Presentation to walk through OData ecosystem for SAP BO shops looking to maximize investment in their universe.

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OData and the future of
Business Objects Universes
Sumit Sarkar
Chief Data Evangelist
Sumit.sarkar@progress.com
@SAsInSumit

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Experience with Data Connectivity for BI
Talk to BI communities across Oracle, SAP,
IBM, Microstrategy, Tableau, JasperSoft
and Qlikview.
Advocate for BI professionals at shows
across Dreamforce, Hadoop Strata and
MongoDBWorld
Contributor to SAP community, TDWI,
Odata.org, Oracle Data Integration,
Salesforce Developers, Progress Data
Connections, and Microstrategy

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AGENDA
OVERVIEW OF ODATA OASIS
STANDARD
OVERVIEW OF ODATA PRODUCERS
OVERVIEW OF ODATA
CONSUMERS
OUR GUIDANCE

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SAP Business Objects Universe 4.1
(Producer and Consumer)
UNIVERSE
OData API (producer)

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OVERVIEW OF ODATA
OASIS STANDARD
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An open protocol to allow the creation and consumption of
queryable and interoperable RESTful APIs in a simple and standard
way.
OASIS Standard REST API (“SQL for the web”)
Ratified as an OASIS standard February, 2014
Operations built on REST principles
Uniform URL conventions
Surface metadata in standard way
What is OData?

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Why OData?
• On Premises -> Cloud
• APIs need to support both on-premises and cloud
• Lack of interoperability
• Data Silos -> Open Data
• Impacts government, science and enterprise
Progress was first member of OData Technical Committee following Microsoft

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OData URL Query Conventions
$SELECT /Products?$select=*,Category/Name
/Suppliers?$filter=Address/City eq
'Redmond’
/Products?$orderby=ReleaseDate asc,
Rating desc
/Products?$select=*,Category/Name&$ex
pand=Category
$FILTER
$ORDERBY
$EXPAND
/Products?$top=5&$skip=2$TOP $SKIP
http://services.odata.org/OData/OData.svc/Category(1)/Products?$top=2&$orderby=name
__________________________________/ ________________/ __________________/
service root URI resource path query options

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{
"@odata.context": "http://TripPin/$metadata#People",
"value": [
{
"@odata.id":
"http://TripPin/People('russellwhyte')",
"UserName": "russellwhyte",
"Address": {
"Street": "187 Suffolk Ln.",
"City": "Boise",
"State": "ID"
}
},
{
"@odata.id":
"http://Tripin/People('scottketchum')",
"UserName": "scottketchum",
"Address": {
"Street": "2817 Milton Dr.",
"City": "Albuquerque",
"State": "NM"
},
},
],
"@odata.nextLink": "/TripPin/People?%24skiptoken=2"
}

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OData libs http://www.odata.org/libraries/
.NET, Java, Javascript, C++
OData4j
Apache Olingo
ODataJS
Node-odata
ODataCpp
RESTier
WCF Data Services
Visual Studio Lightswitch
ODataPy

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LIMITS AND EVOLUTION OF ODATA
NOT GOOD FOR BULK
DATA TRANSFER
DOESN’T SUPPORT
AGGREGATION
You can’t ask for average order
amount across customers
(aggregation extension in
committee spec)
DOESN’T SUPPORT FILTER
EXPANSION
You can’t ask for a customer and
only their orders placed in 2013
(now supported in 4.0)

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OVERVIEW OF ODATA
PRODUCERS
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SAP Business Objects Universe (Producer
and Consumer)
UNIVERSE
OData API (producer)
BI Platform Services: WebApplicationContainerServer and
WebIntelligence ProcessingServer

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Demand for interoperability in APIs
• SaaS Integration API Differences Highlighted
Data Source API
Eloqua Web Services API (REST/SOAP)
Bulk and non-Bulk APIs
No query language
Oracle Service
Cloud
Web Services APIs (REST/SOAP)
ROQL
Google Analytics Hypercube (query limits of 10 metrics
grouped by max of 7 dimensions)
Veeva CRM SOAP, BULK, Metadata APIs
SOQL

