This was an SAP webcast given by Maheshwar Singh, SAP, this month. Below are my notes. Note that things in the future are subject to change.
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Figure 1 shows the legal disclaimer that things in the future are subject to change.
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Figure 2 covers self-service BI on BI Platform as defined by SAP – this was not covered in the BI Platform roadmap. BI Launchpad includes save, share manage content and self-service on BI Platform
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Schedules are subject to change
Purpose of roadmap is to give you short term and long term goals
Figure 3 shows the roadmap in three sections – today, planned innovations in 12-18 months, future innovation – forward looking
Today is BI4.1 SP6
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Integration kits are no longer a separate add-on; key capabilities are included
LCM console is integrated in CMC as promotion and version management
Planned Innovations
Planned innovations are in 12-18 months and anything could change based priorities
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As shown in Figure 5 plans include add-on audit improvements to include all clients – Lumira, Analysis Office, Design Studio. For audit samples see Matt Shaw's post Unlock the Auditing database with a new Universe and Web Intelligence Documents for BI4.1/BI4.2
Admin broadcasting messages idea came from Idea Place. For example, the admin send message to all users, some users, or certain user – downtime that IT plans. Can also send by e-mail if e-mails are available for users. It is also available as an alert
Recycle bin is a top-voted idea in Idea Place. They plan to make it like Windows – CMC – admin can restore content – first focus is on public folders. The admin defaults clean-up date; admin can change. In first iteration it is not available for universe connections and personal documents
Admin cockpit is one central page to get information about what is happening with your system
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Migration improvements for the Upgrade Management Tool UI have an option to change log level instead of changing the INI file
Promotion management – selective retrieval from LCMBIAR – top voted idea
Performance improvements around promotion management
Manage Inbox – they are thinking – manage users’ personal space – today cannot restrict what user stores in personal space
BI Commentary – they plan to do – collaboration today with SAP Jam today
- Context to your comment
- Available as part of the platform so it is centrally stored
- Plan is to start with Web Intelligence and then Design Studio / Analysis Office
- Plan is to see the same content across all reporting tools
Figure 7 Source: SAP
Today the install takes up a lot of time; want to look at reduce install start up screen time for patches
Simplify language update support experience
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Multitenancy was introduced in 4.1 with more improvements shown above
Promote content between tenant 1 and tenant 2
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Publications are planned for Analysis Office
Looking at scheduling to a printer as an idea
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RESTful web services new things will be supported in BI4.2
Future Direction
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Quick time to value with deployment and automation of software maintenance
In TCO reduction, SAP is looking at CMC has several applications; look at consolidation and making BI admin simple
Roadmaps are updated twice a year
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