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Analytics Designer with SAP Analytics Cloud Overview Road Map Webcast Summary
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Webcast Summary
Application Design with SAP Analytics Cloud: Overview and Roadmap (SAP User Group) – SAP User Group
Application Design is an important analytical capability integrated into SAP Analytics Cloud that enables professional designers to create centrally governable analytic content ranging from dashboards via guided analytics to sophisticated planning and Smart Predict applications. This session will allow attendees to:
* Understand the overall concept Application Design.
* Learn the new capabilities of Application Design.
* Find out the planned functionalities for the future releases. (Source: SAP User Group)
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By SAP’s Jie Deng
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Create analytical apps
Low code analytical environment
Allow professional designers to use scripting, theming capabilities to create interactive, customized dashboards
Supports same data sources as SAC
Integration with BI, Planning and Predictive capabilities
Can be consumed in Digital Boardroom, mobile, and SAP Analytics Hub
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All on one analytics platform
Artifacts can be integrated together
Agile development environment; planning to provide templates / composites
Flexibility with scripting, customize widgets, interactions between widgets
Fully adapt customer requirements with navigation and scripting
Embed capabilities
Reuse aspect – in scripting variables, objects, reuse code part, and rewrite your code
Future – reuse templates, composites, build your own application header and part
Content network – apps in content network – delivered sample content in Analytics Designer (see folder)
Future – will be mobile ready
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New innovations with Analytics Designer
Lumira Designer – continuous improvement features, bug fixes, support packages
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Applications – build apps
Use scripting and eventing in analytical applications
More flexibility
Dedicated dev environment for developers/designers – browser
Drive standardization and reuse
Enable developers to create a reusable part of the application
Extension concept – SDK – create visual widgets
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Integration with planning, predictive, and use OData to integrate with operational system
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These features came in wave 8, end of May
Different widgets – dropdown, filter line, RSS widget, text input, different widgets
Providing pop-up – dialog as a container widget
Provide scripting and eventing capabilities
Scripting is subset of JavaScript
Modernize coding; reuse coding in applications using scripting objects
Support planning – in SAC you can do planning, version management, data action triggers
Developers can build their own planning interfaces
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Provide end user functionality to navigate to smart grouping, without losing business context
Embed web pages, communications in both directions
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OData support to call S/4HANA system
Ability to see why situation and what if to find solution
Combine transactional work and analytical work in a closed loop scenario
Comes with the BI SAC license
Need application creator role in SAC
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Planned for Q3 (subject to change)
Data Analyzer with BW query
Comparable templates (ad hoc templates)
Transient access to BEx Queries
Bookmark support, geo map support
Set position – top right, etc
Q4: custom widgets, dynamic layout, blending, performance, commenting feature (planned)
Future – blending support, lazy loading of data sources (load via scripting), configuration option parallelization of data source
Q&A:
Q: is it possible to migrate from lumira designer to SAC ?
A: currently not planned; Lumira and Analytics Designer – different platforms
Q: are some more blending options planned, f.e. option to perform blending after or before filtering
A: at runtime do the blending – for example, blend BW with CSV
If you want to learn more, please listen to this podcast
Replay of this webcast is here