EA104

World Premiere of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Eric Schemer, Senior Director Product Management, BI Clients, SAP AG
October, 2013
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Agenda

Overview

Capabilities & Roadmap

Recommendations

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… And New Requirements From The Users…

BI Usage in companies
Mobile

30% 75%
today by 2020

Simple
Source Gartner

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SAP Business Intelligence
One Suite for All Insight
Build Engaging Experiences
 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

Dashboards
and Apps
Agile
Reporting
Visualization

Discover. Predict. Create. Distribute Information

 Discover areas to optimize your business  Securely distribute information across your organization
 Adapt data to business needs  Answer related questions by interacting with
 Tell your story with beautiful visualizations pre-defined reports
 Build printable reports for operational efficiency

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Agile Visualization
Discover. Predict. Create.

Agility for business analysts and business users Portfolio

 Discover trends, outliers and areas of interest in your business  Lumira

 Adapt to business scenarios by combining, manipulating, and enriching  Explorer*
data
 Analysis*
 Tell your story with self-service visualizations and analytics
 Predictive Analysis*
 Forecast and predict future outcomes

* SAP BusinessObjects Explorer; SAP BusinessObjects Analysis; SAP Predictive Analysis

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Reporting
Share Information

High productivity design for report designers Portfolio

 Quickly build formatted reports on any data source  Web Intelligence*

 Securely distribute reports both internally and externally  Crystal Reports*
 Minimize IT support costs by empowering end users  Analysis Office (Excel-based)
to easily create and modify their own reports

 Enhance custom applications with embedded reports

* SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence; SAP Crystal Reports

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Dashboards and Apps
Build Engaging Experiences

Build engaging, visual dashboards Portfolio

 Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealing  Design Studio*

analytics
 Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)*
 Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down, crosstabs,
charts…  BEx Web Application Designer

 Use custom code to extend and build workflows

* SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio; SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

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SAP® BusinessObjects™ Design Studio 1.2
Built Powerful Analytical Apps for Mobile & Web
Direct Access to BW,
HANA & UNX via BICS

Eclipse-based application
design environment incl.
SDK

Mobile Apps

Premium alternative to
State of the art rendering:
Dashboards & BEx WAD
HTML5
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Analysis & Design Studio
Designed for BW, BW on HANA, Native HANA & UNX

Analysis
Design Studio

MDX BICS BICS

BW Application Universe

BICS MDX SQL

BW-managed schema Any schema

SAP HANA

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Agenda

Overview

Capabilities & Roadmap

Recommendations

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Design Studio: 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
Design Studio 1.1 : Optional NW deployment (functional restrictions compared to BOE
General Availability since 6th of June, 2013 deployment)

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Deployment Option: BI Platform

Consumer Designer BI Platform

 Available as of Design Studio release 1.0

 BI 4.0SP5 or BI 4.1SP0 as the pre-

Browser client requisite

 Design Studio applications stored on BI

Platform

 Backend connections through CMC, able

to connect to multiple SAP BW and SAP
HANA systems
Deployment Platforms
BI Platform  Transportation via Promotion
management

 Pre-requisite for SAP BI Mobile Solutions

Data sources
BW HANA

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Deployment Option: SAP NetWeaver

Consumer Designer SAP NetWeaver

 Available as of Design Studio release 1.1

 BW 7.3SP9, BW 7.31 SP7 or BW7.4SP2

Browser client as the pre-requisite

 Design Studio applications stored on

SAP BW

 Transported though different systems via

TLOGO objects (ABAP transport
mechanism)
Deployment Platforms
SAP NetWeaver  Can only connect to one BW system

 SAP Portal mobile solution is planned

BW Data sources

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Interoperability scenario with Analysis, edition for OLAP

Empower business analysts to easily share their analysis throughout the organization without requiring
professionally created reports or applications.
 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

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Analysis & Design Studio
Creating Next Generation BI Apps

Tight interoperability between Analysis & Design Studio components

AdHoc Analysis App Design iPad

Analysis Office or Design Studio Design Studio App

OLAP
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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

