http://spr.ly/SBOUC_VP - SAP continues to extend how its customers enable self sufficiency of the business with SAP Business Explorer and the recently-introduced SAP Visual Intelligence. Learn how customers are leveraging these solutions to deliver value and agility into the business. Presenters: Pierre Leroux and Saskia Battersby, SAP. Try SAP Visual Intelligence free today: http://spr.ly/VisiFreeDownload

1. September 10-13, 2012
Orlando, Florida
Extending Self-Service Capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects BI
SAP Visual Intelligence and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

2. IS BI ADOPTION STILL
A CHALLENGE?

3. Among Knowledge Workers, Is It?
25% 50% 75%

4. Very Much…
50% of
Knowledge Workers
Have Access or
Utilize BI / Analytics
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011

5. Making Huge Progress …
Which of the following users have access or utilize BI/analytics
today (2012)?
58% 65% 75%
C-Level Corporate IT Business
Executives Management Analysts
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011

6. Still Lagging …
Which of the following users have access or utilize BI/analytics
today (2012)?
28% 24% 8%
Sales force Customer-Service All
Reps Employees
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011

7. Barriers to BI/Analytics Adoption
What are the barriers to adopting BI/analytics products
enterprisewide?
37% 40% 45%
No Agreement on Scalability Ease-Of-Use
Product(s) Challenges
Source: Information Week; Doug Henschen; 2012 BI and Information Management Trends; November 2011

8. The BI Spectrum: Known Vs. Unknown
Traditional BI
Answers Known Questions
Organizational & Competitive Impact
Predictive
Modeling
Exploration
Dashboards & Visualization
& Scorecards
OLAP &
Visualization
Ad-hoc
Reports
Self-Service BI
Standard Answers Unknown Questions
Reports
Value

9. All Levels of The Business Have Questions
As the VP Operations,
I would like to know…
As an Analyst, I need to know
which of our customers are…
Plant Warehouse Consumers
Suppliers Distributor Retailer

10. There Are Challenges to Get Timely Answers
I am tired of waiting on others to
provide the answers to the
questions I have now.
I spend all my time preparing
and sharing data with my team.
I have no time to deliver
valuable insights.
Plant Warehouse Consumers
Suppliers Distributor Retailer

11. The Starting Point for Your Questions
Search
Explorer
Explorer Cloud
Explore Web
Mobile
Share
Acquire
Visual
Transform Intelligence
Visualize

12. With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, You …
Access data Explore data Share answers
exposed using interactive and insight
by others visualizations with other
people

13. Type in Business Terms and …
Use keyword
search
Results ranked by
data relevance

14. Start Exploring with Point-And-Click Interface
Faceted navigation
Best chart type
auto generated

15. Create Ad Hoc Dashboards
Explore data behind
the dashboard

16. Ad-Hoc Discovery Everywhere
Explore data behind
the dashboard
Easily navigate
dashboard

17. With Geo-Location Awareness
Analytics, maps and geo-
location together
Visual map overlay on
point-of-interest data

18. With SAP Visual Intelligence, You …
Acquire data Synthesize and Iteratively
from corporate transform discover data
& personal data the way by building
sources you want it visualizations

19. Acquire Data
Growing list of Database
Sources including Teradata,
Sybase IQ, SQL Server and
Oracle
Support online access for
massive data volumes
Leverage investment in
SAP Universes,
both UNX and UNV

20. Transform Data Dynamically
Combine Corporate
and Personal Sources
Easily Understand what
is possible with
contextual suggestions

21. Intuitive Discovery and Analysis Experience
Consume, categorize,
and filter measures
and variables
Easy drag and drop for
immediate ad-hoc
views, no need to
build queries or
scripts
Automatic time and
geography awareness

22. Beautiful Analytics to Convey and Share Knowledge

23. VISUAL INTELLIGENCE
VS. EXPLORER:
SPOT THE DIFFERENCES

24. Visual Intelligence Vs. Explorer: 3 Differences
Acquire Transform Build Your
Your Own Data The Way Own Visualizations
Data You Want It

25. USER POWERED,
IT APPROVED!

26. IT Approved
 Self-Service - no need for IT
to create report or
dashboard
 Connected to enterprise BI -
leverage existing BI assets
 Simple to manage and scale

27. DEMO

28. Latency in analysis of information impacts decisions
Transactional Data
System Warehouse / Marts
OLTP OLAP
'Real Life'
Analysis and Insight
Business
Transaction Action
Real-time Aggregation Limited flexibility due to
posting pre-defined data structures
Batch transfer to
into Transactional
Data Warehouse Long query run-times
System
Reporting Loss of detail
Challenges
Long Wait times for reports
Large Volumes
High Impact

29. What if this would all happen real-time?
SAP HANA
SAP
HANA
IN-MEMORY
'Real Life'
Analysis and Insight
Business
Transaction Action
Real-time High Performance Fast, flexible and detail
Loading into SAP Large Volume Data analytics over large volumes
HANA Processing

30. Benefits – SAP Visual Intelligence on SAP HANA
For the Business For IT
Self-Service Total Cost of Ownership
Ability for end-users to create and visualize Leverage existing SAP HANA investment ●
their own analytics without engaging IT 1 platform to deploy and administer
Faster Time to Analysis Connected to the
Achieve faster response time and better
understanding with insight in visual form
Enterprise
on SAP HANA Leverage existing data, security,
and administrative services
Increased Adoption
Secure
of Analytics One IT-sanctioned security
Intuitive interface requiring model and single sign on
minimal user training

31. Get
Started
1 Learn about both solutions

2 See a demo
On the show floor
3 Try it with your data!
sap.com/tryvisualintelligence

32. Thank You!
blogs.sap.com/analytics
Contact information:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8FF
Saskia Battersby saskia.battersby@sap.com 03148AD0742B1
Pierre Leroux pierre.leroux@sap.com
twitter.com/#!/search/%23sapvisi

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