BI 2012 Brochure

Strategies and skills development for:
Report design and distribution Data warehousing and analysis Dashboard development On-demand and mobile BI In-memory computing Self-service and Web-based BI User training and power user programs Formatted reports Business and financial planning KPI and metric definition System performance and optimization Data management and analytics Data modeling and ETL Report access and security Implementations and upgrades
The conference for SAP and SAP BusinessObjects users and the technical teams that support them
Updates, instruction, and hands-on labs for:
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SAP HANA

SAP BusinessObjects BPC SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator SAP BusinessObjects EIM 4.0
SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 Xcelsius , SAP Crystal Reports , and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer SAP BusinessObjects EPM
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Enabling employees to work smarter, faster, and more efficiently is a constant challenge for todays information technology organizations. And in a world where Google, social networking, and mobile computing set the standards for how individuals access and use information, the challenges are greatly compounded. Fortunately there have been significant advancements in both software solutions and cloud offerings new ways of solving old problems, as well as meeting the demands of a faster and more competitive business landscape. At the co-located BI 2012, Administration & Infrastructure 2012, Mobile 2012, and Cloud & Virtualization 2012 events, you will be able to explore new and enhanced SAP solutions that not only help you drive operational improvements, but also to better support company strategy. Youll see firsthand many of the exciting solutions coming from SAP today: How SAP is making it faster and easier than ever for employees to leverage mobile devices in their daily business, how SAP Business Analytics enable visual and intuitive data searches that leverage every drop of insight and productivity out of data to achieve better performance, and how you can effectively and securely store, manage, and search massive amounts of data in both on-premise and virtual environments. Thank you for joining us at this SAPinsider event in Las Vegas to experience this and so much more. In addition to hearing from SAP, youll have the opportunity to learn how your peers are using SAP to impact their businesses and gain a competitive edge. Welcome to Vegas! Sincerely,
Steve Lucas
General Manager, SAP Business Analytics
Schedule
Jumpstart Day
Monday, February 27
8:00 am 9:00 am Registration opens Morning Jumpstart sessions Hands-on Labs 12:00 pm 2:00 pm Lunch Afternoon Jumpstart sessions Hands-on Labs 5:00 pm Registration closes 7:00 am 8:30 am
Conference, February 28 - March 2

Tuesday, February 28
Registration opens Keynote address
Wednesday, February 29
7:30 am 8:30 am Registration opens Breakout sessions 7:30 am 8:30 am
Thursday, March 1
Registration opens Breakout sessions 7:30 am 8:30 am
Friday, March 2
Registration opens Breakout sessions
10:30 am Breakout sessions 11:45 am 1:00 pm 2:30 pm 4:15 pm 5:30 pm Lunch Breakout sessions Breakout sessions Breakout sessions Ask-the-Experts, Welcome reception
10:15 am Breakout sessions 11:30 am Lunch
10:15 am Breakout sessions 11:45 am Breakout sessions 1:00 pm 2:30 pm 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Lunch Breakout sessions Breakout sessions Sessions conclude
10:00 am Breakout sessions 11:30 am Breakout sessions 12:45 pm Conference concludes
12:45 pm Breakout sessions 2:30 pm 4:00 pm 5:15 pm Breakout sessions Breakout sessions Ask-the-Experts, Cocktail reception
SAP acquired Business Objects in 2007. SAP has recently instituted new naming conventions and employs the following terminology: Business Objects is now SAP BusinessObjects. Crystal Reports is now SAP Crystal Reports. Xcelsius is now SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Web Intelligence is now SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
For more information and to register, visit www.sapbi2012.com or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700
Overview
Jumpstart Day Monday, February 27
Special three-hour, pre-conference sessions and labs hosted on Monday, February 27, offer you the opportunity to explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference.
Main Conference February 28 - March 2, 2012 More than 250 sessions spanning 11 tracks
Track 1. Track 2. Track 3. Track 4. Track 5. Track 6. Track 7. Track 8. Track 9. Track 10 Track 11
Strategies for advancing business goals and optimizing the end-user experience High-speed analytics and SAP HANA Data modeling, integration, and quality BI upgrades, implementations, and rollouts SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence SAP Crystal Reports SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) Mobile BI Business planning and consolidation (BPC) SAP NetWeaver BW reports and analyses BI security and performance optimization
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SAP and SAP BusinessObjects tools covered at this conference include:

SAP BEx Analyzer SAP BEx Query Designer SAP BEx Web Application Designer SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer SAP BusinessObjects BPC SAP BusinessObjects EPM SAP Solution Manager SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence SAP Crystal Reports SAP HANA
BI principles and strategies covered at this conference include:

Aggregates Analytics Auditing Administration Implementations and upgrades Change management Context prompting Dashboards Data cleansing Data migration Data modeling Data quality Data services Extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) Governance Integration Mobile BI Power user programs Queries Reporting Report distribution Report publishing Security Self-service reporting Semantic layer Testing Universe design User interfaces User training
NEW! Column5 EPM Education Center
Column5 EPM Summit content will be presented at the Column5 EPM Education Center during BI 2012
Column5 Consulting is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the Column5 EPM Education Center in partnership with Wellesley Information Services, publisher of SAPinsider magazine and producer of SAPinsider events. Dont miss this exciting opportunity to attend the Column5 EPM Education Center, focusing on the SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) product suite including BPC. Admission to the Column5 EPM Education Center is now available for FREE when you register to attend BI 2012. The Column5 EPM Education Center sets the industry standard in quality curriculum, with over 35 sessions of course content developed by top field experts on SAP products and delivered in a variety of formats including: Live product demonstrations Customer case studies Roundtables Panel discussions Moderated networking sessions Special invitation-only programs Special sessions presented by thought-leaders and industry luminaries
Column5 was founded in 2005 by key parts of the team that made OutlookSoft an international success. The company was formed to fulfill a need for a consulting partner that could bridge the gap between the software provider and pure implementation contractors. We are proud of our position as the largest SAP BusinessObjects dedicated Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) partner. A great deal of the knowledge base and expertise around SAP BusinessObjects EPM sits with Column5 and we ensure our clients have full access to this.
Educational and networking opportunities

More than 250 educational sessions and forums
Expand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts. BI 2012 offers more than 250 sessions across 11 tracks that will show you how to get the most out of your BI system.
Jumpstart Day
Special three-hour, pre-conference sessions and labs hosted on Monday, February 27, offer you the opportunity to explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference.
Hands-on Labs
Roll up your sleeves and get valuable hands-on experience with the latest technologies from SAP and SAP BusinessObjects. Experts will guide you through step-by-step exercises to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of each solutions functionality and arm you with skills you can use right away.
Ask-the-Experts
Sit down one-on-one with leading experts to ask questions and get detailed, authoritative answers. Build on what you learn in the breakout sessions, and get insights you can apply at your own organization.
Insider discussion forums

Hear about your peers projects, challenges, and ongoing initiatives. Benefit from the insights of a moderator who is a topic expert and who will also facilitate discussion. Hear war stories and gain how-to information and techniques that have worked for other companies.
Customer-led case studies

Take away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics. Build a network of peers you can call on for years to come.
BIexpert LIVE forum

This popular forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors from BI Expert and discuss topics from recent articles. Follow the framework of the article as the author guides you through the most important parts. Youre not just a reader youre a participant.
Evening receptions
Interact with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. The people you meet here share the same challenges they are peers you will stay in touch with and look to for guidance well after the conference is over. Network with leading vendors to learn more about solutions and services that complement your SAP landscape.
Co-located events
BI 2012 is hosted with Administration & Infrastructure 2012, Mobile 2012, and Cloud & Virtualization 2012. Registration at one conference admits you to all four events. Its a perfect opportunity to educate your entire team.
Advance your career and keep your certification current. Earn 37 CPE credits by attending sessions offered at BI 2012. No prerequisites are required and The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) awards CPE credits in: Business Management and Organization Computer Science Finance Management Advisory Services Personnel/HR
SAPinsider is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.
Specialized Knowledge and Applications Statictics
Jumpstart Day
Join us for Jumpstart Day and Hands-On Labs

Jumpstart Day offers a hands-on learning experience, as well as comprehensive threehour workshops, that enable you to: Fortify your understanding of critical technologies and solutions Explore new trends and strategies Enhance your learning experience at the main conference Increase your skills and proficiency with SAP and SAP BusinessObjects technologies By registering for Jumpstart Day, you can: Attend any Jumpstart Day sessions of interest to you Pre-registration is required for hands-on labs to assure a seat Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-andanswer time Receive exclusive Jumpstart Day take-home materials containing the material from all the days presentations Participate in a networking lunch with other Jumpstart Day attendees
Jumpstart Day Sessions

Monday, February 27
Morning sessions 9:00 am 12:00 pm
Lessons for preparing, deploying, and optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 A comprehensive guide to evaluate and optimize SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation A comprehensive guide to evaluating and getting started with SAP and Sybase solutions for mobility Comprehensive guidelines to manage data and applications within SAP NetWeaver Portal Hands-on Lab: Building highly formatted reports with SAP Crystal Reports 2011 Hands-on Lab: Rapidly prototype a dashboard with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius) Hands-on Lab: Self-service reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Lunch 12:00 pm 2:00 pm Afternoon sessions 2:00 pm 5:00 pm
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Hands-on Lab: Building highly formatted reports with SAP Crystal Reports 2011 Hands-on Lab: Rapidly prototype a dashboard with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius) Hands-on Lab: Self-service reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence What every Business Objects customer needs to know about the new SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 release and its impact on your current BI landscape Comprehensive guidelines to speed data analysis using the analytical engines from SAP Updates and new guidelines to optimize operations across your system landscape with SAP Solution Manager A detailed guide to conducting a mobility assessment: A critical first step before beginning your SAP mobile project
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Jumpstart Day
Lessons for preparing, deploying, and optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0
Jason Rose, SAP 9:00 am 12:00 pm This three-hour session provides a comprehensive overview of critical factors that must be identified and addressed when considering or executing an SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 implementation or upgrade. Discuss core questions every organization should ask itself prior to beginning, upgrading, or adding new functionality to a BI landscape, including architectural requirements for running SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0. Learn what steps you need to take in your existing SAP or SAP BusinessObjects environment to prepare for an upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 from a technical, operational, and end-user perspective Ask questions directly to SAP about recent changes to SAP BusinessObjects BI products, including SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly known as Xcelsius) Step through a demo that shows how the new common semantic layer enables faster and more efficient access to both SAP and non-SAP data sources Receive system diagnosis and monitoring techniques for enhancing the scalability and performance of your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions Examine improved integration capabilities between SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, SAP NetWeaver BW, and SAP Business Suite applications Learn how to leverage the new SAP BusinessObjects Analysis client to more efficiently analyze SAP NetWeaver BW and other OLAP data sources on the Web and in Microsoft Office Gain insight into SAPs vision and strategy for in-memory computing including SAP HANA and hear how it impacts existing SAP NetWeaver BW customers and the SAP data warehousing roadmap Leave this session with the knowledge to chart a practical and effective short- and long-term BI strategy that accounts for evolving business requirements, advances in technology, and SAP product updates
A comprehensive guide to evaluate and optimize SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Jens Koerner, SAP Labs 9:00 am 12:00 pm This deep-dive session provides step-by-step instruction to help new and experienced users alike optimize their planning and consolidation processes using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Get best practices, starter kits and content for common scenarios, including: Capital expenditure planning Profitability planning Cost center budgeting Liquidity planning
Prepare for the steps you need to take to achieve unified planning, consolidation, and management reporting across your business, including process alignment, data harmonization and change management Gain insight into critical project success factors such as team composition, communication and data integration illustrated using real-life customer case studies Learn how to create business rules to optimize common consolidation activities, including: Currency translation Carry-forwards Intercompany bookings Account transformations
Understand the operational and end-user effects of SAPs most recent release of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 Get insight into using BPC 10.0 on top of SAPs in-memory platform SAP HANA
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A comprehensive guide to evaluating and getting started with SAP and Sybase solutions for mobility
Prashant Chatterjee, SAP 9:00 am 12:00 pm This session provides a comprehensive introduction to the SAP and Sybase solutions designed to meet a businesss mobility needs, ranging from accessing email and workflows on a smartphone to integrating data collected during sales and service calls into an SAP system. In this session you will: Step through the options for accessing SAP data and applications on mobile devices Get a guided tour of the different SAP and Sybase mobility solutions Understand how these solutions integrate into your existing SAP landscape Find out how to use the Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP) to support Windows Mobile, Windows laptops/tablets, BlackBerry, and iPhone devices with native clients Assess the mobile security and device management capabilities of Afaria Learn how to manage mobile infrastructures while minimizing user downtime and optimizing bandwidth Learn how to leverage SAPs flexible, open infrastructure to strategically respond to rapidly-changing device types and evolving data sources
Comprehensive guidelines to manage data and applications within SAP NetWeaver Portal
Patrick Dixon, Independent Consultant 9:00 am 12:00 pm This special three-hour session examines, through detailed demos and examples, the best ways to display, integrate, and manage content in SAP NetWeaver Portal. You will: Explore the SAP development tools available to produce professional portal content, including: Java JavaScript SAP GUI WinGUI WebGUI Adobe Flash Web Dynpro for ABAP Web Dynpro for Java
Investigate the SAP-provided portal interfaces and learn how to determine the correct presentation interface you should use for specific user groups Know your options for Web content management in your portal sites, from the Web page composer tool to knowledge management Identify when and how to leverage built-in components such as user management and collaboration Examine technical considerations when integrating SAP NetWeaver Portal with Microsoft SharePoint, including document management interoperability and authentication and identity management Get strategies to overcome licensing and infrastructure differences found when integrating reports from SAP BusinessObjects solutions into your portal Come away with insight into the future of SAP NetWeaver Portal, from front-end development and monitoring capabilities, to enhanced integration with SAP BusinessObjects
Jumpstart Day
Hands-on Lab
Building highly formatted reports with SAP Crystal Reports 2011

