Leveraging BI Tools & HANA - CHIBOUGWhy SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x is the Best BI Suite on SAP HANA...

Leveraging BI Tools & HANATracy Nguyen, North America Analytics COEApril 15, 2016

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HANA is…

…helping customers sell more beer

…helping to solve world peace

…going to be the next Moneyball

Using SAP HANA as a DataSource


Value of SAP HANA as a Data Source for BI

Columnar data storage

In-memory storage

In-memory computation

Embedded calculation engine andlanguages

Integration with live replication

No need for pre-aggregated tables

Data compression

Faster data retrieval andaggregation

Faster calculation time

Complex algorithms pushed downto the data source

Reporting on real-time data

Simpler BI modeling

Capabilities Customer value


Why SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x is the Best BI Suite on SAP HANA

Plug & play support of information models

No data caching outside of HANA and no need for aspecific schema for BI optimization

All BI4.x client tools push calculations to the HANAengine

HANA specific UI in universe development

Direct usage of HANA predictive functionality inSAP client tools

No need to build universes to access HANA models(direct connection from all client tools)

Data discovery, enhancement and re-publishing onHANA from BI4.x

Immediate benefit from all HANAoptimizations

Non-disruptive acceleration ofexisting BI scenarios

Quicker development of new BIprojects

Plug & play BI4.x on ERP and BWaccelerated data on HANA

Low IT cost to implement a BI4.xsolution on top of HANA

Capabilities Customer value

HANA Connectivity Features


Planned Innovations Future DirectionToday

SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA - AnalysisProduct road map overview - key themes and capabilities

Analysis Office

Enhanced support fornative HANA capabilities

Analysis OLAP


Analysis Products


Scheduling enhancements

Convergence of Analysisfor Office, EPM, and LiveOffice add-ins

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Analysis Office

Direct access to HANAanalytic & calculation viewsHierarchies, variables andinput parametersCalculated & Restrictedmeasures in HANASSO support

Analysis OLAP

Direct access to HANAanalytic & calculation viewsHierarchies variables andinput parametersSSO supportHTTP connector

(Release 4.2 SP2)



SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA - DiscoveryProduct road map overview - key themes and capabilities

Explorer• Support of BW cubes exposed

as HANA views

Lumira• Enhanced support for native

HANA capabilities• Level based hierarchies• Support of variables and input

parameters• Support for SAP HANA

managed connections from BIplatform

Explorer• Enhanced support for native

HANA capabilities

Lumira• Enhanced support for native

HANA capabilities


ExplorerDirect access to HANAAnalytic and CalculationviewsSupport of variables andInput parametersMultilingual dataSSO support

LumiraDirect access to HANAmodelsOnline visualization ofHANA dataPublish data to HANA as anAnalytical ViewSSO support

(Release 4.2 SP02)



SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA – Dashboard & appsProduct road map overview - key themes and capabilities


DashboardsSupport for HANA functionalityexposed via Semantic layer

Design Studio• Direct access to HANA

analytic & calculation views

• HANA application buildingincluding mobile support

• Navigation on crosstab

• Hierarchy support

• Input parameters,exceptions, conditions

• Language dependency

• SSO support

DashboardsDirect access to HANA views (no

universe required)Support for additional HANA

functionality exposed via Semanticlayer

Design StudioEnhanced support for nativeHANA capabilities

DashboardsSupport for additional HANAfunctionality exposed viaSemantic layer

Design StudioEnhanced support for nativeHANA capabilitiesInfoChart conditionalformatting

(Release 4.2 SP02)



SAP BusinessObjects BI and HANA – ReportingProduct road map overview - key themes and capabilities


Crystal Reports EnterpriseSupport for HANA functionalityexposed via Semantic layerDirect Access to HANA tables,models, and views

Web IntelligenceSupport for HANA functionalityexposed via Semantic layerDirect access to HANA views(no universe required)Query parallel execution

Crystal Reports EnterpriseSupport for additional HANAfunctionality exposed viaSemantic layerEmbed Crystal Reports inHCP applications

Web IntelligenceReduced TCO whenaccessing HANAParallel queries for HANAOnline

Crystal Reports EnterpriseSupport for additional HANAfunctionality exposed viaSemantic layer

Web IntelligenceQuery strippingHANA access via SDKHierarchy support for HANAOnline

(Release 4.2 SP02)


Connect directly to SAP HANA Views• Works on both OLAP connections and relational

connections• Create new documents directly on top of the SAP

HANA View• Available in both HTML and Java• Support for parallel queries

Support for SAP HANA Hierarchies using OLAPConnection• Member Selector• Hierarchical Filters• Fold/Unfold with Levels• Hierarchical columns and graphics• Hierarchical formulas on reports

Web IntelligenceHANA Direct Access


Connect directly to SAP HANA Views• Works with relational connections• Create new documents directly on top of the

SAP HANA View• Available in both HTML and Java

Leverage the full performance of SAP HANA inWeb Intelligence• Delegate to SAP HANA whenever possible• No query panel, just drag and drop in the

report• No Microcube, only visualization of data

Web IntelligenceHANA Online


Where to Define the Connection to SAP HANA

Local connection Shared connection Universe

ODBC JDBC OLAP RelationalLumiraAnalysis for OfficeAnalysis for OLAPCrystal Reports 2011

Crystal Reports for EnterpriseWeb Intelligence *DashboardsExplorer

* Available in BI 4.2

Thank you Contact information:

Tracy NguyenNorth America Analytics [email protected]

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