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BI upgrade jumpstart: Preparing yourself for what’s ahead

What’s your SAP NetWeaver BI utilization or upgrade strategy?

SAP BEx best practices, utilization tips, and new UI, formatting, and reporting capabilities

Empower end users and reduce your reliance on third-party tools with the latest SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 formatted reporting options

New options for building Web-based queries and ad hoc analytics

Develop more powerful Web-enabled reports with the Web Application Designer (Web AD)

Visual Composer is a great tool for building Web-based BI applications. But is it right for you?

SAP updates to SAP NetWeaver BI Integrated Planning and what that means for BPS

SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 system landscape lessons

If, when, and how to move forward with SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator (BIA) to optimize your BI performance

BI Administration Cockpit: Best practices, utilization tips, and new capabilities

What’s new with data modeling in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0?

Extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) processes within SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0

Your next steps: Crystallizing your business case and upgrade path

BI upgrade jumpstart: Preparing yourself for what's ahead
Every customer that is running or evaluating SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) needs to understand the capabilities and requirements of SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0. Watch this session to:

  • Understand the key drivers for adopting SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0, including enhanced formatted reporting capabilities, new Integrated Planning features, and the end of maintenance on current releases
  • Evaluate the immense new portfolio of tools available for reporting, data movement, and transformation
  • Learn why the new SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 release better positions SAP NetWeaver BI as an enterprise data warehouse and what that means for your upgrade or implementation
  • See why the portal plays such a major role in enabling key functionality (e.g., Web reporting)
  • Understand the potential impact that the new SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator (BIA) has on performance optimization and management
  • Evaluate new administrative tools that can help you better troubleshoot your system, manage data, and identify support trends

What’s your SAP NetWeaver BI utilization or upgrade strategy?
Upgrading to SAP NetWeaver BI is unlike any other SAP® upgrade that you’ve done before. Understand your options, get practical tips, and learn what project accelerators are now available to smooth your upgrade experience. Watch this session to:

  • Explore, in detail, the 7 key things you need to know to optimize your SAP NetWeaver BI upgrade, including a list of critical resource requirements necessary to upgrade your SAP BW system and the key factors you need to account for in order to accurately plan and estimate your upgrade
  • Contrast your upgrade options (technical versus functional) and the reasons for choosing one versus the other
  • Understand the prerequisites, steps, and processes for enabling new SAP NetWeaver BI features and functionality and how to prepare your project teams accordingly
  • See how other companies accelerate their upgrade timelines by leveraging a three-tier testing approach that focuses on critical business areas, key functionality, and batch load schedule to reduce risk and help gain user acceptance for the system
  • Learn when and how you can leverage additional environments during your upgrade project to avoid unnecessary “freezes” to your production support landscape and transport path
  • Get best practices that will enable your team to continue to provide high quality support to your users throughout the upgrade project
  • Assess the impact that SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 will have on your BI administration, maintenance, and support teams, and review the new skills that your team will require to support the new Web front-end tools to fully leverage the new BI Administration Cockpit
  • Get guidelines for performing your upgrade in a phased approach that limits your risk, and learn what steps can be executed in parallel and which must be performed sequentially
  • Draw practical lessons from recent upgrades for migrating objects and build a sound business case
  • Bonus! Get an example SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 upgrade project schedule in your appendix files

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SAP BEx best practices, utilization tips, and new UI, formatting, and reporting capabilities
Take a new look at the Business Explorer (BEx) toolset. Examine its new UI, formatting, and reporting abilities. Get best practices and tips for leveraging this important set of SAP technologies. Watch this session to:

  • Explore the latest report formatting and customization capabilities, such as cut and paste functions, filters, a design and layout view, and temporary hierarchical joins
  • Learn what is required to take advantage of the latest updates to the BEx Designer tool, including capabilities to help you add buttons in the Design mode
  • Understand the dos, don’ts, and gotchas related to upgrading and migrating existing reports and workbooks — and where you can best take advantage of these new features
  • Know which BEx Excel functions are (or are not) enabled when you complete a technical or functional upgrade
  • Prepare for the effect Excel 2007 has on your BEx Excel users and reports (e.g., the 65k-row limitation has been lifted)
  • Learn why you won’t require Visual Basic (and other coding) for 90% of the report development and customization you use today

