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� SAP NetWeaver® BW 7.3

� Xcelsius®, SAP Crystal Reports®, and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®

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� SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator

� SAP BusinessObjects EIM 4.0

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� SAP BusinessObjects EPM

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ScheduleJumpstart Day Conference, February 28 - March 2

Monday, February 27

8:00 am Registration opens

9:00 am Morning Jumpstart sessions

Hands-on Labs

12:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Afternoon Jumpstart sessions

Hands-on Labs

5:00 pm Registration closes

Tuesday, February 28


8:30 am Keynote address

10:30 am Breakout sessions

11:45 am Lunch

1:00 pm Breakout sessions



5:30 pm Ask-the-Experts, Welcome reception

Wednesday, February 29




11:30 am Lunch




5:15 pm Ask-the-Experts, Cocktail reception

Thursday, March 1





1:00 pm Lunch



5:15 pm Sessions conclude

Friday, March 2





12:45 pm Lunch


3:30 pm Conference concludes

Enabling employees to work smarter, faster, and more efficiently is a constant challenge for today’s information technology organizations. And in a world where Google, social networking, and mobile computing set the standards for how individuals access and use information, the challenges are greatly compounded. Fortunately there have been significant advancements in both software solutions and cloud offerings — new ways of solving old problems, as well as meeting the demands of a faster and more competitive business landscape.

At the co-located BI 2012, Administration & Infrastructure 2012, Mobile 2012, and Cloud & Virtualization 2012 events, you will be able to explore new and enhanced

SAP solutions that not only help you drive operational improvements, but also to better support company strategy. You’ll see firsthand many of the exciting solutions coming from SAP today: How SAP is making it faster and easier than ever for employees to leverage mobile devices in their daily business, how SAP Business Analytics enable visual and intuitive data searches that leverage every drop of insight and productivity out of data to achieve better performance, and how you can effectively and securely store, manage, and search massive amounts of data in both on-premise and virtual environments.

Thank you for joining us at this SAPinsider event in Las Vegas to experience this and so much more. In addition to hearing from SAP, you’ll have the opportunity to learn how your peers are using SAP to impact their businesses and gain a competitive edge. Welcome to Vegas!

Sincerely,

Steve LucasGeneral Manager, SAP Business Analytics

SAP acquired Business Objects in 2007. SAP has recently instituted new naming conventions and employs the following terminology:

• “Business Objects” is now SAP BusinessObjects. • “Crystal Reports” is now SAP Crystal Reports.

• “Xcelsius” is now SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards• “Web Intelligence” is now SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence


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Special three-hour, pre-conference sessions and labs hosted on Monday, February 27, offer you the opportunity to explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference.

OverviewJumpstart Day • Monday, February 27

Track 1. Strategies for advancing business goals and optimizing the end-user experience

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Track 2. High-speed analytics and SAP HANA Page 17

Track 3. Data modeling, integration, and quality Page 19

Track 4. BI upgrades, implementations, and rollouts Page 22

Track 5. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Page 24

Track 6. SAP Crystal Reports Page 26

Track 7. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelcius) Page 28

Track 8. Mobile BI 1

Track 9. Business planning and consolidation (BPC) Page 33

Track 10 SAP NetWeaver BW reports and analyses Page 35

Track 11 BI security and performance optimization Page 37

SAP and SAP BusinessObjects tools covered at this conference include:

SAP BEx Analyzer SAP BEx Query DesignerSAP BEx Web Application DesignerSAP NetWeaver BW 7.3SAP NetWeaver BW AcceleratorSAP NetWeaver Composition EnvironmentSAP NetWeaver Master Data ManagementSAP NetWeaver Visual ComposerSAP BusinessObjects BPCSAP BusinessObjects EPMSAP Solution ManagerSAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SAP BusinessObjects DashboardsSAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceSAP Crystal ReportsSAP HANA

AggregatesAnalyticsAuditingAdministrationImplementations and upgradesChange managementContext promptingDashboardsData cleansingData migrationData modelingData qualityData servicesExtraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)

GovernanceIntegrationMobile BIPower user programsQueriesReportingReport distributionReport publishingSecuritySelf-service reportingSemantic layerTestingUniverse designUser interfacesUser training

Main Conference • February 28 - March 2, 2012 More than 250 sessions spanning 11 tracks

BI principles and strategies covered at this conference include:


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•Liveproductdemonstrations

•Customercasestudies

•Roundtables

•Paneldiscussions

•Moderatednetworkingsessions

•Specialinvitation-onlyprograms

•Specialsessionspresentedbythought-leadersandindustryluminaries

Column5 EPM Summit content will be presented at the Column5 EPM Education Center during BI 2012

Column5ConsultingispleasedtoannouncethatitwillbehostingtheColumn5EPMEducationCenterinpartnershipwithWellesleyInformationServices,publisherofSAPinsidermagazineandproducerofSAPinsiderevents.Don’tmissthisexcitingopportunitytoattendtheColumn5EPMEducationCenter,focusingontheSAP®BusinessObjects™enterpriseperformancemanagement(EPM)productsuiteincludingBPC.

AdmissiontotheColumn5EPMEducationCenterisnowavailableforFREEwhenyouregistertoattendBI2012.

TheColumn5EPMEducationCentersetstheindustrystandardinqualitycurriculum,withover35sessionsofcoursecontentdevelopedbytopfieldexpertsonSAPproductsanddeliveredinavarietyofformatsincluding:

Column5 was founded in 2005 by key parts of the team that made OutlookSoft an international success. The company was formed to fulfill a need for a consulting partner that could bridge the gap between the software provider and pure implementation contractors. We are proud of our position as the largest SAP BusinessObjects dedicated Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) partner. A great deal of the knowledge base and expertise around SAP BusinessObjects EPM sits with Column5 and we ensure our clients have full access to this.

NEW! Column5 EPM Education Center


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Educational and networking opportunitiesMore than 250 educational sessions and forumsExpand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts. BI 2012 offers more than 250 sessions across 11 tracks that will show you how to get the most out of your BI system.

Jumpstart DaySpecial three-hour, pre-conference sessions and labs hosted on Monday, February 27, offer you the opportunity to explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference.

Hands-on LabsRoll up your sleeves and get valuable hands-on experience with the latest technologies from SAP and

SAP BusinessObjects. Experts will guide you through step-by-step exercises to help you develop a

comprehensive understanding of each solution’s functionality and arm you with skills you can use right away.

Ask-the-Experts Sit down one-on-one with leading experts to ask questions and get detailed, authoritative answers. Build on what you learn in the breakout sessions, and get insights you can apply at your own organization.

Insider discussion forumsHear about your peers’ projects, challenges, and ongoing initiatives. Benefit from the insights of a moderator who is a topic expert and who will also facilitate discussion. Hear “war stories” and gain “how-to” information and techniques that have worked for other companies.

Customer-led case studiesTake away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics. Build a network of peers you can call on for years to come.

BIexpert LIVE forumThis popular forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors from BI Expert and discuss topics from recent articles. Follow the framework of the article as the author guides you through the most important parts. You’re not just a reader — you’re a participant.

Evening receptionsInteract with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. The people you meet here share the same challenges — they are peers you will stay in touch with and look to for guidance well after the conference is over. Network with leading vendors to learn more about solutions and services that complement your SAP landscape.

Co-located eventsBI 2012 is hosted with Administration & Infrastructure 2012, Mobile 2012, and Cloud & Virtualization 2012. Registration at one conference admits you to all four events. It’s a perfect opportunity to educate your entire team.


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Join us for Jumpstart Day and Hands-On LabsJumpstart Day offers a hands-on learning experience, as well as comprehensive three-hour workshops, that enable you to:

� Fortify your understanding of critical technologies and solutions

� Explore new trends and strategies

� Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

� Increase your skills and proficiency with SAP and SAP BusinessObjects technologies

By registering for Jumpstart Day, you can:

� Attend any Jumpstart Day sessions of interest to you

• Pre-registration is required for hands-on labs to assure a seat

� Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-and-answer time

� Receive exclusive Jumpstart Day take-home materials containing the material from all the day’s presentations

� Participate in a networking lunch with other Jumpstart Day attendees

Jumpstart Day SessionsMonday, February 27

Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Lessons for preparing, deploying, and optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 7

A comprehensive guide to evaluate and optimize SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7

A comprehensive guide to evaluating and getting started with SAP and Sybase solutions for mobility 8

Comprehensive guidelines to manage data and applications within SAP NetWeaver Portal 8

Hands-on Lab: Building highly formatted reports with SAP Crystal Reports 2011 9

Hands-on Lab: Rapidly prototype a dashboard with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius) 9

Hands-on Lab: Self-service reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 10

Lunch • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

What every Business Objects customer needs to know about the new SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 release and its impact on your current BI landscape 10

Comprehensive guidelines to speed data analysis using the analytical engines from SAP 11

Updates and new guidelines to optimize operations across your system landscape with SAP Solution Manager 11

A detailed guide to conducting a mobility assessment: A critical first step before beginning your SAP mobile project 12


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Lessons for preparing, deploying, and optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0

Jason Rose, SAP

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

This three-hour session provides a comprehensive over-view of critical factors that must be identified and addressed when considering or executing an SAP BusinessObjects Busi-ness Intelligence 4.0 implementation or upgrade. Discuss core questions every organization should ask itself prior to beginning, upgrading, or adding new functionality to a BI landscape, including architectural requirements for running SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0.

y Learn what steps you need to take in your existing SAP or SAP BusinessObjects environment to prepare for an upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 — from a technical, operational, and end-user perspective

y Ask questions directly to SAP about recent changes to SAP BusinessObjects BI products, including SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly known as Xcelsius)

y Step through a demo that shows how the new common semantic layer enables faster and more efficient access to both SAP and non-SAP data sources

y Receive system diagnosis and monitoring techniques for enhancing the scalability and performance of your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions

y Examine improved integration capabilities between SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP Business Suite applications

y Learn how to leverage the new SAP BusinessObjects Analysis client to more efficiently analyze SAP NetWeaver BW and other OLAP data sources on the Web and in Microsoft Office

y Gain insight into SAP’s vision and strategy for in-memory computing — including SAP HANA — and hear how it impacts existing SAP NetWeaver BW customers and the SAP data warehousing roadmap

y Leave this session with the knowledge to chart a practical and effective short- and long-term BI strategy that accounts for evolving business requirements, advances in technology, and SAP product updates

A comprehensive guide to evaluate and optimize SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

Jens Koerner, SAP Labs

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

This deep-dive session provides step-by-step instruction to help new and experienced users alike optimize their planning and consolidation processes using SAP BusinessObjects Plan-ning and Consolidation.

y View detailed demonstrations and get best practices for performing common planning scenarios, including:

– Headcount planning – Sales and operations planning (S&OP) – Capital expenditure planning – Profitability planning – Cost center budgeting

y Learn how to analyze your company’s balance sheet, statement of profit and loss, and statement of cash flow to identify weaknesses in your financial plan

y Delve into the benefits of using the starter kit available with BPC, such as leveraging pre-delivered content for liquidity planning

y Get best practices (such as leveraging the proper design of your entity structures) for performing both management consolidation and legal consolidation

y Learn how to create business rules to optimize common consolidation activities, including:

– Currency translation – Carry-forwards – Intercompany bookings – Account transformations

y Understand the operational and end-user effects of SAP’s most recent release of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation — version 10.0

y Prepare for the steps you need to take to achieve unified planning, consolidation, and management reporting across your business, including process alignment, data harmonization and change management


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A comprehensive guide to evaluating and getting started with SAP and Sybase solutions for mobility

Prashant Chaterjee, SAP

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

This session provides a comprehensive introduction to the SAP and Sybase solutions designed to meet a business’s mobility needs, ranging from accessing email and workflows on a smartphone to integrating data collected during sales and service calls into an SAP system. In this session you will:

y Step through the options for accessing SAP data and applications on mobile devices

y Get a guided tour of the different SAP and Sybase mobility solutions

y Understand how these solutions integrate into your existing SAP landscape

y Find out how to use the Sybase® Unwired Platform (SUP) to support Windows Mobile, Windows laptops/tablets, BlackBerry, and iPhone devices with native clients

y Assess the mobile security and device management capabilities of Afaria®

y Learn how to manage mobile infrastructures while minimizing user downtime and optimizing bandwidth

y Learn how to leverage SAP’s flexible, open infrastructure to strategically respond to rapidly-changing device types and evolving data sources

Comprehensive guidelines to manage data and applications within SAP NetWeaver Portal

Patrick Dixon, Independent Consultant

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

This special three-hour session examines, through detailed demos and examples, the best ways to display, integrate, and manage content in SAP NetWeaver Portal. You will:

y Explore the SAP development tools available to produce professional portal content, including:

– Java – JavaScript – SAP GUI – WinGUI – WebGUI – Adobe Flash – Web Dynpro for ABAP – Web Dynpro for Java

y Investigate the SAP-provided portal interfaces and learn how to determine the correct presentation interface you should use for specific user groups

y Know your options for Web content management in your portal sites, from the Web page composer tool to knowledge management

y Identify when and how to leverage built-in components such as user management and collaboration

y Examine technical considerations when integrating SAP NetWeaver Portal with Microsoft SharePoint, including document management interoperability and authentication and identity management

y Get strategies to overcome licensing and infrastructure differences found when integrating reports from SAP BusinessObjects solutions into your portal

y Come away with insight into the future of SAP NetWeaver Portal, from front-end development and monitoring capabilities, to enhanced integration with SAP BusinessObjects


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Hands-on LabRapidly prototype a dashboard with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius)

Scott Leaver and Matt Lloyd, SAP

This session occurs at two convenient times. Attendance at this hands-on lab is limited. Pre-registration for an added fee prior to the event is required to assure a seat.

