This was an EMEA webcast given by SAP today. Because this was in English, I have better notes than what I posted here BI2014 Design Studio 1.3 Planned Updates with some more information.
The usual disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change.
Figure 1: Source: SAP
Three categories offered:
Agile Visualization – discover for business user, predict – Lumira, Analysis for Office
Enterprise BI – more based on the corporate data – technical background to create dashboard, more IT based
Enterprise BI Reporting – distribute securely throughout the organization – print in a reasonable way
Web Intelligence
Crystal Reports
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SAP stated there would be "No major investments on Dashboards or Web Application Designer"
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SAP said Design Studio 1.3 is planned for end of May/early June. It is now in customer validation
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With 1.3 BW IP and Planning Application Kit in BW 7.40 – we can write data back and use the planning functions, and sequences in the backend and then plan in Design Studio and can be saved to BW InfoProvider.
Native HANA deployment is another option
More charting extensions with more chart types is planned
Design Studio SDK can be deployedon NW Platform. With 1.2 deploy custom components and now on NW
Application bookmarking allows you to create /personalize bookmarks for your users
Lumira SDK integration – if use Lumira SDK custom components and can be reused in Design Studio – later SP’s
Advanced table formatting – change table settings, scaling factors, decimal places, total rows on top or bottom
Advanced scripting is coming with loops, arrays and sorting
Printing is WYSIWYG / browser based printing
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Figure 5 covers planning, including input ready measures, add blank lines. You can trigger planning functions/sequences. You can save data back to InfoProvider
Three limitations for planning:
1) Cell locking is not possible
2) Copy and paste is not possible – multiple copy lines from Excel to Web
3) If you have planning functions – input mandatory variable
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Figure 6 shows saving applications the in HANA repository. You need prerequisite – HANA 1.0 72+
Some limitations are as follows:
- Issues with hierarchies and variables do not work – not from Design Studio – limitation is from HANA side
- OSS notes are available
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With the HANA Native deployment option there are two layers
You save the application to the HANA repository
At runtime it does not use BICS but uses Firefly to get data from HANA – optimized data access from HANA
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Figure 8 shows more configuration chart options, including exposing items from CVOM charting library
You can define font size for charting label, font label, legend
CSS can be done with charting
Padding is also introduced
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Conditional formatting can be defined
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Figure 10 shows more integration with SAP Lumira
Version 1.3 is the first step with Lumira integration
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Figure 11 shows the change the sequence of the prompting
Define max number for variable; 1.2 is hard coded for 100 – if you have over 100 materials you get message of too many members and search
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Bookmarks works on BI Platform; not on BW
For your user for your application you define bookmarks and personalized views
You can share bookmark with co-workers and URL
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Figure 13 shows the ability to define totals and position and configure sorting
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Array uses get the command (see Figure 14)
For each statement to look over the array and define more complex calculations
As the coding example shows in Figure 13, based on certain dimensions, get all hierarchies for dimensions and get the array and use them in drop down boxes
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Figure 15 shows the overall roadmap.
Then we saw a demo of 1.3. If there is interest in seeing those screen shots, please post a note below, but the quality of the screen shots are not good.
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