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  • Examine the fundamentals of SAP Report Designer, and understand how it differs from and complements the BEx suite of reporting and analytic tools
  • Know the circumstances, such as the need for pixel reporting, under which you still may need to rely on a third-party tool
  • Walk through a detailed demo of how to build a custom formatted report using multiple data sources, report sections, report fields, report elements, report headers, and report footers
  • Master the tool bars, tabs, catalogs, and menus available when working with SAP Report Designer
  • Prepare for the nuances and quirks associated with the new reporting interface that you need to factor into your end-user training
  • Identify new ways to add multiple data providers, including third-party system data, into a single report
  • Utilize the latest capabilities to set sections and add text, headers, fields, images, and graphs to your formatted reports
  • Examine how you can centrally control the formatting of report elements using a “row pattern concept”
  • See how you can now define individual fields in a report using a “field catalog” with click-and-drag functionality
  • Learn how report sections, positioning of report elements, and page breaks now provide for highly formatted reports that are ready for distribution

New options for building Web-based queries and ad hoc analytics
Explore the latest BEx Web Analyzer options for building and distributing queries and performing ad hoc analyses on the Web. Examine new SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 functions that have replaced what you used in SAP BW 3.x, and gain advice on how to migrate existing queries and reports to the latest version of SAP NetWeaver BI. Watch this session to:

  • Understand the unique benefits and challenges of utilizing BEx Web Analyzer instead of traditional BEx Analyzer for query display and analysis
  • Know which reports and custom applications will (or will not) be easily migrated
  • Delve into the requirements of working within BEx Web Analyzer’s Java framework, such as installation of the Java engine, Knowledge Management, and SAP NetWeaver Portal
  • Assess the latest options for creating Web reports, BI applications, and custom queries with SAP BEx Web Analyzer
  • See how the latest array of Web-based ad hoc tools complement the traditional capabilities of SAP NetWeaver BI
  • Get a critical overview of why every SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 upgrade or installation that will include BEx Web Analyzer requires the installation of SAP NetWeaver Portal and SAP Knowledge Management (KM) capabilities, and collaboration to activate the usage type BI Java
  • Understand the benefits and limitations of the options available to broadcast user reports

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  • Master the new command wizard so that you can more easily customize your iViews with new buttons, tab pages, etc.
  • Explore new options for enhancing Web applications using HTML and learn to integrate native HTML elements much more efficiently
  • Take advantage of new Web items — tab pages, Gantt charts, and filter panes — while avoiding much of the JavaScript you used to rely on
  • Tap into the new visual charting capabilities to enhance the detail and information visible through Web applications
  • Know your options for migrating SAP BW 3.x Web templates to the new Web AD. Know when to use the automated migration versus the manual rebuild

Visual Composer is a great tool for building Web-based BI applications. But is it right for you?
Learn how Visual Composer’s object-oriented, visual interface can change the way you develop Web-based reporting and BI applications. Compare and contrast this tool with your traditional development options. Watch this session to:

  • Learn how Visual Composer alters the view of how you design applications to run against your systems — be they BI systems or transaction (OLTP) systems
  • Discover how you can bypass the need to bring data into (or pass data through) your BI system and leave it in its original system of record, but retain the power of reporting and online analytics
  • Learn how Visual Composer gives you a simple, yet powerful view of data across multiple systems — and gives you the ability to drill into data across systems, and then execute transactions in back-end systems
  • See a demo of how to build action-oriented dashboards in Visual Composer that draw data from multiple SAP systems (BI, CRM, R/3®) at once
  • Understand when to use the BI tools versus using Visual Composer to build dashboards, and when your applications should be more interactive (e.g., using plan/analyze/react, scenario-based, or composite apps options) rather than simply analytical

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  • Gain insight into new IP updates that enable you to create better BEx queries while ensuring the integrity and consistency of key planning data
  • Learn why and how to replace multiple BPS planning layouts with a single BW query, and see how this could dramatically improve your budgeting and planning processes
  • Find out how business managers and analysts can now build their own queries in IP and integrate them with non-SAP data for more comprehensive planning
  • Gain insight into how to reduce reliance on IT to support budgeting and planning by leveraging IP’s single session capability
  • Decide if you should completely replace existing BPS configuration with IP or whether BPS and IP can co-exist within your organization
  • Obtain proven IP configuration tips, such as ways to integrate planning functions directly into SAP BEx workbooks

SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 system landscape lessons
SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 relies heavily on Java and the portal — they form the technical foundation of the new generation of end-user front-end BI tools as well as the Integrated Planning features. Watch this session to:

