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Page 1: Web Intelligence BI Platform Semantic Layer - Service Pro€¦ · SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP4 Web Intelligence BI Platform Semantic Layer Pierpaolo Vezzosi Director, Product management

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP4Web Intelligence

BI Platform

Semantic Layer

Pierpaolo Vezzosi

Director, Product management

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© 2014 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 2Confidential

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presentation and SAP's strategy and possible future developments, products and or platforms directions and

functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without

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including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-

infringement. This document is for informational purposes and may not be incorporated into a contract. SAP

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willful misconduct or gross negligence.

All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ

materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking

statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligencefor ad-hoc query and interactive reporting

Access to heterogeneous data sources

Leverage semantic layer and common business terms

Combine multiple data sources within a report

Flexibility and control

Create new reports or modify existing reports

Re-use shared report elements

Interactive and intuitive interface

Use the organized toolbar, drag-and-drop features, and

charting options

Collaborate within the reports

Online and offline reporting

Ask questions, analyze data, and identify trends no matter

where you are (mobile, web, desktop)

Share insights via Reports publication

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BI Platform and Data Access

ReportingDashboards and Apps

Business Intelligence portfolioEnabling all users with data

Real-time and Big Data200+ data sources

SAP

HANA

Mobile | Portals | Office

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BI Platform and Data Access

Web IntelligenceLumira 2.0

Business Intelligence portfolioEnabling all users with data

Real-time and Big Data200+ data sources

SAP

HANA

Mobile | Portals | Office

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

25,000+ productive Customers and Partners:Top BI tool in the market (76 of Global FORTUNE 100)

Some key facts about WebI today …

Continuous incremental innovations:#1 BI tool for the enhancement requests asked on Idea Place

30% use SAP ERP/BW/HANA 70% use agnostic DB

Deployment size : 50% Large 30% Medium 20% Small

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Do you know the WebI themes in BI4.2?

1 2 3TRUSTED FOUNDATION

ENABLE THE BUSINESS

BEST ON SAP BACKEND

Remove upgrade barriers:• Linked Universes

Client improvements: • Parallel queries

Collaboration: • Commentary• Shared Elements

Client improvements:• GeoMaps• Big Numbers

Unleash the ecosystem:• Visualization Extensions

SAP BW improvements:• BEx authored universe

SAP HANA enhancements:• HANA Direct Access • HANA Online

QUALITY

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Remove upgrade barriers > Linked Universes1

Reduce TCO of your landscape

Linked UNX universes:o Done with Information Designer Tool (IDT)

o Same principle as universe linking with UDT and

UNV

o Changes to a core UNX are propagated to all

derived UNX universes

o Derived UNX universes are independent universes

and can be amended

Master

UNX

Dept 2

UNX

Dept 3

UNX

Dept 1

UNX

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Client improvements > Parallel queries

Boost refresh performance of your WebI documents

Parallel queries (fetch) execution o Parallel activities on database at the execution and data

fetch

o Supported on

• UNV, UNX

• SAP HANA Direct Access

• FHSQL

• Text files

o Only Fetch Time can be parallelized (not the prepare and

indexing)

o Activated by default

o Control the number of parallel queries in configuration files

Query1 (3s)

Query2 (10s) Query3 (4s)

Query1

Query2

Query3

17s

~11s

Before 4.2

Starting 4.2

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Collaboration > Shared Elements

Simplify WebI document creation and user experience

Shared Elements : o Share Web Intelligence content (report part) with

other users, as shared objects

o Browse and reuse Web Intelligence content

created by other users

o Factorize Web Intelligence content to ease

the update process with reference persistence

2

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Collaboration > Commentary

Comment a Web Intelligence document

Commentary:o Service provided by BI Platform : Comments are

stored in the Audit DB (by default but can be

changed in CMC)

o Add a comment in your document

o For collaboration: Side panel for interacting all

entire Comment Thread (edit, reply, copy)

o If used for validation process: new security

commands to enable/disable actions

2

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Client improvements > GeoMaps

Create geomaps using your Web Intelligence data

o Integration of a geographical database into WebI:

worldwide coverage with countries, regions, sub-

regions and cities over 100K inhabitants

o Integration of CVOM Java geomaps into WebI charts

(choropleth, geopie, geobubble)

o Dialog box to search and match the data with the geo

database

o Ability to persist the matched geo data in the WebI

documents

2

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Unleash the ecosystem > Visualization Extensions

