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Crystal Dashboard Builder, Web application designer, or SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer
Dr. BergComerit Inc.
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In This Session …
You will see 3 demos of different dashboarding tools
Learn how to build Crystal Dashboard Builder, Web Application Designer and SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer dashboards in less then 10 minutes (three 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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What We’ll Cover …
• Introduction
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• SAP Crystal Dashboard Builder Overview Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes
• SAP Web Application Designer Overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• Lessons Learned and Limitations
• Wrap-up
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SAP BI Legacy BEx tool include the web template development environment know as Web Application Designer (WAD).
This tool has been used extensively by the SAP BI community for the last 10 years.
Visual Composer is part of the Composite Environment (CE) and is not affected by the new BOBJ tool set..
The SAP NetWeaver Legacy Toolset
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The Big-Picture…
Since there are varying experience level in the audience, we assume no prior knowledge in either BOBJ or BEx tools and will cover all from a high-level standpoint.
We will take a closer look at each tool in the demo sections.
With the merger between SAP and Business Objects, we got access to new 'best-of-breed' tools.
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What We’ll Cover …
• Introduction
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• SAP Crystal Dashboard Builder Overview Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes
• SAP Web Application Designer Overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• Lessons Learned and Limitations
• Wrap-up
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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 general availability.
"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 Developer Studio" - SAP AG
There are Two 'versions' of Visual Composer (VC)
• It is a browser-based modeling and design tool for rapid application development and prototyping in a code-free development environment
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer is a tool to visualize the data
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
We will build a dashboard based on 2 queries called country and customer view, and present this with tables and graphs as well as navigational links between them (passing variables between the queries)
Our Target Dashboard
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SAP NetWeaver VC 7.0 & Crystal Dashboard Builder
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer 7.01 (or 7.02) SP5 or higher allows you to use existing Crystal Dashboard Builder 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)
External Web services such as email, stock quotes, news services, and weather
maps can also be integrated into your SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer cockpit.
External 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.
External Data Providers — Web Services
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What We’ll Cover …
• Introduction
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• SAP Crystal Dashboard Builder Overview Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes
• SAP Web Application Designer Overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• Lessons Learned and Limitations
• Wrap-up
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Crystal Dashboard Builder (Crystal Dashboard Builder)
Dashboards can be built using Crystal Dashboard Builder.
Crystal Dashboard Builder was launched in March 2010, and is the flagship product for data visualization & dashboards”
BEx Web Application Designer will not be enhanced further beyond the release of NW 7.1 in 2008.
To make dashboards useful for more than one person, you should plan to offer navigation and interactivity instead of static images and graphs.
Adding Interactivity in Crystal Dashboard Builder
Portlet Title
Cost Measure % of Rev State
Metric Blah blah 67%
KPI 98%
Metric 85%
Another Metric 93%
Table Title Goes Here
Activity Name Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Column 5
Dashboard Tab Title 2 Tab Title 3 Tab Title 4
Alerts
Alerts from last 2 days
Willis deal enters final stage
Vendor reports problem
Marketing Cost per Sale
Budget level exceeded
Portlet Title
Customer 1
Customer 2
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Customer n
Done
Done
To Do
To Do
To Do
Done
Done
To Do
To Do
To Do
Done
To Do
My Dashboard TitleWelcome Bjarne Berg Today is Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Print | Help | Log Out
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3
more...
Portlet Title
Item 1 $12,236
Item 2 $67,009
Item 4 $33,000
Item 5 $10,900
Item 3 $19,500
President’s Message
This is a good place to have messages that relate to the data presented.
Portlet Title
Portlet Title
23,000
45,112
89,778
12,110
34,000
23,000
45,112
89,778
12,110
34,000
10,500
66,998
33,400
64,023
23,000
45,112
89,778
12,110
50,000
30,004
12,007
55,009
12,889
32,002
23,000
45,112
89,778
12,110
34,000
23,000
45,112
89,778
12,110
34,000
10,500
66,998
Bill S.
Joey D.
Frank
Susie
Jill
Bob C.
Charles
Jimbo
Benny
Linda
Gigi
Rose
Where do you start?
Start with a blank template.
Focus on graphs, layout, measures & navigation.
Here is an example of a layout template
Where to you start?
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What We’ll Cover …
• Introduction
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• SAP Crystal Dashboard Builder Overview Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes
• SAP Web Application Designer Overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• Lessons Learned and Limitations
• Wrap-up
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BEx Web Application Designer (WAD)
OLAP ProcessorOLAP Processor
BEx Web Application DesignerBEx Analyzer/Query Designer
Web ServiceWeb Service
Charting EngineCharting Engine
Web Browser
HTLM Templates InfoProvider
WAD is an intuitive tool to build powerful web applications and to interact with portals and custom templates.
BW queries can be manipulated in WAD for better display
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WAD Dashboards
You can also let your SAP BI users do basic navigation on the formatted reports by either
integrating navigation, or adding this in the Web Application Designer (WAD)
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Command Wizard and JavaScript
• Use Command Wizard for generating JavaScript code for the Script Item to use in custom cockpit applications
BEx Web Application Designer will not be enhanced further beyond Release NW 7.1 in
2008.
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What We’ll Cover …
• Introduction
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• SAP Crystal Dashboard Builder Overview Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes
• SAP Web Application Designer Overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• Lessons Learned and Limitations
• Wrap-up
BW DF Fascade
Data Federator
RDBMS Analytic Engine
OLAP BAPI ODBOXMLA
UniversesQT ODA
SQL Access MDX Access
WebIXcelsius
QaaWS
BWA
Notice that DF Facade and Data federator are separate products that are currently licensed separately from the SAP BW licenses.
SAP BusinessObjects Integration Options - New BICS connector!!
Ad-hoc analysis (WebI) = SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, BWA = SAP BW Accelerator Source: SAP AG, July, 2010
What tool to select
All SAP tools have strength and weaknesses. This is a subjective summary of each of the major dashboard tools.
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What We’ll Cover …
• Introduction
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• SAP Crystal Dashboard Builder Overview Demo – A cockpit in 7 minutes
• SAP Web Application Designer Overview Demo – A cockpit in 8 minutes
• Lessons Learned and Limitations
• Wrap-up
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Resources
SDN Xcelsius Sample Dashboards http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/xcelsius-samples
SDN Business Objects Community and blogs http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc
NEW BOOK: SAP PRESS: Creating Dashboards with Xcelsius: Practical Guide by Evan Delodder and Ray Li (Sept. 2010)
• SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (2007), SAP Press by Mario Herger.
Integrating VC and WAD objects - a How-To Guide http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/ad182ac7-0a01-0010-4fb8-
8a4d217b19c1?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true
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7 Key Points to Take Home
• There are more than one tool for dashboarding, plan accordingly
• RAD is always the preferred development methodology
• Crystal Dashboard Builder will be the most common dash boarding tool for most companies (90% probability)
• Ad-hoc analysis (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 Crystal Dashboard Builder, nor is the dashboards as interactive and flexible.
• Visual Composer is an option for simple dashboards.
• Spend about 25-30% of the project on designing and User Acceptance Testing (users don't know what they want until they see it).
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