  • Understand the role that SAP NetWeaver Portal, the Java engine, and other SAP NetWeaver technologies play within your BI system landscape and where these technologies are required in the SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 system
  • Gain insight into the options that exist when architecting your system landscape, for example how to determine whether or not to place Java and the portal on the same server as ABAP™
  • Review CPU and memory requirements, and examine the variables that will impact the sizing of your SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 system landscape
  • Delve into the key considerations when designing the portal aspect of the system landscape configuration — consider the circumstances when it may make sense to deploy a distributed portal landscape
  • Discover the basics of the new application functionality available for distributing portals in the landscape, the Federated Portal Network, and its potential roles for your organization
  • Discuss technical tasks, such as synchronizing support package versions among the various key components of the BI solution
  • Discover new landscape and administrative options that can streamline your change management and transport management process — including development freeze and break-fix temporary landscape options

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  • Understand the basics of the appliance concept and how it makes installation, setup, and administration easier
  • Examine the performance optimization potential that BIA provides, and understand the circumstances where BIA can have the biggest impact
  • Grasp the conceptual foundations and architectural basics behind this new technology
  • Prepare for BIA sizing considerations, and understand the factors that contribute to requiring a larger BIA appliance
  • Hear lessons learned from others’ experiences with BIA, and what you can do to get your BIA implementation off on the right foot
  • Get valuable tips and tricks for using key BIA monitoring and diagnosis tools
  • Gain insight into the key aspects of redundancy and high availability (HA) of BIA
  • Take home the basic knowledge required to intelligently evaluate the solution, and an understanding of the critical steps and scenarios for a successful BIA implementation

BI Administration Cockpit: Best practices, utilization tips, and new capabilities
The BI Administration Cockpit enables you to monitor the status and performance of your SAP NetWeaver BI systems. This session offers best practices for leveraging this tool for reports, logs, monitoring, and problem detection and resolution. It also offers a detailed look at important new changes to this tool. Watch this session to:

  • Learn how the underlying BI statistics content has been redesigned and what you now need to do to import this content into your current administrative system
  • See how the system captures significantly more detailed statistical data (about system activity), and presents this information through a more intuitive, usable portal-based interface
  • See how and when to leverage the BI Administration Cockpit as a central point of access to critical management information. See how you can drill down from this view into more detailed data from error handling and performance optimization applications
  • Get guidelines for establishing alerts and thresholds to help you monitor service-level agreements (SLAs), and provide resolution to problems within the defined response times or availability requirements

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  • Get information on new data modeling concepts and terminology, such as DataStore objects, InfoSets, the remodeling toolbox, and much more
  • Explore the new features for working with InfoSets, an expert tool, which allows you to create specialized result sets
  • Discover how the remodeling toolbox allows you to modify InfoCubes without deleting data
  • Examine the latest capabilities available with the new Data Warehousing Workbench, including improved, centralized visualization of data flow that lets you see results in one place
  • Follow the evolution of ODS objects, which are now known as DataStore objects, and hear about their new data modeling options

Extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) processes within SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
Understand how your options for managing and optimizing data extraction, transfer, and loading processes change with SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0. Watch this session to:

  • Explore the new form of DataSources available in SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0, and what that means for your current ETL processes
  • Discover the new features for building and managing process chains, such as the ability to migrate InfoPackage groups and event chains into process chains
  • Understand how and why the way you work with third-party ETL tools might change based on new data flows
  • See how new data governance and quality management features, such as the error stack, could help you protect data integrity during the transfer process
  • Learn the best ways to reuse existing transfer rules, update rules, and routines to create faster, less error-prone and more improved data transformation processes
  • Evaluate new real-time data acquisition capabilities and decide whether they could help you to automate frequent data loads, and come away with valuable deployment tips

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  • Review the infrastructure, training, and staffing requirements others have encountered
  • Prepare for training requirements, and how to overcome potential adoption and deployment hurdles
  • Review the specific upgrade paths available and the resources required of each
  • Get a practitioner's perspective on key decisions, including the decision to implement SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator immediately
  • Understand which project components, such as installing AS Java, other upgrade project teams have found most difficult
  • Explore strategies that ensure your upgraded system will work with your existing data models, security settings, and Web reports
  • Pinpoint the drivers that you will use as the basis for your upgrade business case now that you've seen the functionality of SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0
  • Take home expert recommendations to shape your SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 strategy, and chart the right course of action for your BI requirements

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