0302 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio & Dashboards Roadmap. Eric Schemer, Product Management Analysis Clients March 2013

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1 0302 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio & Dashboards Roadmap Eric Schemer, Product Management Analysis Clients March 2013

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3 Full Spectrum Business Intelligence Discovery and Analysis Dashboards and Apps Reporting Discover. Predict. Create. Build Engaging Experiences Share Information Discover areas to optimize your business Adapt data to business needs Tell your story with beautiful visualizations Deliver engaging information to users where they need it Track key performance indicators and summary data Build custom experiences so users get what they need quickly Securely distribute information across your organization Give users the ability to ask and answer their own questions Build printable reports for operational efficiency 3

4 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding Strategy Self Service Dashboarding Professional Authored Dashboards Data is placed into the hand of the consumer Navigate and share datasets Create and share data visualizations Simple & intuitive Created by IT or Power User High expectation for mobility Interactive Analysis Can be broadly published Trusted data based on IT centric deployment Solutions in BI4 Visual Intelligence Exploration Views Solutions in BI4 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SAP BEx Web Application Designer SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 4

5 Analysis, Visualization & App Design: emerging persona relationships Mobile Users Monitor. Explore. Explain. Web Monitor. Explore. Explain. Designer (IT, Power User) Design. Govern. Design (Apps, Dashboards, Reports) Design Studio System Administration Data Metadata Models Data Quality Security Data Access Explore. Enrich. Explain. (Information, Stories.) Analyst Data Metadata Models Data Metadata Models Visual Intelligence Analysis Office 5

6 Dashboards and Apps Core investment in Design Studio 1 Phase One Complete [Ship Design Studio and mobile Dashboards] Ship new desktop designer (Design Studio 1.0) for BW and SAP HANA scenarios Add ability to publish Dashboards in HTML5 for mobile consumption in Mobile BI application (Xcelsius) Ship update to Mobile BI (4.4) 2 Phase Two 2013 Reduce visualization and charting gap in Design Studio Design Studio becomes dashboard tool of choice for BW & HANA usage Advanced OLAP app design in DS reduces need for AOLAP 3 Additional data source support for mobile dashboards (Xcelsius) Phase Three 2014 Add support for non-sap data sources to Design Studio DS also becomes the tool of choice for data sources other than BW & HANA Performance enhancements in Dashboards (Xcelsius) Migration support (XCE & WAD) 6

7 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding Strategy What does this mean for existing customers in 2012/2013? Current use of Bex Web Application Designer Current use of SAP BusinessObjects Dashbords (former Xcelsius) SAP BW only Multi-Source, Non-SAP BW Use SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio as primary tool for creating dashboards and applications, both on the web and on device Consider building new dashboards in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Continue with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and leverage the upcoming HTML5 functionality for on-device dashboards for now 7

8 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis & Design Studio The Premium Alternative to BEx Analytical Applications AdHoc OLAP Web Design Studio Premium Alternative to BEx Web App Designer Design studio for power users to create purpose-built OLAP analysis & planning apps Mobile support Customer- and SAP-delivered content Supporting SAP BW & SAP HANA sources Analysis, Edition for OLAP Dedicated Ad-Hoc OLAP client for business users to analyze OLAP data and share it with others Seamless interoperability between designer and ad-hoc client Supporting SAP BW & SAP HANA sources + 3 rd party OLAP Microsoft Office Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office IT / Developers, Data Analysts, Business Users Excel-based OLAP analysis Excel-based BI applications Live PowerPoint presentations Supporting SAP BW & SAP HANA sources 8

9 Business Explorer (BEx) and Analysis/Design Studio Existing Investments in SAP BW are safe BEx (Analyzer & Web) Migration Analysis / Design Studio BW Data Models & Queries No changes required BW Data Models & Queries BEx tools in maintenance mode BEx 7.0 is delivered with the latest BW release and will be maintained for at least the next 7+2 years See additional information on SCN BEx Query Designer remains core modeling tool for SAP BW Conversion Conversion support available for Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office Conversion support planned for Design Studio 9

10 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding strategy Professional authored dashboards 2012 Phase 2 Phase 3 Dashboards Most commonly used components for mobile Dashboards in HTML5 allowing customers to get their existing dashboards on mobile devices. Selected continuous enhancements of HTML5 components Conversion tool for existing dashboards to Design Studio Design Studio Renovation of the user experience, both at runtime and design time, bringing a modern environment from which to build innovative functionality Mobile First / HTML5 rendering system, MOBI Support for HANA and BW and be optimized for big data. Expand HTML5 visualizations Customer & 3 rd party API Close gaps to BEx Web/ BEx WAD HANA Design Studio as design environment for unified runtime Conversion tool for BEx WAD content Offline scenarios 3 rd party data access 10

11 Common Technology Targeted Experiences Mobile Web Desktop End User experience Users Analyst experience Designer experience Office Applications Office docs Analytic Key Points Extended Metadata HANA Model and Data Set SAP HANA PLATFORM Analytical apps & dashboards professional, personalizable mobile & web apps designed with Design Studio Self-Service & highly interactive data visualizations with Visual Intelligence Seamless Microsoft Office Integration with SAP Analysis Office HANA optimized versions of traditional reporting clients (Crystal and WebIntelligence) Common BI Services & graphic engine etc. between components of the BI Suite 11

12 Design Studio The powerful choice for Designers & IT Easily design centrally governable analytic content ranging from simplified templates via guided analytics to sophisticated applications Intuitive WYSIWYG design environment for designers Large set of design components (buttons, tabs, dropdown menus etc.) Extend via scripting language (subset of JavaScript) Enterprise Ready Life Cycle Management Central Supportability Theming & Customizing ipad Support built-in Apps are ready for immediate usage on standard web browsers and mobile devices (HTML5 ) Direct & native support for HANA & BW Operates directly on BEx Queries, InfoCubes and Hana views Support for BW & HANA specific engine- & platform services Design Studio 1.0 : General Availability since November

13 Out-of-the-Box BW & HANA OLAP Capabilities Native support for SAP BW & HANA OLAP capabilities BW & HANA: Hierarchy support(e.g. time dependent hierarchies, filter member selection on hierarchy nodes) BW: Currency conversion BW: Show results of conditions, get exception levels BW: Display time-dependent attributes ipad App created with Design Studio featuring multiple BW hierarchies 13

14 Initial View Editor For SAP HANA and SAP BW DataSource Convenient and intuitive editing of HANA views and BW InfoProviders within Design Studio Via drag and drop Add additional filters Change display to key or text Sorting, defining scaling facors and calculating totals for measures Pause refresh while editing Initial view Reset changed view to the initial status Create crosstab and chart directly from initial views Configure options for chart Activate hierarchy display 14

15 Free Form Layouting Options Intuitive layouting options WYSIWYG (embedded runtime to enable what you see is what you get) design principle Pixel-exact layouting Dynamic layouting via docking position Propotional grid layouting 15

16 Filter Panel and Dimension Panel Components for comfortable and intuitive data filtering Convienient for designers to define without any coding Easy-to-use for end users to select data Can be combined with Pop Up component for typical ipad scenarios True data binding between data source and filter panel Designtime Runtime 16

17 Comfortable Scripting Engine & Script Editor Flexible defining interactions between design components JavaScript based command editor Easy-to-use scripting wizard Intuitive content assistence via CRTL+SPACE Display live data for selection Built-in documentation for script API Automatic syntax check 17

18 Integrating with SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Enable application management on BI Platform Enable multi user-access to applications Storage of applications and images Embedded runtime on BI Platform Central management of system connections Open/save applications on BI Platform System connections on BI Platform 18

19 Integration into SAP BI Mobile Solutions Convenient and unified user access for large mobile community: Download and access Design Studio applications via SAP BI Mobile Solutions (native ios application) Leverage the collaboration functionality (e.g. annotation, SAP StreamWork etc) Unified usability through SAP BI Mobile Solutions Enable large mobile community Overview page on SAP BI Mobile embedded within SAP BI Mobile 19

20 iphone Support Pre-delivered iphone templates for rapid implementation iphone template using Tabstrip as component iphone template using Pagebook as component Template using Tabstrip Template using Pagebook 20

21 News in Release 1.1 Design- & Runtime Enhancements Enhanced Charting Align/distribute components in layout Enhanced Filter Components Enhanced Scripting Variable Screen Custom Stylesheets Interoperability Interoperability with Analysis, edition for OLAP Mobile Performance improvements iphone support Platform GA Planned for Q Optional NW deployment (functional restrictions compared to BOE deployment) HANA deployment for HANA-only use cases Partner & Customer SDK (Beta Program 1.2) Custom visualizations of query data 21

22 Enhanced Charting Capabilities Animated HTML5 Charts Animated HTML5 chart types New chart types : Column Combination, Bar Combination and Waterfall Charts Advanced properties view to edit chart areas, data series and data labels Color palette available Column Combination Chart Waterfall Chart 22

23 Align Design Studio Components in Layout Comfortable align and distribute components in layout Convienient for designers to organize components without writing exact margin All type of components can be aligned and distributed Components within the same container or under the same root can be aligned and distributed Components can be automatically maximized Aligment and distribution can be done via context menu in Layout or per buttons in Design Studio menu Aligned Left Distribute Horizontally Objects are alinged left based on the object which has the most small left margin Object in the middle will be moved to the center 23

24 Enhancements for Component Filter Panel More convenient to use filter panel for selecting data Member display could be defined with key, text or both On Submit event enables triggering interactions Dimension name could be hide or shown Ranges are able to be defined in addition to the multiple selection of members Defined ranges and selected members could be deleted, included or excluded Design Time in the property sheet Runtime 24

25 Variable Prompting Variable Prompting Queries with mandantory input are able to be defined as data source in Design Studio Variable Prompting can be shown while applicaiton start or triggering by other event Automatic check for input variable value All BW variable types are supported HANA parameters are supported 25

26 Custom Stylesheets Custom Stylesheet (CSS) Using custom CSS to adopt customer corporate identity Changing the look and feel possible for every standard components Defining CSS document with CSS 3 standard Assiging CSS documents to design studio application Assign CSS class to the Design Studio components 26

27 Global Parameters Global parameters for Design Studio application Defining global parameters on application level Global parameters can be passed through URL (RRI scenarios) Use cases (e.g): Passing though parameters for data selection Passing through an exception limit for exception calculation 27

28 Additional APIs for Data Calculation Additional APIs for data calculation Able to define Local variables Support mathematical calculation in script editor Get meta data information via getinfo command Command getdata can retrieve the data from backend systems and represent it in 4 different ways (value, text, scaling factors and unit of measure) Conversion between different data formats possible 28

29 Interoperability scenario with Analysis, edition for OLAP Generate Design Studio applications out of AOLAP workspace Export AOLAP workspace as design studio application for mobile devices or desktops Design Studio applications are stored on BI Platform Filter member values are taken over from AOLAP workspace to Design Studio applications Further editing generated design studio applications within eclip-based design enviroment AOLAP Analysis Workspace Generated ipad application with 2 pages and pre-set filter values 29

30 Software Development Kit (Beta Program in Q2, delivery with release 1.2) Software Development Kit (SDK) for customers and partners Using SDK from SAP to develop own components for Design Studio Custom component library is a eclipse plug-in, but no Java skills required Convienent deployment though install new software in Desing Studio Containg Description XML file, JavaScript files, Images and CSS files Example: Hichert charts Example: Gauge 30

31 Deployment Option: BI Platform Consumer Designer BI Platform Browser client Available as of Design Studio release 1.0 BI 4.0SP5 or BI 4.1SP0 as the pre-requisite Design Studio applications stored on BI Platform BI Platform Deployment Platforms Backend connections through CMC, able to connect to multiple SAP BW and SAP HANA systems Transportation via Promotion management BW HANA Data sources Pre-requisite for SAP BI Mobile Solutions 31

32 Deployment Option: SAP NetWeaver Consumer Designer SAP NetWeaver Browser client Available as of Design Studio release 1.1 BW 7.3SP9, BW 7.31 SP7 or BW7.4SP2 as the pre-requisite Design Studio applications stored on SAP BW SAP NetWeaver BW Deployment Platforms Data sources Transported though different systems via TLOGO objects (ABAP transport mechanism) Can only connect to one BW system SAP Portal mobile solution is planned 32

33 Deployment Option: SAP HANA Consumer Designer SAP HANA: Browser client Available as of Design Studio release 1.1 HANA 1.0 SP6 as the prerequisite Design Studio applications stored in HANA repository HANA Data sources Can only connect to one HANA system Java script rendering within browser 33

34 Deployment Option: Local Mode Designer Local mode: Browser client Available as of Design Studio release 1.0, only for demo or quick prototyping purpose Direct connection to backend systems using local SAP logon file Design Studio runtime is local on laptop or PC BW HANA Data sources 34

35 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities Design- & Runtime Enhancements Enhanced Charting Align/distribute components in layout Enhanced Filter Components Enhanced Scripting Variable Screen Custom Stylesheets Interoperability Interoperability with Analysis, edition for OLAP Mobile Performance improvements iphone support Platform Optional NW deployment (for BWonly use cases) HANA deployment for HANA-only use cases Partner & Customer SDK (Beta Program) Custom visualizations of query data Design- & Runtime Enhancements Enhanced Charting Navigation Panel Context Menu Enhanced Scripting Customize Crosstabs: Formats & Custom Data/Calculations/Formulas RRI Printing & Export Enhanced set of components Mobile Android support Partner & Customer SDK generally available Create custom charts & other visualizations Commentary Additional Data Sources DSL, Read&Write data to ABAP tables Design- & Runtime Enhancements Further Enhancements of Components and Scripting Geo Maps Application bookmarking & personalization (end-user) Application modularization & re-use concepts Windows 8 Tablet support Offline scenarios Broadcasting BW-IP / PAK Support, Additional Data Sources Microsoft SSAS, OData, other WebServices Content conversion support SAP Web Application Design (WAD) SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) (Design Studio 1.1 Q ) midterm Future This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. 35

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