9:00 am – 12:00 pm2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction for rapidly building a dashboard using the new, out-of- the-box functionality available with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius).

y Gain direct experience with the latest drag-and-drop and free-form design capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

y Find out how to embed what-if analyses into your dashboards, providing users with fact-based decision support

y Learn how to design and edit high-performing queries using the new universe-based query panel

y Apply the concept of direct binding from a component to the results of a query, leverage the query results in a chart or scorecard, and see a live preview of the query data at design time

y Understand how to add alerts to a scorecard

y Build a composite dashboard, and use content linking to pass values from one dashboard to another dashboard (or to a report)

y Translate text in an enterprise dashboard by applying localized formats to dates and numbers, and incorporate currency symbols independent of these formats

Hands-on LabBuilding highly formatted reports with SAP Crystal Reports 2011

Brian Durning, Dell


9:00 am – 12:00 pm2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This hands-on session provides detailed instruction for build-ing, formatting, and deploying SAP Crystal Reports 2011 in a stand-alone or SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise environment. SAP Crystal Reports designers — both experienced and new to the tool — should attend to:

y Become familiar with the capabilities of SAP Crystal Reports 2011, such as the enhanced Database Expert for more seamless connection to back-end data sources

y Learn to exploit new export features and formats, including the XSLX feature to export reports to a Microsoft Excel 2007 workbook

y See how to create groups and utilize group property values and formulas to create conditional groups and group names

y Get tips for more efficient object placement, such as placing graphs in page headers

y Understand when and how to use an on-demand subreport, and examine common subreport properties, such as linking and shared variables

y Leverage the OpenDocument call to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to infuse more interactivity with drag-and-drop and hierarchical drill-down capabilities — without the need for complex grouping

y Examine connectivity options between SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius), and learn how to embed a dashboard directly within a formatted report for further data analysis and user interaction

y Take away completed SAP Crystal Reports samples with comments and tips for reference back at the office


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Jumpstart Day

What every Business Objects customer needs to know about the new SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 release and its impact on your current BI landscape

Chris Dinkel, Deloitte

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

The release of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 introduced a new wave of capabilities for faster and more efficient BI report-ing, analysis, and data visualization. But how exactly will these enhancements affect the BI landscape of business objects customers who may not yet be running SAP? Attend this detailed, three-hour session to identify enhancements and functionality that matter most to your organization, and receive proven adoption strategies for exploiting them.

y Understand how the revamped semantic layer and new information design tool affect universe design and facilitate data connectivity across multidimensional data sources

y Explore the technical considerations and prerequisites for integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 with non-SAP data sources, such as XML, and see how this differs from the way SAP NetWeaver BW data is accessed

y Get tips for leveraging new system monitoring dashboards and notifications for real-time updates on server status and user thresholds — even if your organization isn’t running SAP Solution Manager

y Review criteria to help determine whether and how to migrate or upgrade to SAP Crystal Reports 2011 or SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise

y Explore strategies, technologies, and workarounds for enabling a successful migration from SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence™ to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

y Determine which SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 upgrade or migration strategy — for example, staged or incremental versus a “big-bang” approach — is most appropriate for your BI landscape and requirements

y Get tips for leveraging the new upgrade management tool

Hands-on LabSelf-service reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Jay Riddle, COMERIT


9:00 am – 12:00 pm2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to build self-service queries and reports, including guidelines to inte-grate them with back-end SAP and non-SAP data sources.

y Learn how to use standard SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence functionality to create user-friendly, ad hoc reports. Learn how to better use variables and functions

y See how to enable drill-down capabilities for detailed analysis

y Practice techniques for making self-service Web analytics more interactive, including tips for enabling drag-and-drop capabilities

y See how to optimize a SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence self-service reporting environment by exploiting key report distribution and publication capabilities

y Practice using input controls and graphics for more sophisticated and dynamic Web reports

y Go beyond core functionality and explore the best ways to use calculation contexts, and set up input and output parameters

y Learn how to generate SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence BI Web services and import them into a dashboard

y Get tips for leveraging new SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 charting features and multi-source capabilities


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Comprehensive guidelines to speed data analysis using the analytical engines from SAP

Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

9:00 am – 12:00 pm

This comprehensive three-hour session offers strategic advice for leveraging data warehousing and analytical engines from SAP to increase the speed and efficiency of data processing and analysis.

y Step through examples and demos that explore the analytical capabilities and requirements of each solution, including:

– SAP HANA – SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator – SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

y Get evaluation criteria for mapping each solution to your organization’s IT landscape and business requirements

y Identify the best ways to exploit key capabilities and synergies, including integration considerations and performance benchmarks

y Uncover technical considerations and prerequisites of an SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator deployment, such as hardware sizing, network capacity, indexing and compression speed, and day-to-day operational requirements

y Explore the most common use cases for SAP HANA, including real-time data warehousing, dashboard deployments, and landscape rationalization

y Discover how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for unstructured analysis and exploration without the need for queries or traditional data stores

y Examine three distinct ways to deploy OLAP tools within SAP BusinessObjects Analysis — via Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, or the Web interface — and get criteria to map each approach to your analytical requirements

y Walk through a detailed demonstration to understand key differences between the Microsoft and OLAP editions of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

y Explore metrics and strategies to demonstrate the value of your data warehousing and analytics effort to key stakeholders

y Come away with a deep understanding of what these solutions can do and when to use them

Updates and new guidelines to optimize operations across your system landscape with SAP Solution Manager

John Krakowski, SAP

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This special three-hour session provides detailed instruction and leading strategies for utilizing SAP Solution Manager to manage IT landscapes and support a sound application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy.

y Explore opportunities to enhance technical support and operations with SAP Solution Manager, from technical monitoring and alerting, to data volume management

y Learn which integrated functions boost administration efficiency

y Get tips to resolve incidents quickly using root cause analysis

y Dive into the latest capabilities related to centralized job control and process-oriented monitoring and analysis of core business processes

y Learn how to leverage key capabilities in SAP Solution Manager to support your testing processes, including automatic regression testing and test data management

y See how to mitigate challenges associated with change and transport management

y Understand what’s required to establish a single quality process across an SAP landscape

y Gain insight into new features delivered in the SAP Solution Manager 7.1 release, including:

– Solution implementation – Test management – Change control management – Incident management – Technical operations – Business process operations



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A detailed guide to conducting a mobility assessment: A critical first step before beginning your SAP mobile project

Jim Cameron, Expert iG

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This detailed three-hour session delves into the skills, training, architectural, and technical considerations that must be care-fully assessed before deploying SAP applications on mobile devices.

y Delve into the diverse set of technical and business skills required to plan, design, develop, roll out, and manage an SAP mobile solution

y Gain an understanding of when and how to involve the business — especially business process experts — in your SAP mobile design and deployment

y Step through a process for conducting a mobile skills gap analysis of your workforce

y Assess the best options for getting your existing team up to speed on mobility skills and when external resources may be necessary

y Explore all aspects of the mobile architecture, including SAP application connectivity, mobile middleware requirements, and device deployment and management

y Gather best practices for navigating the three critical steps required to architect an SAP mobility solution:

– Blueprinting the infrastructure – Deciding what components of the infrastructure will

be developed and managed internally or via cloud or a hosted service

– Setting preferences and guidelines for choosing middleware and devices

y Walk through strategies for supporting native device capabilities

y Get key considerations for developing cross-platform applications

y Find out what tools are available to help you monitor, enforce, and secure your mobile assets

Exclusive take-home resources: Technology checklists to use when selecting devices and middleware, sample mobile architecture maps, sample job description templates, and staging plans that can be adapted to your company’s needs.


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Strategies for advancing business goals and optimizing the end-user experience

Happy users and a well-controlled, cost-effective BI strategy — you can have both!Penny Silvia, IBM

One of the hallmarks of a successful reporting or BI strategy is also one of the most challeng-ing — user satisfaction and adoption. This session provides best practices for manag-ing user expectations as their reporting needs change over time. Explore critical components for working with user communities of all skill and technical levels, and acquire strategies for assessing how comfortable they are with various SAP or SAP BusinessObjects report-ing solutions. Understand the impact user skill level has on design and branding approach, and explore questions to ask during the plan-ning phase of a reporting or BI initiative. Get best practices for dealing with and prioritizing competing requirements from various func-tional groups. Leave with proven strategies for setting up your reporting program for success — from conducting scoping sessions to gather requirements, to distinguishing the “wants” from the “needs,” to managing new require-ments and user expectations after go-live.

Case StudyThe role of a BI competency center in Bank of New York Mellon’s enterprise-wide BI strategyChris Pohl, Bank of New York Mellon

This session examines Bank of New York Mel-lon’s best practice approach to executing an effective enterprise-wide BI strategy, includ-ing critical success factors and guidelines for developing and maintaining a successful BI competency center. Hear how the company achieved high-level executive sponsorship, and see how this helped mandate change for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome. Get recommendations from Bank of New York Mellon for staffing and structuring a BI com-petency center, including tips to identify and utilize internal BI resources. Explore the role of the competency center in the company’s over-all BI strategy, including how it was leveraged to help break down organizational barriers and remove limits of a departmental focus. Come away with lessons and ideas to leverage a BI competency center to help resolve business challenges in your organization, including tips to incorporate the priorities of line of business (LoB) teams, IT, and customers.

Strategies for choosing the right BI tools to meet your reporting and analysis needsIngo Hilgefort, SAP

This session examines, in detail, each of the solu-tions available in the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 portfolio and evaluates their capabilities and suitability to meet specific reporting needs. Under-stand why some solutions are not an appropriate choice for certain reporting and analytic scenarios, such as high-level management KPIs or detailed, drill-down analyses. Find out how the various SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions can be integrated and leveraged in a complementary manner, and understand the effort and cost required to do so. Learn the best ways to pri-oritize which tool to use when you can only choose one. Become familiar with the latest SAP BusinessObjects BI capabilities for real-time analysis, collaborative decision-making, and mobility, including new charting and alert-ing feature and the ability to perform analysis over multiple dimensions and hierarchies. Come away with guidelines and criteria to ensure your organization selects the appropriate mix of BI tools to align with specific business and user requirements.

Case StudyLessons from Northrop Grumman’s forward-looking BI strategy and roadmapAlan Avakian, Northrop Grumman

Examine critical success factors from Northrop Grumman to develop and deliver a comprehen-sive BI roadmap that identifies a shared set of goals and delivers planned results. Explore best practice approaches to executing a BI roadmap enterprise-wide. See how Northrop Grumman leveraged its roadmap to plan, scope, and assign resources to future BI initiatives up to five years in advance. Gain insight into how the company established a dedicated team to support the key components of its BI road-map, including stakeholder and management buy-in, research initiatives, and implementa-tion approach. Learn how Northrop Grumman leveraged the Alignment Vision Strategist as a roadmapping tool to create a physical BI road-map and more accurately assess the financial impacts of future BI projects. Hear why the company publishes its BI roadmap on a bi-annual basis. Take home a sample BI roadmap and checklist to help determine an effective BI strategy for your organization.

Case StudyHow Schwan’s Food Company streamlined enterprise-wide analytics and increased visibility into business operations Karthik Palanisamy, Schwan’s Food Company

This session explores the processes and tools deployed by Schwan’s Food Company to enable enterprise-wide analytics, including critical steps and considerations to determine and optimize a BI methodology. Get lessons from the company on scoping and require-ments gathering, including the steps it took to ensure that the needs of four distinct busi-ness units — consumer brands, food service, home service, and global supply chain — were represented and met. See how Schwan’s Food Company leverages a self-service portal to ensure decisions are based on the most accu-rate and up-to-date information. Understand the importance of hierarchy reporting, and get tips for deploying it in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Gain insight into how the company reached agreement and set policy on a common look, feel, and navigation path for its enterprise dashboards and reports. Step through demos of Schwan’s Food Company’s department-specific dashboards — from food services to supply chain — for insight into how they provide immediate business value to the enterprise.

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E-learning, help desk, and more: Picking the right training and adoption approach for your BI user baseDallas Marks, Kalvin Consulting

This session explores various user training and adoption methodologies for BI end-users and provides criteria for selecting the best approach for your business and user needs. Step through examples that weigh the pros and cons of user training methodologies, rang-ing from traditional classroom learning and e-learning, to one-on-one mentoring. Get tips for analyzing and revamping the relationship between your organization’s user base and help desk to ensure users are getting the right information at the right time. Explore the bene-fits of creating an internal power user program to increase user self-sufficiency and address common help desk calls. Get tips for leverag-ing power users as addendums to local and national user group meetings. Understand the importance of routine user training — such as weekly or monthly — rather than just a one-time post-implementation initiative. Evaluate criteria to choose the most appropriate user training method based on your organization’s training budget and geographical make-up. Take home a sample agenda for a power user group meeting to reference back in the office.

Insider Discussion ForumStrategies for user adoption and training with BI initiativesPenny Silvia, IBM

Join your peers to share best practices for boosting user adoption of SAP and SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in this casual, discussion-based setting. Swap lessons learned for creating effective end-user training strate-gies, and explore questions such as:

y How can I more effectively gather user requirements at the start of an implementation to ensure higher user adoption after go-live?

y How do I determine whether a power user program or Center of Excellence might work well for my specific group of users?

y Are there any tools or resources available to help my organization develop a standard user training methodology?

Discuss some of the biggest user adoption or training challenges your organization has faced, and receive real-world strategies from other SAP and SAP BusinessObjects customers for overcoming them.

Introducing a scientific method to keep your BI initiatives aligned with business goalsHari Guleria, HCL Axon

According to Gartner, only 50% of business intelligence implementations fully meet busi-ness expectations. This session offers best practices for ensuring your organization’s BI initiatives meet — and even exceed — the expectations of business users, managers, and stakeholders. Explore the two distinct ways in which BI projects are being deployed around the world — “Technology is King” and “Busi-ness Participation and Accountability in BI Projects” — and gauge which would be the better choice for your organization. Obtain proven strategies for boosting the business’ participation in BI initiatives, such as offering high-level training to all business stakehold-ers prior to the project kick-off. Understand the underlying principles of a business value attainment (BVA) model, including a clear def-inition of business “success.” Learn a scientific methodology to ensure that weekly project status reports are designed to measure prog-ress against desired business outcomes. Take home a BVA checklist for BI project managers, along with a white paper comparing the costs of pre- and post-go-live fixes.