Brian Durning, Dell This session occurs at two convenient times. Attendance at this hands-on lab is limited. Pre-registration for an added fee prior to the event is required to assure a seat. 9:00 am 12:00 pm 2:00 pm 5:00 pm This hands-on session provides detailed instruction for building, formatting, and deploying SAP Crystal Reports 2011 in a stand-alone or SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise environment. SAP Crystal Reports designers both experienced and new to the tool should attend to: Become familiar with the capabilities of SAP Crystal Reports 2011, such as the enhanced Database Expert for more seamless connection to back-end data sources Learn to exploit new export features and formats, including the XSLX feature to export reports to a Microsoft Excel 2007 workbook See how to create groups and utilize group property values and formulas to create conditional groups and group names Get tips for more efficient object placement, such as placing graphs in page headers Understand when and how to use an on-demand subreport, and examine common subreport properties, such as linking and shared variables Leverage the OpenDocument call to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to infuse more interactivity with drag-anddrop and hierarchical drill-down capabilities without the need for complex grouping Examine connectivity options between SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius), and learn how to embed a dashboard directly within a formatted report for further data analysis and user interaction Take away completed SAP Crystal Reports samples with comments and tips for reference back at the office
Hands-on Lab
Rapidly prototype a dashboard with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius)
Scott Leaver and Matt Lloyd, SAP This session occurs at two convenient times. Attendance at this hands-on lab is limited. Pre-registration for an added fee prior to the event is required to assure a seat. 9:00 am 12:00 pm 2:00 pm 5:00 pm This hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction for rapidly building a dashboard using the new, out-of- the-box functionality available with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius). Gain direct experience with the latest drag-and-drop and free-form design capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Find out how to embed what-if analyses into your dashboards, providing users with fact-based decision support Learn how to design and edit high-performing queries using the new universe-based query panel Apply the concept of direct binding from a component to the results of a query, leverage the query results in a chart or scorecard, and see a live preview of the query data at design time Understand how to add alerts to a scorecard Build a composite dashboard, and use content linking to pass values from one dashboard to another dashboard (or to a report) Translate text in an enterprise dashboard by applying localized formats to dates and numbers, and incorporate currency symbols independent of these formats
Jumpstart Day 10
Hands-on Lab
Self-service reporting with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Jay Riddle, COMERIT This session occurs at two convenient times. Attendance at this hands-on lab is limited. Pre-registration for an added fee prior to the event is required to assure a seat. 9:00 am 12:00 pm 2:00 pm 5:00 pm This hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to build self-service queries and reports, including guidelines to integrate them with back-end SAP and non-SAP data sources. Learn how to use standard SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence functionality to create user-friendly, ad hoc reports. Learn how to better use variables and functions See how to enable drill-down capabilities for detailed analysis Practice techniques for making self-service Web analytics more interactive, including tips for enabling drag-anddrop capabilities See how to optimize a SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence self-service reporting environment by exploiting key report distribution and publication capabilities Practice using input controls and graphics for more sophisticated and dynamic Web reports Go beyond core functionality and explore the best ways to use calculation contexts, and set up input and output parameters Learn how to generate SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence BI Web services and import them into a dashboard Get tips for leveraging new SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 charting features and multi-source capabilities
What every Business Objects customer needs to know about the new SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 release and its impact on your current BI landscape
Chris Dinkel, Deloitte 9:00 am 12:00 pm The release of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 introduced a new wave of capabilities for faster and more efficient BI reporting, analysis, and data visualization. But how exactly will these enhancements affect the BI landscape of business objects customers who may not yet be running SAP? Attend this detailed, three-hour session to identify enhancements and functionality that matter most to your organization, and receive proven adoption strategies for exploiting them. Understand how the revamped semantic layer and new information design tool affect universe design and facilitate data connectivity across multidimensional data sources Explore the technical considerations and prerequisites for integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 with non-SAP data sources, such as XML, and see how this differs from the way SAP NetWeaver BW data is accessed Get tips for leveraging new system monitoring dashboards and notifications for real-time updates on server status and user thresholds even if your organization isnt running SAP Solution Manager Review criteria to help determine whether and how to migrate or upgrade to SAP Crystal Reports 2011 or SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise Explore strategies, technologies, and workarounds for enabling a successful migration from SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Determine which SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 upgrade or migration strategy for example, staged or incremental versus a big-bang approach is most appropriate for your BI landscape and requirements Get tips for leveraging the new upgrade management tool
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Comprehensive guidelines to speed data analysis using the analytical engines from SAP
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT 9:00 am 12:00 pm
Updates and new guidelines to optimize operations across your system landscape with SAP Solution Manager
John Krakowski, Jr., SAP America 2:00 pm 5:00 pm
This comprehensive three-hour session offers strategic advice for leveraging data warehousing and analytical engines from SAP to increase the speed and efficiency of data processing and analysis. Step through examples and demos that explore the analytical capabilities and requirements of each solution, including: SAP HANA SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator SAP BusinessObjects Explorer SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
This special three-hour session provides detailed instruction and leading strategies for utilizing SAP Solution Manager to manage IT landscapes and support a sound application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy. Explore opportunities to enhance technical support and operations with SAP Solution Manager, from technical monitoring and alerting, to data volume management Learn which integrated functions boost administration efficiency Get tips to resolve incidents quickly using root cause analysis Dive into the latest capabilities related to centralized job control and process-oriented monitoring and analysis of core business processes Learn how to leverage key capabilities in SAP Solution Manager to support your testing processes, including automatic regression testing and test data management See how to mitigate challenges associated with change and transport management Understand whats required to establish a single quality process across an SAP landscape Gain insight into new features delivered in the SAP Solution Manager 7.1 release, including: Solution implementation Test management Change control management Incident management Technical operations Business process operations
Get evaluation criteria for mapping each solution to your organizations IT landscape and business requirements Identify the best ways to exploit key capabilities and synergies, including integration considerations and performance benchmarks Uncover technical considerations and prerequisites of an SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator deployment, such as hardware sizing, network capacity, indexing and compression speed, and day-to-day operational requirements Explore the most common use cases for SAP HANA, including real-time data warehousing, dashboard deployments, and landscape rationalization Discover how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for unstructured analysis and exploration without the need for queries or traditional data stores Examine three distinct ways to deploy OLAP tools within SAP BusinessObjects Analysis via Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, or the Web interface and get criteria to map each approach to your analytical requirements Walk through a detailed demonstration to understand key differences between the Microsoft and OLAP editions of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Explore metrics and strategies to demonstrate the value of your data warehousing and analytics effort to key stakeholders Come away with a deep understanding of what these solutions can do and when to use them
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A detailed guide to conducting a mobility assessment: A critical first step before beginning your SAP mobile project
Jim Cameron, ExpertIG 2:00 pm 5:00 pm This detailed three-hour session delves into the skills, training, architectural, and technical considerations that must be carefully assessed before deploying SAP applications on mobile devices. Delve into the diverse set of technical and business skills required to plan, design, develop, roll out, and manage an SAP mobile solution Gain an understanding of when and how to involve the business especially business process experts in your SAP mobile design and deployment Step through a process for conducting a mobile skills gap analysis of your workforce Assess the best options for getting your existing team up to speed on mobility skills and when external resources may be necessary Explore all aspects of the mobile architecture, including SAP application connectivity, mobile middleware requirements, and device deployment and management Gather best practices for navigating the three critical steps required to architect an SAP mobility solution: Blueprinting the infrastructure Deciding what components of the infrastructure will be developed and managed internally or via cloud or a hosted service Setting preferences and guidelines for choosing middleware and devices Walk through strategies for supporting native device capabilities Get key considerations for developing cross-platform applications Find out what tools are available to help you monitor, enforce, and secure your mobile assets Exclusive take-home resources: Technology checklists to use when selecting devices and middleware, sample mobile architecture maps, sample job description templates, and staging plans that can be adapted to your companys needs.
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Strategies for advancing business goals and optimizing the end-user experience
Happy users and a well-controlled, cost-effective BI strategy you can have both!
Penny Silvia, IBM One of the hallmarks of a successful reporting or BI strategy is also one of the most challenging user satisfaction and adoption. This session provides best practices for managing user expectations as their reporting needs change over time. Explore critical components for working with user communities of all skill and technical levels, and acquire strategies for assessing how comfortable they are with various SAP or SAP BusinessObjects reporting solutions. Understand the impact user skill level has on design and branding approach, and explore questions to ask during the planning phase of a reporting or BI initiative. Get best practices for dealing with and prioritizing competing requirements from various functional groups. Leave with proven strategies for setting up your reporting program for success from conducting scoping sessions to gather requirements, to distinguishing the wants from the needs, to managing new requirements and user expectations after go-live.
Strategies for selecting the right BI Client Product based on your own requirements
Ingo Hilgefort, SAP This session examines, in detail, each of the solutions available in the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x portfolio and evaluates their capabilities and suitability to meet specific reporting needs. Understand why some solutions are not an appropriate choice for certain reporting and analytic scenarios, such as high-level management KPIs or detailed, drill-down analyses. Find out how the various SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x solutions can be integrated and leveraged in a complementary manner, and understand the steps required to do so. Learn an approach that you can use to leverage your business requirements and how to use those requirements and match them against the strength and weaknesses of the BI products. You will see how you can use the approach to find the right tool for the job.
How Schwans Food Company streamlined enterprise-wide analytics and increased visibility into business operations
Karthik Palanisamy and Dave Barkus, Schwans Food Company This session explores the processes and tools deployed by Schwans Food Company to enable enterprise-wide analytics, including critical steps and considerations to determine and optimize a BI methodology. Get lessons from the company on scoping and requirements gathering, including the steps it took to ensure that the needs of four distinct business units consumer brands, food service, home service, and global supply chain were represented and met. See how Schwans Food Company leverages a self-service portal to ensure decisions are based on the most accurate and up-to-date information. Understand the importance of hierarchy reporting, and get tips for deploying it in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Gain insight into how the company reached agreement and set policy on a common look, feel, and navigation path for its enterprise dashboards and reports. Step through demos of Schwans Food Companys department-specific dashboards from food services to supply chain for insight into how they provide immediate business value to the enterprise.
Case Study
Lessons from Northrop Grummans forward-looking BI strategy and roadmap

Alan Avakian, Northrop Grumman Examine critical success factors from Northrop Grumman to develop and deliver a comprehensive BI roadmap that identifies a shared set of goals and delivers planned results. Explore best practice approaches to executing a BI roadmap program-wide. See how Northrop Grumman leveraged its roadmap to plan, scope, and assign resources to future BI initiatives up to five years in advance. Gain insight into how the company established a dedicated team to support the key components of its BI roadmap, including stakeholder and management buy-in, research initiatives, and implementation approach. Learn how Northrop Grumman leveraged the Accolade Vision Strategist as a roadmapping tool to create a physical BI roadmap and more accurately assess the financial impacts of future BI projects. Hear why the company publishes its BI roadmap on a biannual basis. Take home a sample BI roadmap and checklist to help determine an effective BI strategy for your organization.
Case Study
The role of a BI competency center in Bank of New York Mellons enterprise-wide BI strategy
Christopher Pohl, BNY/Mellon This session examines Bank of New York Mellons best practice approach to executing an effective enterprise-wide BI strategy, including critical success factors and guidelines for developing and maintaining a successful BI competency center. Hear how the company achieved high-level executive sponsorship, and see how this helped mandate change for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome. Get recommendations from Bank of New York Mellon for staffing and structuring a BI competency center, including tips to identify and utilize internal BI resources. Explore the role of the competency center in the companys overall BI strategy, including how it was leveraged to help break down organizational barriers and remove limits of a departmental focus. Come away with lessons and ideas to leverage a BI competency center to help resolve business challenges in your organization, including tips to incorporate the priorities of line of business (LoB) teams, IT, and customers.
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E-learning, help desk, and more: Picking the right training and adoption approach for your BI user base
Dallas Marks, Kalvin Consulting This session explores various user training and adoption methodologies for BI end-users and provides criteria for selecting the best approach for your business and user needs. Step through examples that weigh the pros and cons of user training methodologies, ranging from traditional classroom learning and e-learning, to one-on-one mentoring. Get tips for analyzing and revamping the relationship between your organizations user base and help desk to ensure users are getting the right information at the right time. Explore the benefits of creating an internal power user program to increase user self-sufficiency and address common help desk calls. Get tips for leveraging power users as addendums to local and national user group meetings. Understand the importance of routine user training such as weekly or monthly rather than just a onetime post-implementation initiative. Evaluate criteria to choose the most appropriate user training method based on your organizations training budget and geographical make-up. Take home a sample agenda for a power user group meeting to reference back in the office.
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Introducing a scientific method to keep your BI initiatives aligned with business goals
Hari Guleria, HCL Axon According to Gartner, only 50% of business intelligence implementations fully meet business expectations. This session offers best practices for ensuring your organizations BI initiatives meet and even exceed the expectations of business users, managers, and stakeholders. Explore the two distinct ways in which BI projects are being deployed around the world Technology is King and Business Participation and Accountability in BI Projects and gauge which would be the better choice for your organization. Obtain proven strategies for boosting the business participation in BI initiatives, such as offering high-level training to all business stakeholders prior to the project kick-off. Understand the underlying principles of a business value attainment (BVA) model, including a clear definition of business success. Learn a scientific methodology to ensure that weekly project status reports are designed to measure progress against desired business outcomes. Take home a BVA checklist for BI project managers, along with a white paper comparing the costs of pre- and post-go-live fixes.
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0: Strategy, roadmap, and technical considerations
Jason Rose, SAP This session provides specific examples of how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 to gain greater insight into your business, make smarter decisions, and measure their results. Examine key differences between business intelligence and business analytics, and understand how BI solutions can serve a broader business analytics strategy. Learn how to employ a common look and feel across internal and external SAP data sources with the new common semantic layer. See how to use event-driven data processing to better identify opportunities for customer engagement. Gain insight into new and future improvements planned for Web reports and analyses, formatted reporting, and dashboards. Become familiar with the new SAP BusinessObjects Analysis client for multidimensional ad hoc analysis of OLAP data sources. Come away with a comprehensive understanding of SAPs business intelligence roadmap, with emphasis on where BI fits into SAPs broader business analytics strategy.
Strategies for user adoption and training with BI initiatives

