SAP BO Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 BI Workspaces 4.0 Introduction to BI Workspaces

1. SAP BO Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 BI Workspaces 4.0Introduction to BI Workspaces Confidential

2. Positioning and Overview: Lesson Objectives • After completing this lesson, you will be able to: • Explain the positioning and value of BI Workspaces • Describe the main changes and enhancements in BI Workspaces for the 4.0 release. • Describe new administration and management

3. Agenda Introduction to BI Workspaces What’s New in BI Workspaces 4.0 Administration and Management Features

4. What is BI Workspaces? • Browser based. • SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence suite capability, available for all users. Not a separate license. • An evolution of the product Dashboard Builder. • Accessed viaBI launch pad or standalone via openDocument. • Key Capabilities: • Organizing and displaying all kinds of BusinessObjects content, as well as Web, 3rd party, and agnostic content. • Easy and intuitive Runtime Authoring environment for creating and modifying content. • Integral inter-portletcommunication framework for enabling components on page to exchange information. • Preview and Print a page or the whole workspace . Visual Reporting, Analysis Other Content Dashboards Web Intelligence Analysis Crystal Reports Agnostic Web Content HomePage Modules BI workspaces

5. Agenda Introduction to BI Workspaces What’s New in BI Workspaces 4.0 Administration and Management Features

6. Designing and Viewing BI Workspaces Key Enhancements • Better viewing experience with: • Scrolling tabs. • View of latest Web Intelligence report. • Accessibility compliance. • Multiple viewers on page. • Streamlined creation of enhanced workspaces with: • In-place renaming. • Search in toolbox, powered by Endeavour. • Toolbox docking. • Resizable columns in docking mode. • Improved content linking capabilities with: • Visual content linking wizard. • Granular linking between reports. • Simpler workspace management flows: • Simplified workflows for creating new workspaces. • Simplified workflows for saving workspaces. Visual Content Linking Search in Module Library

7. Managing and Administering BI Workspaces Key Enhancements • Easier deployment and upgrade: • Smaller footprint on server – reduced to only 3 servers. • Componentization. • Easier migration process with automatic discovery for content in Upgrade Manager . • Better management and control: • Ability to grant editing permission per workspace. • Multilingual support with Translation management tool for workspace and tab names. • Better monitoring and supportability: • Auditing of workspaces. • Unified logging and tracing. • Instrumentation and Solution Manager integration. • Enhanced support in standard viewing enablers: • Java Portal Integration Kit (PIK). • openDocument. CMC Applications Portal Integration Kit

8. Integration with BI Launch Pad • The out-of-the-box BI launch pad home page can be replaced by a custom page (compound module) or a BI workspace. • All BI launch pad modules (such as Recently Viewed Documents or My Alerts) are also available in the Module Library for re-use. Key Message

9. Visual Content Linking • Introduction to ports and connections • Supports granular linking with parameter mapping • Support XcelsiusExternal Interface, Portal Data and FS command connections • WebI and Crystal Reports: Prompt and filters • New visual editor for content linking

10. Content Linking XI 3.1 vs. Content Linking XI 4.0 • Content Linking XI 4.0 • Visual Editor • Overall view of linking on a page level • Only linkable modules are displayed • Exposes linking meta-data (prompts, range names, filters, etc.) • Granular Parameter Mapping • Introducing ports end parameters • Enables mapping between parameters with unmatched names. • Content Linking XI 3.1 • Form-based Editor • Linking view on a module level • All modules are displayed • No meta-data exposure • No mapping ability • Linking is set based on declaration only. Two modules can be connected only if they are designed to match.