Best practices for driving continuous improvement and managing change as your BI strategy evolvesPenny Silvia, IBM

A successful BI strategy is an evolutionary process. This session offers best practices for ensuring continuous improvement and adapting to changes within your BI reporting environment. Understand how a solid enter-prise-wide communication strategy is key to achieving long-term BI success, and get tips for establishing such a strategy that involves your end users. Explore different techniques for managing change in the early phases of your reporting initiatives — even when migrating from a non-SAP reporting environment. Under-stand when (and when not) to involve users in the requirements-gathering and testing phases of a BI initiative. Acquire best practices for handling new or advanced requirements after your SAP or SAP BusinessObjects solu-tion has already gone live. Leave with proven methods for engaging users and effectively handling change, such as hosting focus groups and establishing super user communities.

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0: Strategy, roadmap, and technical considerationsJason Rose, SAP

This session provides specific examples of how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 to gain greater insight into your business, make smarter decisions, and measure their results. Examine key differences between business intelligence and business analytics, and under-stand how BI solutions can serve a broader business analytics strategy. Learn how to employ a common look and feel across inter-nal and external SAP data sources with the new common semantic layer. See how to use event-driven data processing to better iden-tify opportunities for customer engagement. Gain insight into new and future improve-ments planned for Web reports and analyses, formatted reporting, and dashboards. Become familiar with the new SAP BusinessObjects Analysis client for multidimensional ad hoc analysis of OLAP data sources. Come away with a comprehensive understanding of SAP’s busi-ness intelligence roadmap, with emphasis on where BI fits into SAP’s broader business ana-lytics strategy.

A comprehensive guide to analytical capabilities embedded within SAP Business SuiteHenner Schielbs, SAP

Explore the scope and value of embedded analytics in SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations 2010, and step through detailed demos and examples that explore the reporting and dash-boarding capabilities delivered. Step through use case scenarios — such as extracting data from ALV to SAP Crystal Reports for print-out and formatting purposes — to derive greater insight into your business operations. Get an overview of all the business analytics content pre-configured within SAP Business Suite embedded analytics, such as pre-defined SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards for finance, human capital management, and customer relationship man-agement (CRM) reporting. Become familiar with various integration scenarios available for embedded analytics within the SAP Business Suite to understand how they will fit within your overall BI landscape.

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Best practices for establishing and supporting a scalable BI center of excellence (COE)Buntic Geroian, Visionary Integration Professionals

Determine if and how a center of excellence (COE) could help reduce total cost of owner-ship (TCO) of your BI landscape, and get tips for building and optimizing one that offers the greatest return on investment (ROI). Acquire strategies for aligning both technical and func-tional COE resources. Get tips for overcoming common challenges associated with estab-lishing a BI COE, from data standardization to user adoption and change management. See how to ensure COE scalability to support an evolving or newly-upgraded BI environ-ment. Explore various BI COE organizational structures — including enterprise-level, cross-functional team model, and distributed hub-and-spoke structure — and get criteria for determining which would work best in your environment. Understand what’s required to properly govern a COE initiative, and get tips for creating and maintaining a COE gover-nance model. Take home a checklist outlining the steps required to build a new BI COE or optimize the one you already have.

Power to the users: Guidelines to define and optimize a self-service reporting strategy Patrick Dixon, Independent Consultant

This session explores the BI self-service options available in SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver BW and offers expert guidance for properly leveraging them to meet the require-ments of your user community, from casual users to data analysts. Understand the impor-tance of governance in self-service reporting, and get tips to set policy on a common look, feel, and navigation path. Review the secu-rity implications associated with self-service BI, such as unauthorized access to reports and dashboards, and get tips to ensure proper portal and backend authorizations. Get rec-ommendations and criteria for creating sustainable power user programs to ensure seamless knowledge transfer and optimize future self-service initiatives. Find out when it makes sense to leverage a center of excel-lence (COE) for self-service reporting, and take home the steps required to design and opti-mize a COE to ensure self-service success in your organization.

Strategies for leveraging BI to solve organizational challengesDeepa Sankar, SAP

Understand the importance of a clear, well-artic-ulated BI strategy. Find out how an effective BI approach benefits IT and line of business teams alike, from aligning business partners and formalizing business needs, to removing limits of departmental silos. Explore critical suc-cess factors for developing and delivering a comprehensive BI strategy that meets business expectations. Learn best practice approaches to executing this plan enterprise-wide, includ-ing guidelines to define and run a successful BI competency center. Hear key recommendations to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and organize cross-functionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome. Come away with a repeatable framework that engages and brings together the priorities of both CIOs and business execu-tives to address organizational challenges that a BI strategy can resolve.

The role of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis in your self-service BI strategyTheirry Audas, SAP

Gain insight into the SAP vision and strategy for positioning SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edi-tion for Microsoft Office as an alternative to SAP BEx Analyzer, edition for OLAP as the succes-sor of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager. Examine technical prerequisites, platform capabilities, and roadmap details for both editions. Dis-cover how this new BI solution can be used to smoothly transition your user population from the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) to the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. See how it can be used to increase self-service BI usage and business user autonomy while minimizing TCO. Explore use case scenarios to see how you can fully leverage previous investments in SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BEx query design, even if you are migrating to SAP BusinessObjects BI. Learn about its interoperability with various SAP in-memory processing technologies, such as SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Get a sneak peek at the latest version, SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, which enables advanced, multidimensional analysis.

A trainer’s “cheat sheet”: Everything you need to know to drive user adoption of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0Dave Cartwright, Kingfisher

The SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 suite provides a variety of enhanced reporting, dashboarding, and analytics capabilities; in order to leverage them to the fullest, however, users must first familiarize themselves with brand new inter-faces and navigational paths. This session provides a comprehensive overview of the biggest interface and navigational changes in the latest release of SAP BusinessObjects BI to facilitate optimal user adoption in your orga-nization. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence’s new tabbed interface can be lev-eraged to streamline report development. Explore the revamped common semantic layer and consistent “look and feel” employed across all front-end SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in 4.0. Receive best practices for hosting an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 user training pro-gram, such as developing an iterative, agile training program (borrowing concepts from the development world!), and creating team cham-pions to help ensure knowledge transfer after the formal training is over. Take home a list of the top navigation- and interface-related changes within SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 to reference during your own end-user training initiative.

Tips, tools, and actionable advice to leverage corporate data as a strategic asset for better decision-making Byron Banks, SAP

This session explores techniques and tools to optimize the processing and delivery of voluminous data across a complex technol-ogy landscape, including tips to ensure the quality and integrity of the data that feeds your BI solutions. Explore real-world exam-ples for tips to quickly recognize areas to reduce costs and better align data strategies with corporate objectives to best meet your organization’s analytical and business goals. Understand what’s required to optimize under-lying data warehousing and management technologies to support your organization’s BI roadmap, including new ideas for lever-aging SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects solutions. See how SAP BusinessObjects Infor-mation Steward enables continuous insight into the quality of your data and enhanced col-laboration between business data analysts and IT, leading to better decision-making. Obtain best practices for data profiling and data qual-ity monitoring via scorecards to improve the overall foundation of your BI landscape.

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Evaluation criteria and guidelines for deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemandPierre Leroux, SAP

This session explores the benefits and technical considerations of deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand. Step through detailed demos that show how this cloud-based solution enables users to reach broader internal and external audiences to share data and reports through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Understand what’s required to leverage SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand via a hosted data warehouse, including tips to use and customize the preconfigured report and data-set templates. Discover how to best plan for additional functionality, including in-memory acceleration via SAP snap-in architecture, to cus-tomize and extend cloud-based solutions. Get proven strategies to increase end-user adoption and self-service reporting in your cloud-based BI environment.

Options and criteria to improve reporting and analysis of industry and line of business (LoB) dataPadmini Ranganathan, SAP

This session examined guidelines for deploying SAP BusinessObjects industry and line of busi-ness (LoB) analytic applications to better analyze industry-specific logistics, operations, financial efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Identify the best ways to leverage pre-built dashboards, data models, and mobile user interfaces to track KPIs specific to your industry. Examine the unique SAP BusinessObjects applications available for banking, consumer products, healthcare, aero-space and defense, oil and gas, retail, public sector, and more. Get tips to quickly deploy and scale these solutions within your existing enter-prise data framework via on-premise, on-device, and on-demand models. Gain technical insight into how they integrate with your current BI landscape or used in conjunction with in-mem-ory solutions like SAP HANA.

Live DemoSAP BusinessObjects AnalysisTheirry Audas, SAP

Attend this live demo to explore the analytical capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, and learn how this revamped BI solution can be leveraged to boost self-service BI in your orga-nization -- while minimizing TCO. Walk through common, real-world use cases to understand how the tool could be leveraged in your BI landscape, and understand key differences between the Microsoft and OLAP editions.


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Lessons for optimizing SAP BusinessObjects BI reporting with SAP HANAPraveen Misra, BI Partners

This session offers proven strategies for lever-aging the real-time analytical capabilities of SAP HANA alongside SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions for optimal BI reporting. Review the technical considerations behind an SAP HANA deployment, such as storage limita-tions and system sizing. Get tips for leveraging the replication capabilities within SAP HANA to enable near real-time reporting within your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 environment. Understand the performance implications SAP HANA will have on operational dashboards and Web reports. Receive step-by-step guid-ance for implementing a high-value analytical scenario with SAP HANA. Learn how to build a simple data model within an SAP HANA landscape. See a demonstration of SAP HANA being used as an SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence data source, allowing for near real-time analysis on large data volumes.

Case StudyHow Medtronic uses SAP HANA as a performance booster for its BI solutionsEric Popp, Medtronic

Identify the business drivers that sparked Medtronic’s decision to leverage SAP HANA as its analytic database, including flexible and real-time analytic models based on SAP and non-SAP data. Find out how the company managed the challenge of developing an inte-grated data model in-memory, including the ways in which Sybase Power Designer and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services were leveraged. Explore key integration points between SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, and hear how Medtronic leverages SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelli-gence with SAP HANA to simplify and speed users’ search for information. Understand the impact SAP HANA has had on Medtronic’s business users and bottom line, and explore use case scenarios that help identify opportu-nities to apply in-memory computing in your organization. Come away with insight into how Medtronic plans to leverage SAP HANA to more efficiently perform global sales reporting.

The road to SAP HANA: Current capabilities and future roadmapDan Kearnan, SAP

This session examines the best ways to leverage SAP HANA as a high-performance foundation to process large volumes of data, including tips to optimize the performance of your existing BI landscape on top of this new platform. Dis-cover how to exploit the key integration points between SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0. Determine the best ways to extract data from SAP and non-SAP data sources, model it in-memory, and pass it to SAP BusinessOb-jects front ends, including SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. Examine use case scenarios that help identify opportunities to apply in-memory computing in your organization. Hear directly from SAP how in-memory technology impacts existing SAP NetWeaver BW customers and the SAP data warehousing roadmap, and leave this session with an understanding of the current solutions for in-memory computing from SAP and its future roadmap.

A technical guide to implementing and optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated versionDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

This session examines the latest analytical capabilities and technical considerations for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated ver-sion. Get proven expert advice on how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accel-erated version, for faster in-memory queries. Step through examples of advanced design elements and features, including tips to leverage key integration points within SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver BW Accel-erator. Get best practices to manage modeling requirements, including tips to leverage accel-erator index designer. Gather lessons learned from real-world implementations, including integration considerations and performance benchmarks. Take home a sample work plan for installing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, and a template for plan-ning, budgeting, and rolling it out in your organization.

Guidelines for leveraging SAP HANA with Microsoft Excel for improved report presentation and user satisfactionRussell Tront, Simba Technologies

This session offers best practices for exploiting the in-memory and multi-dimensional query handling capabilities of SAP HANA directly in Microsoft Excel. Step through examples that show how to integrate Microsoft Excel’s famil-iar and intuitive user interface with SAP HANA for real-time data exploration. Walk through detailed demos that illustrate the best ways to leverage Microsoft Excel’s data selection capa-bilities, multidimensional display, hierarchical navigation, and other visualization options when using SAP HANA as a data source. Get tips for leveraging the MDX provider in SAP HANA to populate Microsoft Excel spread-sheets, and see how this ensures the timeliness and accuracy of delivered reports. Discover the best ways to extend real-time data access to Microsoft PowerPoint through Microsoft Excel pivot tables and charts.

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Increasing the speed and efficiency of data processing and analysis with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 Storm Archer, SAP

This session offers proven strategies for lever-aging SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) 7.3 in conjunction with SAP HANA for more efficient data warehousing and analysis. Learn how leveraging SAP HANA alongside SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 allows for high compression rates for operational data, along with multi-core, parallel in-memory pro-cessing for complex analytical algorithms. Get tips for leveraging SAP HANA to reduce the complexity of SAP NetWeaver BW objects and optimize system performance with in-mem-ory infocubes, DSOs, and SAP NetWeaver BW modeling objects. The session will also dis-cuss the new transient provider to allow SAP NetWeaver BW to consume data from agile and operational data marts developed directly for SAP HANA. View a detailed demonstration of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 running on SAP HANA to explore the effects of in-memory firsthand.

Case StudyInside Deloitte’s implementation of SAP HANAChris Dinkel, Deloitte

This session provides a detailed look at Deloitte’s recent SAP HANA deployment and explores lessons learned and challenges the company faced along the way. Learn how Deloitte created a proof-of-concept (POC) to elicit the support of key stakeholders, and gain insight into the specific timeline and resources the company established during the blueprint phase. See how the company overcame chal-lenges associated with integrating structured and unstructured data sources, including SAP NetWeaver BW, Microsoft SQL Server, comma-separated values (CSV), and Microsoft Office. Find out how Deloitte managed the challenge of extracting and loading large amounts of data during the deployment phase, including the ways in which SAP BusinessObjects Data Services was leveraged. Step through demos to see the impact SAP HANA has on the com-pany’s front-end reports. Gain insight into key benefits Deloitte realized as a result of its SAP HANA deployment, including a reduction in data load time from 48 hours to 12 minutes, and a reduction in SAP Crystal Reports run time from 30 minutes to milliseconds.

2012 roadmap to data warehousing solutions from SAPDan Kearnan, SAP

This session offers strategies for leveraging data warehousing functionality from SAP to reduce the total cost of operations and data warehouse development, decrease data latency, and accelerate response time. Gain a clear understanding of the full suite of SAP data warehousing solutions, including SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver BW Acceler-ator, SAP HANA, and Sybase IQ. Explore the best ways to exploit the capabilities and syn-ergies — including distinct integration points between SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW — between these various data foundations. Get criteria to map the various data warehousing options from SAP to your organization’s unique IT landscape and business requirements. Hear SAP’s vision and strategy for future data ware-housing initiatives and roadmap.