Penny Silvia, IBM Join your peers to share best practices for boosting user adoption of SAP and SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in this casual, discussion-based setting. Swap lessons learned for creating effective end-user training strategies, and explore questions such as: How can I more effectively gather user requirements at the start of an implementation to ensure higher user adoption after go-live? How do I determine whether a power user program or Center of Excellence might work well for my specific group of users? Are there any tools or resources available to help my organization develop a standard user training methodology? Discuss some of the biggest user adoption or training challenges your organization has faced, and receive real-world strategies from other SAP and SAP BusinessObjects customers for overcoming them.
Insider Discussion Forum
Best practices for driving continuous improvement and managing change as your BI strategy evolves
Penny Silvia, IBM A successful BI strategy is an evolutionary process. This session offers best practices for ensuring continuous improvement and adapting to changes within your BI reporting environment. Understand how a solid enterprise-wide communication strategy is key to achieving long-term BI success, and get tips for establishing such a strategy that involves your end users. Explore different techniques for managing change in the early phases of your reporting initiatives even when migrating from a non-SAP reporting environment. Understand when (and when not) to involve users in the requirements-gathering and testing phases of a BI initiative. Acquire best practices for handling new or advanced requirements after your SAP or SAP BusinessObjects solution has already gone live. Leave with proven methods for engaging users and effectively handling change, such as hosting focus groups and establishing super user communities.
A comprehensive guide to analytical capabilities embedded within SAP Business Suite

Henner Schielbs, SAP Explore the scope and value of embedded analytics in SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations 2010, and step through detailed demos and examples that explore the reporting and dashboarding capabilities delivered. Step through use case scenarios such as extracting data from ALV to SAP Crystal Reports for printout and formatting purposes to derive greater insight into your business operations. Get an overview of all the business analytics content pre-configured within SAP Business Suite embedded analytics, such as pre-defined SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards for finance, human capital management, and customer relationship management (CRM) reporting. Become familiar with various integration scenarios available for embedded analytics within the SAP Business Suite to understand how they will fit within your overall BI landscape.
Best practices for establishing and supporting a scalable BI center of excellence (COE)
Buntic Georgian, Archius Determine if and how a center of excellence (COE) could help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) of your BI landscape, and get tips for building and optimizing one that offers the greatest return on investment (ROI). Acquire strategies for aligning both technical and functional COE resources. Get tips for overcoming common challenges associated with establishing a BI COE, from data standardization to user adoption and change management. See how to ensure COE scalability to support an evolving or newly-upgraded BI environment. Explore various BI COE organizational structures including enterprise-level, cross-functional team model, and distributed hub-and-spoke structure and get criteria for determining which would work best in your environment. Understand whats required to properly govern a COE initiative, and get tips for creating and maintaining a COE governance model. Take home a checklist outlining the steps required to build a new BI COE or optimize the one you already have.
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Strategies for leveraging BI to solve organizational challenges

Deepa Sankar, SAP Understand the importance of a clear, well-articulated BI strategy. Find out how an effective BI approach benefits IT and line of business teams alike, from aligning business partners and formalizing business needs, to removing limits of departmental silos. Explore critical success factors for developing and delivering a comprehensive BI strategy that meets business expectations. Learn best practice approaches to executing this plan enterprise-wide, including guidelines to define and run a successful BI competency center. Hear key recommendations to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and organize crossfunctionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome. Come away with a repeatable framework that engages and brings together the priorities of both CIOs and business executives to address organizational challenges that a BI strategy can resolve.
A trainers cheat sheet: Everything you need to know to drive user adoption of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0
Dave Cartwright, Kingfisher The SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 suite provides a variety of enhanced reporting, dashboarding, and analytics capabilities; in order to leverage them to the fullest, however, users must first familiarize themselves with brand new interfaces and navigational paths. This session provides a comprehensive overview of the biggest interface and navigational changes in the latest release of SAP BusinessObjects BI to facilitate optimal user adoption in your organization. Learn how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligences new tabbed interface can be leveraged to streamline report development. Explore the revamped common semantic layer and consistent look and feel employed across all front-end SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in 4.0. Receive best practices for hosting an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 user training program, such as developing an iterative, agile training program (borrowing concepts from the development world!), and creating team champions to help ensure knowledge transfer after the formal training is over. Take home a list of the top navigation- and interface-related changes within SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 to reference during your own end-user training initiative.
The role of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis in your self-service BI strategy

Theirry Audas, SAP Gain insight into the SAP vision and strategy for positioning SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office as an alternative to SAP BEx Analyzer, edition for OLAP as the successor of SAP BusinessObjects Voyager. Examine technical prerequisites, platform capabilities, and roadmap details for both editions. Discover how this new BI solution can be used to smoothly transition your user population from the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) to the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. See how it can be used to increase self-service BI usage and business user autonomy while minimizing TCO. Explore use case scenarios to see how you can fully leverage previous investments in SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BEx query design, even if you are migrating to SAP BusinessObjects BI. Learn about its interoperability with various SAP in-memory processing technologies, such as SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Get a sneak peek at the latest version, SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis, which enables advanced, multidimensional analysis.
Power to the users: Guidelines to define and optimize a self-service reporting strategy
Patrick Dixon, Independent Consultant This session explores the BI self-service options available in SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver BW and offers expert guidance for properly leveraging them to meet the requirements of your user community, from casual users to data analysts. Understand the importance of governance in self-service reporting, and get tips to set policy on a common look, feel, and navigation path. Review the security implications associated with self-service BI, such as unauthorized access to reports and dashboards, and get tips to ensure proper portal and back-end authorizations. Get recommendations and criteria for creating sustainable power user programs to ensure seamless knowledge transfer and optimize future self-service initiatives. Find out when it makes sense to leverage a center of excellence (COE) for self-service reporting, and take home the steps required to design and optimize a COE to ensure self-service success in your organization.
Tips, tools, and actionable advice to leverage corporate data as a strategic asset for better decisionmaking
Byron Banks, SAP This session explores techniques and tools to optimize the processing and delivery of voluminous data across a complex technology landscape, including tips to ensure the quality and integrity of the data that feeds your BI solutions. Explore real-world examples for tips to quickly recognize areas to reduce costs and better align data strategies with corporate objectives to best meet your organizations analytical and business goals. Understand whats required to optimize underlying data warehousing and management technologies to support your organizations BI roadmap, including new ideas for leveraging SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects solutions. See how SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward enables continuous insight into the quality of your data and enhanced collaboration between business data analysts and IT, leading to better decision-making. Obtain best practices for data profiling and data quality monitoring via scorecards to improve the overall foundation of your BI landscape.
Evaluation criteria and guidelines for deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand
Pierre Leroux, SAP This session explores the benefits and technical considerations of deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand. Step through detailed demos that show how this cloud-based solution enables users to reach broader internal and external audiences to share data and reports through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Understand whats required to leverage SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand via a hosted data warehouse, including tips to use and customize the preconfigured report and dataset templates. Discover how to best plan for additional functionality, including in-memory acceleration via SAP snap-in architecture, to customize and extend cloud-based solutions. Get proven strategies to increase end-user adoption and self-service reporting in your cloud-based BI environment.
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Options and criteria to improve reporting and analysis of industry and line of business (LoB) data
Padmini Ranganathan, SAP This session examined guidelines for deploying SAP BusinessObjects industry and line of business (LoB) analytic applications to better analyze industry-specific logistics, operations, financial efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Identify the best ways to leverage pre-built dashboards, data models, and mobile user interfaces to track KPIs specific to your industry. Examine the unique SAP BusinessObjects applications available for banking, consumer products, healthcare, aerospace and defense, oil and gas, retail, public sector, and more. Get tips to quickly deploy and scale these solutions within your existing enterprise data framework via on-premise, on-device, and on-demand models. Gain technical insight into how they integrate with your current BI landscape or used in conjunction with in-memory solutions like SAP HANA.
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis

Theirry Audas, SAP Attend this live demo to explore the analytical capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, and learn how this revamped BI solution can be leveraged to boost self-service BI in your organization -- while minimizing TCO. Walk through common, real-world use cases to understand how the tool could be leveraged in your BI landscape, and understand key differences between the Microsoft and OLAP editions.
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High-speed analytics and SAP HANA
Lessons for optimizing SAP BusinessObjects BI reporting with SAP HANA

Praveen Misra, BI Partners This session offers proven strategies for leveraging the real-time analytical capabilities of SAP HANA alongside SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 solutions for optimal BI reporting. Review the technical considerations behind an SAP HANA deployment, such as storage limitations and system sizing. Get tips for leveraging the replication capabilities within SAP HANA to enable near real-time reporting within your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 environment. Understand the performance implications SAP HANA will have on operational dashboards and Web reports. Receive step-by-step guidance for implementing a high-value analytical scenario with SAP HANA. Learn how to build a simple data model within an SAP HANA landscape. See a demonstration of SAP HANA being used as an SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence data source, allowing for near realtime analysis on large data volumes.
The road to SAP HANA: Current capabilities and future roadmap

Dan Kearnan, SAP This session examines the best ways to leverage SAP HANA as a high-performance foundation to process large volumes of data, including tips to optimize the performance of your existing BI landscape on top of this new platform. Discover how to exploit the key integration points between SAP HANA and SAPBusinessObjects BI 4.0. Determine the best ways to extract data from SAP and non-SAP data sources, model it in-memory, and pass it to SAP BusinessObjects front ends, including SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. Examine use case scenarios that help identify opportunities to apply in-memory computing in your organization. Hear directly from SAP how in-memory technology impacts existing SAP NetWeaver BW customers and the SAP data warehousing roadmap, and leave this session with an understanding of the current solutions for in-memory computing from SAP and its future roadmap.
Guidelines for leveraging SAP HANA with Microsoft Excel for improved report presentation and user satisfaction
Russell Tront, Simba Technologies This session offers best practices for exploiting the in-memory and multi-dimensional query handling capabilities of SAP HANA directly in Microsoft Excel. Step through examples that show how to integrate Microsoft Excels familiar and intuitive user interface with SAP HANA for real-time data exploration. Walk through detailed demos that illustrate the best ways to leverage Microsoft Excels data selection capabilities, multidimensional display, hierarchical navigation, and other visualization options when using SAP HANA as a data source. Get tips for leveraging the MDX provider in SAP HANA to populate Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and see how this ensures the timeliness and accuracy of delivered reports. Discover the best ways to extend real-time data access to Microsoft PowerPoint through Microsoft Excel pivot tables and charts.
How Medtronic uses SAP HANA as a performance booster for its BI solutions
Eric Popp, Medtronic Identify the business drivers that sparked Medtronics decision to leverage SAP HANA as its analytic database, including flexible and real-time analytic models based on SAP and non-SAP data. Find out how the company managed the challenge of developing an integrated data model in-memory, including the ways in which Sybase Power Designer and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services were leveraged. Explore key integration points between SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, and hear how Medtronic leverages SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence with SAP HANA to simplify and speed users search for information. Understand the impact SAP HANA has had on Medtronics business users and bottom line, and explore use case scenarios that help identify opportunities to apply in-memory computing in your organization. Come away with insight into how Medtronic plans to leverage SAP HANA to more efficiently perform global sales reporting.
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A technical guide to implementing and optimizing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT This session examines the latest analytical capabilities and technical considerations for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version. Get proven expert advice on how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, for faster in-memory queries. Step through examples of advanced design elements and features, including tips to leverage key integration points within SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Get best practices to manage modeling requirements, including tips to leverage accelerator index designer. Gather lessons learned from real-world implementations, including integration considerations and performance benchmarks. Take home a sample work plan for installing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, and a template for planning, budgeting, and rolling it out in your organization.
Track 2: High-speed analytics and SAP HANA

Increasing the speed and efficiency of data processing and analysis with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3
Storm Archer, SAP This session offers proven strategies for leveraging SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) 7.3 in conjunction with SAP HANA for more efficient data warehousing and analysis. Learn how leveraging SAP HANA alongside SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 allows for high compression rates for operational data, along with multi-core, parallel in-memory processing for complex analytical algorithms. Get tips for leveraging SAP HANA to reduce the complexity of SAP NetWeaver BW objects and optimize system performance with in-memory infocubes, DSOs, and SAP NetWeaver BW modeling objects. The session will also discuss the new transient provider to allow SAP NetWeaver BW to consume data from agile and operational data marts developed directly for SAP HANA. View a detailed demonstration of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 running on SAP HANA to explore the effects of in-memory firsthand.
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Best practices for SAP HANA operations
Serge Muts, Matt Kangas, and Glen Leslie, SAP Get up to speed on SAP HANA operations in this hands-on session! This is your chance to play around in SAP HANA. The session will include common tasks in SAP HANA like administrating users, monitoring performance, and where to look for troubleshooting information. You will also learn about your options to load data into SAP HANA as well as how to run queries from HANA studio. *Learn what is needed to perform lifecycle management tasks in SAP HANA *Get comfortable with the SAP HANA Studio to perform lifecycle management *Practice common tasks like administrating users, changing parameters and monitoring performance. *Get tips to identify and troubleshoot SAP HANA issues *Understand your options for extracting and loading data into SAP HANA.
Hands-on lab
2012 roadmap to data warehousing solutions from SAP

Dan Kearnan, SAP This session offers strategies for leveraging data warehousing functionality from SAP to reduce the total cost of operations and data warehouse development, decrease data latency, and accelerate response time. Gain a clear understanding of the full suite of SAP data warehousing solutions, including SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, SAP HANA, and Sybase IQ. Explore the best ways to exploit the capabilities and synergies including distinct integration points between SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver BW between these various data foundations. Get criteria to map the various data warehousing options from SAP to your organizations unique IT landscape and business requirements. Hear SAPs vision and strategy for future data warehousing initiatives and roadmap.
Medtronic shares lessons from its implementation of SAP HANA