Enhance Web Intelligence with new element types (table, visualization, others)

Visualization Extensions:o New framework for developers to build

custom elements to render in WebI

o Fully integrated into the WebI UX

o Visualization Extensions can be filtered, sorted, ranked…

o Managed at CMC level

2

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Client improvements > Big Numbers

Use Big Numbers to improve the calculation precision

o Integration of the IEEE “Decimal Floating Point” format

o Increased precision from 15 to 40 digits!

o New WebI calculator function to convert to Decimal format

o Contextual menu to convert any measure into Decimal

format

2

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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SAP BW improvements > BEx authored universe

Author a UNX universe on BEx to improve user

adoption

Universe on BEx query:

o Goal is to display BEx queries in more user-friendly way

o Create universe with Information Designer Tool (IDT)

o Select a BEx query and auto-generate a business layer

o Rename objects, regroup objects in meaningful folders,

or delete unnecessary objects

o BEx authored universes use the BICS connector

o Only works as a single-source universe

o Need to refresh universe when underlying BEx query

changes

3

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Why WebI on HANA

Increase Core BI attach rate to HANAo The rate of adoption of HANA by SAP customers is accelerating

o With BI 4.1, WebI accesses HANA through universes, and attach rate remains low

o By combining WebI and HANA in a simple way, we can increase the core BI attach rate

Make it simple for WebI customers to consume HANAo Maker it easy to connect WebI to HANA views

o Lower TCO by providing an option without a universe

Leverage the power of HANA to remove WebI limitso Let users access big data without the microcube restrictions

o Delegate calculations to HANA in-memory engine for faster processing

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SAP HANA enhancements > HANA Direct Access

HANA Direct Access:

o From Web Intelligence, connect directly to HANA

Views

o No universe authoring in information design tool

required

o Browse HANA views using a relational or OLAP

connection

• Relational: Hana JDBC

• OLAP: MDX Access (HANA hierarchies are

supported)

o Usual Web Intelligences workflow with query panel

3

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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SAP HANA enhancements > HANA Online

HANA Online:

o From Web Intelligence, connect directly to HANA

Views

o No universe authoring in information design tool

required

o No query panel to define queries, no microcube

o Only relational access : HANA JDBC

o Web Intelligence calculations are delegated to

HANA whenever possible

o Optional: Go back to standard mode to get

additional reporting features

3

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Linked universes

Parallel queries

Commentary

Shared elements

Geomaps

Big number

Viz extensions

BW authored unx

HANA access modes

What has been delivered in WebI for BI4.2 SP03?

1

2

3

GA BI4.2 SP02 BI4.2 SP03

NEW INNOVATIONS

ENHANCE AND STRENGHTEN BI4.2 SP02

FEATURES

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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NEW

What has been delivered in WebI for BI4.2 SP03?

dHTML catch up > Java parity – Step 1 : will probably span multiple service pack release

Dynamic Input Controls

Sets – IDT authoring and WebI (incl. CR, LUMIRA desktop) consumption

Referenced cell – step 1 on 2 to enable Alerting and notification in WebI

Extend commentary – comment in table cell, block (chart or table), add query context, search & locate

Parallel Queries – Support for BEx queries, Connection server support to define number of parallel jobs

Linked Universes – convert linked UNV to linked UNX

Extend geomaps – Use lat/long as datapoints, Show geomaps in tool bar

Extend Shared Elements – for Geomap support + Support custom elements + Support Embedded picture + Optimize DP merge

HANA access improvements

Java and REST SDK enhancements – Expose BI 4.2 WebI features

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Achieve parity with Web Intelligence Java Applet

o Save As

o Format Number

o Conditional Formatting

o Support of XLS data provider

o Query Panel for SAP BEx, UNX on SAP Bex data providers

o Complex filters in Query Panel

DHTML Catchup in SP3

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New supported paths

o SAP BW Direct Access > SAP BW Authored Universe

o SAP BW Direct Access > SAP HANA Direct Access

o SAP HANA Authored Universe > SAP HANA Direct Access

Architecture Refactoring

o Simplify workflows

o No more need to answer prompts during Change Source

Change Source

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Dynamic Input Control

o Groups Management

o LOV dynamic filtering

o Display selected values (Filter Path)

