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[ ED HUDAK [ STEVE RUGGIERO

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[ SHERRYANNE MEYER
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MEMBER SINCE: 1999
[ Agenda
§ Introductions

§ SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ SAP Xcelsius Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes

§ SAP Web Application Designer Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ Lessons Learned and Limitations

§ Summary

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[ Learning Points
§ Learn how to build Xcelsius, Web application
designer and the SAP NetWeaver Visual
Composer dashboards in less then 10 minutes
(demos).

§ Learn when to pick one dash boarding tool

over another.

§ Find out the limitations of each tool and what

skill sets are needed to be successful.

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[ Agenda
§ Introductions

§ SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ SAP Xcelsius Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes

§ SAP Web Application Designer Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ Lessons Learned and Limitations

§ Summary

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[ The SAP NetWeaver BI Core Toolset
SAP BI is an
enterprise-wide
comprehensive
decision support
system (DSS) for the
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. SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer is an extension of those tools.
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[ There are Two 'versions' of Visual Composer (VC)
Visual Composer 7.0 is for SAP BI Development, 7.1 is for
the Composite Environment (CE). There are different SDN
forums and blogs for each - This can be confusing!

BREAKING NEWS: VC 7.2 is now in Ramp-up with planned

general availability in 2Q, 2010.
"With the new version of SAP NetWeaver CE 7.2, you are able to design and develop your "own
practices" as business rule-based, SOA-enabled, composite business processes & applications
with the Eclipse-based SAP
6 Developer Studio" - SAP AG
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[SAP Visual Composer is a tool to visualize the data

It is a browser-based
modeling and design
tool for rapid application
development and
prototyping in a code-
free development
environment

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[ 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

Take advantage of pre-built

analytic business packages
Source: SAP

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[ It All Starts with a Query
The BEx Query Designer

The query is the core method for accessing BI data. You can use existing
queries in your SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer models
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[ SAP NetWeaver 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 BI 2004
(SAP BW 3.5 Support Package 14)
§ SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0
§ JDBC
§ XMLA

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[ External Web Services

External Web services such as email,

stock quotes, news services, and weather
maps can also be integrated into your
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer cockpit.
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[ External Data Providers — Web Services

Each Web service may require different input, so you have to spend
some time trying out what works for your site and how to format it.
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[ SAP Visual Composer 7.0 Using BOBJ Xcelsius
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer 7.01 (or 7.02)
SP5 or higher allows you to use existing Xcelsius
UI controls and use them inside Visual Composer.
You can also use any Flex component made by
Adobe Flex Builder (Flex 2 SDK).
You can download flash objects & 'how-to' on
sdn.sap.com (by Sap's Amir Mimran)

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[ Our Target Visual Composer cockpit and Navigation

All country sales are displayed based on the first query

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[ The Future of Visual Composer

Source: SAP, 2010

SAP: "In light of the progress made relating to parity between VC 7.0 and VC CE, our
investment in VC 7.0 will be limited to maintenance after EP2 is released.

We are confident that with the provisions made for migration to VC 7.1 or 7.2 and
the great feature set in EP-2 for VC 7.0, our existing customers running VC 7.0 will
enjoy the best of both worlds: the option to upgrade to VC 7.2 or to stay with the
latest release of VC 7.0."
- Source: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/15801

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[ VC Upgrade Options are Limited- pick the right version

There are no automated upgrade paths from NetWeaver

VC 7.0 to NetWeaver VC 7.1 or 7.2.

Customers who want to use NetWeaver VC 7.2 will have

to keep both running and migrate the content from 7.0 to
7.2 manually.

Plan carefully how you want to use Visual Composer and

pick the version you want: 7.0 for SAP BI focus and 7.2 for
BPM and composite applications.

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[ Agenda
§ Introductions

§ SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ SAP Xcelsius Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes

§ SAP Web Application Designer Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ Lessons Learned and Limitations

§ Summary

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[ SAP Xcelsius Functionality
1 Connect to 2 Data is populated 3 Import Excel model
4 Publish Visualization to
corporate data into Excel model into Xcelsius and
SAP Portals, BOBJ
sources via SAP generate Visualization
Enterprise, export to
BI, Web Services, Outlook, PowerPoint,
LiveOffice, Query etc.
as a Web Service,
XML, etc.