Customer Discussion ForumMedtronic shares lessons from its implementation of SAP HANABrian Raver, Medtronic

Attend this informal, discussion-based session to gain real-world insights from Medtron-ic’s implementation of SAP HANA. Hear from Medtronic first-hand, and explore questions such as:

y What are the typical business drivers behind SAP HANA adoption, and what are the unique benefits it offers?

y What are the key integration points between SAP HANA and the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite — and how do I properly align technical resources to prepare for a deployment?

y How will SAP HANA impact the overall performance of my BI landscape?

y Are there recommended ways to extract data from SAP and non-SAP data sources and pass it to front-end solutions?

In addition to hearing the top lessons learned from Medtronic, leave this forum with proven strategies from other SAP customers for imple-menting and optimizing SAP HANA.

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Data modeling, integration, and quality

How to combat ETL problems that arise from bad source data Don Loden, Decision First

Understand how and why extraction, trans-formation, and loading (ETL) challenges arise from bad source data, and how to combat those challenges with properly constructed ETL code. Explore change data capture (CDC) techniques and strategies to focus on recov-ery as well as performance, and learn when to choose source- or target-based CDC. Obtain best practices for multi-user ETL development, and learn why it’s not a good idea to hold up a project to wait for complex transformation logic. Accelerate your ETL project by leveraging the object-oriented and reusable characteris-tics of modern tools like SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, and hear why these tools offer benefits that cannot be obtained by tradition-ally scripted ETL code. Leave this session with expert ETL tips, such as tracking errors with proven validation techniques and monitoring individual objects, along with advice for ETL development in an enterprise data warehouse.

Lessons for speeding data processing and analysis using a multi-data source BI environmentHari Guleria, HCL Axon

Understand the benefits of deploying an alter-native or additional data warehouse — such as boosting SAP NetWeaver BW report perfor-mance — with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator or SAP HANA. Acquire tips for identifying and selecting the best alternative data source to meet your business requirements. Hear real-world examples of how other companies have effectively implemented alternative data sources, including SAP HANA and Teradata. Learn how to implement global BI standards, processes, and methodologies within a multi-data warehouse environment for high quality data. Explore the “dos and don’ts” of a multi-data warehouse data flow, and hear real-world pitfalls from other SAP customers. Take home sample business cases for a multi-data ware-house environment, along with a list of best practices for deployment and data flow.

Step-by-step guidelines for building and deploying an enterprise-wide information governance strategyPhilip On, SAP

This session demystifies the concept of informa-tion governance and provides a comprehensive overview of the SAP solutions available to help support your overall governance strategy. Discuss key steps for building an enterprise-wide information governance program, such as identifying business priorities, along with specific data elements. Get tips for using SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward to more efficiently perform data profiling and meta-data management to monitor data adherence to governance standards with data quality dashboards. Learn how to perform root cause and impact analyses to identify key culprits behind inaccurate or low-quality data. Explore options for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to consolidate and improve data quality from multiple sources or analyze unstructured text data sources. Learn how you can create master data natively in the SAP Busi-ness Suite environment with SAP Master Data Governance.

20 expert techniques for more effective SAP NetWeaver BW data modelingJesper Christensen, COMERIT

This session will cover the top 20 data model-ing best practices for an SAP NetWeaver BW landscape. Explore the benefits of techniques such as semantic partitioning and dimensional modeling, and receive proven strategies for performing them. Receive best practices for optimizing data models specifically for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Examine options for modeling InfoCubes for enhanced sys-tem performance, and learn how to improve memory utilization by caching. Get tips for leveraging system diagnostics to identify and troubleshoot SAP NetWeaver BW perfor-mance issues. Learn how and when to apply new data modeling techniques delivered with SAP Netweaver BW 7.3, such as the Semantic Partitioning Object (SPO) and cube-less SAP NetWeaver BW accelerator indices. Take home a list of best practices for optimizing InfoCube dimensions.

What’s new with SAP BusinessObjects enterprise information management 4.0? The 2012 guideByron Banks, SAP

Get an up-to-date look at recent enhance-ments and key functionality delivered with SAP BusinessObjects enterprise information management (EIM) 4.0. Step through demos that explore best practices for when and how to leverage enhanced SAP BusinessObjects EIM 4.0 capabilities to access, integrate, and enhance enterprise data for key business ini-tiatives, including new enterprise application rollouts or migrations, and BI and data ware-house deployments. Discover new capabilities within SAP BusinessObjects Data Services 4.0, such as managing data in real-time, provid-ing insight on both social and business data, and selecting from a variety of deployment options to best match the business needs — from small departmental projects all the way up to enterprise-wide implementations. Gain insight into SAP BusinessObjects Informa-tion Steward — a new profiling and metadata management solution — that enables end users to understand and manage their data on their own without relying on the IT depart-ment. Come away with product updates and an understanding of the SAP BusinessObjects enterprise information management roadmap.


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Lessons for enhancing and cleansing customer data in real-timeDon Loden, Decision First Technologies

This session offers best practices for devel-oping a real-time data quality Web service solution using SAP BusinessObjects Data Ser-vices to ensure high-quality customer data. Get an overview of the key benefits of a real-time data quality solution, such as cleansing and matching customer data in real-time and avoiding time delays caused by batch pro-cessing. Witness the benefits of cleansing and matching done at data entry in the source sys-tem. Step through a live demo for detailed instructions to construct a real-time data flow in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, includ-ing tips to configure the job server to test your real-time Web service. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management to enhance a customer record by supplementing the record with linkage to all purchase history using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services. Explore server-setup and testing techniques to more efficiently “de-bug” after a project. See why break keys are important for fine-tuning to produce the most efficient best match possible.

A technical guide to integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BWIngo Hilgefort, SAP Canada

This session provides a technical overview of the integration options for SAP BusinessOb-jects BI 4.0 with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW. Understand technical prerequisites for get-ting started with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and explore key differences between integrat-ing various tools, from SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius), to SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. Get an overview of data connectivity options for seamless integration with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW, including required software and available data sources. Receive updates on the integration capabilities of solu-tions such as SAP BEx query designer and SAP Solution Manager. Learn how to connect to and leverage your existing metadata in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, and evaluate new options for user management and content life cycle management. Gain insight into support levels for existing metadata in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW across an SAP BusinessObjects landscape.

Customer Discussion ForumShell International BV’s integrated SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 landscapeSteve Mutch and Djorgo Gubbels, Shell International BV

Attend this informal question-and-answer ses-sion to “pick the brain” of Shell International BV for tips to integrate SAP and SAP Busi-nessObjects landscapes, while simultaneously upgrading to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3. Explore questions such as:

y What are the technical nuances of integrating SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and SAP Crystal Reports with SAP NetWeaver BW?

y How can I ensure a high-performing and scalable SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver BW environment?

y How do I best resource and scope an SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgrade -- and how will the upgrade impact integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions?

Leave this session with the real-world insights you need to deploy a fully-integrated SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW landscape, along with the technical know-how to upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3.

BIexpertLIVEBest practices in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services data flow and job designDon Loden, Decision First Technologies

Don’t miss this opportunity to personally meet Don Loden, Principal Business Intelligence Consultant, Decision First Technologies, and engage in an updated discussion about one of his most widely read articles from BI Expert — the leading publication and knowledge-base for organizations that leverage business intelligence solutions from SAP. Explore best practices for developing an SAP BusinessOb-jects Data Services data flow, along with the importance of reusability in job design. Dis-cover the benefits of always designing an ETL job with reusable pieces of code to perform mul-tiple operations within SAP BusinessObjects Data Services — by manipulating the code with variables and conditionals — and receive tips for doing so within your organization. Learn how to properly construct an SAP Busines-sObjects Data Services data flow for maximum system performance by breaking the flow down into four distinct stages — driver stage, parsing stage, lookup stage, and business rules enforcement stage — and receive proven strat-egies for performing each.

Ensure accurate and secure information sharing across your enterprise functionalityKlaus David, SAP

This session offers an up-to-date look at SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) and lessons for leveraging its functionality to deliver integrated, accurate, and timely data across your enterprise. Review your options for integrating SAP NetWeaver MDM with the latest SAP BusinessObjects information management solutions, such as SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, and find out when and how it is advisable to do so — for example, to facilitate data matching and local data quality checks in SAP NetWeaver MDM. See how to leverage SAP NetWeaver MDM functionality for data needs in specific industry segments, such as optimized supplier spend and collaborative material data maintenance. Explore options for using embedded SAP NetWeaver MDM capabilities within the SAP Business Suite to optimize pre-built master data creation, change, and distribution pro-cesses. Gain insight into how SAP HANA can add value to your data management initiatives.

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Requirements and guidelines for accessing Business Objects BI content through Microsoft SharePoint Jared Ellwein, People Services

With portal applications like Microsoft Share-Point gaining popularity as a unique and easy point of access to BI content, the ability to embed Business Objects reports and dash-boards is becoming increasingly important. This session examines technical prerequi-sites and “how to” guidelines to eliminate the need for an additional and restricted interface by exploiting the integration capabilities of Business Objects with a Microsoft SharePoint portal. Review interface requirements, includ-ing the benefits a .NET interface provides, and get workaround solutions for implementing Business Objects content with Java InfoView interfaces. Understand when it’s advisable to leverage the software development kit (SDK), SharePoint Portal integration kit, or the integra-tion option for Microsoft SharePoint software from SAP. Get design tips for easy viewing of data in Microsoft SharePoint, from “frames” that provide comparison views by comparing side-by-side data, to hyperlinks for more detailed information.

Case StudyHow The Globe and Mail replicated a domain-specific database for optimal sales and marketing insightSandy Yang, The Globe and Mail

Domain-specific databases provide highly-targeted information for optimized sales and marketing efforts — but they tend to be a time-consuming and costly IT initiative that results in data fragmentation. This session explores how The Globe and Mail replicated the features of a third-party, domain-specific database in its SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services environment. See how the com-pany achieved the same business benefits at half the cost. Discover technical best practices for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Data Ser-vices to simplify the import and export of data to and from SAP NetWeaver BW when repli-cating a domain-specific database. Learn how de-normalization and other non-SQL technol-ogy can be used to optimize performance in an enterprise BI environment. Hear how The Globe and Mail performs fast and accurate cus-tomer matching across various customer lists. Take home sample SAP BusinessObjects Data Services transformations, along with sample SAP NetWeaver BW code snippets to perform address matching.


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BI upgrades, implementations, and rollouts

Making sense of the latest SAP BusinessObjects features, functions, and terminologyJay Riddle, COMERIT

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 comes with signifi-cantly enhanced functionality, new integration capabilities, and even new terminology for some familiar products. This session clearly explains all of the updates in order to provide you with a com-fortable, working knowledge of this new solution. Explore key technical considerations surrounding an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 installation, such as integration with SAP Solution Manager and the enhanced Change and Transport System to sup-port the transport of non-ABAP™ objects (CTS+). Familiarize yourself with the administrative changes in the new release, including revamped lifecycle management and monitoring capabili-ties. Learn how the new information design tool and data federation engine will impact your data connectivity approach. Get up to speed on the latest SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 nomenclature to understand, for instance, the difference between a transient universe and the semantic layer, or SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise. Take home a “quick reference guide” of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 best practices, along with links to webinars and wiki resources to help your team get familiar with the new release.

Case StudyInside SSM Health Care’s installation of SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver BWTom Kissel, SSM Health Care

Hear how SSM Health Care’s recent SAP enhancement package installation prepared the company for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects solutions. Discover how SSM Health Care managed technical requirements, such as including the new Business Suite Foun-dation component with its SAP NetWeaver BW environment, and the need to manually acti-vate 65 SAP NetWeaver BW objects. Hear how the company updated its ABAP and Java stacks from 7.0 to SAP enhancement package 1. Get tips for unlocking the SAP NetWeaver BW shadow system if system changes are needed during the pre-processing phase. Come away with an understanding of major pain points experienced through the upgrade, as well as timings and database sizings. Take home a pre-upgrade checklist of key issues and technical considerations.

Case StudyLexmark International meets complex report development requirements with a joint SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW implementationAlbert Khair, Lexmark International

Explore Lexmark International’s decision to deploy SAP BusinessObjects BI tools on top of an SAP NetWeaver BW system, including the need to meet complex report development and end-user requirements. Learn how the orga-nization identified critical environmental and landscape requirements, from installing the lat-est SAP enhancement packages to leveraging existing SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator infra-structures. Hear about technical pitfalls and configuration challenges the company encoun-tered during its data migration process, and get lessons for leveraging the SAP integration kit. Get tips for leveraging SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) as a datasource for universe develop-ment. Examine the steps Lexmark International took to ensure optimal knowledge transfer and user adoption post go-live, including how it leveraged a BI center of excellence (CEO) to manage challenges associated with disparate BI standards across a global business environment.

Strategies and tools for rapidly deploying SAP analytic solutionsHenner Schliebs, SAP

This session examines criteria and capabilities for leveraging SAP rapid deployment solu-tions — such as strategic workforce analytics and HR executive analytics — to quickly imple-ment analytics solutions with a fixed scope and predefined services, including the flexi-bility for future extensions. Understand which analytical needs are good candidates for SAP rapid deployment solutions and when appli-cation customization is required. Step through detailed demos that show how to leverage SAP rapid deployment solutions to overcome typical BI project pitfalls, including evolving requirements, continuous monitoring, and consolidating data from multiple sources. Get examples of how other customers are using SAP rapid deployment solutions as a low-cost way to quickly address their evolving business demands while reducing the cost and effort of typical deployment scenarios.