Brian Raver, Medtronic Attend this informal, discussion-based session to gain real-world insights from Medtronics implementation of SAP HANA. Hear from Medtronic firsthand, and explore questions such as: What are the typical business drivers behind SAP HANA adoption, and what are the unique benefits it offers? What are the key integration points between SAP HANA and the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite and how do I properly align technical resources to prepare for a deployment? How will SAP HANA impact the overall performance of my BI landscape? Are there recommended ways to extract data from SAP and non-SAP data sources and pass it to front-end solutions? In addition to hearing the top lessons learned from Medtronic, leave this forum with proven strategies from other SAP customers for implementing and optimizing SAP HANA.
Customer Discussion Forum
Techniques to optimize SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 reporting capabilities with SAP HANA
Patrice Le Bihan and Vishal Dhir, SAP In this hands-on session attendees will learn how to exploit the key integration points between SAP HANA and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 for optimal reporting capabilities. See how to leverage the replication capabilities in SAP HANA to enable near real-time reporting within your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 environment. Practice reporting off simple and advanced data models with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius), SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Edition for Office, and SAP Crystal Reports. Learn how to leverage SAP HANA Studio and Information Design Tool to build a data model within an SAP HANA landscape. Get tips to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence with SAP HANA to simplify and speed users search for information.
Hands-on lab
Inside Deloittes implementation of SAP HANA

Chris Dinkel, Deloitte This session provides a detailed look at Deloittes recent SAP HANA deployment and explores lessons learned and challenges the company faced along the way. Learn how Deloitte created a proof-of-concept (POC) to elicit the support of key stakeholders, and gain insight into the specific timeline and resources the company established during the blueprint phase. See how the company overcame challenges associated with integrating structured and unstructured data sources, including SAP NetWeaver BW, Microsoft SQL Server, commaseparated values (CSV), and Microsoft Office. Find out how Deloitte managed the challenge of extracting and loading large amounts of data during the deployment phase, including the ways in which SAP BusinessObjects Data Services was leveraged. Step through demos to see the impact SAP HANA has on the companys front-end reports. Gain insight into key benefits Deloitte realized as a result of its SAP HANA deployment, including a reduction in data load time from 48 hours to 12 minutes, and a reduction in SAP Crystal Reports run time from 30 minutes to milliseconds.
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Data modeling, integration, and quality
How to combat ETL problems that arise from bad source data
Don Loden, Decision First Understand how and why extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) challenges arise from bad source data, and how to combat those challenges with properly constructed ETL code. Explore change data capture (CDC) techniques and strategies to focus on recovery as well as performance, and learn when to choose source- or target-based CDC. Obtain best practices for multi-user ETL development, and learn why its not a good idea to hold up a project to wait for complex transformation logic. Accelerate your ETL project by leveraging the object-oriented and reusable characteristics of modern tools like SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, and hear why these tools offer benefits that cannot be obtained by traditionally scripted ETL code. Leave this session with expert ETL tips, such as tracking errors with proven validation techniques and monitoring individual objects, along with advice for ETL development in an enterprise data warehouse.
Step-by-step guidelines for building and deploying an enterprise-wide information governance strategy
Ina Felsheim, SAP This session demystifies the concept of information governance and provides a comprehensive overview of the SAP solutions available to help support your overall governance strategy. Discuss key steps for building an enterprisewide information governance program, such as identifying business priorities, along with specific data elements. Get tips for using SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward to more efficiently perform data profiling and metadata management to monitor data adherence to governance standards with data quality dashboards. Learn how to perform root cause and impact analyses to identify key culprits behind inaccurate or low-quality data. Explore options for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to consolidate and improve data quality from multiple sources or analyze unstructured text data sources. Learn how you can create master data natively in the SAP Business Suite environment with SAP Master Data Governance.
Whats new with SAP BusinessObjects enterprise information management 4.0? The 2012 guide
Byron Banks, SAP Get an up-to-date look at recent enhancements and key functionality delivered with SAP BusinessObjects enterprise information management (EIM) 4.0. Step through demos that explore best practices for when and how to leverage enhanced SAP BusinessObjects EIM 4.0 capabilities to access, integrate, and enhance enterprise data for key business initiatives, including new enterprise application rollouts or migrations, and BI and data warehouse deployments. Discover new capabilities within SAP BusinessObjects Data Services 4.0, such as managing data in real time, providing insight on both social and business data, and selecting from a variety of deployment options to best match the business needs from small departmental projects all the way up to enterprise-wide implementations. Gain insight into SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward a new profiling and metadata management solution that enables end users to understand and manage their data on their own without relying on the IT department. Come away with product updates and an understanding of the SAP BusinessObjects enterprise information management roadmap.
Lessons for speeding data processing and analysis using a multi-data source BI environment
Hari Guleria, HCL Axon Understand the benefits of deploying an alternative or additional data warehouse such as boosting SAP NetWeaver BW report performance with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator or SAP HANA. Acquire tips for identifying and selecting the best alternative data source to meet your business requirements. Hear realworld examples of how other companies have effectively implemented alternative data sources, including SAP HANA and Teradata. Learn how to implement global BI standards, processes, and methodologies within a multidata warehouse environment for high quality data. Explore the dos and donts of a multidata warehouse data flow, and hear real-world pitfalls from other SAP customers. Take home sample business cases for a multi-data warehouse environment, along with a list of best practices for deployment and data flow.
Expert techniques for more effective SAP NetWeaver BW data modeling

Jesper Christensen, COMERIT This session will cover the top 20 data modeling best practices for an SAP NetWeaver BW landscape. Explore the benefits of techniques such as semantic partitioning and dimensional modeling, and receive proven strategies for performing them. Receive best practices for optimizing data models specifically for SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Examine options for modeling InfoCubes for enhanced system performance, and learn how to improve memory utilization by caching. Get tips for leveraging system diagnostics to identify and troubleshoot SAP NetWeaver BW performance issues. Learn how and when to apply new data modeling techniques delivered with SAP Netweaver BW 7.3, such as the Semantic Partitioning Object (SPO) and cube-less SAP NetWeaver BW accelerator indices. Take home a list of best practices for optimizing InfoCube dimensions.
Track 3: Data modeling, integration, and quality

Lessons for enhancing and cleansing customer data in real time
Don Loden, Decision First This session offers best practices for developing a real-time data quality Web service solution using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to ensure high-quality customer data. Get an overview of the key benefits of a realtime data quality solution, such as cleansing and matching customer data in real time and avoiding time delays caused by batch processing. Witness the benefits of cleansing and matching done at data entry in the source system. Step through a live demo for detailed instructions to construct a real-time data flow in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, including tips to configure the job server to test your real-time Web service. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management to enhance a customer record by supplementing the record with linkage to all purchase history using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services. Explore server-setup and testing techniques to more efficiently de-bug after a project. See why break keys are important for fine-tuning to produce the most efficient best match possible.
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20 tips and tricks to improve data load performance
Jesper Christensen, COMERIT Gain detailed insight into SAP NetWeaver BW data load processes, how they work, and what tools are available to monitor and optimize their performance. Receive best practices to maximize data load performance while reducing long-term maintenance costs, such as when to use portable extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) code and when to eliminate hard-coding in your ETL logic. Understand the benefits of optimized data load processes, such as the use of less hardware and freed up resources for online report users. Find out how to enable version history to track code changes and how to create reusable ETL logic to improve throughput and reduce data load time. Get tips on when and how to use customer exits in DataSources and variables to manage risk and reduce maintenance costs. Identify the challenges and benefits of semantic partitioning and the importance of efficient data models. Take home sample code and system settings for optimized ETL processes.
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Best practices in SAP BusinessObjects Data Services data flow and job design
Don Loden, Decision First Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Don Loden, Principal Business Intelligence Consultant, Decision First, and engage in an updated discussion about one of his most widely read articles from BI Expert the leading publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage business intelligence solutions from SAP. Explore best practices for developing an SAP BusinessObjects Data Services data flow, along with the importance of reusability in job design. Discover the benefits of always designing an ETL job with reusable pieces of code to perform multiple operations within SAP BusinessObjects Data Services by manipulating the code with variables and conditionals and receive tips for doing so within your organization. Learn how to properly construct an SAP BusinessObjects Data Services data flow for maximum system performance by breaking the flow down into four distinct stages driver stage, parsing stage, lookup stage, and business rules enforcement stage and receive proven strategies for performing each.
Shell International BVs integrated SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 landscape
Steve Mutch and Djorgo Gubbels, Shell International BV Attend this informal question-and-answer session to pick the brain of Shell International BV for tips to integrate SAP and SAP BusinessObjects landscapes, while simultaneously upgrading to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3. Explore questions such as: What are the technical nuances of integrating SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and SAP Crystal Reports with SAP NetWeaver BW? How can I ensure a high-performing and scalable SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver BW environment? How do I best resource and scope an SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgrade -- and how will the upgrade impact integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions? Leave this session with the real-world insights you need to deploy a fully-integrated SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW landscape, along with the technical know-how to upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3.
Ensure accurate and secure information sharing across your enterprise functionality
Klaus David, SAP This session offers an up-to-date look at SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) and lessons for leveraging its functionality to deliver integrated, accurate, and timely data across your enterprise. Review your options for integrating SAP NetWeaver MDM with the latest SAP BusinessObjects information management solutions, such as SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, and find out when and how it is advisable to do so for example, to facilitate data matching and local data quality checks in SAP NetWeaver MDM. See how to leverage SAP NetWeaver MDM functionality for data needs in specific industry segments, such as optimized supplier spend and collaborative material data maintenance. Explore options for using embedded SAP NetWeaver MDM capabilities within the SAP Business Suite to optimize pre-built master data creation, change, and distribution processes. Gain insight into how SAP HANA can add value to your data management initiatives.
Track 3: Data modeling, integration, and quality

Requirements and guidelines for accessing Business Objects BI content through Microsoft SharePoint
Jared Ellwein, People Services Center With portal applications like Microsoft SharePoint gaining popularity as a unique and easy point of access to BI content, the ability to embed Business Objects reports and dashboards is becoming increasingly important. This session examines technical prerequisites and how to guidelines to eliminate the need for an additional and restricted interface by exploiting the integration capabilities of Business Objects with a Microsoft SharePoint portal. Review interface requirements, including the benefits a .NET interface provides. Understand when its advisable to leverage the software development kit (SDK), SharePoint Portal integration kit, or the integration option for Microsoft SharePoint software from SAP. Get design tips for easy viewing of data in Microsoft SharePoint, from frames that provide comparison views by comparing sideby-side data, to hyperlinks for more detailed information.
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How The Globe and Mail replicated a domain-specific database for optimal sales and marketing insight
Sandy Yang, The Globe and Mail Domain-specific databases provide highlytargeted information for optimized sales and marketing efforts but they tend to be a timeconsuming and costly IT initiative that results in data fragmentation. This session explores how The Globe and Mail replicated the features of a third-party, domain-specific database in its SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services environment. See how the company achieved the same business benefits at half the cost. Discover technical best practices for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Data Services to simplify the import and export of data to and from SAP NetWeaver BW when replicating a domain-specific database. Learn how de-normalization and other non-SQL technology can be used to optimize performance in an enterprise BI environment. Hear how The Globe and Mail performs fast and accurate customer matching across various customer lists. Take home sample SAP BusinessObjects Data Services transformations, along with sample SAP NetWeaver BW code snippets to perform address matching.
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BI upgrades, implementations, and rollouts

Making sense of the latest SAP BusinessObjects features, functions, and terminology
Jay Riddle, COMERIT SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 comes with significantly enhanced functionality, new integration capabilities, and even new terminology for some familiar products. This session clearly explains all of the updates in order to provide you with a comfortable, working knowledge of this new solution. Explore key technical considerations surrounding an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 installation, such as integration with SAP Solution Manager and the enhanced Change and Transport System to support the transport of non-ABAP objects (CTS+). Familiarize yourself with the administrative changes in the new release, including revamped lifecycle management and monitoring capabilities. Learn how the new information design tool and data federation engine will impact your data connectivity approach. Get up to speed on the latest SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 nomenclature to understand, for instance, the difference between a transient universe and the semantic layer, or SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise. Take home a quick reference guide of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 best practices, along with links to webinars and wiki resources to help your team get familiar with the new release.
Lexmark International meets complex report development requirements with a joint SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW implementation
Albert Khair, Lexmark International Explore Lexmark Internationals decision to deploy SAP BusinessObjects BI tools on top of an SAP NetWeaver BW system, including the need to meet complex report development and end-user requirements. Learn how the organization identified critical environmental and landscape requirements, from installing the latest SAP enhancement packages to leveraging existing SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator infrastructures. Hear about technical pitfalls and configuration challenges the company encountered during its data migration process, and get lessons for leveraging the SAP integration kit. Get tips for leveraging SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) as a datasource for universe development. Examine the steps Lexmark International took to ensure optimal knowledge transfer and user adoption post go-live, including how it leveraged a BI center of excellence (COE) to manage challenges associated with disparate BI standards across a global business environment.
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Lessons learned from Valero Energy Corporations joint upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 FP3
William Faison, Valero Energy Explore the business drivers behind Valero Energy Corporations decision to upgrade to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 FP3 and SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 simultaneously, including tighter integration between SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 FP3 and SAP hierarchies, along with more flexible data models. Learn how the company phased, scoped, and resourced its joint upgrade project, including strategies and tools that were used to minimize downtime and meet project deadlines. Find out how Valero Energy Corporation overcame challenges associated with migrating SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) 3.5 queries and workbooks to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3. Gain insight into how the company managed security considerations, including its decision to migrate to analysis authorizations. Find out how the company leveraged SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS) connectivity and new metadata integration capabilities to ensure its BI and BW solutions were fully integrated. Hear about the training approaches Valero Energy Corporation used to get users up to speed quickly with the newlyupgraded BI systems.
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Inside SSM Health Cares installation of SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP NetWeaver BW
Tom Kissel, SSM Health Care Hear how SSM Health Cares recent SAP enhancement package installation prepared the company for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects solutions. Discover how SSM Health Care managed technical requirements, such as including the new Business Suite Foundation component with its SAP NetWeaver BW environment, and the need to manually activate 65 SAP NetWeaver BW objects. Hear how the company updated its ABAP and Java stacks from 7.0 to SAP enhancement package 1. Get tips for unlocking the SAP NetWeaver BW shadow system if system changes are needed during the pre-processing phase. Come away with an understanding of major pain points experienced through the upgrade, as well as timings and database sizings. Take home a preupgrade checklist of key issues and technical considerations.
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Strategies and tools for rapidly deploying SAP BusinessObjects Business Analytics
Henner Schliebs, SAP This session examines criteria and capabilities for leveraging SAP rapid deployment solutions such as strategic workforce analytics and HR executive analytics to quickly implement analytics solutions with a fixed scope and predefined services, including the flexibility for future extensions. Understand which analytical needs are good candidates for SAP rapid deployment solutions and when application customization is required. Step through detailed demos that show how to leverage SAP rapid deployment solutions to overcome typical BI project pitfalls, including evolving requirements, continuous monitoring, and consolidating data from multiple sources. Get examples of how other customers are using SAP rapid deployment solutions as a low-cost way to quickly address their evolving business demands while reducing the cost and effort of typical deployment scenarios.
Track 4: BI upgrades, implementations, and rollouts