11. What can be Linked? Xcelsius Viewer Crystal Report Compound WebI

12. About Ports • Legacy • out-port • Ports are entities describe the interface of a module. Each port is characterized by action and data. Each module can have 0..n in-ports and 0..n out-ports. • In-port: represent an action that will be executed when certain data is received. E.g. : Prompt in-port of a WebI module will be re-launched with the prompts data. In-ports are visualized at the left side of the module frame. • Out-port: represent the data that will be sent when a certain action is performed. For example: the cell that is sent when the user press a button in the Xcelsius module. Out-ports are visualized at the right side of the module frame. • Granular • out-port • Ports details (name, direction and parameters) • There are two types of ports: • Legacy ports: Have no parameters, hence there is no indication on the data that these ports deal with and parameter mapping is not possible. They are called “legacy” since they compatible with previous releases content linking method. • Granular ports: Have parameters that provides information on the data these ports expect to send/receive. Facilitate parameter mapping. • These two types have distinct visualizations. • You cannot connect a legacy port to a granular port, and vice-versa.

13. About Connections • Connection is an entity to describe how a source module is passing information to a target module. It consist of: • The source port: the out-port of the source module. • The target port: the in-port of the target module. • Parameter mapping (for granular connection) between parameter in the source port to the parameters in the target port. The mapping enables correct data exchange even if the names are not match. • There are two connection types: • Legacy connection between legacy ports: Does not include parameter mapping. Are visualized as straight lines. • Granular connection between granular ports: Require parameter mapping. Are visualized as Curled lines with little circle indicates the number of mapped parameters.

14. Removal of Visualization Analytics from 4.0 Note 1375008: “As part of the product rationalization process, SAP has decided to discontinue investing in the Dashboard Builder visualization analytics. This means the last version that Dashboard Builder will ship these analytics is in XI 3.1, including service packs. These analytics will not be included in the next major release of the SAP BusinessObjects product portfolio…” The following analytics are removed: • Gauges: speedometer, barometer, thermometer, traffic lights • Charts: interactive metric trend, radar chart, bubble chart, pie chart, data exploration • The proposed solution is to replace those analytics with Dashboards visualizations.

15. Agenda Introduction to BI Workspaces What’s New in BI Workspaces 4.0 Administration and Management Features

16. Platform and Architecture changes • Componentization: • Part of the platform change (OSGi) • OSGi defines software components as bundles which can be dynamically installed and removed • Better performance • Reduced server footprint • Removed all Performance Management related servers : AADMining, AAMetrics, AAProfiler, AAQueryMgr, AARepoMgt, AARules, AASPC • Only AAAnalytics and AADashboard remain • Browser support – IE8 and Mozilla 3.6

17. Content Migration and Content Promotion • Upgrade Manager tool is used to migrate content form BOE XI 3.x to BOE XI 4.0 • Supported content for migration – only Live to Live, not via a BIAR files • My InfoView object are migrated to a BI workspace that is located in the user private folder (My Favorite) • My Dashboard object are migrated to a BI workspace in the user private folder • Corporate Dashboard are migrated to a BI workspace under the public folder • Analytics (modules in XI 4.0) • LCM is used to promote content between 2 BOE XI 4.0 machines

18. Management and Control • Ability to grant editing permission per workspace. Better control over security is provided by granting editing permissions on the workspace level.

19. Management and Control • Multilingual support with Translation management tool for workspace, tab and subtab names.

20. OpenDocumentURL • URL access only via OpenDocument • openAnalytic not supported any longer • Base URL : http://<server_name>:<port>/BOE/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp? • Parameters : • CUID: iDocID=<document_ID>&sIDType=<CUID> • NavPos: iDocID=<document_ID>&navPos=<tab_number,subtab_number> • Spath: sPath=<[folder_name]>&sDocName=<dashboard_name> • NavNames: iDocID=<document_ID>&navNames=<tab_name,subtab_name>

21. Other New Features • Auditing – Audit view and edit • Accessibility – Support in view mode, high contrast style • Supportability – System Landscape Directory, Solution Manager Diagnostics, Instrumentation, SAP Passport

22. Positioning and Overview: Lesson Summary • After completing this lesson, you should now be able to: • Explain the positioning and value of BI Workspaces • Describe the main changes and enhancements in BI Workspaces for the 4.0 release. • Describe new administration and management features

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