SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Ian Mayor & Ya-Chi Lu

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Design Studio: Powerful analytical & planning apps on SAP BW Direct Access to BW and HANA via BICS

Target User Groups:

IT Key Users Designers

Eclipse-based application design environment

iPad Apps

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State of the art rendering: HTML5 3

Design Studio – The powerful choice for Designers & IT

Easily design centrally governable analytic content ranging from simplified templates via guided analytics to sophisticated applications  Intuitive WYSIWYG design environment for designers  Large set of design components (buttons, tabs, dropdown menus etc.)  Extend via scripting language (subset of JavaScript)  Enterprise Ready Life Cycle Management  Central Supportability  Theming & Customizing

iPad Support built-in Apps are ready for immediate usage on standard web browsers and mobile devices (HTML5 ) Direct & native support for HANA & BW  Operates directly on BEx Queries, InfoCubes and Hana views  Support for BW & HANA specific engine- & platform services

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QR Code Scan for Deployment on iPad Rapid deployment of iPad applications.    

Using QR Code to send to iPad QR code represents application URL Scan with iPad camera to open URL Enable rapid prototyping of iPad applications

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Runtime on iPad 5

Initial View Editor for SAP HANA and SAP BW DataSource Convenient and intuitive editing of HANA views and BW InfoProviders within Design Studio     

Via drag and drop Add additional filters Change display to key or text Sorting, defining scaling facors and calculating totals for measures Pause refresh while editing initial view

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 Reset changed view to the initial status  Create crosstab and chart directly from initial views  Configure options for chart  Activate hierarchy display

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Out-of-the-Box BW & HANA OLAP Capabilities Native support for SAP BW & HANA OLAP capabilities    

BW & HANA: Hierarchy support(e.g. time dependent hierarchies, filter member selection on hierarchy nodes) BW: Currency conversion BW: Show results of conditions, get exception levels BW: Display time-dependent attributes

iPad App created with Design Studio featuring multiple BW hierarchies © 2012 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

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Free Form Layouting Options Intuitive layouting options    

WYSIWYG (embedded runtime to enable what you see is what you get) design principle Pixel-exact layouting Dynamic layouting via docking position Propotional grid layouting

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Pre-delivered templates Pre-delivered templates to enable rapid implementation  Template for applications running on desktop  Templates for applications running on iPad

Desktop template example

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iPad template example

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Comfortable Scripting Engine & Editor Flexible defining interactions between design components      

Java script based command editor Easy-to-use scripting wizard Intuitive content assistence via CRTL+SPACE Display live data for selection Build-in documentation for script API Automatic check for the corretness of the scripting

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Integrating with SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Enable application management on BI Platform    

Enable multi user-access to applications Storage of applications and images Embedded runtime on BI Platform Central management of system connections

Open/save applications on BI Platform

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System connections on BI Platform

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SAP Runs Design Studio

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Design Studio: High Level Architecture View Consumer

Designer

Browser Client

Java Server

BI Platform

BW

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Hana

Others

Data Sources

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding Strategy What does this mean for existing customers ?

 Customers using BEx Web Application Designer – BEx WAD customers should adopt Design Studio as their primary tool for creating dashboards and applications, both on the web and on device.

 Customers using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (former Xcelsius) – SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards customers should continue with dashboards and leverage the upcoming HTML5 functionality for on-device dashboards. – SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards customers using dashboards on top of BW should consider building their new dashboards in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

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