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TammyPowlas
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This was a webcast today with SAP's David Stocker.

The usual SAP legal disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change

New roadmaps are coming at Las Vegas SAP TechEd

Figure 1: Source: SAP

BW supports of all BEx queries, calculated/restricted measures, structures, all types of variables, special OLAP functions, runtime currency conversion, variable merge and unmerge, full hierarchy support, and compact axes as of Q3 2014

In Q4 SAP plans to release in November Analysis Office 2.0

Convergence with Live Office is not in immediate timeline; SAP is working on EPM client

A future direction for Analysis Office to store and run on HANA and where HANA is acting as BIP/BW

Figure 2: Source: SAP

Figure 2 covers the EPM for BPC server

There is a convergence strategy with Analysis Office & EPM the speaker said they are not there yet

There is a NetWeaver Planning model in BW 740.  The next step comes in Analysis Office 2.0 to implement a core framework with both apps installed together.

Figure 3: Source: SAP

Native means connecting to the HANA backend up until 1.4 using the ODBC connection.  Customers for security reasons can’t use ODBC.

With Analysis 2.0 you can do http or https connection to backend to be used for Cloud with the BICS on client on backend

Figure 4: Source: SAP

Figure 4 shows how to define a local connection in Analysis Office 2.0: Use context menu and insert host name, port

Figure 5: Source: SAP

Figure 5 shows HANA /Analysis Office supported features, including scaling factor support

Figure 6: Source: SAP

Level based hierarchies can’t have multiple parents; this also applies to Design Studio

SAP note 2038663 is a general BICS on Hana limitation which also applies to Design Studio

The speaker said “any limitation here also applies to Design Studio”

Figure 7: Source: SAP

BIP is the recommended platform

Figure 8: Source: SAP

SAML ticket is the same mechanism that Design Studio uses in the BI Platform to Hana scenario

Figure 9: Source: SAP

The best practices are also the same for Design Studio

Build smaller, more dedicated calc views, easier for when user comes in contact with query

Part 2 is coming, focusing on Design Studio with Question & Answer

Related:

Consider attending SAP TechEd && d-code .  Join ASUG for the ASUG SAP TechEd Pre-conference HANDS-ON: SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, SAP BW and SAP BW on SAP HANA – All in One Day, October 20th.  This includes exercises for Analysis Office and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. Register today

Also see:

Stay Ahead : Attend TechEd && d-code – Win Big SAP BI BusinessObjects HANA Hands-on Sessions

Next week David Stocker is presenting BI on Excel Update and Roadmap at the ASUG SAP Analytics BusinessObjects Conference. See Predictive Analysis and Analysis Sessions a ASUG SAP Analytics BusinessObjects Conference

Join SAP at the end of October for Reporting & Analytics 2014 INTERACTIVE conference - register here

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