Tips, tricks, and project methodologies for a successful migration from SAP BEx to SAP BusinessObjects
Eric Xue, Deloitte Learn what critical project management elements must be factored into an effective migration from SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) to the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite. Explore best practices for defining a clear migration strategy from a project management, tool, and functional perspective. Get an overview of various migration approaches, such as full or parallel, and examine criteria to help determine which is best suited for your SAP landscape. Walk through a realworld example to understand how the ASAP methodology can speed up SAP BusinessObjects implementations and drive your overall BI strategy. Explore best practices and methodologies for identifying and mitigating risks for your migration project, including guidelines to leverage a Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS). Take home a sample project management plan for migrating from SAP BEx to SAP BusinessObjects, a solution mapping decision tree, and a risk register document to identify risks during your next migration initiative.
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Technical lessons from Shell International BVs SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgrade
Djorgo Gubbels, Shell International BV Step inside Shell International BVs upgrade to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3, and take away the best practices and technical insights you need for successfully performing your own. Understand how Shell International BV scoped and resourced its SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 upgrade within a global environment leveraging various outsourcing strategies. Explore the technical challenges faced by the Shell team when identifying system landscape dependencies and gathering requirements, such as upgrading to the latest support pack release for the SEM plug, ensuring the appropriate OS and database versions, and having a dual stack for Java and ABAP on a single system. Discover how Shell International BV is leveraging enhancements, such as semantic partitioned objects, 7.x hierarchy loads, faster data load activation and end-to-end data loading. Gain insight into how the organization plans integration testing to ensure that its SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions will be fully integrated with the new SAP NetWeaver BW release. See demonstrations of the Xcelsius and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reports the company has built and integrated with its new SAP NetWeaver BW environment.
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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Integrating SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW for improved report performance at Westinghouse Electric Company
Andy Sajnani, Westinghouse Electric Company Westinghouse Electric Company shares its field-tested guidelines for integrating SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence with SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 for enhanced usability and performance. Hear why a standardized requirements-gathering phase and upper management onboarding process prior to implementing any of the software was an essential first step for the company. Explore strategies the company uses to meet crossfunctional reporting requirements. Get an overview of technical considerations behind SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence support for hierarchies, key figures, and navigational attributes. Step through examples that illustrate how the company overcame report performance challenges associated with customized SAP BusinessObjects universes by defining calculations and prompts at the SAP BEx level. Discover how Westinghouse Electric Company uses the query stripping capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to maximize report performance.
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Empower your business users with ad hoc Web reporting capabilities

Deepa Sankar, SAP This session answers your most critical questions about SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, ranging from how to build selfservice queries and reports to how to better integrate your front-end reporting environment with back-end SAP and non-SAP data sources. Examine specific integration improvements that have been made between SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW. Step through examples of performance and usability enhancements, including a new charting engine, multisource capabilities, and mobile options. Find out how to train end users to design and deliver interactive reports with minimal IT involvement. Gain insight into how you can use simple drag-anddrop techniques to build visually interactive content that can be shared with your colleagues, customers, and partners.
Best practices for using input controls and graphics for more sophisticated and dynamic Web reports
Nivaan Linhares, Capgemini This session offers guidelines for exploiting input control and graphics in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to increase user adoption and optimize report performance. Learn how to use input controls to view the same report from multiple angles and enable quick data filtering to analyze reports based on specified criteria. Examine the pros and cons of creating filters on a query-level versus using input controls, including how each approach impacts the user interface. Explore the top challenges faced by report developers when adding graphics, such as optimizing the rendering for InfoView, and acquire strategies for overcoming them. Gain insight into why standardizing headers and footers is always a best practice when adding graphics to Web reports. Get tips to optimally position graphics in reports in a way that ensures user adoption.
Tips and tricks for deploying BI Web services within your Web Intelligence environment
Chris Greer, EV Technologies Attend this session to explore the BI Web services functionality within Web Intelligence 4.0 and learn how your BI environment might benefit from its use. Gain insight into the BI Web services enhancements made within SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0, such as no longer being required to use the rich client. Learn how Web Intelligence BI Web services can be deployed to create more sophisticated and customizable Xcelsius dashboards with cross-tabs and user-specific formulas. Receive technical guidelines for setting up input and output parameters, along with a relative URL. Explore options for leveraging BI Web services to source over 500 rows within a dashboard connection without compromising performance. Walk through a detailed demonstration of how to create an Web Intelligence report, generate a BI Web service, and import the BI Web service into a dashboard.
Web Intelligence hidden gems: A look at the most underutilized reporting and design options
Michael Welter, Claraview This session explores some of the most commonly overlooked design options within Web Intelligence and offers best practices for leveraging them to create more user-friendly, ad hoc reports. Learn how to use calculation contexts to modify the default contexts used in formulas. Get tips for folding a Web Intelligence report to view only a footer and header of a table block. Explore options for leveraging block type prompts so users can self-select graphs and charts for reports. See how to set up a user-friendly reverse filter. Discover workarounds to avoid performance pitfalls associated with report hyperlinking. Learn how to dynamically section a report on multiple dimensions, and see how this increases enduser flexibility. Come away with a document outlining advanced query techniques and best practices for leveraging variables and functions in your Web Intelligence reports.
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Deepa Sankar, SAP Join a leading SAP expert for an interactive look at the latest SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence capabilities. In addition to new charting features and other design improvements, the demo will show examples of new data integration capabilities, along with techniques for making self-service Web analytics more interactive. Dont miss this unique opportunity to view the solution and pose your most challenging questions.
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Proven practices to integrate SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports, and Xcelsius with your existing SAP systems
Jay Riddle, COMERIT This session explores the specific nuances of tying SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, SAP Crystal Reports, and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) to your SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW systems. Find out which metadata layer will offer the best performance when incorporating SAP NetWeaver BW data into SAP Crystal Reports. Understand the differences between OLAP universes and relational universes, and how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence leverages OLAP universes as a fundamental building block for reporting on SAP NetWeaver BW. Gain insight into the differences between pointing to an SAP NetWeaver BW query versus an InfoCube. Know when, why, and how to tweak your existing SAP NetWeaver BW queries for optimal report performance (and when you may need to build new queries). Delve into the differences between the available connectivity options for delivering quality Xcelsius dashboards, including LiveOffice, Query as a Web Service (QaaWS), and SAP BI Consumer Services (BICS).
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Leveraging report variables for more robust SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence reporting
David Rathbun, PepsiCo This session explores the role of report variables in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 and offers undocumented tips and tricks to exploit them for more creative and efficient ad hoc reporting and data analysis. Walk through system demos to understand whats required to merge data providers in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, including tips to leverage the ForgeMerge() function to fix unbalanced data providers in a full client document. Obtain best practices for using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report functions and other context operations to enable calculations at different levels of granularity. Explore workarounds for displaying UserResponse() values on separate rows in a table, and see how this improves the report consumers experience. Get techniques to optimize prompt handling, including insight into whether and how to create a prompt syntax that substitutes todays date for a prompt default value.
Callaway Golfs innovative approach to improve SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence performance
Norman Ruppert, Callaway Golf This session goes behind the scenes with Callaway Golf and offers practical solutions to optimize SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report performance, including critical integration, design, and process decisions. Examine Callaway Golfs approach for setting up the connection between SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW, including integration, architecture, and design considerations, and see how the company overcame challenges associated with MDX query access. See how the companys chosen integration approach affects SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report performance. Hear how Callaway Golf identified and leveraged performance-enhancing options for data model design. Get tips from the company to avoid design worst practices that can slow down SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report performance, from leveraging exclusion filters to using details as navigational objects. Gain insight into how the company ensured an optimal end user experience, including how it avoided large reports at the document number level and used flags to restrict data.
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SAP BusinessObjects BI within your overall SAP landscape: An introductory look

Ingo Hilgefort, SAP Canada Attend this session for an introductory exploration of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions, the reporting and analysis capabilities they offer, and deployment options for running them within an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW landscape. Understand which SAP BusinessObjects BI solution, including SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, or SAP Crystal Reports, would meet your organizations reporting requirements. Gain insight into planned enhancements for the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x suite and beyond, and learn how future reporting and dashboarding capabilities could shape your organizations BI roadmap. Explore the various data connectivity and integration options between the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite and SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver BW environments, and learn how the new SAP BI Consumer Services (BICS) functionality within SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x plays a role. Receive best practices for leveraging existing BI investments within SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP ERP in a newly implemented SAP BusinessObjects 4.x landscape.
Best practices for enhancing the end-user experience with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Nivaan Linhares, Capgemini Join this interactive and candid discussion to hear strategies for enhancing the end-user experience with the ad hoc reporting functionality in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. Network with peers and discuss questions such as: How can I better leverage universe design to empower my end users to create their own Web reports? Is there a more effective way to perform SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence drilling and report linking? How can we establish an enterprise design standard for our ad hoc and Web reports to boost user acceptance? What are some enhanced drag-and-drop techniques end users can perform to build intuitive and interactive reports? Walk away with ideas to empower your end users to create their own Web reports, while reducing reliance on your IT department.
The top 10 things to know when migrating from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence
Jay Riddle, COMERIT This session examines strategies, technologies, and workarounds for migrating from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence. Examine the capabilities and features of the two reporting solutions for insight into key similarities and differences, such as custom groups, input controls, and free-hand SQL. Get expert guidance for using the new report conversion tool from SAP, and acquire classification strategies to identify report types that may not be fully convertible. Learn how to fix partially-converted reports, including tips to identify where additional conversion steps or manual redesign may be required. Find out whether and how to redesign your existing SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence reports within another BI tool such as SAP Crystal Reports. Take home a sample project plan for SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence migration and a document outlining key report conversion steps.
Track 5: SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

A technical guide to integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW
Ingo Hilgefort, SAP Canada This session provides a technical overview of the integration options for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW. Understand technical prerequisites for getting started with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and explore key differences between integrating various tools, from SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius), to SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis. Get an overview of data connectivity options for seamless integration with SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW, including required software and available data sources. Receive updates on the integration capabilities of solutions such as SAP BEx query designer and SAP Solution Manager. Learn how to connect to and leverage your existing metadata in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, and evaluate new options for user management and content life cycle management. Gain insight into support levels for existing metadata in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW across an SAP BusinessObjects landscape.
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SAP Crystal Reports
Tips and tricks to optimize the latest functionality within SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0
Stephanie Huber, Consultancy by Kingfisher This session provides a comprehensive overview of the functionality within SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise 4.0, along with advice to optimize it. Walk through a demonstration of the new information designer tool for universe creation. Learn how to use BI Consumer Services (BICS) to retrieve data directly from SAP NetWeaver BW and BEx queries, allowing for optimal performance. Review technical considerations for SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise adoption, such as running on a 64-bit environment. Get tips for leveraging the Migration Wizard to migrate existing SAP Crystal Reports into the new release. Receive best practices for enabling report-level alerts to keep users informed of outdated invoices, unresolved support tickets, and more. Find out how to quickly convert reports into multiple languages without complicated workarounds using the new translation manager. Explore options for using the new smart guideline and smart formatting features for automatic report resizing. Learn how to apply formatting to newly inserted fields based on existing fields in the report.
Decision criteria and technical prerequisites for upgrading or migrating to Crystal Reports 2011 or Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Brian Durning, Dell This session examines Crystal Reports 2011 and Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CRe) both delivered as part of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 and provides criteria to help determine whether and how to adopt one of the new solutions. Find out when it makes sense to upgrade to Crystal Reports 2011 and when a migration to Crystal Reports for Enterprise (CRe) will provide the most value. Examine which features in the new solutions are available immediately, which ones will be delivered in versions to come, and see how this impacts your upgrade or migration approach. Acquire tips for identifying and documenting your current Crystal Reports landscape along with any new or deprecated functionality within your reports prior to beginning a migration or upgrade initiative. Get an overview of supported platforms and compatibility with your existing infrastructure, including required software and available data sources, and get tips to prepare for the absence of physically-defined database connections.
Fairfax Water achieves highperforming reports with proper integration between SAP Crystal Reports and SAP ERP
Tammy Powlas, Fairfax Water This session offers proven strategies from Fairfax Water to develop and maintain highperforming financial and operational reports through the proper design and integration of SAP ERP and SAP Crystal Reports. Examine how the organizations use cases for SAP Crystal Reports vary by role ranging from business user and mobile consumer, to report developer. Step through detailed demos to see how Fairfax Water accesses its data from SAP tables, SAP query reports, and the ABAP data dictionary. Get tips and lessons learned to avoid common pitfalls associated with SAP Crystal Reports authorizations. Explore Fairfax Waters proof-of-concept strategy for deploying SAP Crystal Reports onto iPads to provide users with mobile BI. Hear a firsthand account of some of the challenges the company encountered when developing SAP ERP authorizations during SAP Crystal Reports integration, and how the team overcame these setbacks by leveraging InfoSets as a workaround. Get lessons learned from the companys change management approach and user training process.
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10 tips and techniques for exploiting the capabilities of Crystal Reports that no BI team should be without
Jenny Shah, Capgemini Through lecture and detailed demos, this session offers expert guidance on when and how to use the various options in Crystal Reports to meet unique business requirements. Learn to create sophisticated visualization for better data analysis by properly leveraging the formula editor, and step through examples of common use case scenarios, including conditional formatting and mathematical manipulations. View demos that show design and formatting best practices to boost user adoption, such as creating check boxes, using text watermarks, and creating hover over tool tips. Understand the impact Crystal Report design has on report run times and why sub-reporting and multi-pass reporting can be major culprits behind poor performance. Discover how and when it makes sense to mash up complex data models. Take home a list of commonly used formulas for high-performing reports.
Advanced information design techniques for Crystal Reports

