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We all start the year with New Year’s resolutions (sometimes we share these with others most

times we don’t!)

We’re dedicated to keeping ours, which is to ensure that the Business Analytics SIG serves and

adds value to you, our members. This can only be achieved if each member makes a contribution

(no matter how small), whether it be convincing a colleague to speak at a SIG event, completing a

survey or sending us an interesting article.

This newsletter is our first step this year towards improving communication with our members. We

hope you’ll read it and find it valuable!

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New version of SAP BI Mobi for iPad and iPhone One of the drawbacks of SAP Mobile was its inability to render dashboards on a

mobile device, so you can imagine that this has been a much anticipated and

long awaited release as described by Louis de Gouveia in his blog post “Mobile

BI 4.4.12 with Dashboards Support is NOW OUT”. Some of the features of

the app are that it allows one to extend the existing Crystal Reports, Web Intelli-

gence Reports, Dashboards& and Design Studio Dashboards to iPad and iPhone.

The app allows you to also connect to data via SAP BusinessObjects BI

OnDemand. This release offers support for hyperlink objects and additional geo

enhancements.

AllAccess presents 3 New Kids on the SAP BI Block In our mailer last month, we spoke about an “AllAccess” Webinar hosted by Mico Yuk & Ryan Goodman which took place on the

14th of December. If you missed it, you can view the recording from here. There were major announcements and clarification

made by SAP Product Managers. There was no sales talk…just facts an hour of Q&A! Some highlights are mentioned in the blog

post written by Zimkhita Buwa, i.e. SAPVISI not replacing Explorer and there is a free trial version available for download.

www.sap.com/tryvisualintelligence; BI and Predictive Analytics are viewed as separate worlds…SAP envisions combining them;

SAP Design Studio is positioned as being the replacement of the Web Application Designer (WAD). Ian Mayor explicitly stated “IF

you’re on BW/HANA…go to Design Studio. If you’re using multiple sources Dashboards. Don’t rebuild…as we move

forward there will be a convergence between Dashboards and Design Studio.”

@LousDeGouveia

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February 2013 issue >>>

SIG Member Survey

1st SIG Meeting for 2013!

SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

New version of SAP Mobile BI

AllAccess presents 3New kids on the SAP BI

Block

Issue

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SAP announced a “game-changer or all game changers” recently – the availability of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA

at a global event in Palo Alto, NYC and Frankfurt. SAP plans to provide an integrated family of business applications that captures

and analyzes transactional data in real time on a single in-memory platform (making the Analytic and Transactional Processing line

extremely blurry). A broad variety of business scenarios are available, i.e. financial close, material resource planning (MRP), etc.

Read the official press release or watch the recording of the announcement. There has been a great buzz on twitter. If you want to

track the online discussions, the official hashtag is #SAPonHANA. You can also visit the experience SAPHANA website for more info.

The 1st SIG Meeting will be held on the 20th of February in

Cape Town and 21st February Johannesburg

These events are organised for you to network, learn from other

customers or for you to share your “war stories” with the rest of

the community. We thus urge you to please attend. We will no-

tify you as soon as we have the exact dates and an agenda

bedded down.

Please Click here to view the sizzling line-up and topics.

Business Intelligence Strategy – Do You Have One? By Kirby Leong from SAP Business

Intelligence continues to be of the top investment priority for CIOs. The most critical

success factor for a BI program is to have a BI strategy in place. However, only few

companies today have a comprehensive enterprise BI strategy. Why?

SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Suite—Supported BEX Query Elements By Ingo Hilgefort from

SAP This presentation outlines the support for BEx Query elements across the complete

SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite and reflects the status as of SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Ser-

vice Pack 05.

The Convergence of Analytic and Operational Processing is a Big Deal By Timo Elliot

from SAP New technology and falling costs are overturning a generation of analytics best

practice. It’s becoming faster, simpler, and cheaper to use a single in-memory system

for both operations and analytics.

The Suite Life of SAP HANA: Why Customers Will, Won’t Adopt By Thomas Wailgum Pro-

vides a great view of why SAP Customers will happily migrate Business Suite Apps to

HANA and why others will be reluctant.

Spotted by Rudy Abrahams Spotted by Nicky Kolenda

Look at the bright side. At this time of

year, red ink looks kind of festive

Upcoming Business Intelligence Community Webcasts We’ve taken a look at some of the Webcasts coming up and thought you might find these really valuable (Some of these

require an ASUG Login)

February

February 07: Learn how Royal Free Hospital uses SAP Dashboards & XWIS presented by Will Smart, Director of IM&T,

Royal Free Hospital. Learn about some of the issues facing the hospital, the role that dashboards played in addressing the

needs of their decision-makers, and practical lessons learnt from their dashboard project. [No ASUG Login Required]

February 11: Design Studio - Simple Apps presented by Jie Ding and Ya-Chi Lu. Learn how to build simple applications

with Design Studio—learn from the SAP Product Development Team!

February 13: Discover Competitive Advantage Quickly, Visually, and Interactively presented by Jason Rose

VP, Business Intelligence Marketing, SAP. Ignite creative ideas and tap into your data – big and small – with SAP Visual

Intelligence. [No ASUG Login Required]

February 21: Data Services in an SAP Landscape presented by Connie Chan, SAP and Werner Daehn, SAP. Join the SAP

BusinessObjects Data Management SIG for its Webcast on BusinessObjects Data Services in an SAP landscape. Learn why

Data Services fits so well into your existing SAP landscape to address all your data integration and data quality needs.

February 25: What's New in SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 presented by Henry Kam and Derek Wang, SAP. Learn

about the new capabilities of the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform in the coming 4.1 release, how you can benefit from it,

and what you need to know to prepare for a successful rollout.

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