SAP User Group SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Roadmap Recap
This was a webcast hosted by the SAP User Group today. The usual legal disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change. These are my rough notes as I heard them.
Source: SAP
Source: SAP Figure 1
Integrated to BI Platform
Leverage authorizations from BW/BI platform
Leverage performance, reliability
Future will leverage commentary on platform
Interop w/ Analysis Office
Figure 2: Source: SAP
BI platform is major investment going forward
Figure 3: Source: SAP
Generic analysis template enhancements
Figure 4: Source: SAP
On this slide, interoperability was discussed, with one file format on the BI Platform
Figure 5: Source: SAP
This is the “marketecture” slide
Discovery – business user uses for self service
Use combined server add-on
Use Design Studio runtime for online BW access
Discovery – Lumira users can use Design Studio runtime to go directly to BW system to do ad-hoc self service analysis
BICS – access to OLAP functionalities with Discovery client, connect directly to BW, currency conversions, select hierarchies
Designer is Eclipse-based
Velocity engine – acquire BW data, as DS user access “in memory” but not always need online data
Replicate data to velocity engine to use for reporting
One data format is saved on BI platform
Information Consumer can access
Figure 6: Source: SAP
Design Studio has online connectivity to BW
Lumira has online data prep
Both clients benefit
Design Studio SDK, Lumira SDK, will work with Lumira 2.x releases
Figure 7: Source: SAP
How upgrade to Lumira 2.0
Lumira 2.0 run time is really a Design Studio run time
Design Studio – system upgrade
Design Studio 1.6 existing app still run in 2.x
Can still edit with Lumira 2.0 designer client and save in 1.6 format
If create new project 2.0, then use 2.0 format
2.0 is the new Fiori component, interact with discovery client
New 2.0 features – infocharts, responsive layout, new bookmark concept, reusability
A way to do content conversion
Most will be automatic; some manual effort will be expected (CSS style sheets for example)
System upgrade and content conversion are independent of each other
Decide when you want to convert to 2.0 format
Figure 8: Source: SAP
2.0 not provide NW/HANA add-on
Only BI platform add-on will be provided with 2.0
Need to use http based connector
Only the 64 bit client delivered
Figure 9: Source: SAP
Visualize and Compose will be 1 room
Expected rampup is Q4
Figure 10: Source: SAP
More robust bookmark
PDF Enhancements
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Hi Tammy,
thank you for the recap. I am a little worried about the UI5.M mode i hope SAP will enhance this library with 2.0 that it delivers the same functionality like with the old framework.
Regards,
Michael
Hi Michael,
Which functionality from the "old framework" are you specifically concerned about?
Regards,
Mustafa.
Hi Mustafa,
just today we updated to 1.6 SP2 P1 and saw that there are already some enhancements for the m-mode. 🙂
Still missing for us:
- Position of Message Windows
- Filter Line
- Navigation Panel not possible to pause refresh
- Infochart not possible to put the measures in the rows/X-axis
- Fragment gallery
Regards,
Michael
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the feedback. Agreed, the Fragment Gallery (along with Split Cell Container) is an important missing component. I guess the new M Mode Filter Bar is the closest equivalent to the Filter Line.
Hopefully we'll see further parity improvements in the next release.
Regards,
Mustafa.
Hi Tammy,
Thanks for another informative summary. I have a couple of questions:
1) Figure 10 specifies "Data acquisition and manipulation on browser" in the Future Direction section. Was there any further elaboration about what this means? I thought we already had this functionality in Design Studio with the combination of the Filter Panel, Navigation Panel and Backend Connection components where a user can pick ("acquire") their own data source with the data browser and then manipulate with the Filter Panel and Navigation Panel;
2) Figure 3 specifies support for "Cascading Filter for Universe as a Data Source" in DS SP02. Going by the discussions on the SCN there seems to be numerous issues with implementing this new feature. Was there any discussion, or references to documentation about the correct was to implement the new cascading filter support for universe data sources in Design Studio?
Regards,
Mustafa.
Hi Mustafa - thank you for reading
By the time the speaker got to Figure 10 time was running out so I don't have any details on this. When the recording is available I will listen again and update this if there are more details.
Regarding Figure 3, as the webcast started late, there wasn't any time for question and answer.
Tammy
Thanks Tammy.