Dynamic Input Controls

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Use Sets to query data

Author Sets in Information Design Tool

o Smooth integration in Semantic Layer and BI

Platform

o New InfoObject in CMS repository: Set-

container

o Define sets on top of universe objects, based

on data distribution or formula

o Define sets on top of sets

Consume Sets Through Universe

o Sets are exposed as universe filter

o Temporal filter

o Available to Semantic Layer clients: Web

Intelligence, but also Lumira, Crystal

Reports,…

Sets

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Define Reference values

o A reference is a variable that returns the value of a

specified cell in the document

o The reference value keeps its own context.

Get a specific figure in a table, for specific dimension

value, for example:

o Year = 2016, Product = TV

o All reference values are listed as AVAILABLE

OBJECTS

o A reference can be used in any formula and/or fro

Conditional Formatting

Referenced cell

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Comment anything

o Table, chart or table’s cell

o Possible both in Reading and Design modes

o Comments displayed when hovering the mouse

Usability

o Enhanced Comments side panel

o Delete comments in Comments side panel

Improved Lifecycle

o “Save As” for documents with comments.

o Commentary available for Scheduling. Instances

will use parents comments

Performance Optimization

Commentary

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Improve geo map support

o Use latitude/longitude as data points:

o Edit as a Geography > By Longitude/Latitude

o Geo-qualify merged objects and variables

UX improvement

o Show geo maps in the toolbar

Geo Map

Merged Country

Country (Query 1)

Latitude

Longitude

Name

Country (Query 2)

Latitude

Longitude

Name

Latitude

Longitude

Name

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New Data Provider Supported for Parallel Query:

o Parallel Query support on BEx Queries

Parallel Query Settings:

o IDT/UDT: relational cnx disable parallel queries, max

concurrent jobs

o CMC/IDT: OLAP cnx disable parallel queries, max

concurrent jobs

o CMC: Disable parallel queries for scheduling

o CMC: Max number of parallel jobs per documents

Parallel Data Provider

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Linked universes

o When authoring derived universe:

o Inherits Business Layer views from core universe

o Inherits Data Foundation views from core universe

o Prevent usage of linked universes with different connections

o Multi-source universe is recommended in this case

o Repair linked core UNX

Linked Universe

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Universe Conversion

o Convert linked UNV to linked UNX

o Convert several universes at once

o Improved UI

Universe Conversion

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Support more content

o Support geo map

o Support custom element

o Support big number settings

o Support embedded picture

o Support categories

Shared Elements Usability

o Display additional details: author, last edit, creation

o When publishing a shared element, link it to the source

document

o Clean unused queries

o CMC: Check Relationships

Shared Elements

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Custom Elements :

o Support of Custom Palette and Color

Assignment

o Settings API

o Boolean

o String

o Integer

o Float

o Propose some samples

Custom Elements

(2)

(3)

(4+)

• Color

• Font

• List

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SAP HANA Online and Direct Access

o Query Limits (e.g. Max Rows) at HANA SQL Connection

level

o HANA unit conversion (currency conversion already

available in 4.2)

o HANA variables: Multi/Range/Interval variables

o HANA variables: Dynamic default values, formula

delegated to HANA

o Search case insensitive in HANA views.

SAP HANA Online

o Partial result notification (Max Rows)

o Navigation Paths display

o Performance: Improve nested sections management

SAP HANA Direct Access

o HANA variables: Query Panel variables manager

SAP HANA

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SAP BW Authored Universe

o Improved performance

o Send usage statistics to SAP BW

o Display SAP BW InfoProvider’s last upload data

o Expose “ZERO suppression” option

BW Authored and Direct Access

o SAP BW Linked Nodes

o Member selection with Hierarchy Node Variable

SAP BW

Event ID Description

730100 Get BEx’s characteristic members

730101 Get BEx query’s results

730102 Opens a connection to BW using JCO

730103 Opens a BEx query using BICS

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HANA connection: multi-tenant

o Be able to manage multi-tenant database for Hana connections

Count aggregation different for UNV and UNX:

o Ease the migration adding a Count Aggregation type for Measures

o Count without Empty (UNX behavior)

o Count with Empty (UNV behavior)

