Last month SAP provided an ASUG webcast on the BI Roadmap planned innovations. You can find part I of the blog here
This blog focuses on planned innovations around the BI clients.
Note that the usual disclaimer applies, that planned things are subject to change.
Figure 1 Source: SAP
Predictive Analysis is in rampup. It will consume .UNX universes in BI4 as shown in Figure 1
It will access to BW data
Its algorithms will leverage work in HANA SP4
R language will be natively integrated with Hana engine to take advantage of open source
It will provide PAL algorithms support
It will offer new visualizations to deal with big data
Figure 2 Source: SAP
Figure 2 shows that future BusinessObjects Explorer will be able to re-map Infospaces to a different data source
Users will be able refresh underlying spreadsheets
It will add support for OLAP universes
Exploration Views – customizing of look and feel, edit the titles, undo and redo manipulations
Multi-source exploration views will be available
Future BusinessObjects Explorer will integrate better with SAP Visual Intelligence, meaning the exploration views that you create in desktop Visual Intelligence will be available as an exploration view on the Explorer server
Figure 3 Source: SAP
Figure 3 shows the new desktop tool that debuted at SAPPHIRE; Visual Intelligence is the latest addition to Explorer family
It offers new features for business analyst/ data artisan
It allows the user to acquire data from variety of data sources to manipulate data without scripting
Users can combine data as they want and publish the data in existing platform
The user can publish data set and view it in Explorer Web and mobile solutions
Figure 4: Source: SAP
Figure 4 shows that Web Intelligence will have more improvements with BW
The refresh report times will improve
Improve use of BEx variables as the prompts will follow same sequence as BEx query
They will enable variable dependencies in WebI
They will offer merge and unmerge BEx variables support
SDK – WebI .net SDK is not part of current code line; the plan is to provide REST and JavaScript API for key scenarios to support .net SDKs and to support all sorts of languages
Figure 5: Source SAP
Figure 5 shows that the main feature will to allow dashboards to be published in HTML5 output and then be made available in SAP Mobile BI application. This will allow you to leverage existing dashboards
In the future it will have better access to Hana and multi-dimensional data
Figure 6: Source: SAP
Figure 6 shows that for Crystal they plan to improve viewing content on Mobile Devices – today in mobile you only get PDF of report; next version will have experience of a desktop browser in terms of interactivity
They will enhance RESTFul and JavaScript API to allow programmatic report generation
They will offer greater customization of viewer UI to help embed integration of reports of applications building
Figure 7: Source: SAP
Figure 7 shows Analysis Office will have expanded HANA support of hierarchies and variables
It will offer conversion of BEx Analyzer Workbooks, report to report interface, and BW Variants
BW Workspaces will allow users to cover scenarios with BW and external data into BW Workspace
Figure 8: Source: SAP
Figure 8 shows that Analysis OLAP (Analysis for the Web) HANA support for hierarchies & variables
It will offer Essbase as a data source. It will support Report to Report Interface and variants support.
Figure 9: Source: SAP
Zen is now BusinessObjects Design Studio and is still part of the Analysis family. It is now in Beta.
It is the premium successor to BEx Web Application Designer. You can publish into HTML5 and works on web and mobile
It is built on BW/HANA data sources
Figure 10: Source: SAP
Figure 10 is a recap of enhancements for BW Customers and the integration with BW.
It will offer performance improvements for design and refreshing reports
They are looking to enhance integration with BW by enriching metadata
They want to standardize data type support across all clients
They want to allow BI clients to leverage compound characteristics
Leverage more end user functionality from BW – example is variable variants – allows user to create a set of prompt values and reuse
SAP NW Identity management for central user provisioning
Figure 11: Source: SAP
For embedded analytics they will offer better integration by providing several Operational Data Providers that will allow you to access data from operational system
It will allow you to leverage BI solution for operational report
It will use Crystal or Analysis for real time information access
Leverage more end user functionality from BW – example is variable variants – allows user to create a set of prompt values and reuse
They plan to use SAP NW Identity management for central user provisioning
For more details on SAP Integration with BI4, BW and ERP join ingo.hilgefort on July 18th for this webcast, open to everyone, on SAP BI4 Integration Update. Register here.
Join SAP on July 17 at 1pm EST for the virtual launch of SAP Visual Intelligence and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 FP3. Click here (http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-29411) for more information.
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