Coy Yonce, EV Technologies The concept of information design is of growing interest in the BI world, as more organizations strive to achieve comprehensive data visualization and analysis. Attend this session to explore information design methodologies guaranteed to increase efficiency and boost user adoption of SAP Crystal Reports. Learn how to leverage field formatting to draw user attention to a specific field or area of a report that needs immediate attention or put forth a call to action. Understand the level and type of information that should be included in a report header, page header, body, and reporter footer. Get tips for incorporating advanced graphics, such as slopegraphs, within SAP Crystal Reports. Hear how to leverage interactive parameters, filtering, and sorting capabilities to display only the most relevant information to a specific user or user group. Gain insight into how to effectively use text and color-coding to create a more comprehensive report. View demonstrations of the discussed information design concepts being put to use in the new SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise design tool.
Track 6: SAP Crystal Reports

A tale of two versions: Guidelines and criteria for choosing between SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
Coy Yonce, EV Technologies With the release of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 came two, side-by-side versions of SAP Crystal Reports. So which one makes more sense for your organization? Attend this session to understand the major differences between SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise, and determine which would best meet your reporting needs. Understand how the new read-only report format delivered in SAP Crystal Reports 2011 can protect your reports from unwanted user modifications upon distribution. Learn how the XSLX export feature in SAP Crystal Reports 2011 enables designers to export reports to a Microsoft Excel 2007 workbook up to one million rows. Gain insight into why SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise is a better choice if you are using the SAP BusinessObjects suite of products. Explore the different ways in which SAP Crystal Reports 2011 and SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise connect to back-end data sources, and hear why the Enterprise version may be the better choice for SAP NetWeaver BW connectivity. Review technical and architectural considerations for migrating existing SAP Crystal Reports investments into each of these new releases.
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Leveraging SAP Crystal Reports for powerful sales, purchasing, and other operational reports
Stephanie Huber, Consultancy by Kingfisher This session provides development and integration best practices for exploiting operational reporting capabilities in SAP Crystal Reports. Get an overview of data connectivity options for integrating SAP Crystal Reports with SAP ERP, along with required software. Examine the best ways to use tables, views, and function modules in your SAP Crystal Reports. Get tips for customizing your sales orders, purchase orders, and other customer-related documents. Learn how to link purchase orders in MM to the originating sales order, list goods receipts and compare with invoice receipts, and append inspection plan characteristics from QM to an SAP sales order, contract, or scheduling agreement. Enrich your SAP data by adding statistical and summary information, as well as conditional formatting driven by SAP Crystal Reports parameters. See a stepby-step demo for creating a formatted report that joins SAP sales order data to purchase information and customer billing records. Come away with tips and tricks to optimize the performance of your formatted reports such as linking tables on indexed fields and utilizing on-demand sub-reports while returning valuable, real-time data that is customized to your business needs.
How leading customers leverage SAP Crystal Reports to improve report presentation and user satisfaction
Jenny Shah, Capgemini Engage in an interactive discussion with counterparts to find out how your peers are creatively deploying SAP Crystal Reports to present information in a more compelling, user-friendly format. Explore questions such as: How do I fully leverage SAP Crystal Reports capabilities without over-complicating report design? How do I prioritize my user wish list and distinguish between needs and wants? How can I more efficiently create groups, summary tables, and sub-reports? How do I ensure optimal data integration between SAP Crystal Reports and my backend SAP system? How can I learn from others who are getting started with the latest version of SAP Crystal Reports? Leave this session with expert advice and realworld strategies for better formatting and designing SAP Crystal Reports, while meeting the changing requirements of your end-user community.
Techniques, design trends, and architectural considerations to optimize Crystal Reports performance
Jenny Shah, Capgemini This practical session draws on concrete examples from the field and provides workable solutions to optimize performance of Crystal Reports. Identify common landscape and data connectivity problems that compromise report performance. Learn to avoid design trends that can slow down report performance, such as sub-reporting. Understand your options for leveraging the new cache server to significantly enhance report run times. Get criteria for record selection, including key differences between absolute values and formulas. Gain insight into how sub-reporting and multi-pass reporting can slow down Crystal Reports performance, and come away with performance-enhancing workarounds. Get guidelines for leveraging native Crystal Reports drivers for database connectivity, and see how improper driver selection impacts report performance. Understand your options for performing grouping and sorting on the actual Crystal Reports server.

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius)

An inside look at McKessons deployment of SAP BusinessObjects for its financial dashboard and analysis requirements
Ross Wilson, McKesson Get an overview of McKessons implementation roadmap, methodology, and project plan, including why the company decided to use Xcelsius for its financial dashboard requirements, and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for drill-down capabilities. Step through examples of the collections and accounts receivable (A/R) dashboards at McKesson to see how Xcelsius is leveraged for high-level analysis and how SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence enables more detailed reporting on days sales outstanding (DSO), dispute status, and more. Discover how the company leverages Xcelsius and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in conjunction with SAP NetWeaver BW data stores and InfoCubes for credit and dispute management reporting. See how McKesson optimized dashboard and report performance by leveraging query stripping capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and the SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS). Gain insight into lessons the company learned as a result of its project, such as the importance of service pack installations and full integration between SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver landscapes.
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2012 guide to building visually compelling and interactive SAP BusinessObjects dashboards
Emily Mui, SAP BusinessObjects This session provides an overview of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) capabilities and requirements, including architectural considerations and best practices for leveraging it to give managers detailed, visual dashboards for improved decision-making. See how to easily incorporate different types of dashboards into your business environment without the need for custom development skills. Examine technical prerequisites, and understand the importance of up-front business and IT design, including well-defined and accepted key performance indicators (KPIs). Obtain best practices for dashboard development and design, including tips to get started from dashboard layout to which design components to use. Know your options for data connectivity and examine criteria to help determine which one(s) will be most suitable for your requirements and landscape. Come away with tips to ensure the growth and adoption of dashboards for various decision-making requirements within your organization.
How CHEP achieved better insight into company performance with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Joanna Crane, CHEP This session examines how CHEP, a global leader in pallet and container pooling services, deployed and optimized executive-level dashboards in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (formerly Xcelsius). Explore the companys data connectivity approach, including how it retrieves data from SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 via SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) queries and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Web services. Hear how CHEP resolved dashboard performance problems related to trend analysis by remodeling cubes, caching data, and leveraging the SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Get performance-enhancing tips from the company, including the best ways to filter SAP NetWeaver BW data that is cached in SAP BusinessObjects. Step through a demo of CHEPs dashboard for insight into its navigation and design techniques, including scorecard alerts and ticker messages. See how the company leverages flash variables for enhanced drill-down capabilities. Take home sample demonstrations of CHEPs SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to reference while deploying and designing your own.
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Advanced techniques to design an Xcelsius dashboard like the gurus

Ryan Goodman, Centigon Solutions Hoping to become a dashboard design expert? Attend this session to gather best practices for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard (formerly Xcelsius) design to confidently approach even the most complex dashboard requirements. Immerse yourself in advanced design techniques for multi-view dashboards, performance tuning, and data exploration which are all required concepts to graduate from basic visualization to robust dashboards. Armed with advanced best practices, save hours of development time while ensuring youre making the best use of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Discuss common dashboard design challenges including data volume overload, content scope creep, and mobile deployments, and learn how to overcome them in your organization. Gain important insight and take home sample designs to approach your next dashboard project with confidence.
Shell International BVs field-tested techniques for designing executivelevel performance management reports and dashboards
Steve Mutch and Simon Robb, Shell International BV Attend this session for a behind-the-scenes look at how Shell International BV creates performance management reports and dashboards for over 4,000 managers worldwide with SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver BW. Review some of the top technical challenges the company faced when integrating SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) with SAP NetWeaver BW, such as determining the right number of characteristics in the queries. Get tips for ensuring consistent dashboard design across a global enterprise, and learn how integrated commentary and data write-back capabilities can help. Explore the rapid application development (RAD) design approach taken by the Shell International BV team to maximize self-service capabilities and minimize dashboard development time. See demonstrations of some of the companys custom-developed functionality improvements, such as dynamic charting.
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Track 7: SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius)

Supercharge dashboard performance and usability by avoiding 10 design pitfalls
Nivaan Linhares, Capgemini This session reviews the 10 most common pitfalls of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) design, and offers proven strategies for overcoming them in your own BI environment. Receive guidelines for gathering dashboard requirements from different stakeholders senior managers, users, functional analysts, and IT. Get tips for avoiding cluttered screens by arranging data more effectively, adding buttons to toggle between table and graph views, and using appropriate colors. Learn how to display a loading screen within your dashboards so end users know when new data is being loaded into charts or graphs. Walk through detailed examples of design methods proven to boost user adoption, such as the use of pop-ups, hover-over descriptions, or customized dialog boxes amongst others. Leave the presentation with insights and techniques for designing dashboards that are aligned with the way business users see and think.
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Connecting SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to non-SAP data sources
Chris Hickman, Decision First Technologies This session focuses on best practices for connecting SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to non-SAP data sources. Evaluate various connectivity options, including XML Data, Flash Variables, and LCDS Connections, to determine which would make the most sense for your organization. Get step-by-step instruction for enabling a Web Services connection, ranging from setting up a Web Service URL to determining standard usage parameters. Evaluate the pros and cons of using Flash Variables, such as incorporating data from any Web site that supports HTML into your dashboards and the ability to easily pull from multiple data sets. Receive best practices for using Adobe LiveCycle Data Services for dashboard connectivity, such as binding data destinations to a range of cells. Hear how new capabilities delivered with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 including the new semantic layer and query browser connector affect your data connectivity approach.
Connecting SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to back-end SAP data sources

Chris Hickman, Decision First Technologies This session examines the various SAP data connectivity options for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and identifies pros and cons from a functional, architectural, and performance perspective. Evaluate various out-of-the-box connection options for your dashboards, such as XML data sources, RSS data feeds, and Web services. Get tips for creating universes on the underlying database of an SAP ERP system, such as providing universe objects to build financial reports against the new general ledger. Determine whether Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) or SAP BusinessObjects Live Office would be the best choice for bringing live data into your SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, and explore the 6 critical steps for developing a QaaWS connection. Learn when it makes sense to leverage SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS) connectivity, for example, when connecting directly to SAP NetWeaver BW. Weigh the pros and cons of leveraging portal data for dashboard connectivity, such as enabling communication between multiple windows within an SAP BusinessObjects BI Workspace. Take home a decision matrix outlining pros and cons of each data connectivity option outlined in this session.
Preventing, diagnosing, and resolving the 20 most common dashboard performance problems
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT Prevent or correct the most common causes of poor dashboard performance by getting to the root cause of the problem Excel, data source, universe, or design. Get criteria for selecting performance-enhancing themes, templates, layouts, and navigation paths. Know which Excel functions to avoid, such as decision branches and daisy-chained cells. Identify performance-enhancing options for data design and data store usage. Receive tips to leverage pre-caching capabilities and guidelines to ensure adequate thread handling. Explore if and how in-memory processing can increase your query performance. Find out which addon components help performance, and which ones to avoid. Understand your options for leveraging the data sharer component to pass data from a parent to child SWF, and see how this enhances performance and manageability of large-scale dashboards. Take home a diagnostics checklist and troubleshooting guide for resolving dashboard performance problems.
Xcelsius dashboards at Dell

Brian Durning, Dell Ask your toughest dashboard-related questions to fellow SAP Business Objects customers who have been there and done that in this casual and interactive forum. Join Brian Durning from Dell to explore Xcelsius questions, such as: How can I create a standard look-and-feel for Xcelsius on an enterprise-wide level? What are the best ways to embed hyperlinks in Xcelsius for drill-down and self-service capabilities? What are the technical considerations for integrating Xcelsius with Crystal Reports or other BI solutions? How can I ensure only the highest quality data is populating my dashboard? Leave this session with real-world strategies for deploying and designing Xcelsius within your organization.
Lessons learned from Peabody Energys use of SAP BEx and SAP BusinessObjects BI tools to develop and optimize executive-level dashboards
Keith Bowles, Peabody Energy This session examines the processes and technologies Peabody Energy leveraged to optimize its executive-level dashboard initiative, including insight into how the company overcame challenges such as aligning IT and business stakeholders to support its dashboard initiative. Get tips from Peabody Energy for performing role-based requirements gathering to ensure your dashboard contains the KPIs that matter most to your users. Get details on the specific SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) and SAP BusinessObjects BI tools the company used in its dashboard initiative to enable SAP, non-SAP, and SAP BusinessObjects reporting. Gain insight into how Peabody Energy implemented advanced formatting capabilities in its dashboards using the SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) Web application designer tool and optimized dashboard performance with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator. Walk through a detailed demonstration of Peabody Energys executive-level SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and see firsthand how users can drill down into transaction-level details for more granular analysis.
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.x

Emily Mui, SAP Attend this live demo to explore the newest dashboarding capabilities within SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius). Walk through best practices for dashboard development and design, including tips on positioning content, and see which chart types best meet specific business requirements. See how integration capabilities introduced in the new release impact data connectivity.
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Strategies to better secure your dashboards
Anurag Barua, Strata-Gems Consulting Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Anurag Barua, Business Intelligence Consultant, Strata-Gems Consulting, and engage in an updated discussion about one of his most widely read articles from BusinessObjects Expert the leading publication and knowledgebase for the Business Objects community. Discuss best practices for securing your Xcelsius dashboards. Learn how to establish and deploy an enterprise-wide security strategy for Xcelsius dashboards, while still maintaining user-friendliness and flexibility. Explore the security implications of publishing a dashboard within your organization, and the various levels of access a user can have. Weigh the pros and cons of implementing dashboard security settings through the SAP BusinessObjects InfoView Portal vs. within the dashboard itself (once its been decoupled from the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Server), and determine which would work best in your organization.
A guide to SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight: Helping managers respond more quickly to attentionworthy events
Marie Goodell, SAP This session explores the analytical capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight and offers best practices for using the tool to deliver real-time insight to business users via dashboards and alerts. Explore the pre-built, output adapters available in SAP BusinessObjects Event Insight for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (previously called Xcelsius), along with the alert notification layer in the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform. Get best practices for monitoring streaming business events from a variety of data sources in real time, and learn how to correlate this data with transactional data in SAP NetWeaver BW. Obtain tips for determining when events are attentionworthy as they happen in real time, such as leveraging alert notifications. Understand the concept of an intelligence event grid and get tips for leveraging one to better monitor and track the progress of operational activities, including order placement, inventory levels, and delivery time.
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Mobile BI
Data visualization techniques for tablet-based SAP analytics and dashboards

Jim Cameron, ExpertIG This session provides expert techniques for deploying SAP and SAP BusinessObjects dashboards and other data visualization applications to tablets. Walk through the requirements and considerations that need to be examined before diving into the design of a data visualization interface for a tablet. Learn how tablet features like multi-touch interfaces, GPS sensors, and display capabilities enable you to move beyond charts and graphs and gain access to deeper data visualization capabilities such as adding filters to examine a certain cut of the data. Examine trends in data visualization on the tablet such as online visualizations with which the user can interact. Take home a 15-point checklist for adding data visualization techniques to any mobile dashboard or chart.
Two apps are better than one: CSCs strategy and project plan for simultaneously deploying mobile CRM and BI functionality
Quentin Fisher, CSC Hear CSC candidly share successes, war stories, and lessons learned from its own SAP CRM Mobile Sales and SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI implementation. Learn how CSC designed and rolled out a mobile solution that was tightly integrated with the companys existing CRM and BI processes. Find out which functionality CSC started with and how it dealt with challenges of deploying both mobile applications simultaneously. Gain insight into the benefits CSC has realized, including faster, more accurate data capture, KPIs and reports. Come away with important advice for addressing the unique staffing, skill set, and integration challenges of a multiple mobility apps being implemented at once.
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SAP BusinessObjects Explorer goes mobile at Fujitsu America

Venkatasaimurali Daliboyina, Fujitsu America This session explains how Fujitsu America accessed, launched, and configured its Webbased mobile SAP BusinessObjects Explorer application to keep up with its mobile workforce and increased volume of data. Step through examples of how Fujitsus sales and marketing teams are able to calculate margins and make forecasts in real time via their mobile devices. View a live demonstration that illustrates how Fujitsu accesses SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and Xcelsius dashboards on its iPhone and iPad devices. Hear firsthand Fujitsus project experiences, including key lessons for adding search tips, wildcards, filters, as well as sorting data and bookmarks. Come away with an understanding of how Fujitsu makes annual reports, budgets, forecasts, profit margins and other critical business intelligence consumable to users of mobile devices.
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Lessons to successfully configure SAP BusinessObjects analytic applications for iPad and iPhone
Amandeep Aggarwal, PwC Obtain detailed guidelines for configuring, running, and maintaining analytics and business intelligence functionality from SAP and SAP BusinessObjects on iPhone and iPad devices. Understand the building blocks that an enterprise must have in place such as the right analytics engine to process the data on the back end. Walk through the various configurations to mobilize SAP BusinessObjects software, whether or not you run the Sybase Unwired Platform, and the key factors like the types of mobile devices and/or tablets that play a role in deciding which configuration options best suit your company. View a proof-of-concept that illustrates how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is used to display analytics on the iPad. Understand how the functionality of the application is retained, despite modifications necessary to accommodate an iPhone or iPads unique screen size and navigation controls.
How to deploy critical financial reports on the iPad

Winni Hesel, Enowa Consulting This session provides a detailed overview on how to deploy critical financial reports, such as income statements, balance sheets, and annual reports on the iPad. Walk through examples taken from a real-world financial reporting mobile project and learn the first steps youll need to take which include performing an assessment to determine what key information your executives and mobile users are looking to access from their iPad. Learn how to successfully set up the pilot project and avoid the most common pitfalls, such as inadequate security provisions and issues surrounding the integration of the iPad with back office systems; for example setting up connectors to directly access information within your database. Get tips and tricks for integrating your existing business intelligence landscape with your iPad application to provide you team with interactive reports and visualizations as opposed to static data.
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A comprehensive guide to SAPs mobile analytics roadmap
Nic Smith, SAP In todays highly mobilized workforce, the need for timely business intelligence does not end when your employees leave the office. Walk through SAPs mobile analytics roadmap and technology strategy and learn what functionality SAP provides to supply mobile workers with real-time visibility into their project schedules, available resources, and key performance indicators (KPIs). Get practical advice for delivering the right targeted analytics to your mobile workers to ensure that these align with your organizations budgets and plans. Find out how to get analyses and critical alerts on mobile devices to make more informed decisions faster, and take action on decisions no matter where you are. Walk through real-world business use cases and learn how other organizations have successfully brought together transactions, analytics, and real-time information.
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Introducing Sybase Unwired Platform: Capabilities, requirements, and benefits
Brad Surak, SAP As the use of mobile devices rapidly increases, so does the need to deliver business analytics to users in real time. Learn how running the Sybase Unwired Platform in conjunction with business analytics from SAP provides an enterprise mobile platform that allows you to integrate data and information for more timely analytics. Learn what steps you can take to relieve the congestion created by traditional data management systems and data warehouses. Get tips for reducing overdependence on you IT department for ad hoc analysis and interactive visualization by adding functionality that puts more power into the hands of the user. Find out how to utilize the Sybase Unwired Platform to securely and efficiently deliver data to an increasingly mobile user base in a format that is suited for all devices. Leave this session equipped with proven techniques for utilizing Sybase Unwired Platform to link valuable data and resources to your analytic applications and securely deliver business analytic information anytime, anywhere.
An inside look at the mobile capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Thierry Audas, SAP This session explores the latest release of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer within the suite of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and the mobile capabilities it offers. Learn how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to create interactive views of information that can be shared on any device. Understand how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, combined with in-memory computing technologies like SAP HANA can give business users self-service access to real-time data on a variety of mobile devices. Review the product roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer to understand how its mobile options will evolve in the coming years. Understand how to bring self-service BI to new users with SAP BusinessObjects Explorer combined with SAP in-memory computing technologies. Align with SAPs product roadmap for data exploration on any device.
Mobilizing reports, analytics, and BI functionality from SAP on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Ed Bourne, Research in Motion Learn how to extend your organizations existing SAP business intelligence content to the BlackBerry PlayBook. This session will examine and walk you through best practices, key architecture considerations, and design methods required to transition existing dashboards, SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Explorer or SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI analytic applications to the PlayBook. Hear how to configure your devices to enable BlackBerry push technology that constantly updates data, enabling you to make better, faster decisions. Find out how the Sybase Unwired Platform integrates with the PlayBook, and determine whether and how it could improve data management and security. Take home a quick reference guide that outlines key differences in configuring business intelligence applications for BlackBerry smartphones as compared to the BlackBerry PlayBook.
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Thierry Audas, SAP Attend this live demo to see firsthand how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer allows you to create interactive views of information that can be shared on any device. Understand how SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, combined with the in-memory computing technologies of SAP HANA can give business users self-service access to real-time data on a variety of mobile devices.
Live Demo
Mobile business intelligence (BI)

Pierre Leroux, SAP Attend this live demonstration session to explore the latest mobile offerings for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, and evaluate which would best meet your organizations unique on-the-go needs. Gain insight into the SAP mobility roadmap to create a strong foundation for your own mobile strategy on your teams iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys, Androids, and more.
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Business planning and consolidation (BPC)

Mastering both the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
David Dixon, TruQua Enterprises This session provides a comprehensive overview of the key differences between the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Explore the five user interfaces available within SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Web, Server Manager, Office, Word, and PowerPoint and learn what is required to access them. Hear how to leverage business process flows (BPFs) to guide users through a sequence of tasks, as well as monitor and report on the status of planning and consolidation processes. Walk through the four distinct methods for creating reports and input schedules (i.e., EvDRE builder, drag-and-drop reporting, dynamic templates, or creating them from scratch) and know which method to use, depending on your needs. Understand the significance of the action pane, current view, and dynamic hierarchy editor when creating input schedules and reports.
Everything you need to know about the latest reporting capabilities in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0
David Williams, SAP This session highlights the new reporting features available in the latest release (10.0) of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, covering both the version for the Microsoft platform and the version for SAP NetWeaver. Attend to explore the latest planning and consolidation capabilities within the 10.0 release, or to determine which release or version would be most suitable to your specific environment. Learn how the new enterprise performance management (EPM) Excel client part of the new SAP BusinessObjects EPM Add-In for Microsoft Office along with the new Web user interface provides enhanced reporting and planning capabilities. View demonstrations and get tips for leveraging new BPC reporting capabilities, such as dragand-drop and IntelliSense. Hear real-world SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 use cases from other customers, and take home a Solution in Detail document for the version for SAP NetWeaver or version for the Microsoft platform.
Key considerations for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation adoption and data migration
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises This session explores the many adoption and migration paths available when moving from other SAP planning and consolidation tools to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Get answers to critical decisions that must be made before embarking on a BPC implementation, for example, whether to start with planning or consolidation. Determine whether older SAP solutions you may be running still have a role in your planning and consolidation processes, even if you use BPC. Discuss the specific challenges of moving from BPC, version for the Microsoft platform, to the version for SAP NetWeaver, such as handling case sensitivity and dimension member formulas and get proven strategies for overcoming them. Hear detailed, real-world examples that illustrate the successes and challenges experienced by other SAP customers who have chosen to adopt the planning and consolidation application. Take home a checklist of key decisions and tasks that must be addressed before deciding whether to migrate data or reimplement the application.
New Balance Athletic Shoe improves the flexibility and efficacy of financial consolidations and management reporting
Todd Paulauskas, New Balance Athletic Shoe Go behind the scenes with New Balance Athletic Shoe to see how it leveraged SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 7.5, version for the Microsoft platform for financial and management reporting, as well as budgeting and forecasting. Understand how the company developed an internal business case for implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation across its global, multi-data source environment. Explore how the company leverages input templates, data manager, SSIS packages, and script logic to load financial data into BPC. Gain insight into how the company built separate applications that leveraged out of-the-box functionality to accomplish financial, management and statutory reporting. Obtain best practices from the company to ensure a successful implementation, and hear about the benefits they have already derived. Hear how a single BPC cost center variance report has drastically improved monthly analysis for the New Balance Athletic Shoe financial team.
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Track 9: Business planning and consolidation (BPC)

Data modeling techniques for architecting a high-performing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation environment
Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises Examine the various data modeling options available within SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and evaluate the impact each option has on your solutions security, performance, and usability. Explore best practices for determining dimension types, and incorporating planned/actual data into your overall data strategy. Get criteria to help you decide whether to take a data mart versus enterprise data warehouse (EDW) approach to modeling BPC data. Gain insight into when you should leverage application sets (versus application modeling) to ensure optimized performance. Leave with guidance for compounding time dependencies and determine whether to limit the size of your characteristic values ahead of time, or generate new characteristic values to integrate with BPC. Understand the impact your data model will have on script logic and custom coding. Discover best practices for pulling non-account-based models (e.g., from SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning) into BPC.
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Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0 to derive maximum value from planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities
Jens Koerner, Rich Heilman, and Bruno Ranchy, SAP Labs This hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction to set up and use SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver. Learn how to use standard reporting and formatting functionality, including the use of the new web client. Get tips for leveraging the new SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM) 10.0 Excel and web reporting functionality. Go beyond core functionality and explore the best ways to create and use input schedules, data import capabilities, drillthru to BEx and Business Process Flows (BPFs). Receive an overview of the enhanced financial consolidation functionality within BPC, including the consolidation monitor, journals, ownership management and controls. Explore best practices for creating SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius) leveraging BPC data for greater financial analysis and data visualization.
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How Colgate-Palmolive created an end-to-end capital management system with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver
Nikunj Patel and Javier Piedrasanta, Colgate-Palmolive Learn how Colgate-Palmolive empowered its end users to create their own capital expenditure proposals in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation through a selfservice Web Dynpro portal. Hear how this self-service portal allows users to create capital expenditure proposals as BPC master data objects on the fly. Gain insight into how Colgate-Palmolive is able to create a Web-based application with drop-down menus to allow for consistent creation of master data by end users without the need for a central administrator. Step through demos of the BPC reporting features Colgate-Palmolive uses to quickly compare budgets versus actual costs. Gain insight into how the company integrated BPC with SAP Business Workflow to create an automatic approval process for project funding. Understand how Colgate-Palmolive leveraged pre-delivered SAP content, such as BAPIs, to overcome challenges associated with master data management and integration between SAP NetWeaver BW and BPC integration. Hear how the organization ensured data integrity in its new capital management environment by automating the creation of internal orders and reconciliation of cash spending.
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SAP NetWeaver BW reports and analyses