Case StudyLessons learned from Valero Energy Corporation’s joint upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1Bill Faison, Valero Energy

Explore the business drivers behind Valero Energy Corporation’s decision to upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 simultaneously, including tighter inte-gration between SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 and SAP hierarchies, along with more flexible data models. Learn how the company phased, scoped, and resourced its joint upgrade proj-ect, including strategies and tools that were used to minimize downtime and meet project deadlines. Find out how Valero Energy Corpo-ration overcame challenges associated with migrating SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) 3.5 queries and workbooks to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3. Gain insight into how the company managed security considerations, including its decision to migrate to analysis authorizations. Find out how the company leveraged SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS) connectivity and new metadata integration capabilities to ensure its BI and BW solutions were fully inte-grated. Hear about the training approaches Valero Energy Corporation used to get users up to speed quickly with the newly-upgraded BI systems.

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Tips, tricks, and project methodologies for a successful migration from SAP BEx to SAP BusinessObjectsEric Xue, Deloitte

Learn what critical project management ele-ments must be factored into an effective migration from SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) to the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite. Explore best practices for defining a clear migration strategy — from a project manage-ment, tool, and functional perspective. Get an overview of various migration approaches, such as full or parallel, and examine crite-ria to help determine which is best suited for your SAP landscape. Walk through a real-world example to understand how the ASAP methodology can speed up SAP BusinessOb-jects implementations and drive your overall BI strategy. Explore best practices and method-ologies for identifying and mitigating risks for your migration project, including guidelines to leverage a Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS). Take home a sample project management plan for migrating from SAP BEx to SAP BusinessOb-jects, a solution mapping decision tree, and a “risk register” document to identify risks during your next migration initiative.

Case StudyTechnical lessons from Shell International BV’s SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgradeDjorgo Gubbels, Shell International BV

Step inside Shell International BV’s upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3, and take away the best practices and technical insights you need for successfully performing your own. Under-stand how Shell International BV scoped and resourced its SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgrade within a global environment leveraging various outsourcing strategies. Explore the technical challenges faced by the Shell team when iden-tifying system landscape dependencies and gathering requirements, such as upgrading to the latest support pack release for the SEM plug, ensuring the appropriate OS and data-base versions, and having a dual stack for Java and ABAP on a single system. Discover how Shell International BV is leveraging enhance-ments, such as semantic partitioned objects, 7.x hierarchy loads, faster data load activation and end-to-end data loading. Gain insight into how the organization plans integration testing to ensure that its SAP BusinessObjects BI solu-tions will be fully integrated with the new SAP NetWeaver BW release. See demonstrations of the Xcelsius and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports the company has built and integrated with its new SAP NetWeaver BW environment.

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Case StudyIntegrating SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW for improved report performance at Westinghouse Electric CompanyAndy Sajnani, Westinghouse Electric Company

Westinghouse Electric Company shares its field-tested guidelines for integrating SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 for enhanced usability and performance. Hear why a standardized requirements-gathering phase and upper management onboarding process prior to implementing any of the software was an essential first step for the company. Explore strategies the company uses to meet cross-functional reporting requirements. Get an overview of technical considerations behind SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence support for hierarchies, key figures, and navigational attributes. Step through examples that illus-trate how the company overcame report performance challenges associated with cus-tomized SAP BusinessObjects universes by defining calculations and prompts at the SAP BEx level. Discover how Westinghouse Electric Company uses the query stripping capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to maximize report performance.

Web Intelligence “hidden gems”: A look at the most underutilized reporting and design optionsMichael Welter, Claraview

This session explores some of the most com-monly overlooked design options within Web Intelligence and offers best practices for lever-aging them to create more user-friendly, ad hoc reports. Learn how to use calculation con-texts to modify the default contexts used in formulas. Get tips for “folding” a Web Intelli-gence report to view only a footer and header of a table block. Explore options for leverag-ing block type prompts so users can self-select graphs and charts for reports. See how to set up a user-friendly reverse filter. Discover workarounds to avoid performance pitfalls associated with report hyperlinking. Learn how to dynamically section a report on multiple dimensions, and see how this increases end-user flexibility. Come away with a document outlining advanced query techniques and best practices for leveraging variables and functions in your Web Intelligence reports.

Empower your business users with ad hoc Web reporting capabilitiesDeepa Sankar, SAP

This session answers your most critical ques-tions about SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, ranging from how to build self-service queries and reports to how to better integrate your front-end reporting environ-ment with back-end SAP and non-SAP data sources. Examine specific integration improve-ments that have been made between SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW. Step through examples of performance and usability enhancements, including a new charting engine, multisource capabilities, and mobile options. Find out how to train end users to design and deliver interac-tive reports with minimal IT involvement. Gain insight into how you can use simple drag-and-drop techniques to build visually interactive content that can be shared with your col-leagues, customers, and partners.

Tips and tricks for deploying BI Web services within your Web Intelligence environmentChris Greer, EV Technologies

Attend this session to explore the BI Web ser-vices functionality within Web Intelligence 4.0 and learn how your BI environment might benefit from its use. Gain insight into the BI Web services enhancements made within SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0, such as no longer being required to use the rich cli-ent. Learn how Web Intelligence BI Web services can be deployed to create more sophisticated and customizable Xcelsius dashboards with cross-tabs and user-specific formulas. Receive technical guidelines for setting up input and output parameters, along with a relative URL. Explore options for leveraging BI Web services to source over 500 rows within a dashboard connection — without compromising perfor-mance. Walk through a detailed demonstration of how to create an Web Intelligence report, generate a BI Web service, and import the BI Web service into a dashboard.

Best practices for using input controls and graphics for more sophisticated and dynamic Web reportsNivaan Linhares, Capgemini

This session offers guidelines for exploiting input control and graphics in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to increase user adoption and optimize report performance. Learn how to use input controls to view the same report from multiple angles and enable quick data fil-tering to analyze reports based on specified criteria. Examine the pros and cons of creating filters on a query-level versus using input con-trols, including how each approach impacts the user interface. Explore the top challenges faced by report developers when adding graphics, such as optimizing the rendering for InfoView, and acquire strategies for overcom-ing them. Gain insight into why standardizing headers and footers is always a best practice when adding graphics to Web reports. Get tips to optimally position graphics in reports in a way that ensures user adoption.

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Proven practices to integrate SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius with your existing SAP systemsJay Riddle, COMERIT

This session explores the specific nuances of tying SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports, and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) to your SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW systems. Find out which metadata layer will offer the best perfor-mance when incorporating SAP NetWeaver BW data into SAP Crystal Reports. Understand the differences between OLAP universes and rela-tional universes, and how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence leverages OLAP universes as a fundamental building block for report-ing on SAP NetWeaver BW. Gain insight into the differences between pointing to an SAP NetWeaver BW query versus an InfoCube. Know when, why, and how to tweak your existing SAP NetWeaver BW queries for opti-mal report performance (and when you may need to build new queries). Delve into the dif-ferences between the available connectivity options for delivering quality Xcelsius dash-boards, including LiveOffice, Query as a Web Service (QaaWS), and SAP BI Consumer Ser-vices (BICS).

Insider Discussion ForumBest practices for enhancing the end-user experience with SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceNivaan Linhares, Capgemini

Join this interactive and candid discussion to hear strategies for enhancing the end-user experience with the ad hoc reporting function-ality in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Network with peers and discuss questions such as:

y How can I better leverage universe design to empower my end users to create their own Web reports?

y Is there a more effective way to perform SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence drilling and report linking?

y How can we establish an enterprise design standard for our ad hoc and Web reports to boost user acceptance?

y What are some enhanced drag-and-drop techniques end users can perform to build intuitive and interactive reports?

Walk away with ideas to empower your end users to create their own Web reports, while reducing reliance on your IT department.

Case StudyCallaway Golf’s innovative approach to improve SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence performanceNorman Ruppert, Callaway Golf

This session goes behind the scenes with Cal-laway Golf and offers practical solutions to optimize SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report performance, including critical integra-tion, design, and process decisions. Examine Callaway Golf’s approach for setting up the connection between SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW, including integration, architecture, and design consider-ations, and see how the company overcame challenges associated with MDX query access. See how the company’s chosen integration approach affects SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report performance. Hear how Callaway Golf identified and leveraged per-formance-enhancing options for data model design. Get tips from the company to avoid design “worst practices” that can slow down SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report performance, from leveraging exclusion fil-ters to using details as navigational objects. Gain insight into how the company ensured an optimal end user experience, including how it avoided large reports at the document number level and used flags to restrict data.

Live DemoSAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceDeepa Sankar, SAP

Join a leading SAP expert for an interactive look at the latest SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence capabilities. In addition to new charting features and other design improve-ments, the demo will show examples of new data integration capabilities, along with tech-niques for making self-service Web analytics more interactive. Don’t miss this unique oppor-tunity to view the solution and pose your most challenging questions.

Leveraging report variables for more robust SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reportingDave Rathbun, PepsiCo

This session explores the role of report vari-ables in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 and offers undocumented tips and tricks to exploit them for more creative and effi-cient ad-hoc reporting and data analysis. Walk through system demos to understand what’s required to merge data providers in SAP Busi-nessObjects Web Intelligence, including tips to leverage the ForgeMerge function to fix unbal-anced data providers in a full client document. Obtain best practices for using SAP Busines-sObjects Web Intelligence report functions and other context operations to enable calcula-tions at different levels of granularity. Explore workarounds for displaying UserResponse val-ues on separate rows in a table, and see how this improves the user experience. Get tech-niques to optimize prompt handling, including insight into whether and how to create a prompt syntax that substitutes “today’s date” for a prompt default value.

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Tips and tricks to optimize the latest functionality within SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0Stephanie Huber, Kingfisher

This session provides a comprehensive over-view of the functionality within SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0, along with advice to optimize it. Walk through a demonstration of the new information designer tool for universe creation. Learn how to use BI Consumer Ser-vices (BICS) to retrieve data directly from SAP NetWeaver BW and BEx queries, allowing for optimal performance. Review technical consid-erations for SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise adoption, such as running on a 64-bit envi-ronment. Get tips for leveraging the Migration Wizard to migrate existing SAP Crystal Reports into the new release. Receive best practices for enabling report-level alerts to keep users informed of outdated invoices, unresolved sup-port tickets, and more. Find out how to quickly convert reports into multiple languages — with-out complicated workarounds — using the new translation manager. Explore options for using the new smart guideline and smart formatting features for automatic report resizing. Learn how to apply formatting to newly inserted fields based on existing fields in the report.

10 tips and techniques for exploiting the capabilities of Crystal Reports that no BI team should be withoutJenny Shah, Capgemini

Through lecture and detailed demos, this ses-sion offers expert guidance on when and how to use the various options in Crystal Reports to meet unique business requirements. Learn to create sophisticated visualization for better data analysis by properly leveraging the formula edi-tor, and step through examples of common use case scenarios, including conditional format-ting and mathematical manipulations. View demos that show design and formatting best practices to boost user adoption, such as cre-ating check boxes, using text watermarks, and creating “hover over” tool tips. Understand the impact Crystal Report design has on report run times and why sub-reporting and multi-pass reporting can be major culprits behind poor performance. Discover how and when it makes sense to mash up complex data models. Take home a list of commonly used formulas for high-performing reports.

Decision criteria and technical prerequisites for upgrading or migrating to Crystal Reports 2011 or Crystal Reports for Enterprise Brian Durning, Dell

This session examines Crystal Reports 2011 and Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CRe) — both delivered as part of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 — and provides criteria to help determine whether and how to adopt one of the new solu-tions. Find out when it makes sense to upgrade to Crystal Reports 2011 and when a migration to Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CRe) will provide the most value. Examine which features in the new solutions are available immediately, which ones will be delivered in versions to come, and see how this impacts your upgrade or migration approach. Acquire tips for identifying and docu-menting your current Crystal Reports landscape — along with any new or deprecated function-ality within your reports — prior to beginning a migration or upgrade initiative. Get an overview of supported platforms and compatibility with your existing infrastructure, including required software and available data sources, and get tips to prepare for the absence of physically-defined database connections.

Advanced information design techniques for Crystal ReportsCoy Yonce, EV Technologies

The concept of information design is of grow-ing interest in the BI world, as more organizations strive to achieve comprehensive data visualiza-tion and analysis. Attend this session to explore information design methodologies guaranteed to increase efficiency and boost user adoption of SAP Crystal Reports. Learn how to leverage field formatting to draw user attention to a spe-cific field or area of a report that needs immediate attention or put forth a call to action. Understand the level and type of information that should be included in a report header, page header, body, and reporter footer. Get tips for incorporating advanced graphics, such as slopegraphs, within SAP Crystal Reports. Hear how to leverage interac-tive parameters, filtering, and sorting capabilities to display only the most relevant information to a specific user or user group. Gain insight into how to effectively use text and color-coding to create a more comprehensive report. View dem-onstrations of the discussed information design concepts being put to use in the new SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise design tool.

Case StudyFairfax Water achieves high-performing reports with proper integration between SAP Crystal Reports and SAP ERPTammy Powlas, Fairfax Water

This session offers proven strategies from Fairfax Water to develop and maintain high-performing financial and operational reports through the proper design and integration of SAP ERP and SAP Crystal Reports. Exam-ine how the organization’s use cases for SAP Crystal Reports vary by role — ranging from business user and mobile consumer, to report developer. Step through detailed demos to see how Fairfax Water accesses its data from SAP tables, SAP query reports, and the ABAP data dictionary. Get tips and lessons learned to avoid common pitfalls associated with SAP Crystal Reports authorizations. Explore Fairfax Water’s proof-of-concept strategy for deploying SAP Crystal Reports onto iPads to provide users with mobile BI. Hear a first-hand account of some of the challenges the company encountered when developing SAP ERP authorizations during SAP Crystal Reports integration, and how the team over-came these setbacks by leveraging InfoSets as a workaround. Get lessons learned from the company’s change management approach and user training process.

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A tale of two versions: Guidelines and criteria for choosing between SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for EnterpriseCoy Yonce, EV Technologies

With the release of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 came two, side-by-side versions of SAP Crystal Reports. So which one makes more sense for your organization? Attend this session to under-stand the major differences between SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enter-prise, and determine which would best meet your reporting needs. Understand how the new read-only report format delivered in SAP Crys-tal Reports 2011 can protect your reports from unwanted user modifications upon distribution. Learn how the XSLX export feature in SAP Crys-tal Reports 2011 enables designers to export reports to a Microsoft Excel 2007 workbook — up to one million rows. Gain insight into why SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise is a better choice if you are using the SAP BusinessObjects suite of products. Explore the different ways in which SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise connect to back-end data sources, and hear why the Enterprise version may be the better choice for SAP NetWeaver BW connectivity. Review technical and architec-tural considerations for migrating existing SAP Crystal Reports investments into each of these new releases.


