SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
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Agenda
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Introduction
Capabilities

Introduction

What is a dashboard ?
Interactive analytics is an analytic capability and

Dashboard is an information delivery capability.
Gartner
Visual display of the most important information needed
to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and
arranged on a single screen so the information can be
monitored at a glance.
Stephen Few, visualization guru
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Business Value
BI for casual users
Engage users with through guided
navigation
Casual Users
Tailored solutions
Easy to understand visualization

Percentage of users using BI tools at least once a week
Pervasive Business Intelligence Wayne Eckerson TDWI Oct. 2008 Report
Not a comprehensive BI solution

Not an enterprise reporting tool: no paging, no export to Excel or PDF
Not an ad hoc analysis tool: analysis paths are predefined by dashboard author.
Interoperates with Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports or Analysis Web Ed. for reporting or
analysis needs.
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BI Dashboards An Evolutionary Process
Todays dashboard characteristics

VISUAL and FUNCTIONAL
Highly INTERACTIVE
FLEXIBILE in deployment
INSPIRATIONAL in design
EASE of design
PERSONALIZABLE for ANY user
SCALABLE to MANY users
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BI Dashboards An Evolutionary Process
To remain competitive
retaining and growing the customer base
Time-to-market is valuable
Gain instant insight into company performance
Ability to keep costs under control
Know you are on track at all times
Dashboards provide insight to those key cost metrics
Accelerating business process improvements
Dashboards and scorecards offer fast time-to-value
and a low entry price
Quickest way to improve the bottom line
Regulations and compliance
Maintain transparency to business
Accountability
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Who needs dashboards ?
Business needs
High-impact interactive visualization of key metrics

Intuitive user interface and navigation
Ability to manage and monitor metrics effortlessly
Drill down or through for root-cause analysis
Personalized content and display
Technology needs
Easy dashboard building capabilities

Flexibility as the needs of an organization change
Security to ensure proper user access
Scalable for a growing organization
Integration to leverage existing BI investments
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User Alignment
Executive Management
Strategic Dashboards
Financial and Operational

Management
Operational Dashboards
Information Consumer
Tactical Dashboards
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Experience Unparalleled Interactivity
Track
dashboards for
with
ready
successful
with
interactive insights across
your
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Gain Unrivaled Flexibility
Visualize
information
and
Embed and interact with dashboards

within
and
BW
Extend dashboards to include
visualization
components
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Design Inspirational Dashboards
Visualizations that
Design
dashboards
can use
or
decision making with dashboard

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Capabilities

BI Platform Integration
BI Platform back-end optimized for dashboard flash front-end
Dashboards Processing server
Provides a thin processing layer between data source and dashboard front-end
Dashboards Cache Server

Caches query result set per security profile
Query caching policy define in management console (CMC)
Flash
Dashboard
CSL
Connector
Web
Application
Server
HTTP
Dashboard
Web
Services
Business Objects Enterprise
CORBA
WebI
Processing
Server
CMS
Dashboards
Processing
Server
Dashboards
Cache
Server
Security and SQL

generation
New
SQL execution
and cache results
CSL Connection Server
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User Auditing and System Monitoring
Audit events
Dashboard User: View, refresh, prompt, logon, logout
Dashboards Designer: create, delete, modify
Server monitoring metrics include
Processing time, cache size & hits, requests (served,
queued, failed), connections, threads, data transfers,...
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Multi-lingual dashboards
Publish a dashboard to the BI platform to allow Translation expert(s) to create
localized text for the dashboard
The Translation expert(s) use the Translation Manager to localize:
Component Text Properties: Titles, subtitles, series names, category names
Ranges in Excel marked as translatable by the dashboard designer

Note: Text in Excel formulas is not translatable
They publish the text translations to the BI platform

The platform combines these translations with the dashboard to create a localized
dashboard
At runtime the platform displays the
localized dashboard that matches the
user Preferred Viewing Locale (PVL)
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Multi-lingual dashboards
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Direct Semantic Layer Connection Query Panel
Improved authoring via query integration and direct access to semantic layer
Define a query by dragging and dropping relational universe objects, dimensions and
measures
Query sorting
Create filters or single or multi selection query prompts with or without List of Values than
can be used with a Prompt Selector
Query data preview
Drag and
drop to
create a
query
Query data
preview
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Direct Semantic Layer Connection Query Browser
Quick access to Query Panel to add and edit queries

Query summary view to see result objects, filters and prompts
Delete and refresh queries
Drag and drop prompts to the canvas to create a Prompt Selector
Pin to auto-hide
Query
summary
Optionally insert into

the spreadsheet
Region Prompt
Selector
drag prompt to canvas
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Direct Semantic Layer Connection Direct Data Binding
Bind directly from chart and selectors to query result objects
The component will show more or less values depending on the number of rows returned by the query
(no need for Ignore End Blanks)
Optionally bind query results to the spreadsheet
Live data preview at design time when using query data

Multi column components allow you to bind directly to multiple result objects
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Direct Semantic Layer Connection Prompts
Auto prompt based on the prompt data type and whether is single or multi value prompt or
cascading list of values
Directly uses the available List of Values
Search or page through list of values as well as show or hide selected values
Single value
Multiple select (in

list) from list of
values
Single value showing list of

values
Search or
page through
list of values
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Design Enhancements
Labels on charts
Variety of different positions options, including
best fit
Dynamically set colors

By series
Can use hex, rgb, vga or decimal Scorecard
Enhanced grid with icon alerting and sorting
Canvas Container
Canvas with no background
Bullet Chart
Spark lines
Forecasting
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Supporting Global Requirements
Regional Formatting
Display data using region specific settings that
match your Preferred Viewing Locale (PVL)
All Dashboards 4.0 have support
for regional formatting built in
To enable change from General number format
to one of the following number formats and select
default format in the appearance tab:
Supported
data types
Examples
English (US)
German (Germany)
Date
Monday, March 1,
2010
Montag, 1. Mrz 2010
Time
10:20:00 PM
22:20:00
Numeric
1,000.00
1.000,00
Currency (*)
$1,000.00
$1.000,00
Dashboard
Designer
Dashboard
with Regional
Data Formatting
support enabled
(see below)
Publish to
Platform
Dashboard
automatically
uses data
format that
matches the
current viewing
locale in
InfoView
Enable regional
data formatting
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Dashboards on EPM applications data
New data connector based on EPM 7.5 Extended Analytics Analyzer
Analyzer is an Excel Add-in allowing slicing and dicing of EPM data within Excel
Dashboards EPM connector is delivered as an add-on (EPMConnector.xlx) with Analyzer
SP05
Uses EPM ODBO provider for design time and XMLA web services connectivity for runtime
Currently available for SAP Business Objects Financial Consolidation 7.5, Planning and
Consolidation 7.5, Profitability and Cost Management 7.5 SP06
Key Capabilities
Retrieve data from Analyzer report

Display databases/catalogs/application Sets
Display cubes/models/applications
Display dimension members
BPC specific operations
Enter and save data (write-back)
Display business process flows
Display current view
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Dashboards on EPM applications data
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SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight - Real Time Dashboard Monitoring
Monitoring Business Events
Meter Readings, Shipping status, Stock Trades,
Call Center Complaints
Events from Business Processes
Order to Cash
Procure to Pay
Hire to Retire
Approvals, workflow, authorizations
Workforce management
Dashboard
Event Insight
Value Scenarios
Event Federation - Complex Event Processing
Situation awareness
Sense and Response
Track and Trace
Fraud detection
ERP
CRM
Active
RFID
Web
Databases
JMS
Service
SCM
BI / BW
Business Processes - Business Events
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