SAP Business Intelligence Tools

All SAP BusinesObjects Business Intelligence (BI) suite work with SAP HANA, including SAP Lumira.

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard aka XCelcius is a visualization tool that allows interactive analysis with graphs, charts, maps and other custom objects.

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards allow developers to work in the rapid application design mode to quickly deliver stunning visualizations with minimal coding on standard objects.

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Is a query tool that allows a deeper analysis to uncover hidden meaningful data. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence allows users to easily add tables, charts, filters, and calculations to support a BI self-service model where users develop their own reports.

You can access SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in three different interfaces: the rich client (installed onto a PC), Java-Based Client with BI Launch Pad in SAP BusinessObjects BI, and HTML web client, which can be executed by launching a report on the BI Launch Pad.

Feature of this Web Intelligence:
- User can edit/modify existing report, for example: add column, remove column, add new sheet (report) in existing web intelligence, etc.
- User can explore business questions.
- Also can enable static report (user cannot edit report) - apply security role.
- User can share report (with BI Launchpad and Email)
- User can save with another format

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is intended for users who conduct unstructured analysiss of data. This tool good for simple development and give users significant control over data exploration.

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis


SAP BusinessObject Analysis is OLAP Tool that allows users to conduct in-depth interactive analysis.

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Is a tool that gives application developers the ability to create mobile (ipad, android, windows mobile) and web based dashboards and applications based on data in SAP BW, SAP Business Suite, third party sources, and SAP HANA.

This tool is different from SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard, because this tool not just only can create dashboard, but have additional technical which need IT to create.

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP Crystal Reports is a tool with pixel formatted reporting capabilities that allows developers the full control of formatted reports.

Only SAP Crystal Report Enterprise can connect direct with SAP HANA. Another option to connect SAP Crystal Report is direct SQL connections trough JDBC (Java Database Connectifity), ODBC (Open Database Conectifity), and universe.

SAP Lumira

SAP Lumira is a tool to display and manipulate data in a way that makes it easier to understand in graphical format. This tool is ideal for users who are exploring large data sets.

This tool can use without any IT skills.