This was held today; these are my rough draft notes
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This was a poll at the start of the webcast. Most are interested in hybrid or staying on-premise
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Blair Wheadon, SAP, spoke next about convergence
For the past few years SAP has been working to simplify the portfolio
Cases are use case driven; want to converge use cases on a smaller footprint of software with no forced migration or end of life
Existing content will continue to work; no forced migration
All BI4.x will continue to be supported.
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Above shows the convergence progress
Ability for end users to compose self-service dashboards
Added a scorecard control to Design Studio; valuable for XCelsius customers
Improved universe support for more data for Design Studio
End users can compose their own self-service dashboard with Design Studio
Large BEx Web Application Designer Customers have adopted Design Studio
Analysis Office is primary Office-add-in; incorporated EPM/planning, to reduce cost of ownership
No plans to converge Web Intelligence/Crystal
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To continue convergence strategy is Lumira 2.x.
Lumira Discovery component which is successor to current Lumira Desktop
Lumira Designer component which is successor to Design Studio
One single server side
Easy for end users to get started
Primary dashboarding / data discovery product for the future
Serve business user and IT power user
Business users can create dashboard using Lumira Discovery; when it comes time to promote that Dashboard to an enterprise dashboard, that can be opened using Lumira Designer to add scripting
It is “easy” for business users to get started with dashboards; still have power to add fine-grained scripting with Lumira Designer without complicating user experience
It works in reverse; a business user can open enterprise dashboard with Lumira Discovery to add additional data to augment enterprise dashboard
Not have to do a tool switch any more as requirements change in your project.
One single server add-on so IT admin costs are reduced
Work on improving user experience; collapse exist Lumira Visualize/Compose into a single canvas
Align with S4 design standard with Fiori user experience standard
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Above is a simple picture; continue 2 desktop components with same server-add-on; ability to open content discovery / designer tool
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By early next year will see a simple portfolio of products – 4 software clients shown in the middle of the above. Will not impact clients on left-hand side. Go-forward choice of client – Lumira for data discovery & apps, Analysis Office for Office Integration, Crystal & Web Intelligence for Reporting
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The plan is to consolidate visualize & compose room; this is based on feedback and observations of usage of the product
This is a single canvas experience, Fiori look and feel, input control
Beyond 2.0 will improve server data prep; today it is only on desktop; eliminate desktop dependency
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Above is a screen shot of the single canvas user experience
You can see 4 visualizations; arrange on the canvas, or zoom in individually and author them
See filters on the top
Content can be opened in Lumira Designer for more fine-grained control
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Above shows how to author a single chart
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This is the data view; similar to existing Prepare tab today
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“This is a technical convergence” and not a licensing convergence
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Rename licenses and one created
Professional edition has a mini-data warehouse
On the right is a new offering from last month – Predictive, HANA Vora
Restrictive use licenses for Predictive and HANA Vora
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BusinessObjects Cloud combines BI, predictive and planning into one product
Only purchase what you want
New capability announced last month was the Predictive component of BusinessObjects Cloud
Digital Boardroom has 3 large touch screens for meeting, with agenda support
Connect to data online (HANA, HANA Cloud platform) , on-premise
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BusinessObjects RoamBI is available only in the US; globally late this year
Cloud application optimized for mobile analytics
Combines data with 10 templates
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RoamBI has 10 templates, offline model, 3rd party data
Mobile BI is on-premise; mobile rendering of BusinessObjects – some offline and online
Licensing is different; RoamBI is subscription-only; Mobile BI is included in BusinessObjects Enterprise license
RoamBI – iOS, Android, Windows & Chrome
Mobile BI – iOS, Android
On-Premise Roadmap Update
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This is an overview of first half of year and the rest into 2017
Lumira had 2 releases in H1 2016
Mobile BI 6.4 is not GA yet; loaded to Apple Store and should be available in the next 2 weeks; offline support for Lumira
Upcoming is BI4.2 SP3 planned for this summer
Lumira 2.0 will enter ramp-up
Analysis Office 2.4 release is planned
In 2017, BI4.2 SP4 – new user experience for BI Launchpad and Web Intelligence; remove flash need in browser
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Continue to simplify operation of platform
Track licensing
ODBC driver for CMS for BI on BI
Extend recycle bin for personal documents
Resource management for multi-tenancy environment
Semantic Layer will support Spark, HANA Vora, set analysis
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New user experience planned, Fiori like Launchpad
More options for OpenDoc
Size limits for user inbox and favorites
Allow BW users to change password from BI Launchpad
Remove last bits of Flash from CMC monitoring
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New user experience for scheduling documents and jobs
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Plans for BI4.2 SP3
Remove need for Java Applet in browser; many browsers don’t support this any more
Cascading input controls – filter input controls based on another
4.2 enhancements are based on feedback; contextual comments
Use lat/long for maps
Parallel BEx queries planned
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Rejuvenate user experience with interactive viewer for Web Intelligence documents
Follow Fiori principles
Consistency for workflows for zooming
Complete parity for HTML client
Support ESRI based maps like Lumira
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Download the updated statement of direction at http://go.sap.com/documents/2016/06/58481f6d-797c-0010-82c7-eda71af511fa.html
Also check the SAP Cloud Appliance library for a BI4.2 trial system at Deploy your BI4.2 Trial@AWS
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Question and Answer
Q: About licensing; what if we have Design Studio & Lumira Desktop, but not Lumira Server
A: You will receive Lumira Designer, Lumira Server add-on excluding data prep (see slide)
SAP will share full list of Q&A later.
Some steps to consider before you go to BI4.2 include (lessons learned):
- Review components of your landscape – do you have third party tools and are they compatible with BI4.2?
- Check your version Upgrade Path as newer releases have a direct upgrade/update path whereas older systems may require extra steps
- Review Security; do you need to do some redesign?
- Inventory your content and cleanup; remove duplicate content to avoid moving unnecessary objects to BI 4.2
- Will you do a new install or upgrade?
- Chance to revisit sizing your landscape
- You can install BI4.2 on an Amazon EC2 sandbox, in the “Cloud” or try it out at the Cloud Appliance Library
- Don’t forget your backups before you start the BI4.2 update; be sure to back-up your system before running the Update installer
- Check the BI 4.2 PAM for the list of supported software and components to make sure your current BI 4.x system is not on any unsupported components
- Be sure to monitor the server disk space and memory for successful update
- If you have add-on (such as Lumira, Analysis Office or Design Studio), make sure to include it in the update process
- Use the free BI4 pattern books available on SCN
- Have a full set of test scripts so you are ready to test your update or upgrade
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