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Focuses on live connectivity with BW
Mobile is not a different product, but an end-to-end, native touch gestures
Leverage existing investments; native BW query concepts
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Free content provided as part of SAC
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Marketecture slide showing SAP Analytics Cloud as a SaaS platform
Live connections cover BI area
Top right – application building capabilities; today many have on-premise Lumira Designer – app building is planned for SAC – it is a roadmap item in Q3
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Today have 2 different ways to talk to BW queries
First one is the live connection; many advantages – no additional modeling
No data replication with live connection
Generate HANA views from BW queries
Data Import use case is supported; may want to run report on a monthly basis or the data seldom changes – set up a schedule
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Recent innovations focus on core BW connections
BW Variants supported, consumptive only
In future road map, create variants in SAP Analytics Cloud is planned
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Respect query layout settings as shown above
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Create KPIs without relying on IT
Delegated to BW system
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Harmonize metadata – ability to modify measure and dimensions metadata; similar to semantic layer concept – rename dimensions
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Admin option – simple switch to improve performance of charts (wave 5)
Configure parallel sessions on BW system
“Be smart about this”
Planned for Q2/Q3 – continue integration of BW concepts
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Stengthen analytic capabilities
Planned for end of Q2 – search to insight – see suggestions based on live connection to BW query – text based search
“Show me net revenue for top 5 products”
Integration capabilities, making them smarter
For BW, HANA, Universes, live connections
Initial release supported for English only
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BEx query designer has default value filters
“Soft filtering” is planned for Q2 for charts and tables
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Planned for Q3
Today, for BW Live connections, have partial support for Linked Analysis
Q3 – support story scenario – chart to chart filtering for BW live connections
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Planned BEx conditions supported Q2
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These features are known for import connections, now coming to live connections Q3
Time series – prereq – native support for native dimension type time
Export to CSV is part of the Q3 backlog; may go to Q4
Technical – Live Data Connectivity
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More of what was said earlier
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I like the idea of no BEx query redesign
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This is where SAP gets the most questions
See what is highlighted in blue
Check SAP Note 2541557
Encourage that all the latest SAP Notes applied
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Recommend for Live connection using CORS (cross origin resource sharing) – secure cross domain requests
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