Microsoft BI for SAP NetWeaverBusiness Intelligence

Darwin Schweitzer

Enterprise Technology Strategist

CATM Application Platform

Today’s Outline

• Introduce– BI/DW Market

– Enterprise Challenges

– People Ready BI/DW

• Demonstration

• Explain– BI/DW Solutions

– Driving Adoption

• Attend– Questions & Answers

Top 10 CIO PrioritiesGartner - Top 10 CIO Business and Technology Priorities in 2006

Top 10 Business Priorities Ranking Top 10 Technology Priorities Ranking

Business process improvement 1 Business Intelligence applications 1

Controlling enterprise operating costs 2 Security technologies 2

Attracting and growing customer

relationships3 Mobile workforce enablement 3

Improving competitive advantage 4 Collaboration technologies 4

Improving competitiveness 5 Customer sales and service 5

Using intelligence in products and

services6 Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) 6

Security breaches and disruptions 7 Workflow management 7

Revenue growth 8Networking, voice and data

communications8

Faster innovation 9 Virtualization 9

Faster innovation and cycle times 10 Legacy application modernization 10

Source: Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) (January 2006)

http://www.gartner.com/press_releases/asset_143678_11.html

Enterprise Challenges

Growth & Profitability

Operational Excellence

Balance Innovation/Maintenance

Aligning Business & IT Strategy

Regulatory Compliance

Integration of Information

People Drive Business Outcomes

Improving organizations by providing business insights to all employees – leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions.

• Complete and integrated BI offering

• Widespread delivery of intelligence through Microsoft Office

• Enterprise-grade and affordable

Microsoft Business Intelligence

PerformanceManagement

Reporting and Analysis

Data Warehousing

Improving organizations

by providing business insights

to all employees leading to

better, faster, more relevant

decisions

Microsoft Business IntelligenceImproving business insight

Performance ManagementIntegrated solution to align and measure the business

Improve corporate performance– Scorecards to orient measurement to corporate goals

– Single model to align planning and analysis to the business process

– Span the organization with planning and measurement capabilities

Accelerate management decision making– Office Performance Point Server to integrate scorecarding, analysis and planning

– Integrated workflow for simpler consolidation and reporting

– Common model for planning used in analysis

Enable collaborative analysis– Integration with Office Excel for broad deployment

of analysis capabilities

– Personalized scorecards and KPIs for individual views

– Collaborative environment with context for analysis

Analyze and report on information with powerful and familiar tools– SAP certified connection to report directly on SAP

– Combine SAP and non-SAP data in a single report

– New Office Excel Pivot Tables for analyzing information using business terms

– Delivering powerful analysis to everyone because of tight integration between Office Excel and

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

– ProClarity for additional advanced analysis and visualization capabilities

Enabling end-users with ad hoc reporting capabilities– Report Builder for ad hoc reporting of relational or OLAP data

– Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services for personalized

views of management data

– ProClarity for personalization of reports and briefing books

Share reports and analysis over the web– Excel Services for web based viewing of analysis

– Scorecards and dashboards for quickly

disseminating information to all end users

– Report Center for centralized report management

and repository

Reporting and AnalysisBroad reach tools for insight

Data WarehousingCentrally managed, integrated, single version of the truth

Integrate information from non-SAP sources

– Access corporate data in a heterogeneous environment

– Cleanse and transform data with high performance

– Ensure high quality data

Store and manage vast amounts of detail data

– Maintain high performance for multiple users with

varying workloads

– Tap multiple terabytes of atomic data for analysis

– Support compression of decimal data from SAP BW

– Access granular and aggregate data for reporting

Analyze information with an integrated view of your business

– Proactive Caching for real time analysis

– A centrally managed KPI engine for usage across the business

– Data mining for predictive analytics to determine what “will” happen

Collaboration and Content

End-user tools

Business Intelligence Platform

Microsoft Business IntelligenceAn end-to-end integrated offering

Applications

Performance ManagementDashboards and Scorecards

BIPlatform

PerformanceManagementApplications

SQL Server 2005 RDBMS

IntegrationIntegration Services

AnalysisAnalysis Services

ReportingReporting Services

Business Scorecarding, Analytics and PlanningPerformancePoint 2007

BIPlatform

PerformanceManagementApplications

Portal and Collaboration(Office SharePoint Server 2007)

End-User Analysis(Excel 2007)

Microsoft BI – A Complete Solution

Microsoft: Making SAP Better

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SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

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ProClarity

Open Hub

SQL 2005 Integration Services

SAP R/3

4.7(running IDES)

SAP BW

3.5

XML/A

RFC ADO.Net

Microsoft .Net Provider for SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence

Microsoft .Net Provider for SAP mySAP Business Suite

SQL 2005

Data Mart

SQL 2005

Analysis

Services

SQL 2005

Reporting Services

SharePoint Portal Server

Business Scorecard Manager

SQL Server BI and SAP Solution

Driving Adoption

• Software that is Familiar

• Ease of Use

• Competency Centers

–Business Intelligence, Integration

• Relevance of Tools to performing job function

–Information Worker

–Employee self-service (role based portals)

• Collaboration & Communication

• Enterprise Content & Project Management

Communities of Interest

Communities of Practice

Centers of

Excellence

Solutions for Different Styles and Users

• Customized delivery of information– PM dashboards & scorecards

– Embedded BI in applications

• BI self-service– Enterprise-wide self-service reporting

– Parameterized reporting

– Operational Reporting

• Ad hoc Reporting and Analysis– End-user analytics and reporting

Summary

The Microsoft foundation for

ubiquitous Business Intelligence

is now in place.

– AMR research, October 2005

Complete and integrated BI offering

Widespread delivery of intelligence through Microsoft Office

Enterprise grade and affordable

Q & A

Darwin.Schweitzer@microsoft.com

www.microsoft-sap.com