Drivers Architectural Drivers
1990 2009 Improvement 1990 2009
Disk based data In-memory data
CPU 0.05 8.30 166x storage stores
MIPS/$ MIPS/$
Simple Multi-channel
Memory 0.02 8.51 425x consumption of UI, high event
MB/$ MB/$
apps (Fat client volume, cross
UI, EDI) industry value
Addressable chains
Memory 216 264 248x
General-
purpose, Application-
application- aware and
Network 100 10 100 x agnostic intelligent data
Speed Mbps Gbps database management
Source: 1990 numbers SAP AG

Disk 5 400 80x 2009 numbers Dr. Berg
Data Transfer MBPS MBPS
Physical hard drive speeds only grew by 80 times since 1990.

All other hardware components grew faster.
[BI Accelerator Works by Indexing InfoCubes in Hardware memory
BI Accelerator has been simple SAP Any
to install and operate for BW tool
established SAP BI teams
You use process chains to

maintain the BI-A engine after
each data load
IBM, Sun, HP & Fujitsu have standard

solutions ranging from $32K to $300K+
that can be installed and tested in as 32 GB Blades are
little as 2-4 weeks (+ SAP license fees) certified by SAP

[ BI Analytical Engines Query executing priorities
Information Broadcasting / Information Broadcasting /
Precalculation Precalculation
Query Cache Query Cache
Aggregates SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator
InfoProvider
Query Execution Query Execution

Without BI Accelerator With BI Accelerator
Aggregates can be replaced with BI-A, while

the memory cache is still useful.
[ Performance is Near-Linear: Benchmarks
BIAs strength resides in its
near-linear scalability
Performance is measured in
terms of:
1. BI-A index creation time
2. Multi-user throughput per hour
3. Average report response time
4. Average number of records
touched by each report
BIA Currently reads data from

InfoCubes. DSOs & InfoObjects
are still read from base/physical
tables (even when the InfoObject
is indexed as part of master data).

[ Most customers have found BIA Admin to be minimal
The training & admin to run
BI Accelerator has proven to
be minimal. Training is
included in the SAP courses:
BW310, BW360 and in the
online course BW361
Many companies, have spent 2-5 days in

BIA training (total for 1-2 administrators)
and a work through a single interface:
RSDDBIAMON (Checks available at: RSRV)
In the past, SAP has also offered a 2 day workshop

called BI Upgrade & Accelerator (WNABIA)
[ BIA is becoming mainstream
Some of SAP reference clients
BIA is no longer
something exotic.
Many of the large BI

systems have already
implemented BIA and
many more projects are
under way in Europe
and in the Americas.
Once you exceed a few hundred

critical users and/or 3-4 TB of data you
should seriously consider SAP BIA

[ Who gets to do what?
The major decision for a SAP BI driven enterprise is to determine
who gets access to each tool.
There is often a temptation for the IT community of wanting to
keep the tools under their domain That is a mistake
The IT community should actively work with the power and
casual users to improve human capabilities and thereby teach
them to become more productive employees.
Chinese Proverb

[ Agenda
Report Designer
Web publishing
Wrap-up

[ Resources
COMERIT (Presentations, guides and accelerators)
www.comeritinc.com
SAP Documents - Interfaces for Enterprise Reporting, Query, and

Analysis
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/libra
ry/uuid/f52e9cc1-0d01-0010-d88b-d808b69391a4
SAP Business Intelligence (BI) by Norbert Egger, Jean-Marie Fiechter,

Sebastian Kramer, Ralf-Patrick Sawicki, and Stephan Weber.
Galio Press - Hardcover, 653 pages, ISBN 978-1-59229-
082-6

[ Key Learnings

Visual Composer Visualization
Web Intelligence Ad-hoc
Candidates for BI Widgets / BO Universe Desktop Intelligence
Implementations in 2009 Crystal Report Formatted reports
BPC Consolidation & Planning
BI Accellerator In memory performance
Xcelcius Dashboards
Worth a Prototype
Web Application Designer Web development
BEx Web Web reporting
Keep doing for a while longer BEx Excel Excel reporting
Analysis Process Designer Structured Analysis
Integrated Planning Planning
Report Designer Formatted reports
Stop when possible
Custom JSP pages Custom applications

[ Questions and Answers
How to contact me:
Dr. Bjarne Berg

bberg@comerit.net

This Bonus Material Include all
[ Bonus Material The total BOBJ toolset SAP BOBJ tools, not just tools
for the SAP market
Source: SAP March, 2009

for the SAP market

for the SAP market

for the SAP market
Source: SAP
March, 2009

for the SAP market

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in SAP NetWeaver & the BusinessObjects

Leave this session with a good understanding of how to use SAP

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 2

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 3

BI can also support

The SAP BI tool set has many presentation tools

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 4

Empowering the users a mind shift

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 5

This new property pane makes it

BEx Ad-Hoc Query

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 6

This is a great tool for financial

To use this tool you

The Excel integration in the

Unlike the old days of dynamic

Important: BEx browser goes away

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 8

To use this tool you

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 9

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 10

Tools are now available to build association data sets that

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 11

New data based on the

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 13

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 14

Image source: Cubeserv

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 15

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 16

Visual Composer is a power user tool that is simple to learn for

Take advantage of prebuilt analytic business packages

Source: SAP, July 2008

Composition Environment including Visual Composer

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 18

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 19

WAD is an intuitive tool

NEW: User can change the XHTML

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 21

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 22

Web App Designer Xcelsius

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

Real Experience. Real Advantage.

InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal InfoView /SAP NetWeaver Portal

Pioneer Web Client Pioneer Web Client

SAP BOE SAP BOE

Pioneer Designer/ SDK

Pioneer Web Server

BI Consumer Services BI Consumer Services

BEx Queries/ BEx Web BEx Web

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 25

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 26

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 29

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 30

You can integrate queries

The portal can either

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 31

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 32

BI Java SDK can be used for custom applications based on SAP BI

Java programmers will

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 33

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 34

Real Experience. Real Advantage. 35