BI Roadmap Planned Innovations Part 2 ASUG Webcast
Part 1 is here SAP BI Roadmap Planned Innovations – ASUG Webcast Part 1
The usual legal disclaimer applies that things are subject to change. Planned innovations are “due for release in the next 6-18 months” and subject to change, per SAP.
Figure 1: Source: SAP
Figure 1 shows Design Studio planned innovations, which include BW-IP
It includes native support for HANA as a deployment platform
Custom design components SDK can be stored on BW platform
End users to create their personalized views of Design Studio dashboard
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Figure 2 shows planned innovation for Dashboards. It will be focused on mobile – additional components – export to mobile and improve performance
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BW is an important data source to BI tools
BEx query support is coming to SAP Lumira
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SAP said there is a “massive amount of innovation coming to Lumira”
Lumira Server is a native application in HANA built using HANA XS engine
Part of planned innovations is integration with BI4 platform so you can view Lumira documents on BI platform
Fast innovation around visualization includes info charts and graphics
They are adding ESRI to Lumira
Custom extensions and innovations to Lumira and publish to SAP Marketplace to allow other users to download
The plan to add more datasources to Lumira including Cloudera, Hortonworks
Lumira will also be a data mash up tool for analyst; an example is if there is a table on a website is a data source to Lumira
They plan to offer exploration of facet views in Visualization room of Lumira
The plan to schedule dataset refresh to Lumira Cloud
Figure 5: Source: SAP
Figure 5 shows planned innovations for Analysis OLAP
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Figure 6 shows upcoming plans for SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, which includes cell level annotations
The HANA repository will store analysis for office workbooks
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Figure 7 shows planned innovations for Predictive Analysis, which includes an HTML5 edition and a partner SDK
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Figure 8 shows improvements for Lumira Cloud, an important part of BI suite
The plan is to acquire data from behind the firewall – HCI to connect to on premise data to the cloud
It will offer integration with JAM
The plan is to compose stories on the browser
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Figure 9 shows HANA as the preferred Big Data platform, where you can connect to Text Analysis in HANA, ESRI geospatial support
Smart Data Access is data federation tool
Figure 9 shows plans to offer additional universe JDBC drivers
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SAP is working from a “mobile first design philosophy”.
Coming soon you will be able to create your own storyboard in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile
Next blog will be on future direction and question and answer
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