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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

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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

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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

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Planned features for release 1.2
Chart:
• Dual axis chart
• Radar, Bubble & Scatter chart (re-add based on HTML5)
• Set axis scaling (min/max values)
• Bind series to individual rows/columns in a data set
Crosstab:
• Set column width, enable hierarchy navigation, sorting, column resizing
for end user
• Exception Highlighting
Navigation Panel
• Analytical Drill Down capabilities
Scripting:
• Variable initialization
• Query background processing for user friendly performance
Export to Excel or CSV
• Only possible with crosstab data
UNX
• Access UNX data and Deployment on BIP
SDK
• Creating custom components and deployment on BI Platform
Initial View Editor
• Set Read Mode to posted value to enable cascading in HANA
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Software Development Kit

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
 Deployment possible with BI Platform in release 1.2

Example: Hichert Charts, Partner: Graphomate Example: Gauge

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Example: DS Dashboard with Standard & SDK components

SDK Components

Standard Components

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Enhanced Charting Capabilities for release 1.2

More chart types and charting capabilities

 Dual axis chart
 Radar, Bubble & Scatter chart (re-add based on HTML5)
 Axis scaling (min/max values)
 Measure picker: Bind series to individual rows/columns in a data set (as opposed to binding the complete chart against a complete
query data set as today)
 Chart background colors

Dual Axis Chart Axis Scaling Measure Picker

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Enhanced Crosstab Functionalities

More individual and flexible settings

 Enable/Disable for hierarchical navigation ,sorting and column resizing function
 Exceptions which are defined in SAP BW backend or in SBOP Analysis Office can be activated in crosstab setting
 The width of each column within a crosstab can be adjusted individually
 Crosstab data can be exported as excel or csv data via scripting

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Navigation Panel

Extend filter panel for navigation purpose

 Add the navigation mode to filter panel
 Very convenient to add or remove dimensions/key figures to rows/columns
 Sequence of the dimensions/key figures can be adjusted
 Swap axis is possible
 Every action is done by click, drag and drop is not possible

Select dimensions or key figures Re-order dimensions or key figures Look based on the selected theme
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Universe as Data Source

UNX Support in Design Studio

 UNX can be defined as the additional data source in addition to SAP BW and SAP HANA
 Specific query needs to be defined for the selected universe
 Using Initial View to define dimensions
 Deployment on BI Platform

UNX query panel Deployed on BI Platform

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Design Studio UNX Support

Accessing UNX Query Panel from within DS

Visualize UNX Data in DS Crosstab

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SDK Example Components on DS Canvas

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Design Studio UNX Support

Accessing UNX Query Panel from within DS

Visualize UNX Data in DS Crosstab

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities until Q2 2014
Design- & Runtime Enhancements Partner & Customer SDK Offline Capabilities
 Enhanced Charting  Create custom charts, visualizations &  Enable offline usage of DS dashboards,
 Align/distribute components in layout extensions (e.g. commentary) especially for mobile usage
 Enhanced Filter Components
Additional Data Sources BW Integrated Planning
 Enhanced Scripting
 Variable Screen  UNX support and UNX query panel in DS
Native HANA Deployment Version
 Custom Stylesheets
Interoperability Enhanced Charting & Visualization
Enhanced Charting & Visualization
 Interoperability with Analysis, edition for OLAP  Geo Maps, Large Data Visualizations,
new charts
Mobile
Design- & Runtime Enhancements Design- & Runtime Enhancements
 Performance improvements
 Navigation Panel  Application bookmarking &
 iPhone support
 Enhanced Scripting personalization
Platform  Customize Crosstabs: Formats  Drag&Drop; Context menu, RRI
 Optional NW deployment (for BW-only use  Excel-based Printing & Export  Advanced Printing & Exporting
cases)  Enhanced set of components
 BEx Query Exceptions Lumira Integration
 Background Query Loading

Today (DS 1.1) DS 1.2 RTC: Q4 2013 DS 1.3 RTC: Q2 2014

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

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 Analysis, Visualization & App Design
Emerging Persona Relationships

Mobile Users

Monitor. Explore. Explain. Web Monitor. Explore. Explain.

