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.
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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
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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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