Infuse more interactivity and formatting into your reports using SAP BEx tools
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT Get proven techniques to leverage SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) functionality, including currency conversion, convert to formula, exception aggregation, and planning settings, for aesthetically pleasing reports. Step through a demo of how to build a presentation-quality report that managers can easily read right away without the need for an extra third-party solution. Uncover little-known formatting tricks, such as how to fine-tune presentation layouts using a combination of BEx Analyzer and SAP BEx query designer tools. Step through examples of advanced design elements and features in SAP BEx, such as check boxes, radio buttons, and drop-down lists, which you can use to create user-friendly reports. Get best practices for formatting and printing directly from the Web or with Microsoft Excel.
Streamlining reporting and planning processes at Abbott Medical Optics using BEx Web application designer
Jing Dong and Carmel Sanjeevi, Abbott Medical Optics Examine the processes and technologies used by Abbott Medical Optics to optimize reporting and planning processes by extracting demand, supply, inventory, and financial data into a single dashboard. Explore how the company integrates data from various sources including SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO), business planning and simulation, SAP ERP, and SAP NetWeaver BW into a BEx Web application designer dashboard. See how this streamlines financial and demand planning processes and enables the company to quickly react to market changes and ensure appropriate supply and demand balance. Learn how the company improved financial and demand planning integration with routine unit and dollar comparisons. Step through demos that show how Abbott Medical Optics designed and developed its dashboard to support real-time decision making with enhanced product hierarchies and key figures. Explore the slice-and-dice and dynamic presentation capabilities that enable users to view the most up-to-date demand, sales, inventory, and financial KPIs in one click.
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Rapid dashboard development with SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer

Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT This session offers best practices for modeling and deploying dashboard and cockpit applications with SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer. Explore different options for SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer data access, including SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP ERP, and Web services. See a demo that shows how to build an SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer cockpit in minutes and get expert recommendations for integrating external graphs, data feeds, and custom-made Adobe Flash objects. Explore proven practices for performance tuning backend queries and data stores, such as leveraging aggregates and memory caching. Understand the role SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer plays in an environment that includes SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects solutions and come away with an understanding of how SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer fits into the new SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 landscape.
Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP NetWeaver Portal for centralized insight into enterprisewide reporting initiatives
Patrick Dixon, Independent Consultant This session offers proven strategies for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and SAP NetWeaver Portal to create a unified, enterprise-wide reporting center within your organization. Review the technical prerequisites for developing a reporting center, such as integrating various reporting applications within SAP BusinessObjects such as SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and SAP NetWeaver BW. Get best practices for defining and implementing a reporting center, and identify must-have features, including intuitive navigation and report broadcasting. Review the various presentation styles you can adopt within your reporting center ranging from basic to sophisticated and understand which style would best appeal to different user groups. Gain insight into the top challenges faced when deploying a portal-based reporting center, such as creating standardized navigation paths, and receive best practices for overcoming them. Acquire tips for securing your reporting center by determining and assigning access levels through your portal, BI, and BW solutions.
Track 10: SAP NetWeaver BW reports and analyses

Unleash the power of your Excelbased reporting environment with SAP BEx and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
Joerg Boeke, BIAnalyst GmbH Obtain best practices to accelerate Excelbased report execution and distribution in SAP NetWeaver BW, including tips to activate the proper server-side and client-side parameters. Explore new ways to reduce Excel file size for improved report distribution. Gain insight into which Excel habits compromise report performance. Step through a demo that shows how to create a simple planning application based on native Excel features that transfers back into the SAP NetWeaver BW InfoProvider. See when it makes sense to leverage Microsoft add-ons like PowerPivot to enable enhanced analytical capabilities without the need for hardware optimization solutions. Explore performance-enhancing Excel features, such as the individual refresh option for single queries when using multiple queries in a workbook. Step through a demo that shows how to leverage Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) commands to speed up reporting on the client side. Take home a customized Excel template with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis.
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5 BEx Analyzer tips to make the lives of end and power users easier
Anurag Barua, Strata-Gems Consulting Dont miss this opportunity to personally meet Anurag Barua, Business Intelligence Consultant, Strata-Gems Consulting, and engage in an updated discussion about one of his most widely read articles from BI Expert the leading publication and knowledgebase for organizations that leverage business intelligence solutions from SAP. Explore 5 proven tips for leveraging BEx Analyzer to boost both power user and end user adoption. Learn how to quickly and easily access the BEx Analyzer toolbar within the Add-in component of a Microsoft Excel-based user interface. Receive best practices for identifying mandatory fields in the query selection window. Learn how to edit a query within the BEx Query Designer directly from the BEx Analyzer interface. Hear how to make selection parameter (values) reappear via the change variable values icon from the BEx Analyzer menu. Leave this session with these and other concrete tips for ensuring seamless navigation within BEx Analyzer.
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BI security and performance optimization

How to build a scalable security model for an integrated SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects landscape
Diane Smith, Deloitte Examine proven approaches to create a unified and scalable security architecture for your integrated BI landscape. See how to map Active Directory objects in SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP BusinessObjects solutions. Get tips on how to prepare SAP NetWeaver BW queries to integrate with SAP BusinessObjects so reports automatically apply user authorizations. Explore options for applying LDAP user settings and access levels in SAP NetWeaver BW to SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. Understand whats required to configure SAP BusinessObjects tools in a way that does not violate existing security definitions in your SAP NetWeaver BW system. Get tips for naming folders, groups, and object types so that theyre transportable across an integrated environment. Identify integration pitfalls that can cause security problems, such as too narrowly defining your security model. Take home a security diagram for an integrated SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects environment, along with a tip sheet for naming conventions.
Real-world lessons to size, scale, and integrate your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 landscape for optimal performance
Jay Riddle, COMERIT This session draws on concrete examples from several SAP Ramp-Up customers and provides practical solutions to ensure your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 landscape is running at optimal efficiency. Assess the pros and cons of horizontal versus vertical scaling methods and determine which would work best in your specific BI landscape. Understand the performance implications of leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions to report directly from SAP ERP versus SAP NetWeaver BW. Explore which SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 integration points have the biggest impact on system performance, and learn how to use the DSL bridge service to optimize SAP BI Consumer Services (SAP BICS) connectivity for SAP NetWeaver BW. Obtain sizing recommendations that will give you the greatest control over report and dashboard performance. Understand your options for leveraging server groups and nodes to monitor and manage the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 platform. Take home an architectural diagram of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 within an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver environment, including typical reporting workflows.
Lessons for using SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 workspaces effectively to increase performance and integration across your BI environment
Kevin Hutto, Kingfisher Learn how to leverage new advanced search and content linking capabilities available in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 workspace for better insight into business and system performance. Get customization tips to meet the needs of specific functional or user groups, such as securing tabular content for individual users and groups, and become familiar with the various tabs and browser settings available in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 workspaces. Compare new workspace capabilities with those of the dashboard manager tool in the SAP BusinessObjects BI 3.x release, for example, content linking, and tab based creation of personalized content. Obtain best practices for migrating dashboard manager content into an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 workspace, including tips for leveraging BIAR files, along with a transfer toolset for bringing objects to the new system. Learn how to use visual content linking to enable tighter integration between dashboards and reporting objects. Understand how to administer and manage a workspace, and the various access levels you can deploy for optimized security in terms of what content is available for users to consume and publish in the workspace.
You unplugged what? Strategies and technologies for safeguarding your BI landscape
Jared Ellwein, People Services Center This session covers the often-slighted but critically important topic of backup, restore, and recovery options for a Business Objects BI environment, and offers best practices for using Business Objects import wizard and the lifecycle management console to support your security strategy. Weigh the pros and cons of creating a restore strategy at the system, report, or universe level and get criteria to help determine which approach is most suitable for your requirements. Review the key components of an effective restore or backup plan, including designated testing periods and restore instructions. Examine use case scenarios to see how the Business Objects import wizard and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 lifecycle management console can be used to support an organizations disaster recovery strategy. See how to leverage the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 lifecycle management console to ensure version control during system restoration, or to export content from a BOE deployment to a Business Intelligence Archive Resource (BIAR) file. Learn how the import wizard can be automatically scheduled to back up content to an archive.
A technical guide to SAP NetWeaver BW landscape optimization

Joerg Boeke, BIAnalyst GmbH This session offers dozens of real-world tips, advice, and best practices to boost the performance of your SAP NetWeaver BW system. Weigh your options for monitoring and improving the efficiency of Excel and Web-based reporting activities and get guidelines for analyzing your findings. Obtain proven tips to evaluate the ongoing status of your system, including which transaction codes, tables, and functions to monitor to identify and isolate areas that are most likely to cause performance issues. Get tips for tuning data load performance, and step through real-world examples of how other SAP customers have decreased load time by 30 percent. Obtain best practices for database management, including tips for building or rebuilding SAP NetWeaver BW indices. Take home documentation outlining administrative tasks that must be addressed to keep an SAP NetWeaver BW system running smoothly, including key SAP Notes.
Track 11: BI security and performance optimization

A comprehensive introduction to the Business Objects BI security model
Dallas Marks, Kalvin Consulting This presentation offers an introductory look at the Business Objects BI security model, along with guidelines and technical best practices for ensuring your SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise or Business Objects Edge Series landscape is secure. Get an overview of the key components of a Business Objects security model, including functional security, data security, and infrastructure security, and understand which should be implemented first. Explore options for defining custom access levels to simplify user and application security, including tips for assigning multiple access levels to a single user. Prevent unexpected access rights for groups and users with tips to establish varying levels of inheritance. Learn how to leverage the scope of rights component to assign specific access rights to sub-folders. Understand how to use Central Management Console (CMC) features like Permissions Explorer and Security Query to identify and troubleshoot potential threats to your security model.
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Lessons for speeding data processing and analysis using a multi-data source BI environment
Hari Guleria, HCL Axon Understand the benefits of deploying an alternative or additional data warehouse such as boosting SAP NetWeaver BW report performance with SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator or SAP HANA. Acquire tips for identifying and selecting the best alternative data source to meet your business requirements. Hear realworld examples of how other companies have effectively implemented alternative data sources, including SAP HANA and Teradata. Learn how to implement global BI standards, processes, and methodologies within a multidata warehouse environment for high quality data. Explore the dos and donts of a multidata warehouse data flow, and hear real-world pitfalls from other SAP customers. Take home sample business cases for a multi-data warehouse environment, along with a list of best practices for deployment and data flow.
Preventing, diagnosing, and resolving the 20 most common dashboard performance problems
Dr. Bjarne Berg, COMERIT Prevent or correct the most common causes of poor dashboard performance by getting to the root cause of the problem Excel, data source, universe, or design. Get criteria for selecting performance-enhancing themes, templates, layouts, and navigation paths. Know which Excel functions to avoid, such as decision branches and daisy-chained cells. Identify performance-enhancing options for data design and data store usage. Receive tips to leverage pre-caching capabilities and guidelines to ensure adequate thread handling. Explore if and how in-memory processing can increase your query performance. Find out which addon components help performance, and which ones to avoid. Understand your options for leveraging the data sharer component to pass data from a parent to child SWF, and see how this enhances performance and manageability of large-scale dashboards. Take home a diagnostics checklist and troubleshooting guide for resolving dashboard performance problems.
Lessons for smoothly integrating SAP BusinessObjects BI with your ERP and BW solutions
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Valuable take-home resources and demos

As a BI 2012 attendee, you will receive take-home materials and online access to every conference presentation, and expert guidelines and recommendations that will expedite your activities throughout 2012 and into 2013. All conference attendees will receive instructions prior to the event for joining Insider Learning Network. Membership is free. By joining, you can access, download, or print all the conference presentations and take-home resources. ADDED BONUS! Join Insider Learning Network today and get free access to SAPinsider and insiderPROFILES, as well as hundreds of independent articles, blogs, podcasts, and conference groups where you can start networking with other conference attendees prior to arriving in Las Vegas. This list is just a sample of some of the invaluable take-home resources available to conference participants: An architectural diagram of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 within an SAP ERP or SAP NetWeaver environment, including typical reporting workflows A decision matrix of each reporting tools strength points to ensure youre leveraging the correct tools in your organization Sample business cases for a multi-data warehouse environment, along with a list of best practices for deployment and data flow A list of commonly-used formulas for high-performing SAP Crystal Reports Documentation outlining administrative tasks that must be addressed to keep an SAP NetWeaver BW system running smoothly, including key SAP Notes A 15-point checklist for adding data visualization techniques to any mobile dashboard or chart Sample documents detailing functional and technical data migration design, data mapping spreadsheets, cutover plans, and data validation scripts Documentation on how to design and develop input templates and reports in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, Microsoft version Sample code to optimize SAP BusinessObjects BI functionality within your own organization A security diagram for an integrated SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP BusinessObjects environment, along with a tip sheet for naming conventions A sample work plan for installing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version, and a template for planning, budgeting, and rolling it out in your organization A document listing best practices for optimizing InfoCube dimensions Detailed instructions to create a Web Dynpro Java application and integrate it with a BlackBerry device A comprehensive decision matrix to help choose the right development method for your dashboarding needs A quick reference guide that outlines key differences in configuring business intelligence applications for BlackBerry smartphones as compared to the BlackBerry PlayBook A customized Excel template with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) and SAP BusinessObjects Analysis A sample BI roadmap and checklist to help determine an effective BI strategy for your organization Business value attainment (BVA) checklist for BI project managers, along with a white paper comparing the costs of pre- and post-go-live fixes A checklist outlining the steps required to build a new BI COE or optimize the one you already have Sample code and system settings for optimized ETL processes A template to start planning your own SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator implementation, including advice to plan for the management, training, and support of the technology A list of considerations for change management and end user training, including how to prepare your organization from both technical and functional perspectives
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2012 roadmap to data warehousing solutions from SAP

Medtronic shares lessons from its implementation of SAP HANA

Customer Discussion Forum

Inside Deloittes implementation of SAP HANA

Data modeling, integration, and quality

Expert techniques for more effective SAP NetWeaver BW data modeling

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Track 3: Data modeling, integration, and quality

Customer Discussion Forum

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Track 3: Data modeling, integration, and quality

BI upgrades, implementations, and rollouts

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Track 4: BI upgrades, implementations, and rollouts

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Empower your business users with ad hoc Web reporting capabilities

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Track 5: SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects BI within your overall SAP landscape: An introductory look

Insider Discussion Forum

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Track 5: SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP Crystal Reports