SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioOverviewJie Deng, Product Management Analysis ClientsNovember 2012

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding Strategy

Interactive Analysis

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• Can be broadly published• Trusted data based on IT centric

deployment

Solutions in BI4• SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards• SAP BEx Web Application Designer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

Solutions in BI4• Exploration Views• BI Workspaces

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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis & Design StudioThe Premium Alternative to BEx

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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

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SAP BusinessObjects AnalysisThe Premium Alternative to BEx

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Analytical Applications AdHoc OLAP

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

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Design Studio – The powerful choice for Designers & IT

Intuitive WYSIWYG design environment for designersLarge set of design components (buttons, tabs, dropdown menus etc.)Extend via scripting language (subset of JavaScript)Enterprise Ready Life Cycle ManagementCentral SupportabilityTheming & Customizing

iPad Support built-in

Apps are ready for immediate usage on standard web browsers and mobile devices (HTML5 )

Direct & native support for HANA & BWOperates directly on BEx Queries, InfoCubes and Hana viewsSupport for BW & HANA specific engine- & platform services

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

Design Studio 1.0 : General Availabe

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SAP® BusinessObjects™ Design StudioThe powerful choice for consumers

• Consume and interact with information using simplified BI templates

• Use pre-built templates with guided steps

• Create BI applications and design guided navigations

• Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios

• Leverage BI applications for planning and forecasting scenarios

• User product interoperability to share results with other BI clients

• Consume and interact with information simplified personalizable BI templates

• Analyze information on mobile devices

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QR Code Scan for Deployment on iPad

Rapid deployment of iPad applications.Using QR Code to send to iPadQR code represents application URLScan with iPad camera to open URLEnable 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 StudioVia drag and dropAdd additional filtersChange display to key or textSorting, defining scaling facors and calculating totals for measuresPause refresh while editing initial view

Reset changed view to the initial statusCreate crosstab and chart directly from initial viewsConfigure options for chartActivate hierarchy display

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Filter Panel and Dimension Panel

Components for comfortable and intuitive data filteringConvienient for designers to define without any codingEasy-to-use for end users to select dataCan be combined with Pop Up component for typical iPad scenariosTrue data binding between data source and filter panel

RuntimeDesigntime

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

Native support for SAP BW & HANA OLAP capabilitiesBW & HANA: Hierarchy support(e.g. time dependent hierarchies, filter member selection on hierarchy nodes)BW: Currency conversionBW: Show results of conditions, get exception levelsBW: Display time-dependent attributes

iPad App created with Design Studio featuring multiple BW hierarchies

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Free Form Layouting Options

Intuitive layouting optionsWYSIWYG (embedded runtime to enable what you see is what you get) design principlePixel-exact layoutingDynamic layouting via docking positionPropotional grid layouting

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Pre-delivered templates

Pre-delivered templates to enable rapid implementationTemplate for applications running on desktopTemplates for applications running on iPad

Desktop Template Example iPad Template Example

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Comfortable Scripting Engine & Editor

Flexible defining interactions between design componentsJava script based command editorEasy-to-use scripting wizardIntuitive content assistence via CRTL+SPACEDisplay live data for selectionBuild-in documentation for script APIAutomatic check for the corretness of the scripting

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Integrating with SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

Enable application management on BI PlatformEnable multi user-access to applicationsStorage of applications and images Embedded runtime on BI PlatformCentral management of system connections

Open/save applications on BI Platform System connections on BI Platform

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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 SolutionsEnable large mobile community

Overview page on SAP BI Mobile embedded within SAP BI Mobile

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Analysis & Design StudioCreating Next Generation BI Apps

Excel Web iPad

Tight interoperability between Analysis & Design Studio components

Analysis Office Design Studio Design Studio App

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BEx WAD vs Design Studio

BEx Web Application Designer Design Studio“Old-fashioned look and feel” of the UI

HTML5 UI technology

Strong Coupling to UI Technology UR JSON-based client-side rendering

Usability issues of the WAD Designer New designer concepts

Difficult to layout and format applications

WYSIWIG layouting

Complex property editing Less and decoupled properties

Complex command specification Wizards and Command Script Language

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SAP Runs Design Studio – 1 –

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SAP Runs Design Studio – 2 –

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Design StudioHigh Level Architecture View

Consumer Designer

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