SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Overview Jie Deng, Product Management Analysis Clients November 2012
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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 Interactive High expectation Analysis for mobility Can be broadly published Trusted data based on IT centric deployment Solutions in BI4 Exploration Views BI Workspaces Solutions in BI4 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SAP BEx Web Application Designer SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 3
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis & Design Studio The Premium Alternative to BEx Analytical Applications AdHoc OLAP Analysis Clients & Design Studio Web MS Office Design Studio Premium Alternative to BEx Web App Designer Design studio for power users to create purpose-built OLAP analysis & planning apps Customer- and SAP-delivered content Mobile support HANA support Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office IT / Developers, Data Analysts, Business Users Excel-based OLAP analysis Excel-based BI applications Live PowerPoint presentations HANA support Analysis, Edition for OLAP Dedicated Ad-Hoc OLAP client for business users to analyze OLAP data and share it with others Enabled for 3rd party OLAP Seamless interoperability between designer and ad-hoc client HANA support 5
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis The Premium Alternative to BEx Analytical Applications AdHoc OLAP Design Studio Analysis, Edition for OLAP Analysis Clients Web Premium Alternative to BEx Web App Designer Design studio for power users to create purpose-built OLAP analysis & planning apps Customer- and SAP-delivered content Mobile support HANA support Dedicated Ad-Hoc OLAP client for business users to analyze OLAP data and share it with others Enabled for 3rd party OLAP Seamless interoperability between designer and ad-hoc client HANA support MS Office Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office IT / Developers, Data Analysts, Business Users Excel-based OLAP analysis Excel-based BI applications Live PowerPoint presentations HANA support 6
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 Availabe 7
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio The powerful choice for consumers Consume and interact with information simplified personalizable BI templates Analyze information on mobile devices Executive Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios IT CREATE User product interoperability to share results with other BI clients Create BI applications and design guided navigations Middle Management CONSUME Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios Business Analyst Consume and interact with information using simplified BI templates Use pre-built templates with guided steps Individual Contributor 8
QR Code Scan for Deployment on ipad Rapid deployment of ipad applications. Using QR Code to send to ipad QR code represents application URL Scan with ipad camera to open URL Enable rapid prototyping of ipad applications Application Designtime Runtime on ipad 9
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 10
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 11
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 12
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 13
Pre-delivered templates Pre-delivered templates to enable rapid implementation Template for applications running on desktop Templates for applications running on ipad Desktop Template Example ipad Template Example 14
Comfortable Scripting Engine & Editor Flexible defining interactions between design components Java script based command editor Easy-to-use scripting wizard Intuitive content assistence via CRTL+SPACE Display live data for selection Build-in documentation for script API Automatic check for the corretness of the scripting 15
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 16
Integration into SAP BI Mobile Solutions Convienient 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 17
Analysis & Design Studio Creating Next Generation BI Apps Tight interoperability between Analysis & Design Studio components Excel Web ipad Analysis Office Design Studio Design Studio App 18
BEx WAD vs Design Studio BEx Web Application Designer Old-fashioned look and feel of the UI Strong Coupling to UI Technology UR Usability issues of the WAD Designer Difficult to layout and format applications Complex property editing Complex command specification Design Studio HTML5 UI technology JSON-based client-side rendering New designer concepts WYSIWIG layouting Less and decoupled properties Wizards and Command Script Language 19
SAP Runs Design Studio 1 21
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Design Studio High Level Architecture View Consumer Designer 23
Thank You! Contact information: Jie Deng Product Management SAP AG