SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

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 Agenda

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0

 Introduction
 Capabilities

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Introduction
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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

Today’s 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 with ready

dashboards for

successful
with

interactive insights across

your
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Gain Unrivaled Flexibility

Visualize and
information

Embed and interact with dashboards

within BW
and
Extend dashboards to include
visualization
components

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Design Inspirational Dashboards

Visualizations that can use

Design or
dashboards

decision making with dashboard

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0

Capabilities
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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 Web Business Objects Enterprise

Dashboard Application
Server WebI
Processing CMS Security and SQL
Server generation

Dashboard
CSL
HTTP Web Dashboards Dashboards New
Connector CORBA
Services Processing Cache SQL execution
Server Server 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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 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Multi-lingual dashboards

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 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
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 Query data
create a preview
query

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 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
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 Region Prompt

the spreadsheet 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

Multiple select (in

list) from list of
Single value
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 Dashboard

 Display data using region specific settings that Designer

match your Preferred Viewing Locale (PVL)

 All Dashboards 4.0 have support Dashboard
with Regional
for regional formatting built in Data Formatting
support enabled
 To enable change from General number format (see below)

to one of the following number formats and select

default format in the appearance tab: Publish to
Platform

Supported Examples Dashboard

data types automatically
English (US) German (Germany)
uses data
format that
matches the
Date Monday, March 1, Montag, 1. März 2010 current viewing
2010 locale in
InfoView
Time 10:20:00 PM 22:20:00
Numeric 1,000.00 1.000,00
Enable regional
Currency (*) $1,000.00 $1.000,00 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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 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
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 Dashboard
 Procure to Pay
 Hire to Retire
 Approvals, workflow, authorizations
 Workforce management
Event Insight
Value Scenarios Event Federation - Complex Event Processing
 Situation awareness
 Sense and Response
 Track and Trace
 Fraud detection Active
ERP CRM SCM BI / BW Web
RFID Databases JMS
Service
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Business Processes - Business Events
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