SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Deep Dive
Full Spectrum Business Intelligence
Discovery and Analysis
Dashboards and Apps
Reporting
Discover. Predict. Create.
Build Engaging Experiences
Share Information
 Discover areas to optimize your
business
 Deliver engaging information to
users where they need it
 Securely distribute information
across your organization
 Adapt data to business needs
 Track key performance indicators
and summary data
 Give users the ability to ask and
answer their own questions
 Build custom experiences so
users get what they need quickly
 Build printable reports for
operational efficiency
 Tell your story with beautiful
visualizations
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Dashboards and Apps
Build Engaging Experiences
Build engaging, visual
dashboards
Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealing analytics
Portfolio
 Design Studio
 Dashboards (aka Xcelsius)
Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down, crosstabs, charts…
Use custom code to extend and build workflows
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SAP’s visualization strategy aligns along use cases
Professionally Authored
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IT created and deployed globally
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Focus company on key KPIs with
broad publication
Business Analyst Driven
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Analyst driven for a small audience
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Answer specialized questions quickly
Self Service
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Business user analysis
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Intuitive exploration of data relevant
for daily decision making
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Each use case has its tailored solution
Professionally Authored
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Business Analyst Driven
Visual Intelligence
Self Service
Explorer & Exploration Views
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Today: two experiences to cover customer needs
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Visually compelling dashboards across
multiple sources and kinds of data
BI applications and guided analysis on
top of multi-dimensional data
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Design Studio: BI Applications for Web and Mobile
Direct Access to BW
and HANA via BICS
Eclipse-based
application design
environment
iPad Apps
Premium alternative
to BEx WAD
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State of the art
rendering: HTML5
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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.
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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
Application Designtime
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Runtime on iPad
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Initial View Editor for SAP HANA and SAP BW DataSource
Convenient and intuitive editing of HANA views and BW InfoProviders within Design Studio
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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
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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
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Free Form Layout Options
Intuitive layouting options
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WYSIWYG (embedded runtime to enable what you see is what you get) design principle
Pixel-exact layouti
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
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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
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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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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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Focus topics for the next shipment(s) (Q1-Q2 2013)
Priority backlog items for next shipments
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Navigation/Filter panel (with true data binding)
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Improved mobile design capabilities and experience
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Sample applications
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Custom themes
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Extended chart configuration
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BW Exceptions visualization in crosstab
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Multiple row/column selections in crosstab
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Text elements
• Analysis
Views as data source
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Variable & Variants at runtime
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Interoperability with SBO Analysis, edition for OLAP
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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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