Business Objects An SAP Company Dan Kearnan Director

Business Objects – An SAP Company Dan Kearnan, Director SAP Applications Feb, 2008

Agenda Why SAP + Business Objects Within An SAP Ecoystem Business. Objects XI 3. 0 – What’s New Q&A © SAP 2008 / Page 2

SAP and Business Objects Complete Stack – Open and Agnostic Complete Stack Open & Agnostic Legacy Applications EPM & GRC Business Objects ? + SAP Business Intelligence Business Objects ? + SAP Data Warehouse Enterprise Applications BW, BIA Business Suite Most complete, integrated stack Open & Agnostic to underlying technology

Business Objects and SAP – Day 1 • Business Objects will continue to operate independently, based on open standards • Business Objects will continue to invest in its current product line, and deliver targeted services and support across all industries • Business Objects customers will continue to benefit from open, broad, and integrated BI solutions – independent of databases and applications • Business Objects customers will gain access to a broader set of Financial Performance solutions that includes the leading planning, budgeting, consolidation, profitability, operational analytics and compliance reporting

Agenda Why SAP + Business Objects Within An SAP Ecosystem Business. Objects XI 3. 0 – What’s New Q&A © SAP 2008 / Page 5

A Single, Integrated BI Solution to Information Anywhere B U S I N E S S O B J E C T S

Business Objects Portfolio Business Objects provides solutions to unlock information, enable insight and manage performance, regardless of the application or data source Enterprise Performance Management Core Business Intelligence Enterprise Information Management

Business Objects + SAP = Broader Portfolio Financial Performance Management SAP Strategy Management Governance, Risk, Compliance Enterprise Performance Management SAP Planning. Core Business Intelligence Business Objects Consolidation Business Objects Profitability Combined Analytical Apps Enterprise Information Management SAP Governance Risk & Compliance

Business Objects + SAP = Broader Portfolio Financial Performance Management SAP Strategy Management Financial Performance Governance, Risk, Compliance Governance, Risk, Enterprise Performance Management Compliance SAP Planning. Core Business Intelligence Business Objects Consolidation Business Objects Profitability Combined Analytical Apps Enterprise Information Management SAP Governance Risk & Compliance

Business Objects Within The SAP Ecosystem Business Objects. Governance, Portfolio Risk, Financial Performance Management Compliance Performance Optimization Platform Core Business Intelligence Platform Enterprise Information Management

Business Objects Within The SAP Ecosystem Business Objects Portfolio Performance Optimization Platform Business Intelligence. Suite Platform SAP Business SAP Net. Weaver Unstructured Data Business Process Platform Enterprise Data Warehouse Business Applications & Structured Data

Business Objects Within The SAP Ecosystem Business Objects Portfolio Performance Optimization Platform Business Intelligence Platform SAP Business Suite SAP Net. Weaver Unstructured Data Business Process Platform Enterprise Data Warehouse Business Applications & Structured Data

The Perfect Match Closed Loop Business Performance SAP and Business Objects enables closed loop business performance - from strategy to execution Strategy Business Objects Portfolio Insight Business Optimization Applications Decisions Business Intelligence Platform Events SAP Business Suite Process change SAP Net. Weaver Business Process Platform Enterprise Data Warehouse Execution Monitoring

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Business. Objects XI 3. 0 The Intelligence Platform All Information Unified View Best on SAP and non-SAP environments Trusted decision quality All People Full-spectrum BI Next generation user experience Alignment of teams & business networks One Platform Complete integrated data and BI services Adaptive and extensible services Choice of delivery model © SAP 2008 / Page 17

ALL INFORMATION More Confident Decision Making Unified view WWW Quantitative and qualitative insight through text analysis Easily-consumable third-party data through information on demand www EMAIL . DOC Unstructured Data Cloud Data Best on SAP and non-SAP environments Best support for SAP data Unmatched application connectivity Trusted decision quality Data quality Transparency Common business semantics Business Applications & Structured Data

TEXT ANALYTICS

INFORMATION ON DEMAND Data sources include US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Dun & Bradstreet, e. Bay transaction data, Employment Development Department, News. Tin, Thomson Financial, US Census Bureau

ALL PEOPLE More Aligned Teams, People, Ecosystems Full-spectrum BI including intuitive discovery and powerful predictive Reporting Query and Analysis Discovery Dashboards and Visualization Predictive Next generation user experience Simple Contextual Where you work Alignment of teams & business networks Remove all sharing boundaries through repository replication Extend your BI beyond the firewall Publish trusted and personalized insight to one or thousands of people

CRYSTAL REPORTS 2008 A powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution Stunning report visualizations What-if scenario modeling Integrated operational reporting Plus everything you expect, and more, from the de facto standard for reporting trusted by millions of users and billions of consumers around the world SLIDE 22 COPYRIGHT © 2007 BUSINESS OBJECTS S. A. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

WEB INTELLIGENCE RICH CLIENT: OFFLINE Workflows • New UI for browsing, opening and navigating local content (see below) • Menus to complement right-click access to increase learnability • Additional features for send by email, native print, import/export to CMS Mouse-over document displays • Thumbnail view of a local document’s content • Local file location

WEB INTELLIGENCE: PERSONAL DATA PROVIDER Use locally-stored Excel, CSV, TXT files as data source n Local data sources to complement corporate data n Enables migration of full client documents (. rep) with personal content

ALL PEOPLE: XCELSIUS ENTERPRISE User experience improvements n Embedded Excel n Design flexibility Real time dashboards via Adobe Live. Cycle Data Services (LCDS) n Deliver real-time dashboards

ALL PEOPLE: POLESTAR The simplicity of search. The power of BI. Support for XI 3. 0 to be delivered post Q 1

BI WIDGETS Turns desktops into a direct portal for any user to monitor their KPIs Created by Business Objects Labs Deployment framework to allow business users to: n View Xcelsius and Web Intelligence docs on their desktop for quick, easy monitoring n Receive alerts and RSS feeds n Search and explore multiple Business. Objects Enterprise repositories COPYRIGHT © 2007 BUSINESS OBJECTS S. A. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS Forecasting Anomalies Influencers Clustering Trends

ONE PLATFORM Most Complete, Trusted, and Agile Platform Complete, integrated data and BI services Data integration Data quality Metadata management Integrated administration Adaptive and extensible services Agile information management Flexible, open service-oriented architecture Choice of delivery model On-premise Appliance On-demand

PUBLISHING Up to 1 Millions recipients! Single-pass bursting combined with Dynamic Recipients allows for very powerful information sharing Delivery rules All major features of BCA Publisher incorporated Publishing now supports Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence Java publishing extensions provide additional flexibility

BI FEDERATION BI content replicated between independent BI systems BOE Web Services 1 way or 2 way replication Remote scheduling Automatically includes dependencies Automatic conflict resolution BOE

ONE PLATFORM: DATA SERVICES DATA QUALITY AND INTEGRATION

ONE PLATFORM: DATA SERVICES DATA QUALITY AND INTEGRATION ONE One development user interface Data Services XI 3. 0 Services Oriented Architecture One Development UI One runtime engine to process both DI and DQ functionalities One metadata repository One Metadata Repository One administration, security, data connectivity, and web services Access Transform One Runtime Engine Cleanse Deliver

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