This session explores the specific nuances of tying SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports, and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) to your SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW systems. Find out which metadata layer will offer the best per-formance when incorporating SAP NetWeaver BW data into SAP Crystal Reports. Understand the differences between OLAP universes and relational universes, and how SAP Business- Objects Web Intelligence leverages OLAP uni-verses as a fundamental building block for reporting on SAP NetWeaver BW. Gain insight into the differences between pointing to an SAP NetWeaver BW query versus an InfoCube. Know when, why, and how to tweak your existing SAP NetWeaver BW queries for opti-mal report performance (and when you may need to build new queries). Delve into the dif-ferences between the available connectivity options for delivering quality Xcelsius dash-boards, including LiveOffice, Query as a Web Service (QaaWS), and SAP BI Consumer Ser-vices (BICS).

Leveraging SAP Crystal Reports for powerful sales, purchasing, and other operational reportsStephanie Huber, Kingfisher

This session provides development and integration best practices for exploiting oper-ational reporting capabilities in SAP Crystal Reports. Get an overview of data connectiv-ity options for integrating SAP Crystal Reports with SAP ERP, along with required software. Examine the best ways to use tables, views, and function modules in your SAP Crystal Reports. Get tips for customizing your sales orders, purchase orders, and other customer-related documents. Learn how to link purchase orders in MM to the originating sales order, list goods receipts and compare with invoice receipts, and append inspection plan characteristics from QM to an SAP sales order, contract, or scheduling agreement. Enrich your SAP data by adding statistical and summary informa-tion, as well as conditional formatting driven by SAP Crystal Reports parameters. See a step-by-step demo for creating a formatted report that joins SAP sales order data to purchase information and customer billing records. Come away with tips and tricks to optimize the performance of your formatted reports — such as linking tables on indexed fields and utiliz-ing on-demand sub-reports — while returning valuable, real-time data that is customized to your business needs.

Techniques, design trends, and architectural considerations to optimize Crystal Reports performanceJenny Shah, Capgemini

This practical session draws on concrete exam-ples from the field and provides workable solutions to optimize performance of Crystal Reports. Identify common landscape and data connectivity problems that compromise report performance. Learn to avoid design trends that can slow down report performance, such as sub-reporting. Understand your options for leveraging the new cache server to significantly enhance report run times. Get criteria for record selection, including key differences between absolute values and formulas. Gain insight into how sub-reporting and multi-pass reporting can slow down Crystal Reports performance, and come away with performance-enhancing workarounds. Get guidelines for leveraging native Crystal Reports drivers for database connectivity, and see how improper driver selection impacts report performance. Under-stand your options for performing grouping and sorting on the actual Crystal Reports server.

Insider Discussion ForumHow leading customers leverage SAP Crystal Reports to improve report presentation and user satisfactionJenny Shah, Capgemini

Engage in an interactive discussion with counterparts to find out how your peers are creatively deploying SAP Crystal Reports to present information in a more compelling, user-friendly format. Explore questions such as:

y How do I fully leverage SAP Crystal Reports capabilities without over-complicating report design?

y How do I prioritize my user “wish list” and distinguish between needs and wants?

y How can I more efficiently create groups, summary tables, and sub-reports?

y How do I ensure optimal data integration between SAP Crystal Reports and my back-end SAP system?

y How can I learn from others who are getting started with the latest version of SAP Crystal Reports?

Leave this session with expert advice and real-world strategies for better formatting and designing SAP Crystal Reports, while meeting the changing requirements of your end-user community.

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Case StudyAn inside look at McKesson’s deployment of SAP BusinessObjects for its financial dashboard and analysis requirementsRoss Wilson, McKesson

Get an overview of McKesson’s implemen-tation roadmap, methodology, and project plan, including why the company decided to use Xcelsius for its financial dashboard requirements, and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for drill-down capabilities. Step through examples of the collections and accounts receivable (A/R) dashboards at McKesson to see how Xcelsius is leveraged for high-level analysis and how SAP BusinessOb-jects Web Intelligence enables more detailed reporting on days sales outstanding (DSO), dispute status, and more. Discover how the company leverages Xcelsius and SAP Business- Objects Web Intelligence in conjunction with SAP NetWeaver BW data stores and InfoCubes for credit and dispute management reporting. See how McKesson optimized dashboard and report performance by leveraging query strip-ping capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and the SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS). Gain insight into lessons the com-pany learned as a result of its project, such as the importance of service pack installations and full integration between SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver landscapes.

Advanced techniques to design an Xcelsius dashboard like the gurusRyan Goodman, Centigon Solutions

Hoping to become a dashboard design expert? Attend this session to gather best practices for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard (formerly Xcelsius) design to confidently approach even the most complex dashboard requirements. Immerse yourself in advanced design tech-niques for multi-view dashboards, performance tuning, and data exploration — which are all required concepts to graduate from basic visu-alization to robust dashboards. Armed with advanced best practices, save hours of devel-opment time while ensuring you’re making the best use of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Discuss common dashboard design challenges including data volume overload, content scope creep, and mobile deployments, and learn how to overcome them in your organization. Gain important insight and take home sample designs to approach your next dashboard proj-ect with confidence.

2012 guide to building visually compelling and interactive SAP BusinessObjects dashboards Emily Mui, SAP

This session provides an overview of SAP Busi-nessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) capabilities and requirements, including archi-tectural considerations and best practices for leveraging it to give managers detailed, visual dashboards for improved decision-making. See how to easily incorporate different types of dashboards into your business environment without the need for custom development skills. Examine technical prerequisites, and understand the importance of up-front busi-ness and IT design, including well-defined and accepted key performance indicators (KPIs). Obtain best practices for dashboard develop-ment and design, including tips to get started — from dashboard layout to which design components to use. Know your options for data connectivity and examine criteria to help determine which one(s) will be most suitable for your requirements and landscape. Come away with tips to ensure the growth and adop-tion of dashboards for various decision-making requirements within your organization.

Case StudyShell International BV’s field-tested techniques for designing executive-level performance management reports and dashboards Steve Mutch, Shell International BV

Attend this session for a behind-the-scenes look at how Shell International BV creates perfor-mance management reports and dashboards for over 4,000 managers worldwide with SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW. Review some of the top technical challenges the company faced when integrating SAP Busi-nessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) with SAP NetWeaver BW, such as determin-ing the “right” number of characteristics in the queries. Get tips for ensuring consistent dash-board design across a global enterprise, and learn how integrated commentary and data write-back capabilities can help. Explore the rapid application development (RAD) design approach taken by the Shell International BV team to maximize self-service capabilities and minimize dashboard development time. See demonstrations of some of the company’s cus-tom-developed functionality improvements, such as dynamic charting.

Case StudyHow CHEP achieved better insight into company performance with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0Joanna Crane, CHEP

This session examines how CHEP, a global leader in pallet and container pooling services, deployed and optimized executive-level dashboards in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcel-sius). Explore the company’s data connectivity approach, including how it retrieves data from SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 via SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) queries and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Web services. Hear how CHEP resolved dashboard performance problems related to trend analysis by remodeling cubes, caching data, and leveraging the SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Get performance-enhancing tips from the company, including the best ways to fil-ter SAP NetWeaver BW data that is cached in SAP BusinessObjects. Step through a demo of CHEP’s dashboard for insight into its navigation and design techniques, including scorecard alerts and ticker messages. See how the company leverages flash variables for enhanced drill-down capabili-ties. Take home sample demonstrations of CHEP’s SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to reference while deploying and designing your own.

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Supercharge dashboard performance and usability by avoiding 10 design pitfalls Nivaan Linhares, Capgemini

This session reviews the 10 most common pitfalls of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) design, and offers proven strategies for overcoming them in your own BI environment. Receive guidelines for gathering dashboard requirements from different stake-holders — senior managers, users, functional analysts, and IT. Get tips for avoiding “cluttered” screens by arranging data more effectively, adding buttons to toggle between table and graph views, and using appropriate colors. Learn how to display a loading screen within your dashboards so end users know when new data is being loaded into charts or graphs. Walk through detailed examples of design methods proven to boost user adoption, such as the use of pop-ups, hover-over descriptions, or cus-tomized dialog boxes amongst others. Leave the presentation with insights and techniques for designing dashboards that are aligned with the way business users see and think.

Preventing, diagnosing, and resolving the 20 most common dashboard performance problemsDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

Prevent or correct the most common causes of poor dashboard performance by getting to the root cause of the problem — Excel, data source, universe, or design. Get criteria for selecting performance-enhancing themes, templates, layouts, and navigation paths. Know which Excel functions to avoid, such as decision branches and daisy-chained cells. Identify per-formance-enhancing options for data design and data store usage. Receive tips to lever-age pre-caching capabilities and guidelines to ensure adequate thread handling. Explore if and how in-memory processing can increase your query performance. Find out which add-on components help performance, and which ones to avoid. Understand your options for leveraging the data sharer component to pass data from a parent to child SWF, and see how this enhances performance and manageability of large-scale dashboards. Take home a diag-nostics checklist and troubleshooting guide for resolving dashboard performance problems.

Connecting SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to back-end SAP data sourcesChris Hickman, Decision First Technologies

This session examines the various SAP data connectivity options for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and identifies pros and cons from a functional, architectural, and performance perspective. Evaluate various out-of-the-box connection options for your dashboards, such as XML data sources, RSS data feeds, and Web services. Get tips for creating universes on the underlying database of an SAP ERP system, such as providing universe objects to build financial reports against the new general ledger. Deter-mine whether Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) or SAP BusinessObjects Live Office would be the best choice for bringing live data into your SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, and explore the 6 critical steps for developing a QaaWS con-nection. Learn when it makes sense to leverage SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS) connec-tivity, for example, when connecting directly to SAP NetWeaver BW. Weigh the pros and cons of leveraging portal data for dashboard connectiv-ity, such as enabling “communication” between multiple windows within an SAP BusinessObjects BI Workspace. Take home a decision matrix out-lining pros and cons of each data connectivity option outlined in this session.

Case StudyLessons learned from Peabody Energy’s use of SAP BEx and SAP BusinessObjects BI tools to develop and optimize executive-level dashboardsKeith Bowles, Peabody Energy

This session examines the processes and tech-nologies Peabody Energy leveraged to optimize its executive-level dashboard initiative, includ-ing insight into how the company overcame challenges such as aligning IT and business stake-holders to support its dashboard initiative. Get tips from Peabody Energy for performing role-based requirements gathering to ensure your dashboard contains the KPIs that matter most to your users. Get details on the specific SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) and SAP BusinessObjects BI tools the company used in its dashboard initiative to enable SAP, non-SAP, and SAP BusinessObjects reporting. Gain insight into how Peabody Energy imple-mented advanced formatting capabilities in its dashboards using the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) Web application designer tool and optimized dashboard performance with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Walk through a detailed dem-onstration of Peabody Energy’s executive-level SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and see firsthand how users can drill down into transac-tion-level details for more granular analysis.

Connecting SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to non-SAP data sourcesChris Hickman, Decision First Technologies

This session focuses on best practices for con-necting SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to non-SAP data sources. Evaluate various con-nectivity options, including XML Data, Flash Variables, and LCDS Connections, to deter-mine which would make the most sense for your organization. Get step-by-step instruc-tion for enabling a Web Services connection, ranging from setting up a Web Service URL to determining standard usage parameters. Eval-uate the pros and cons of using Flash Variables, such as incorporating data from any Web site that supports HTML into your dashboards and the ability to easily pull from multiple data sets. Receive best practices for using Adobe LiveCy-cle Data Services for dashboard connectivity, such as binding data destinations to a range of cells. Hear how new capabilities delivered with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 — including the new semantic layer and query browser connector — affect your data connec-tivity approach.

Customer Discussion ForumXcelsius dashboards at DellBrian Durning, Dell

Ask your toughest dashboard-related ques-tions to fellow Business Objects customers who have “been there” and “done that” in this casual and interactive forum. Join Brian Durn-ing from Dell to explore Xcelsius questions, such as:

y How can I create a standard look-and-feel for Xcelsius on an enterprise-wide level?

y What are the best ways to embed hyperlinks in Xcelsius for drill-down and self-service capabilities?

y What are the technical considerations for integrating Xcelsius with Crystal Reports or other BI solutions?

y How can I ensure only the highest quality data is populating my dashboard?

Leave this session with real-world strategies for deploying and designing Xcelsius within your organization.

Track 7: SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius)



30Track 7: SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius)


This session explores the specific nuances of tying SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports, and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) to your SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW systems. Find out which metadata layer will offer the best per-formance when incorporating SAP NetWeaver BW data into SAP Crystal Reports. Understand the differences between OLAP universes and relational universes, and how SAP Business- Objects Web Intelligence leverages OLAP uni-verses as a fundamental building block for reporting on SAP NetWeaver BW. Gain insight into the differences between pointing to an SAP NetWeaver BW query versus an InfoCube. Know when, why, and how to tweak your existing SAP NetWeaver BW queries for opti-mal report performance (and when you may need to build new queries). Delve into the dif-ferences between the available connectivity options for delivering quality Xcelsius dash-boards, including LiveOffice, Query as a Web Service (QaaWS), and SAP BI Consumer Ser-vices (BICS).

A guide to SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight: Helping managers respond more quickly to attention-worthy eventsMarie Goodell, SAP

This session explores the analytical capabil-ities of SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight and offers best practices for using the tool to deliver real-time insight to business users via dashboards and alerts. Explore the pre-built, output adapters available in SAP BusinessOb-jects Event Insight for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (previously called Xcelsius), along with the alert notification layer in the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform. Get best prac-tices for monitoring streaming business events from a variety of data sources in real time, and learn how to correlate this data with transac-tional data in SAP NetWeaver BW. Obtain tips for determining when events are “attention-worthy” as they happen in real-time, such as leveraging alert notifications. Understand the concept of an intelligence event grid and get tips for leveraging one to better monitor and track the progress of operational activities, including order placement, inventory levels, and delivery time.