Big Number at UNX level:

o Big Numbers defined at the universe level

Sort Views of Business Layer

o Order the list of business views in the business layer. This order is used in query panel

Information Design Tool

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Recipient Delivery Rule

o Do not send publication if document has no data

o Do not send publication if document has not been successfully refreshed

Publishing

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Web Intelligence Calculation Engine:

o New function to flatten a hierarchy (like in XI 3)

o Merge variables

Web Intelligence Chart Engine:

o Display both value and percentage in Pie charts

o Customize borders of each data series in Bar/Column charts

o Inverse legend order in stacked Bar/Column charts

o Customize Total value label in Waterfall charts

Web Intelligence User Interface:

o Choose the image DPI when exporting a document to PDF or Excel

o Sort Data Provider objects by Universe folders (Available Objects side panel)

Web Intelligence Server Group

o Support server at User Group level

o Support Server Group at Report level (Processing)

And many other improvements…

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

BI 4.1

BI 4.2

Now Is the Time to Move to BI 4.2

Mainstream MaintenanceBI 4.0 Priority 1 Support

Mainstream Maintenance Priority 1 SupportXI 3.1

Mainstream Maintenance

Mainstream Maintenance

Priority 1

Support

Future Plans subject to change. For discussion purposes only

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Expand Business leadership on stable core

BI 4.2 SP02

GA March 2016

BI 4.2 SP03

August 2016

BI 4.2 SP04

Q2 2017

Future Releases

Web Intelligence Innovation Roadmap

Innovate Enhance Enhance Innovate

New viewer

dHTML Catch-up

New chart

SDK & Extensions

Join the discussion!

dHTML Catch-up

SETS

Dynamic Input Controls

SDK & Extensions

Hana/BW optimization

Share & Reuse

Commentary

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Moving to BI 4.2 SP4

New UISimpler

More powerful

SearchSets

Security

Bye Bye Java

More analysis

More viz

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What is planned in WebI for BI4.2 SP04?

dHTML catch up > Java parity – Step 2 : Free Hand SQL, RTL support for document

CVOM Enhancements – Gauges, Tiles, and additional enhancements

Customer Connection Program – New functions for variables

DeskI Client parity – variable description

BI Variants – Include or exclude prompts from the BI Variant

Sets – Cumulative improvements

Cumulative enhancements – Security right for FHSQL, Hierarchy flattening, new APIs for Custom Elements, new DB support

SDK – Expose BI 4.2 features in REST web services

Web Intelligence new consumption experience (Unified Viewer)

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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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dHTML catch up > Java parityFree-Hand SQL data provider and Editor

for the dHTML WebI web client

Right to Left document content display

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ChartsNew charts available out of the box

o Gauges

o Tile

Bullet Gauge Speedometer

Angular Solid Gauge Tile

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Customize total value label in Waterfall charts

New Palette

Other Charts ImprovementsExtended visual style for column and bar borders

Customize the color of the data labels for each line

in line charts

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Variables & FunctionsAdd description to Variables, References

and Grouping

o New Description field in Editor

o Description must pop-up when the user

hovers the mouse over the variable or the

reference

New and improved Functions

o TimeBetween()

o DateBetween()

o PromptSummary() : New parameters to

sort the result and show BEx definitive

prompts

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BI VariantsSelect the prompts answer to saved in BI Variant

o You can exclude some prompts

(for example the ones with dynamic default value)

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Web Intelligence ServerFHSQL Security Right

o Free-Hand SQL introduced in 4.1 SP6

o Was controlled by the Web Intelligence Edit SQL right

o Need a specific right for FHSQL: “Use Connection for FHSQL scripts”, set at connection level

Web Intelligence Server Memory Management

Support server group at folder level at runtime

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Custom ElementsExtend Custom Elements framework with Extension Points

o BI Platform Central Management Console: deploy a Custom Elements service as an Extension Point

o Full interactivity between Custom Element visualizations and Web Intelligence Extension Points