Design (Apps, Dashboards, Reports) Explore. Enrich. Explain.

(Information, Stories.)
Data Data Analyst
Metadata Metadata
Design Studio Lumira / Analysis
Models Models
Designer (IT,
PowerDesign.
User)Govern. Data Quality Data
System
Security Metadata
Administration
Data Access Models

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Agenda

Overview

Capabilities & Roadmap

Recommendations

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Business Explorer (BEx) and Analysis/Design Studio
Existing Investments in SAP BW are safe

BEx Conversion (planned) Analysis /

(Analyzer & Web) Design Studio

BW Data Models & No changes required BW Data Models &

Queries Queries

BEx tools in maintenance mode Conversion

BEx 7.0 is delivered with the latest BW Conversion support available for Analysis,
release and will be maintained for at least edition for Microsoft Office
the next 7+2 years Conversion support planned for Design
See additional information on SCN Studio
BEx Query Designer remains core
modeling tool for SAP BW

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3 Step Transition from Xcelsius to Design Studio (& Lumira)
2013 H1 2013 Q4
SAP BW & HANA Customers SAP BW & HANA Customers
Start adoption of Design Studio 1.1 Accelerate adoption of DS 1.2
 Additional key HANA & BW capabilities
 Best-In class BW & HANA support
 SDK
 Key analytical OLAP capabilities
Agnostic SAP BO Enterprise Customers Agnostic SAP BO Enterprise Customers
Still on XCE Start adoption of DS 1.2
 UNX support
 Leverage improved mobile/HTML5 capabilities
 Enhanced charting & SDK enable high end
visuals
 Light weight adhoc scenarios moving to Lumira
Stand-Alone Single License XCE Stand-Alone Single License XCE
Start adoption of Lumira Adoption of Lumira
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2014 Q2
SAP BW & HANA Customers
DS 1.3 as key dashboarding solution
 Integrated Planning
 Key BEx capabilities enabled
Agnostic SAP BO Enterprise Customers
Accelerate adoption of DS 1.3
 Offline Mobile Support
 Enhanced local calculations
 High end visuals out of the box & via partners
 Lumira key solution for adhoc use cases
Stand-Alone Single License XCE
Lumira as key solution
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Recommendations for BW

Recommended as default clients when used with either SAP NetWeaver BW

or SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA
Recommended for BW
and BW on HANA Applies to:
• SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Office
• SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP
• SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Recommended for specific reporting use cases when used with either SAP
Recommended for
NetWeaver BW or SAP NetWeaver BW on HANA
Reporting on BW
and BW on HANA Applies to:
• SAP Crystal Reports
• SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence (functional restrictions on BW apply)

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3 Step Adoption of SAP BusinessObjects BI
Simplified for SAP NetWeaver Business Explorer Customers

Step 3: Add BW on HANA and

Step 1: Get Started Step 2: Replace All BEx Tools
other BI Solutions

Discovery and Analysis Discovery and Analysis Discovery and Analysis with BW
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition
Powered by SAP HANA
for Microsoft Office for OLAP SAP Lumira
 Desktop and Web
 Reporting and analysis on BW data from  Reporting and analysis on BW data from the
within Excel for business users web for business users  Accelerate data discovery workflows with in
memory aggregation
 Excel addin  Web based
 Next generation of BEx Analyzer  Next generation of BEx Web Analyzer

Dashboards and apps Reporting

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
 For graphical dashboards and analytic
applications
 Next generation of BEx Web Application
Designer
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
 SAP Crystal Reports for highly formatted
production reporting
 SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for
interactive reporting by business users

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Further Information

SAP Public Web

http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-design-studio
http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-dashboards

SAP Education and Certification Opportunities

www.sap.com/education

Watch SAP TechEd Online

www.sapteched.com/online

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Further Information

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