Live DemoSAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.xEmily Mui, SAP

Attend this live demo to explore the newest dashboarding capabilities within SAP Busines-sObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius). Walk through best practices for dashboard develop-ment and design, including tips on positioning content, and see which chart types best meet specific business requirements. See how inte-gration capabilities introduced in the new release impact data connectivity.

BusinessObjectsexpertLIVEStrategies to better secure your dashboardsAnurag Barua, Strata-Gems Consulting

Don’t miss this opportunity to personally meet Anurag Barua, Business Intelligence Consul-tant, Strata-Gems Consulting, and engage in an updated discussion about one of his most widely read articles from BusinessOb-jects Expert — the leading publication and knowledgebase for the Business Objects com-munity. Discuss best practices for securing your Xcelsius dashboards. Learn how to estab-lish and deploy an enterprise-wide security strategy for Xcelsius dashboards, while still maintaining user-friendliness and flexibility. Explore the security implications of publishing a dashboard within your organization, and the various levels of access a user can have. Weigh the pros and cons of implementing dashboard security settings through the SAP BusinessOb-jects InfoView Portal vs. within the dashboard itself (once it’s been decoupled from the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Server), and determine which would work best in your organization.


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Mobile BI

Track 8

Data visualization techniques for tablet-based SAP analytics and dashboards Jim Cameron, ExpertiG

This session provides expert techniques for deploying SAP and SAP BusinessObjects dash-boards and other data visualization applications to tablets. Walk through the requirements and considerations that need to be examined before diving into the design of a data visual-ization interface for a tablet. Learn how tablet features like multi-touch interfaces, GPS sen-sors, and display capabilities enable you to move beyond charts and graphs and gain access to deeper data visualization capabil-ities — such as adding filters to examine a certain cut of the data. Examine trends in data visualization on the tablet such as online visu-alizations with which the user can interact. Take home a 15-point checklist for adding data visualization techniques to any mobile dash-board or chart.

Lessons to successfully configure SAP BusinessObjects analytic applications for iPad and iPhoneAmandeep Aggarwal, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Obtain detailed guidelines for configuring, run-ning, and maintaining analytics and business intelligence functionality from SAP and SAP BusinessObjects on iPhone and iPad devices. Understand the building blocks that an enter-prise must have in place such as the right analytics engine to process the data on the back end. Walk through the various config-urations to mobilize SAP BusinessObjects software, whether or not you run the Sybase Unwired Platform, and the key factors like the types of mobile devices and/or tablets that play a role in deciding which configuration options best suit your company. View a proof-of-con-cept that illustrates how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is used to display analytics on the iPad. Understand how the functionality of the application is retained, despite modifications necessary to accommodate an iPhone or iPad’s unique screen size and navigation controls.

Case StudyTwo apps are better than one: CSC’s strategy and project plan for simultaneously deploying mobile CRM and BI functionalityQuentin Fisher, CSC

Hear CSC candidly share successes, war sto-ries, and lessons learned from its own SAP CRM Mobile Sales and SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI implementation. Learn how CSC designed and rolled out a mobile solution that was tightly integrated with the company’s existing CRM and BI processes. Find out which func-tionality CSC started with and how it dealt with challenges of deploying both mobile applications simultaneously. Gain insight into the benefits CSC has realized, including faster, more accurate data capture, KPIs and reports. Come away with important advice for address-ing the unique staffing, skill set, and integration challenges of a multiple mobility apps being implemented at once.

How to deploy critical financial reports on the iPad Winni Hessel, Enowa

This session provides a detailed overview on how to deploy critical financial reports, such as income statements, balance sheets, and annual reports on the iPad. Walk through examples taken from a real-world financial reporting mobile project and learn the first steps you’ll need to take which include per-forming an assessment to determine what key information your executives and mobile users are looking to access from their iPad. Learn how to successfully set up the pilot project and avoid the most common pitfalls, such as inadequate security provisions and issues sur-rounding the integration of the iPad with back office systems for example setting up connec-tors to directly access information within your database. Get tips and tricks for integrating your existing business intelligence landscape with your iPad application to provide you team with interactive reports and visualizations as opposed to static data.

Case StudySAP BusinessObjects Explorer goes mobile at Fujitsu AmericaVenkata Sai Murali Daliboyina, Fujitsu America

This session explains how Fujitsu America accessed, launched, and configured its Web-based mobile SAP BusinessObjects Explorer application to keep up with its mobile work-force and increased volume of data. Step through examples of how Fujitsu’s sales and marketing teams are able to calculate mar-gins and make forecasts in real-time via their mobile devices. View a live demonstration that illustrates how Fujitsu accesses SAP Business- Objects Explorer and Xcelsius dashboards on its iPhone and iPad devices. Hear firsthand Fujitsu’s project experiences, including key les-sons for adding search tips, wildcards, filters, as well as sorting data and bookmarks. Come away with an understanding of how Fujitsu makes annual reports, budgets, forecasts, profit margins and other critical business intel-ligence consumable to users of mobile devices.



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A comprehensive guide to SAP’s mobile analytics roadmapNic Smith, SAP

In today’s highly mobilized workforce, the need for timely business intelligence does not end when your employees leave the office. Walk through SAP’s mobile analytics road-map and technology strategy and learn what functionality SAP provides to supply mobile workers with real-time visibility into their proj-ect schedules, available resources, and key performance indicators (KPIs). Get practical advice for delivering the right targeted ana-lytics to your mobile workers to ensure that these align with your organization’s budgets and plans. Find out how to get analyses and critical alerts on mobile devices to make more informed decisions faster, and take action on decisions no matter where you are. Walk through real-world business use cases and learn how other organizations have success-fully brought together transactions, analytics, and real-time information.

Mobilizing reports, analytics, and BI functionality from SAP on the BlackBerry PlayBook Shay Dillon, RIM

Learn how to extend your organization’s exist-ing SAP business intelligence content to the BlackBerry PlayBook. This session will examine and walk you through best practices, key archi-tecture considerations, and design methods required to transition existing dashboards, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer or SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI analytic applications to the PlayBook. Hear how to configure your devices to enable BlackBerry push technology that constantly updates data, enabling you to make better, faster decisions. Find out how the Sybase Unwired Platform integrates with the PlayBook, and determine whether and how it could improve data man-agement and security. Take home a quick reference guide that outlines key differences in configuring business intelligence applications for BlackBerry smartphones as compared to the BlackBerry PlayBook.

Introducing Sybase Unwired Platform: Capabilities, requirements, and benefitsBrad Surak, Sybase

As the use of mobile devices rapidly increases, so does the need to deliver business analyt-ics to users in real-time. Learn how running the Sybase Unwired Platform in conjunction with business analytics from SAP provides an enterprise mobile platform that allows you to integrate data and information for more timely analytics. Learn what steps you can take to relieve the congestion created by traditional data management systems and data ware-houses. Get tips for reducing overdependence on you IT department for ad hoc analysis and interactive visualization by adding function-ality that puts more power into the hands of the user. Find out how to utilize the Sybase Unwired Platform to securely and efficiently deliver data to an increasingly mobile user base in a format that is suited for all devices. Leave this session equipped with proven tech-niques for utilizing Sybase Unwired Platform to link valuable data and resources to your ana-lytic applications and securely deliver business analytic information anytime, anywhere.

Live DemoMobile business intelligence (BI)Pierre Leroux, SAP

Attend this live demonstration session to explore the latest mobile offerings for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solu-tions, and evaluate which would best meet your organization’s unique on-the-go needs. Gain insight into the SAP mobility roadmap to create a strong foundation for your own mobile strategy on your team’s iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys, Androids, and more.

An inside look at the mobile capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerThierry Audas, SAP

This session explores the latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer — within the suite of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions — and the mobile capabilities it offers. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to cre-ate interactive views of information that can be shared on any device. Understand how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, combined with in-memory computing technologies like SAP HANA can give business users self-service access to real-time data on a variety of mobile devices. Review the product roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to understand how its mobile options will evolve in the coming years. Understand how to bring self-service BI to new users with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer combined with SAP in-memory com-puting technologies. Align with SAP’s product roadmap for data exploration on any device.

Live DemoSAP BusinessObjects ExplorerThierry Audas, SAP

Attend this live demo to see firsthand how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer allows you to cre-ate interactive views of information that can be shared on any device. Understand how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, combined with the in-memory computing technologies of SAP HANA can give business users self-service access to real-time data on a variety of mobile devices.

Track 8: Mobile BI


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Business planning and consolidation (BPC)

Mastering both the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and ConsolidationDavid Dixon, Independent Consultant

This session provides a comprehensive overview of the key differences between the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Explore the five user interfaces available within SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation — Web, Server Man-ager, Office, Word, and PowerPoint — and learn what is required to access them. Hear how to lever-age business process flows (BPFs) to guide users through a sequence of tasks, as well as monitor and report on the status of planning and consol-idation processes. Walk through the four distinct methods for creating reports and input sched-ules (i.e., EvDRE builder, drag-and-drop reporting, dynamic templates, or creating them from scratch) and know which method to use, depending on your needs. Understand the significance of the action pane, current view, and dynamic hierarchy editor when creating input schedules and reports.

Case StudyNew Balance Athletic Shoe improves the flexibility and efficacy of financial consolidations and management reportingTodd Paulauskas, New Balance Athletic Shoe

Go behind the scenes with New Balance Athletic Shoe to see how it leveraged SAP Busi-nessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5, version for the Microsoft platform for finan-cial and management reporting, as well as budgeting and forecasting. Understand how the company developed an internal business case for implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation across its global, multi-data source environment. Explore how the company leverages input templates, data manager, SSIS packages, and script logic to load financial data into BPC. Gain insight into how the company built separate applications that leveraged out of-the-box functionality to accomplish financial, management and statu-tory reporting. Obtain best practices from the company to ensure a successful implementa-tion, and hear about the benefits they have already derived. Hear how a single BPC cost center variance report has drastically improved monthly analysis for the New Balance Athletic Shoe financial team.

Everything you need to know about the latest reporting capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0David Williams, SAP

This session highlights the new reporting features available in the latest release (10.0) of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Con-solidation, covering both the version for the Microsoft platform and the version for SAP NetWeaver. Attend to explore the latest plan-ning and consolidation capabilities within the 10.0 release, or to determine which release or version would be most suitable to your specific environment. Learn how the new enterprise performance management (EPM) Excel client – part of the new SAP BusinessObjects EPM Add-In for Microsoft Office – along with the new Web user interface provides enhanced reporting and planning capabilities. View demonstrations and get tips for leveraging new BPC reporting capabilities, such as drag-and-drop and IntelliSense. Hear real-world SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-tion 10.0 use cases from other customers, and take home a “Solution in Detail” document for the version for SAP NetWeaver or version for the Microsoft platform.

Key considerations for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation adoption and data migrationScott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises

This session explores the many adoption and migration paths available when moving from other SAP planning and consolidation tools to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolida-tion. Get answers to critical decisions that must be made before embarking on a BPC imple-mentation, for example, whether to start with planning or consolidation. Determine whether older SAP solutions you may be running still have a role in your planning and consolida-tion processes, even if you use BPC. Discuss the specific challenges of moving from BPC, version for the Microsoft platform, to the ver-sion for SAP NetWeaver, such as handling case sensitivity and dimension member formulas — and get proven strategies for overcoming them. Hear detailed, real-world examples that illustrate the successes and challenges expe-rienced by other SAP customers who have chosen to adopt the planning and consolida-tion application. Take home a checklist of key decisions and tasks that must be addressed before deciding whether to migrate data or re-implement the application.

Track 9



34Track 9: Business planning and consolidation (BPC)

Data modeling techniques for architecting a high-performing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation environmentScott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises

Examine the various data modeling options available within SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and evaluate the impact each option has on your solution’s security, per-formance, and usability. Explore best practices for determining dimension types, and incor-porating planned/actual data into your overall data strategy. Get criteria to help you decide whether to take a data mart versus enterprise data warehouse (EDW) approach to modeling BPC data. Gain insight into when you should leverage application sets (versus application modeling) to ensure optimized performance. Leave with guidance for compounding time dependencies and determine whether to limit the size of your characteristic values ahead of time, or generate new characteristic values to integrate with BPC. Understand the impact your data model will have on script logic and custom coding. Discover best practices for pull-ing non-account-based models (e.g., from SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning) into BPC.

Case StudyHow Colgate created an end-to-end capital management system with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaverNik Patel, Colgate

Learn how Colgate empowered its end users to create their own capital expenditure pro-posals in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation through a self-service Web Dyn-pro portal. Hear how this self-service portal allows users to create capital expenditure pro-posals as BPC master data objects on the fly. Gain insight into how Colgate is able to cre-ate a Web-based application with drop-down menus to allow for consistent creation of mas-ter data by end users — without the need for a central administrator. Step through demos of the BPC reporting features Colgate uses to quickly compare budgets versus actual costs. Gain insight into how the company integrated BPC with SAP Business Workflow to create an automatic approval process for project funding. Understand how Colgate leveraged pre-delivered SAP content, such as BAPIs, to overcome challenges associated with master data management and integration between SAP NetWeaver BW and BPC integration. Hear how the organization ensured data integrity in its new capital management environment by automating the creation of internal orders and reconciliation of cash spending.

Hands-on LabLeveraging SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to derive maximum value from planning, budgeting, and forecasting activitiesJens Koerner, Rich Heilman, and Bruno Ranchy, SAP Labs

This hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction to set up and use SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver.

y Learn how to use standard reporting and formatting functionality, including the use of properties.

y Get tips for leveraging the new SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) 10.0 Excel and web reporting functionality.

y Go beyond core functionality and explore the best ways to create and use input schedules, data import capabilities, drill-thru to BEx and Business Process Flows (BPFs).

y Receive an overview of the enhanced financial consolidation functionality within BPC, including the consolidation monitor, journals, ownership management and controls.

y Explore best practices for creating SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) leveraging BPC data for greater financial analysis and data visualization.