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Example OData producers

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OVERVIEW OF ODATA
CONSUMERS
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SAP Business Objects Universe (Consumer)
UNIVERSE
OData API (producer)

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BI4.1 Creating a Universe using OData
as a Data Source

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Broad Adoption

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OData for Analytics in supporting infrastructure
(consumers)
• SAP Business Objects
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Microsoft Excel
• BOARD

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OData for data visualization (consumers)
• Tableau
• Tibco Spotfire
• Microsoft PowerBI
• IBM Cognos
• SAP Lumira

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Salesforce Connect
(formerly Salesforce Lightning Connect)

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Salesforce Connect Demo / Screenshots

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OData URI

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Metadata Sync

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Real-time OData query against UNV

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Salesforce OData Support
X

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Oracle Service Cloud
Accelerators for OData

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Service Cloud
UNX Contact Detail

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self service BI
A citizen developer is a user who creates new business
applications for consumption by others using
development and runtime environments sanctioned by
corporate IT
- Gartner Glossary
To support citizen developers, integrators and line of business professionals
SaaS vendors need a standard!

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OData from these SaaS apps
• Marketing Applications
• Customer Engagement
• ERP / core systems
• Data Warehouses
• Big Data Sets

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OUR GUIDANCE

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Expectations for cloud data connectivity
Application SQL
(ODBC, JDBC,
.NET PHP, Python,
Ruby, Scala, R)
REST Client
Application
Web
Browser

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DataDirect ODBC, JDBC connectors for SAP
Big Data/NoSQL
 Apache Hadoop Hive
 Cloudera
 Hortonworks
 MapR
 EMR
 Pivotal HAWQ
 MongoDB
 Cassandra
 SparkSQL
 Apache Solr*
Data Warehouses
 Amazon Redshift
 SAP Sybase IQ
 Teradata
 Oracle Exadata
 Pivotal Greenplum
Relational
 Oracle DB
 Microsoft SQL
Server
 IBM DB2 for I
 IBM DB2 for z/OS
 IBM DB2 for LUW
 MySQL
 MemSQL
 PostgreSQL
 IBM Informix
 SAP Sybase
 Pervasive SQL
 Progress OpenEdge
 Progress Rollbase
 Splice Machine*
 IBM DashDB*
SaaS/Cloud
 Salesforce.com
 Database.com
 FinancialForce
 Veeva CRM
 ServiceMAX
 Hubspot
 Marketo
 Microsoft Dynamics
CRM
 Microsoft SQL Azure
 Oracle Eloqua
 Oracle Service Cloud
 Google Analytics
 Netsuite*
 SQL over HTTPS
In-Memory
 MemSQL
 SAP HANA
 Oracle TImesTen*
 VoltDB*

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OData Support introduced in DataDirect Cloud
OData
REST API

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OData Versioning
OData 2.0
No more changes expected to specification
Numerous producers and consumers remain in the ecosystem, including
SAP BO
OData 4.0
Future advances to specification will be in 4.0+
2.0 functionality + additional features
4.01 adds Aggregation/Group By and will be backwards compatible with 4.0
4.0 queries not compatible with 2.0

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OData 4.01 and Beyond
• Compatible update to OData 4.0
• JSON Format for Metadata Document ($metadata)
• Based on Swagger (now OpenAPI)
• Aggregation and Group By
• Syntax and API Simplification
• Key as Segment
• Default Namespaces
• Support for generic JSON clients
• Working towards ISO standard for OData 4.0

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Where to find more information about Universe
OData Connector?
Sample code and full documentation for using the API can be found at:
Business Intelligence Platform RESTful Web Service Developer Guide
SAP BusinessObjects RESTful Web Service SDK User Guide
In a SAP BI 4.1 SP3 installation, in the <INSTALLDIR>SL SDKSDK Samples,
the SLRESTWebService.zip contains an Eclipse project that illustrates how to
use this Semantic Layer REST WebService.
Other helpful links:
http://help.sap.com/bobip41/ - section7
Using the Web Intelligence and BI Platform RESTful Web Services
bit.ly/odataunx

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