SAP BusinessObjects 4.0

Standard Reporting & Alerts Dashboards & Scorecards Self-Service & Light Analysis Guided Search Heavy Analysis Executive, Manager Information Consumer Business Analyst Professionally Informed Technically Capable Essbase BEx / BOBJ Analysis Advanced Modeling & Statistics Xcelsius Crystal Reports Text Analysis Text Mining Advanced Visualization & Discovery Visualization & Discovery Forecast & Model Deployment Web Intelligence & Explorer SAP BusinessObjects – Software

Key New Capabilities in BOBJ 4.0 Allow analytics to be delivered in a targeted fashion to any mobile device with visual interactivity and smart search across the content. This is further enhanced by allowing all corporate data to be visible on the mobile device instantly through In-Memory analytics. Mobility Universes can now include multiple sources making report authoring tremendously easier, enabling new analytic applications, and providing faster time-to-value. Data Federation Improved usability for end-users, analysts and Administrators. Visualizations, terminology, and menus are used consistently across the entire BI Tool Suite. Ad- hoc analysis and report design workflows are common across the BI suite with common use of the query panel. User Experience Optimized for 64 bit, virtualization, and in-memory technologies. New system monitoring, diagnostics and alerting to optimize deployment. Best integration and performance on SAP systems leveraging native BW connectivity for improved integration and speed on SAP BW. Performance

Tool Name Changes in BOBJ 4.0 BOBJ XI 3.1 ToolBOBJ BI 4.0 Tool Crystal Reports 2008Crystal Reports 2011 Web Intelligence Rich ClientInteractive Analysis Desktop XcelsiusDashboard Design Explorer InfoViewBI Launch Pad Query as a Web ServiceQuery as a Web Service Designer Translation ManagerTranslation Management Tool VoyagerAdvanced Analysis – Web DesignerUniverse Design Tool

Key Capabilities - Highlights Information Design Tool (IDT) – New Tool to design new common semantic layer – Data Federation. Multi-source universes – Future Universe Replacement Web Intelligence – Hierarchy Support. Display/Filter/Prompt – Improved printing support – New Visualizations and Charts – Improved Office Integration Advanced Analysis – New Tool to perform OLAP analysis - Web/Office – Future BEx replacement

Key Capabilities - Highlights BI Launch Pad (formerly InfoView) – Improved End User Portal Experience – Improved Search & Navigation – Replacement for InfoView Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CR4E) – New Tool for business user authored formatted reports – Future replacement for Crystal Reports 2011 Dashboard Design (formerly Xcelsius) – Combined design/runtime object – Improved data binding and display options

Key Capabilities - Highlights BOBJ Mobile (MobI) – New Tool for Targeted BI Content – Deliver existing WebI/CR on mobile devices – Available on iDevices (iPad, iPod, iPhone) – Future: Android support BOBJ Explorer – Platform Integration BI Launch Pad >> Open from folder Live Office >> Send to Explorer from Excel – Updated Desktop and Mobile User Experience

Degree of End User Impact ComponentAdministrators BusinessObjects Reporting & Analytics team AuthorsConsumers CMCLowN/A LCMHighN/A Universe Design ToolLow N/A Information Design ToolHigh N/A BI Launch PadMediumHigh Web IntelligenceLowHighMedium Crystal Reports 2011Low Dashboards 4.0Medium Low Advanced AnalysisHigh Crystal Reports for EnterpriseHigh Low Mobile BI (MoBI)High ExplorerLow Live OfficeLow

BOBJ 4.0 Demo

Key Upcoming Dates Training – Training Kick-Off: Week of May 23 rd – Train-the-trainers: June – Training: End of June through July Testing – Early Adopters: Week of May 16 th – IS/Power Users: Mid-June start in sandbox – Dev/QA Testing: July Go-Live – July 23 rd, 2011

Post July Go-Live Timeline August SAP BOBJ MobileSAP BOBJ SharePoint Integration December SAP BOBJ Data Federator

Useful Links Project website Charter Detailed Timeline

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Milestone Timeline MARCH Virtual Server for Sandbox Requested Built LCM Server Sandbox Requested Software Installed Sandbox Define Training Needs Infrastructure Kickoff Ramp Up Coach on Board APRIL LCM Server Sandbox Built Virtual Server for Dev Requested Virtual Server for QA Requested Content Migrated to Sandbox from Production Package BOBJ 4.0 SP1 Client Tools Assess Security in BusinessObjects Key user have access to 4.0 training from SAP ID Subset of Key users to help with Training Doc End user Kick Off meeting Risk Assessment Meeting MAY Virtual Server for Dev Built Software Installed Virtual Server for QA Built Software Installed Virtual Server for Production Validate BOBJ 4.0 SP1 Client Tools requested Key users and Designers Training JUNE Virtual Server for Production Built Software Installed All Key users and Designer Trained General user Training JULY Migrate date from Dev to Dev Migrate Data from QA to QA User testing in Dev and QA Migrate Data form Prod to Prod General user Training Live in Production Post Go live Support Wrap UP Meeting

Explorer: BI Launch Pad Integration

Explorer: iPhone User Workflow Search Explore Visualize Share

Explorer: iPad User Workflow Search Explore Visualize Share

Explorer: Desktop Screenshot 20

Explorer: Exploration Dashboards

BI Mobile Delivery Use Cases Explorer Now MoBI End of Aug, 2011 GMI Availability:

MoBI: Supported Functionality FunctionalityCRWebI Refresh reportsXX Zoom and navigational shortcutsXX Navigate to related documents via hyperlinksXX Filter results via promptsXX Subscribe / unsubscribe to alertsXX Take follow-up actionsXX Save documents locallyXX Work offlineXX Drill on results from summary to detailsX Track data changes via customizable highlightingX CR=Crystal ReportsWebI=Web Intelligence

MoBI: iPad Report Menu

MoBI: iPad Visualizations

MoBI: iPhone/iPod Screenshots

CR4E: CSL Support

CR4E: Hierarchy Awareness

CR4E: Multi-Lingual Capabilities

CR4E: Data Connectivity

CR2011: Data Connectivity

CR: Data Connectivity Options

CR: Prompting

Dashboard: Translation Services

Dashboard: Multi-Lingual

Dashboard: Query Panel

Dashboard: Direct Data Binding

Dashboard: Auto-Prompt Selection

WebI: Productivity and Usability

WebI: Common Query Experience

BOBJ 4.0 – SAP Data Connectivity

Analysis: MS Office Edition

Analysis: Web Edition

BI Launch Pad: Improved Navigation

IDT: Architecture Components