This was the first education session I attended at this week's ASUG SAP Analytics BusinessObjects User Conference in Austin.
Figure 1: Source: SAP
The typical legal disclaimer applies that plans for the future are subject to change.
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Analytic solutions include lines of business, marketing and sales
Figure 2 shows the “Analytics ecosystem at SAP”
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Enterprise BI has traditionally focused on IT helping with the solutions such as Crystal, Web Intelligence
Web Intelligence was one of the first self-service but has seen IT only create documents
One of the themes for BI4.2 is to help IT to simplify platform and make it easy for business users
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Figure 4 shows that SAP wants to “make it easier to update to BI4.2” to run more quickly including improving the language update process
If move from 3.x it is a migration to 4.2
If move from BI4.X to BI4.2 then it is an update
BI 4.2 is the platform to provide support for linked universes
With new UNX universe you could not use linked universe prior – now bring this functionality to the core universe in BI4.2
User experience around collaboration will include adding new annotation feature - discussion on the object itself; Web Intelligence will be the first to use. Next clients for this include Design Studio & Lumira (planned)
Figure 5: Source: SAP
Notifications planned to be part of the public API’s
Recycle bin - this is for when an IT person has deleted object from BI system, and user wants it back – same idea as Windows – bring it back
They have had an audit universe, but not an official one; in process of creating an audit universe that automates events in BI platform
Web Intelligence will have better geo-spatial support, support for InA for HANA
With the authored UNX universe, it isnot really creating a universe, it is a metadata layer – rename objects from a BEx query; allow you to organize objects from a BEx query
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New database platform support, with investment in Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Cassandra
Run BI on cloud partners – today support Amazon to support BI Suite, working on adding MS Azure so as IT won’t have to manage BI Platform yourself
Lumira “covers 98% of what Explorer does”
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Figure 7 shows what is coming for SAP Design Studio - to learn more, see what's new in latest 1.6 release of Design Studio on #askSAP September 17 webcast, open to all. Join ASUG at SAP TechEd for a hands-on pre-conference session for SAP Design Studio
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