Deep Dive on SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Deep DiveIan Mayor and David Stocker

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SAP BusinessObjects Client Tools

ReportingSelf-service

Dashboards

and Apps

Discover. Predict. Create.Distribute Information

Build Custom Experiences


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Build engaging, visual dashboards

Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealinganalytics

Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down, crosstabs, charts

Use custom code to extend and build workflows

Dashboards and Apps

Portfolio

Design Studio

Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)

BEx Web App Designer


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SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioPowerful analytical & planning apps on SAP BW, HANA & other data sources

Eclipse-based application

design environment

Mobile Apps

Direct access to BW and HANA

via BICS

State of the art rendering:

HTML5

Premium alternative to

BEx WAD & XC Enterprise

Agnostic data sources

via DSL


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Dashboarding Strategy


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Today: two experiences to cover customer needs

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Visually compelling dashboards across multiple

sources and kinds of data

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

BI applications and guided analysis on top of

multi-dimensional data


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Future Direction

MOBILIZE VISUALIZE UNIFY

Dashboards

Design Studio


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Functional Overview


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Design Studio The powerful choice for Designers & IT

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 mobi le 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

Easily design centrally governable analytic content ranging from simplified templates

via guided analytics to sophisticated applications


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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


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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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Additional APIs for Data Calculation

Addi tional APIs for data calculat ion

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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Out-of-the-Box BW & HANA OLAP Capabilities

Native support for SAP BW & HANA OLAP capabil ities

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


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SDK Highlights


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Example: DS Dashboard with Standard & SDK components

SDK Components

Standard Components


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Software Development Kit (Beta Program on Track)

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 from Partner Graphomate Example: Gauge

Beta started in August, deliver planned for 1.2


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SDK Example Components


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SDK Example Components on DS Canvas


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Universe Integration


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Accessing UNX Query Panel from within DS


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Create UNX Query Spec


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Edit Initial View onUNX Data Source

* This ste will not be necessar b default in the release


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Edit Initial View onUNX Data Source


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Visualize UNX Data in Crosstab


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Execute in Browser


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SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioProduct road map overview - key themes and capabilities until Q2 2014

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

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

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 BW-only use

cases)

Partner & Customer SDK

Create custom charts, visualizations &

extensions (e.g. commentary)

Additional Data Sources

DSL support and DSL query panel in DS

Enhanced Charting & Visualization


Navigation Panel

Enhanced Scripting

Customize Crosstabs: Formats

Ecel-based Printing & Export

Enhanced set of components

BEx Query Exceptions

Background Query Loading

RTC: Q2 2014

Offline Capabilities

Enable offline usage of DS dashboards,

especially for mobile usage

BW Integrated Planning

Enhanced Charting & Visualization

Geo Maps, Large Data Visualizations,

new charts


Application bookmarking &

personalization Drag&Drop; Context menu, RRI

Advanced Printing & Exporting

Lumira Integration


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