H100 SAP BO Tools available/descriptions

SAP BO: 5 BI requirements:

·         Reporting: Crystal Reports

·         Dashboards and Visualization:  Dashboards, DesignStudio

·         Interactive Analysis:  WebIntelligence

·         Advanced Analysis:  Analysis for MS office/for OLAP

·         Search and Exploration:  Explorer, Lumira

Source Systems and data sources needed to be connected:

1)      Reporting Client Deployment (desktop, Web, MS Office Integation)

2)      Reporting Client Technology (HTML5, Flash, mobile requirements)

3)      Reporting Client features (hierarchies, variables, calculations, graphical visualization, Export to PDF/XLS, etc.)

4)      Deployment reporting content (NetWeaver Porta, BO BI Platform, etc.)

SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise:

1)      Consume attractive, personalized dashboards online or offline

a.       Access to personalized, flash-based dashboards

b.       Secure visualizations anywhere- portal, reports, PDF, MS Office documents

2)      Empower business users with interactive information

a.       Powerful “what-if” analysis with sliders and controllers

b.       Ability to drill-down into details

c.       Pre-built components, skins, maps, charts, gauges, and selectors

Dashboarding and Data Visualization -SAP BO dashboard design

1)      Empower business with easy to use reporting

a.       Intuitive, web-based interface with offline capabilities

b.       Multi-source access

c.       Interactivity with filtering, ranking, sorting, calculations

d.       Data lineage

2)      Lighten IT workload

a.       Self-service data access and reporting

b.       Controlled and secure access with tight BI platform integration

c.       Intuitive, business-centric view of info. With universes

Ad Hoc Querying and Reporting- SAP BO Webi

1)      Office based analysis and hierarchical navigation of RT data in HANA

a.       Business analyst interface, integrated in MSFT office, for analyzing data

b.       Hierarchical navigation of HANA views

c.       Calculations pushed into the HANA engine or in the local document

d.       Excel rendering and storage of data for sharing with colleagues

2)      Key capabilities on HANA

a.       Direct access to Hana views

b.       Support of variables

c.       Support of hierarchies

d.       Full HANA online experience

e.       SSO to HANA

SAP BO for MS Office

1)      Bring BI to all Business users

a.       Data exploration/visualization

b.       Fast response/simplicity/speed of search

c.       Easy and efficient to manage/scale

SAP BO Explorer

1)      Discovery and visualization of RT data

a.       BA interface for visualization and data exploration

b.       Automated/user defined enrichment of information

c.       Dynamic filtering of tables and visualizations

2)      Key capabilities on HANA

a.       Support of variables/level based hierarchies

b.       SSO to HANA

c.       Direct access to HANA views