SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioDeep Dive

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Full Spectrum Business Intelligence

ReportingDiscovery and

AnalysisDashboards and

Apps

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

Discover areas to optimize your business

Adapt data to business needs

Tell your story with beautiful visualizations

Discover. Predict. Create.

Build Engaging Experiences

Share Information

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Build engaging, visual dashboards

Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealing analytics

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

Use custom code to extend and build workflows

Dashboards and AppsBuild Engaging Experiences

Portfolio

Design Studio

Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)

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SAP’s visualization strategy aligns along use cases

IT created and deployed globally

Focus company on key KPIs with broad publication

Professionally Authored

Self Service

Business Analyst Driven

Analyst driven for a small audience

Answer specialized questions quickly

Business user analysis

Intuitive exploration of data relevant for daily decision making

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Each use case has its tailored solution

Self Service

Business Analyst Driven

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

&

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Visual Intelligence

Explorer & Exploration Views

Professionally Authored

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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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Design Studio: BI Applications for Web and Mobile

Direct Access to BW and HANA via BICS

State of the art rendering: HTML5

Eclipse-based application design

environment

iPad Apps

Premium alternative to BEx WAD

Labs Preview

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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 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

Easily design centrally governable analytic content ranging from simplified templates via guided analytics to sophisticated applications

Lab Preview

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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

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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

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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

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Free Form Layout Options

Intuitive layouting options

WYSIWYG (embedded runtime to enable what you see is what you get) design principle Pixel-exact layouti Dynamic layouting via docking position Propotional grid layouting

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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

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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

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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

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Design Studio: High Level Architecture View

BI Platform

BW Hana Others

Browser Client

Java Server

Data Sources

Consumer Designer

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Focus topics for the next shipment(s) (Q1-Q2 2013)

Priority backlog items for next shipments

• Navigation/Filter panel (with true data binding)

• Improved mobile design capabilities and experience

• Sample applications

• Custom themes

• Extended chart configuration

• BW Exceptions visualization in crosstab

• Multiple row/column selections in crosstab

• Text elements

• Analysis Views as data source

• Variable & Variants at runtime

• Interoperability with SBO Analysis, edition for OLAP

PRELIMIN

ARY

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding StrategyWhat does this mean for existing customers ?

Customers using BEx Web Application Designer– BEx WAD customers should adopt Design Studio as their primary tool for

creating dashboards and applications, both on the web and on device.

Customers using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (former Xcelsius)– SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards customers should continue with dashboards

and leverage the upcoming HTML5 functionality for on-device dashboards. – SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards customers using dashboards on top of BW

should consider building their new dashboards in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio