Embrace Dashboards on BusinessObjects Mobile BI 4.4 – ASUG Webcast
This was another ASUG webcast given by SAP’s Viswanathan Ramakrishnan and Karsten Ruf. They focused on a few products – this blog covers BI4 Dashboard, features that are coming with Mobile BI 4.4 / BI4 SP05 (not released yet). Of course the usual disclaimer applies that things are subject to change.
Figure 1: Source: SAP
Mobile BI 4.4 will support additional content types, Dashboards, Design Studio, Interactive Crystal Reports (when connected online)
Figure 2: Source: SAP
Figure 2 shows that Mobile BI 4.4 will allow access Dashboards content – offline access and refresh on device – to be accessible you have to use Dashboard Designer
However, not all features are available for Mobile
Compatibility panel will list components and features not available. It will support most of components
SAP advises creating dashboards from scratch due to feature compatibility and form factor difference
It supports query panel to BW, HANA, and third party relational
Figure 3: Source: SAP
Figure 3 lists the supported components/charts and connection
Column chart and bar charts are support
Connectivity is via the query panel
Figure 4 shows gaps between Flash and PC version in Dashboards for Mobile
Given these gaps, the migration may be difficult.
Add-on components are not supported in this release
It will not support maps
By default, only Nova theme is supported in this release, so you may want to switch themes in existing dashboard
For deployment, it is dependent on the BI platform. You have to publish dashboards to BI4 mobile platform – unlike PC flash version
Figure 5: Source: SAP
Figure 5 shows recommendations for dashboard design for Mobile. Mobile device users have short attention span, so they recommend exposing a small set of KPI’s (key performance indicators) to the end user. KPIs should be in large fonts.
SAP recommends building new dashboards instead of existing ones
Figure 6: Source: SAP
Figure 6 shows how to publish dashboards to iPad
Next blog will cover Design Studio.
Any word when the 4.4 mobile client for iOS will be made available?
I don't work for SAP - we have another ASUG BI Mobile webcast tomorrow & I will try to get an update
Tammy
Planned release is December 15
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Tammy
Thanks, Tammy.