Enhanced APIs

o New API to define Custom Elements visualization thumbnails

o Extend the Render API to identify Custom Element instances

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SDK Web Intelligence as a Web Service

o Expose Web Intelligence report element data

o Used for SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud

Web Intelligence REST Web Services. New APIs for:

o Dynamic Input Control / Group Input Control

o Read Comments

o Support Fold-Unfold Section, Break, Axis, Block

o Return parameters/prompts summary

o Element Linking (support block as input control)

o For SAP HANA data sources: Multiple Ranges, Interval variables

o …

Semantic Layer Java SDK. New APIs for:

o Measure: Get / Set High Decimal Precision

o Measure: New Count Aggregation

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New Supported Data SourcesBig Data

o SAP HANA SPS12

o SAP HANA VORA

o Horton Works HDP 2.3.4

o Apache Spark 2.0

Relational Data Sources

o DB2 for i7.3

o MySQL 5.7

o Oracle Exadata 12

o SQL Server 2016

o SQL Anywhere 17

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SAP BW / SAP HANAComplex variables operators for SAP BW

o Already supported for SAP HANA (SAP BI 4.2 SP3)

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Other ImprovementsFlatten BW Hierarchies

o Automatic creation of level dimensions in Web Intelligence documents

Geomaps

o Improved drill down in Geomap charts

Report Design

o Ability to hide a measure in a table

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Web Intelligence new experienceRejuvenate Web Intelligence user interface

Simplify reading and analysis workflow

o Simplify reading and analysis workflow

o Touch-device (tablet, mobile…) by design

Based on SAP Fiori/SAP UI5 HTML5

Integrated in the new BI Launch Pad interface

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Web Intelligence new experienceUnified and aggregated filters bar (prompts,

input controls, filters, …)New navigation paradigm

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Semantic Layer

Sets

Query Panel

Sets based on measures

Set groups

SAP HANA

Customize HANA prompts for end users

Usability

Republish universe

Customize check integrity

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SetsEnhance Visual Data steps

o Dynamic Input Control / Group Input Control

o Insert missing values (custom values)

o Support prompts context

o Limit distinct values

o Popup condition for scalar dimension

o Reorder steps and count per step

Sets Editor

o Allow to move set instead of copy

o Add query panel step,

o Support prompts/contexts in query panel step

Materialization

o Modify processing group

Sets on Sets

Update Venn diagram user interface

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BI Platform

Faster search

Server groups assignements

Max number of inbox docs

Sample mass change source for

Web Intelligence documents

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BI Platform

Virus scan integration

Open SSL with TSL1.2

SAML with HANA (all connectivity)

FHSQL security right

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BI4.2 beyond SP4

o Web Intelligence Simplified Designer experience o Templates of reports and visualization, and beautiful visual content by default

o New report layout for Mobile readiness: placement and layout snaps into place cleanly

o Adapt to ecosystemo Hybrid Cloud-on premise

o Fully leverage new data sources (unstructured, big data, cloud data, social data)

o Generalize “Online” mode for “.unx” and other data sources

o Suggestions: suggest new BI artefact or new query/data/viz based on the usage of WebI reports by users

o Semantic layer innovationso Time, geo and custom hierarchies

o Shared datasets

o BI platformo Fiori UI enhanced

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Proposals for next Service Packs and Future Direction

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Key links for more informationKey links

• Web Intelligence on SCN http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-web-intelligence

• Web Intelligence 4.1, where to start (official tutorials/videos) ? http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7819

• Advanced Tips&Tricks to create great Web Intelligence documents http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-50171

• Best Practices to Design a Web Intelligence document : http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-58571

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-58532

• What’s new in BI 4.2? What's New 4.2 L0, L1, L2, Web Intelligence, Semantic Layer

• What’s new in Web Intelligence 4.2 SP03 What’s New in WebI 4.2 SP03

• Roadmaps on SAP Service Marketplace http://service.sap.com/saproadmaps

• Official tutorials for SAP BI http://sap.com/learnbi

• Product Documentation http://help.sap.com/

• Product Availability Matrix https://support.sap.com/release-upgrade-maintenance/pam.html

• BI4.2 pattern books how to adopt BI4.2 from previous version?

• Upgrading/Updating/Migrating to BI 4.2 Virtual Technical Workshop BI 4.2 Upgrade Virtual Technical Workshop

Where to go to provide product feedback and ideas

• SAP Idea Place https://ideas.sap.com

• Influence programs http://service.sap.com/influence

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Contact information :

Pierpaolo Vezzosi, Product Management

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