Note: BWP will be upgraded April 12th through April 14th. If you need support please contact the
helpdesk at 1-800-567-3218 or at www.helpdesk.com/support. The system will be available with the
latest data on April 15, 9:00am EST. - SAP BI Support team

Business
Data Visualization
Connectivity

Data Source Tier Business Logic Tier Visualization Tier Web/Client Tier

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[ Xcelsius Process Overview

1. Source data from: 2. Create an 3. Output final interactive

• Excel spreadsheets interactive analytic or presentation to
• XML data presentation with Crystal Vision Server,
• SOAP-based Web point-and-click. BusinessObjects Enterprise,
Services any web page, PowerPoint,
Outlook or PDF

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[ Adding Interactivity in Xcelsius
To make dashboards useful for more than one person, you should
plan to offer navigation and interactivity instead of static images and
graphs.

Basic OLAP
functionality
can be added
with drop-
down
selection and
tabs. Note: BWP will be upgraded April 12th through April 14th. If you need support please contact the
helpdesk at 1-800-567-3218 or at www.helpdesk.com/support. The system will be available with the
latest data on April 15, 9:00am EST. - SAP BI Support team

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[ Xcelsius "mini-applications"
To make Xcelsius really useful, try adding 'mini-applications' where
users can analyze data based on their own selections

Adding radio buttons

allows users to select
time periods, or other
characteristics.

Adding 'sliders' allows

users to limit analysis to
certain customers,
products, plants etc.

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[ Xcelsius External Web services
Xcelsius can also leverage external web services such as
maps, graphs and animations

Linking the data to a visual

representation (Yahoo
globe example), can be a
powerful tool.

If users click on a certain

'peg' on the globe (i.e.
plant), they can see the data
for that selection.

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[ Xcelsius External Web services
Adding maps is a really powerful to visualize the data
Using the Yahoo map, users
can see satellite images and
drill downs.

Pre-delivered Xcelsius map

objects also be called and
linked to data on the
dashboard and exception
coloring can be added.
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[ A Xcelsius Cockpit in 7 minutes

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[ Agenda
§ Introductions

§ SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ SAP Xcelsius Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes

§ SAP Web Application Designer Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ Lessons Learned and Limitations

§ Summary

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

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[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

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.

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[ 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

Enterprise Data Web Services

Warehousing
& BI Platform
SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA BusinessObjects Enterprise Source: SAP 20009

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[ 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

Enterprise Data Web Services

Warehousing
& BI Platform
SAP NetWeaver BW and BWA BusinessObjects Enterprise Source: SAP 20009

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[ 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
MigrationBEx Web
App App
InfoProviders Templates
Designer InfoProviders Templatesoptions via
Designer
Pioneer SDK
SAP NW BW SAP NW BW

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[ A Web Application Designer Cockpit in 8 minutes

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[ WAD and Visual Composer
§ SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer integrates with WAD based
applications using Portal Eventing Framework
§ For example, BW Web API can pass a filter value from a BEx
Web application to SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer
§ And vice versa

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[ Agenda
§ Introductions

§ SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ SAP Xcelsius Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes

§ SAP Web Application Designer Overview

§ Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes

§ Lessons Learned and Limitations

§ Summary

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[ Options for BW
Xcelsius
WebI
QaaWS

QT Universes ODA

SQL Access MDX Access

Data Federator XMLA OLAP BAPI ODBO

BW DF Facade Analytic Engine

RDBMS
BWA

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 [ What tool to use…
Not all features are equally supported in the tools. Each tool has a
niche of users and specific capabilities with some overlapping
functionality.

Development Capabilities Long-

Tool External term
End Power IT External web Ad-Hoc Strategy
user User Author Developer Graphing Navigation data services Simplicity OLAP querying
Web *
Application
Designer

Xcelsius

Visual
Composer
**
Web
Intelligence

*Depends on custom coding

** Depends on type of Universe

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[ Key Learnings
§ There are more than one tool for Dashboarding

§ Xcelsius will be the most common dash boarding tool for most
companies (90% probability)

§ Webi is a great ad-hoc tool with some graphical capabilities. It

is not a dash boarding tool.

§ Web Application Designer is a good tool for IT developers, but

has not as many web 2.0 features as Xcelsius, nor is the
dashboards as interactive and flexible.

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