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Infuse more interactivity and formatting into your reports using SAP BEx toolsDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

Get proven techniques to leverage SAP Busi-ness Explorer (SAP BEx) functionality, including currency conversion, convert to formula, exception aggregation, and planning settings, for aesthetically pleasing reports. Step through a demo of how to build a presentation-quality report that managers can easily read right away without the need for an extra third-party solu-tion. Uncover little-known formatting tricks, such as how to fine-tune presentation layouts using a combination of BEx Analyzer and SAP BEx query designer tools. Step through exam-ples of advanced design elements and features in SAP BEx, such as check boxes, radio buttons, and drop-down lists, which you can use to cre-ate user-friendly reports. Get best practices for formatting and printing directly from the Web or with Microsoft Excel.

Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver Portal for centralized insight into enterprise-wide reporting initiativesPatrick Dixon, Independent Consultant

This session offers proven strategies for lever-aging SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and SAP NetWeaver Portal to create a uni-fied, enterprise-wide reporting center within your organization. Review the technical pre-requisites for developing a reporting center, such as integrating various reporting applica-tions within SAP BusinessObjects — such as SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence — and SAP NetWeaver BW. Get best practices for defining and implementing a reporting cen-ter, and identify “must-have” features, including intuitive navigation and report broadcasting. Review the various presentation styles you can adopt within your reporting center – ranging from basic to sophisticated – and understand which style would best appeal to different user groups. Gain insight into the top chal-lenges faced when deploying a portal-based reporting center, such as creating standardized navigation paths, and receive best practices for overcoming them. Acquire tips for secur-ing your reporting center by determining and assigning access levels through your portal, BI, and BW solutions.

Case StudyStreamlining reporting and planning processes at Abbott Medical Optics using BEx Web application designerJing Dong and Carmel Sanjeevi, Abbott Medical Optics

Examine the processes and technologies used by Abbott Medical Optics to optimize reporting and planning processes by extract-ing demand, supply, inventory, and financial data into a single dashboard. Explore how the company integrates data from various sources — including SAP Advanced Planning & Opti-mization (SAP APO), business planning and simulation, SAP ERP, and SAP NetWeaver BW — into a BEx Web application designer dash-board. See how this streamlines financial and demand planning processes and enables the company to quickly react to market changes and ensure appropriate supply and demand balance. Learn how the company improved financial and demand planning integration with routine unit and dollar comparisons. Step through demos that show how Abbott Medical Optics designed and developed its dashboard to support real-time decision making with enhanced product hierarchies and key figures. Explore the slice-and-dice and dynamic pre-sentation capabilities that enable users to view the most up-to-date demand, sales, inventory, and financial KPIs in one click.

Rapid dashboard development with SAP NetWeaver Visual ComposerDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

This session offers best practices for modeling and deploying dashboard and cockpit appli-cations with SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. Explore different options for SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer data access, including SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP ERP, and Web services. See a demo that shows how to build an SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer cockpit in min-utes and get expert recommendations for integrating external graphs, data feeds, and custom-made Adobe Flash objects. Explore proven practices for performance tuning back-end queries and data stores, such as leveraging aggregates and memory caching. Understand the role SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer plays in an environment that includes SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects solu-tions and come away with an understanding of how SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer fits into the new SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 landscape.


Track 10

SAP NetWeaver BW reports and analyses


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Track 10: SAP NetWeaver BW reports and analyses

Unleash the power of your Excel-based reporting environment with SAP BEx and SAP BusinessObjects AnalysisJoerg Boeke, BI Analysts

Obtain best practices to accelerate Excel-based report execution and distribution in SAP NetWeaver BW, including tips to activate the proper server-side and client-side parameters. Explore new ways to reduce Excel file size for improved report distribution. Gain insight into which Excel habits compromise report perfor-mance. Step through a demo that shows how to create a simple planning application based on native Excel features that transfers back into the SAP NetWeaver BW InfoProvider. See when it makes sense to leverage Microsoft add-ons like PowerPivot to enable enhanced analytical capabilities without the need for hardware optimization solutions. Explore per-formance-enhancing Excel features, such as the individual refresh option for single queries when using multiple queries in a workbook. Step through a demo that shows how to lever-age Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) commands to speed up reporting on the client side. Take home a customized Excel template with Microsoft Visual Basic for Appli-cations (VBA) for SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis.

BIexpertLIVEBEx Analyzer tips to make the lives of end and power users easierAnurag Barua, Strata-Gems Consulting

Don’t miss this opportunity to personally meet Anurag Barua, Business Intelligence Consul-tant, Strata-Gems Consulting, and engage in an updated discussion about one of his most widely read articles from BI Expert — the leading publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage business intelli-gence solutions from SAP. Explore 5 proven tips for leveraging BEx Analyzer to boost both power user and end user adoption. Learn how to quickly and easily access the BEx Analyzer toolbar within the “Add-in” component of a Microsoft Excel-based user interface. Receive best practices for identifying mandatory fields in the query selection window. Learn how to edit a query within the BEx Query Designer directly from the BEx Analyzer interface. Hear how to make selection parameter (values) reappear via the change variable values icon from the BEx Analyzer menu. Leave this session with these and other concrete tips for ensuring seamless navigation within BEx Analyzer.


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How to build a scalable security model for an integrated SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects landscapeDiane Smith, Deloitte

Examine proven approaches to create a unified and scalable security architecture for your inte-grated BI landscape. See how to map Active Directory objects in SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP BusinessObjects solutions. Get tips on how to prepare SAP NetWeaver BW queries to integrate with SAP BusinessObjects so reports automati-cally apply user authorizations. Explore options for applying LDAP user settings and access levels in SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. Understand what’s required to config-ure SAP BusinessObjects tools in a way that does not violate existing security definitions in your SAP NetWeaver BW system. Get tips for naming folders, groups, and object types so that they’re transportable across an integrated environment. Identify integration pitfalls that can cause secu-rity problems, such as too narrowly defining your security model. Take home a security dia-gram for an integrated SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects environment, along with a tip sheet for naming conventions.

You unplugged what? Strategies and technologies for safeguarding your BI landscapeJared Ellwein, People Services

This session covers the often-slighted but critically important topic of backup, restore, and recovery options for a Business Objects BI environment, and offers best practices for using Business Objects import wizard and the lifecycle management con-sole to support your security strategy. Weigh the pros and cons of creating a restore strategy at the system, report, or universe level and get criteria to help determine which approach is most suitable for your requirements. Review the key components of an effective restore or backup plan, including designated testing periods and restore instructions. Examine use case scenarios to see how the Business Objects import wizard and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 lifecycle management console can be used to support an organization’s disaster recovery strat-egy. See how to leverage the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 lifecycle management console to ensure ver-sion control during system restoration, or to export content from a BOE deployment to a Business Intel-ligence Archive Resource (BIAR) file. Learn how the import wizard can be automatically scheduled to backup content to an archive.

Real-world lessons to size, scale, and integrate your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 landscape for optimal performanceJay Riddle, COMERIT

This session draws on concrete examples from several SAP Ramp-Up customers and provides practical solutions to ensure your SAP Business- Objects BI 4.0 landscape is running at optimal efficiency. Assess the pros and cons of hori-zontal versus vertical scaling methods and determine which would work best in your spe-cific BI landscape. Understand the performance implications of leveraging SAP BusinessOb-jects BI solutions to report directly from SAP ERP versus SAP NetWeaver BW. Explore which SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 integration points have the biggest impact on system perfor-mance, and learn how to use the DSL bridge service to optimize SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS) connectivity for SAP NetWeaver BW. Obtain sizing recommendations that will give you the greatest control over report and dash-board performance. Understand your options for leveraging server groups and nodes to monitor and manage the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 platform. Take home an architectural diagram of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 within an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver environment, including typical reporting workflows.

A technical guide to SAP NetWeaver BW landscape optimizationJoerg Boeke, BI Analysts

This session offers dozens of real-world tips, advice, and best practices to boost the perfor-mance of your SAP NetWeaver BW system. Weigh your options for monitoring and improving the efficiency of Excel and Web-based reporting activities and get guidelines for analyzing your findings. Obtain proven tips to evaluate the ongoing status of your system, including which transaction codes, tables, and functions to mon-itor to identify and isolate areas that are most likely to cause performance issues. Get tips for tuning data load performance, and step through real-world examples of how other SAP custom-ers have decreased load time by 30 percent. Obtain best practices for database management, including tips for building or rebuilding SAP NetWeaver BW indices. Take home documenta-tion outlining administrative tasks that must be addressed to keep an SAP NetWeaver BW sys-tem running smoothly, including key SAP Notes.

Expert techniques for diagnosing and resolving performance and integration problems in your BI environmentKevin Hutto, Kingfisher

Learn how to leverage new advanced search and content linking capabilities available in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 workspace for better insight into business and system per-formance. Get customization tips to meet the needs of specific functional or user groups, such as securing tabular content for individual users and groups, and become familiar with the various tabs and browser settings avail-able in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 workspaces. Compare new workspace capabilities with those of the dashboard manager tool in the SAP BusinessObjects BI 3.x release, for exam-ple, content linking, and tab based creation of personalized content. Obtain best practices for migrating dashboard manager content into an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 workspace, includ-ing tips for leveraging BIAR files, along with a transfer toolset for bringing objects to the new system. Learn how to use visual content linking to enable tighter integration between dashboards and reporting objects. Understand how to administer and manage a workspace, and the various access levels you can deploy for optimized security in terms of what content is available for users to consume and publish in the workspace.

Track 11

BI security and performance optimization



38Track 11: BI security and performance optimization

A comprehensive introduction to the Business Objects BI security modelDallas Marks, Kalvin Consulting

This presentation offers an introductory look at the Business Objects BI security model, along with guidelines and technical best practices for ensuring your SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise or Business Objects Edge Series landscape is secure. Get an overview of the key compo-nents of a Business Objects security model, including functional security, data security, and infrastructure security, and understand which should be implemented first. Explore options for defining custom access levels to simplify user and application security, including tips for assigning multiple access levels to a sin-gle user. Prevent unexpected access rights for groups and users with tips to establish varying levels of inheritance. Learn how to leverage the scope of rights component to assign specific access rights to sub-folders. Understand how to use Central Management Console (CMC) features like Permissions Explorer and Security Query to identify and troubleshoot potential threats to your security model.

Lessons for smoothly integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI with your ERP and BW solutionsIngo Hilgefort, SAP Canada

Attend this session for an introductory explo-ration of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, the reporting and analysis capabilities they offer, and deployment options for running them within an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW land-scape. Understand which SAP BusinessObjects BI solution, including SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intel-ligence, or SAP Crystal Reports, would meet your organization’s reporting requirements. Gain insight into planned enhancements for the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x suite and beyond, and learn how future reporting and dashboarding capabilities could shape your organization’s BI roadmap. Explore the vari-ous data connectivity and integration options between the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite and SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW environments, and learn how the new SAP BI Consumer Services (BICS) functionality within SAP Busi-nessObjects BI 4.x plays a role. Receive best practices for leveraging existing BI investments within SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP in a newly implemented SAP BusinessObjects 4.x landscape.

Preventing, diagnosing, and resolving the 20 most common dashboard performance problemsDr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT

Prevent or correct the most common causes of poor dashboard performance by getting to the root cause of the problem — Excel, data source, universe, or design. Get criteria for selecting performance-enhancing themes, templates, layouts, and navigation paths. Know which Excel functions to avoid, such as decision branches and daisy-chained cells. Identify per-formance-enhancing options for data design and data store usage. Receive tips to lever-age pre-caching capabilities and guidelines to ensure adequate thread handling. Explore if and how in-memory processing can increase your query performance. Find out which add-on components help performance, and which ones to avoid. Understand your options for leveraging the data sharer component to pass data from a parent to child SWF, and see how this enhances performance and manageability of large-scale dashboards. Take home a diag-nostics checklist and troubleshooting guide for resolving dashboard performance problems.

Lessons for speeding data processing and analysis using a multi-data source BI environmentHari Guleria, HCL Axon

Understand the benefits of deploying an alter-native or additional data warehouse — such as boosting SAP NetWeaver BW report perfor-mance — with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator or SAP HANA. Acquire tips for identifying and selecting the best alternative data source to meet your business requirements. Hear real-world examples of how other companies have effectively implemented alternative data sources, including SAP HANA and Teradata. Learn how to implement global BI standards, processes, and methodologies within a multi-data warehouse environment for high quality data. Explore the “dos and don’ts” of a multi-data warehouse data flow, and hear real-world pitfalls from other SAP customers. Take home sample business cases for a multi-data ware-house environment, along with a list of best practices for deployment and data flow.

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� An architectural diagram of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 within an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver environment, including typical reporting workflows

� A decision matrix of each reporting tool’s strength points to ensure you’re leveraging the correct tools in your organization

� Sample business cases for a multi-data warehouse environment, along with a list of best practices for deployment and data flow

� A list of commonly-used formulas for high-performing SAP Crystal Reports

� Documentation outlining administrative tasks that must be addressed to keep an SAP NetWeaver BW system running smoothly, including key SAP Notes

� A 15-point checklist for adding data visualization techniques to any mobile dashboard or chart

� Sample documents detailing functional and technical data migration design, data mapping spreadsheets, cutover plans, and data validation scripts

� Documentation on how to design and develop input templates and reports in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, Microsoft version

� Sample code to optimize SAP BusinessObjects BI functionality within your own organization

� A security diagram for an integrated SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects environment, along with a tip sheet for naming conventions

� A sample work plan for installing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, and a template for planning, budgeting, and rolling it out in your organization

� A document listing best practices for optimizing InfoCube dimensions

� Detailed instructions to create a Web Dynpro Java application and integrate it with a BlackBerry device

� A comprehensive decision matrix to help choose the right development method for your dashboarding needs

� A quick reference guide that outlines key differences in configuring business intelligence applications for BlackBerry smartphones as compared to the BlackBerry PlayBook

� A customized Excel template with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

� A sample BI roadmap and checklist to help determine an effective BI strategy for your organization

� Business value attainment (BVA) checklist for BI project managers, along with a white paper comparing the costs of pre- and post-go-live fixes

� A checklist outlining the steps required to build a new BI COE or optimize the one you already have

� Sample code and system settings for optimized ETL processes

� A template to start planning your own SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator implementation, including advice to plan for the management, training, and support of the technology

� A list of considerations for change management and end user training, including how to prepare your organization from both technical and functional perspectives

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