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Lumira Update and Roadmap

SAP BusinessObjects Analytics

October, 2016

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Convergence Principles

No forced migrations All BI 4.x clients will

be maintained and

supported

All existing content is

safe and will work

We are converging

use cases, not

features and functions


Reporting

Discovery &

Analysis

Office Integration

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Set Analysis

SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

SAP BEX Web Application Designer

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office

SAP BusinessObjects Live Office

EPM Add-In

SAP BEX Analyzer

Lumira

Design Studio

Analysis Office

Dashboards &

Applications

Export to Lumira

Templates for BW

Self-service dashboard composition

Large scale WAD adopting DS

Scorecard control

Improved UNX support

EPM Add-in converged

Lumira Server running on BI Platform

Lumira BW acquisition mode

Improved visualization and story authoring

Progress to date

Freehand SQL support in WebI 4.1 SP6

Inte

rop

era

bili

ty

Convergence Progress


Convergence of Lumira and Design Studio







Lumira 2.x Lumira, discovery (formerly Lumira Desktop)

Lumira, designer (formerly Design Studio)

Single server-side addon

Data Discovery &

Applications

Benefits One product covers all dashboard types - from simple business user visualizations to complex analytic applications

Easily promote business user visualizations to enterprise dashboards

Business users gain online access to BW and HANA

IT & Power Users gain access to offline data and data mashups

Single server side addon reduces IT administration cost

Improved ease of use & adoption with single canvas for both visualization and storyboard authoring.

Align with SAP’s UI standard – Fiori - same standard used by S/4HANA


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.x Deployment

Lumira & Design Studio 1.x

Lumira

Desktop Design Studio

Lumira Server Design Studio

Server

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BI P

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Team

Serv

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SAP Lumira,

discovery

Combined

Server Add-On

Lumira 2.x

SAP Lumira,

designer


Reporting

Data Discovery

& Applications

Office Integration

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Set Analysis

SAP BusinessObjects Desktop Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence







SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office

SAP BusinessObjects Live Office

EPM Add-In

SAP BEX Analyzer

Lumira

Analysis Office

Convergence Result Mid - 2017

Inte

rop

era

bili

ty


Beyond Convergence

Ease of Use in Lumira 2.0 Consolidate visualize and compose room

Single canvas experience like BusinessObjects Cloud

Fiori-style look and feel

Improved input control and filtering experience

Fine grained control over chart elements – fonts & colors

Server Side Data Preparation Post 2.0 Focus on adding data prep functionality to Lumira Server for BI Platform.

Eliminate the desktop dependency

Vision: Enable datasets created on Lumira Server to be consumed by any BusinessObjects client


Lumira 2.0 and Licensing No Changes to License Entitlements

Customers entitled to Design Studio and Lumira Server

Receive successors to Design Studio 1.x and Lumira 1.x functionality including data mashup and data

preparation.

Lumira 2.0 discovery

Lumira 2.0 designer

Lumira 2.0 server addon – all functionality

Customers entitled to Design Studio but not Lumira Server

Receive successors to Design Studio 1.x functionality. Does not include data mashups or data preparation.

Lumira 2.0 designer

Lumira 2.0 server addon – excluding data mashup and data preparation.

Customers entitled to Lumira Desktop only

No change – receive Lumira discovery component under maintenance, or repurchase if not under maintenance

Lumira 2.0 discovery

Lumira 2.0 Details


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: New User Experience

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Planned

Innovations

Home Screen

• Data sources, Connections, Servers and Documents in one screen

• Dynamic listing order of data sources, connections and documents based on usage (most used)

• Tile and List view for documents

• Log on to BI Platform once and keep connected from Home Screen

• Global Search for all objects listed in Home Screen


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: New User Experience


Planned

Innovations

Single Canvas

• Combined Prepare, Visualize and Compose room in One Canvas

• Prepare Data with contextual actions on Data objects in the left panel

• Insert visualizations from Global tool bar

• Analyze and Format visualizations with contextual actions on visualizations

• Insert Infographics, shapes and images from Design objects in the left panel

• Switch to Grid view for analyzing the dataset in tabular format

• Switch to property panel to apply multiple formatting on visualization in one action

• Manage Stories and Pages (Duplicate, re-order etc.) within the canvas

• Preview Stories before sharing


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Simplified and Enhanced Visualizations


Planned

Innovations

Charts

• Reduced number of chart types without losing features

• Extend Basic charts to dual, combinations charts

• Capture Snapshots of visualizations to re-use later

• Enhanced Waterfall chart with ability to display Sub Total and Total, Highlight Increasing and decreasing values with different colors

• Enhanced Data label display in charts, toggle with Value or percentage and display total

• Smoothened Line support for Line charts

Table

• Support for Hierarchy Expand / Collapse


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Enhanced Filters


Planned

Innovations

Enhancements to Filters

• Define filter scope from the context (dataset, story, page, or visualization)

• Support for filter on multiple visualizations

• Support for cascading filters

• Select All or No values while applying Filter

• Select values for Filter from LOV’s or Controls, Calendar picker for Date and Slider for Numeric

dimensions

• Consolidated view of Filters in Filter bar


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Improved Input Controls


Planned

Innovations

Improvements to Input Controls

• Drag and Drop Filters from Filter Bar to canvas for creating Controls

• Drag and Drop Data Object to canvas to create Input Control with default scope and settings

• Extended scope of input controls to Story and Visualization in addition to Page

• Support for additional control types, text box, date picker and slider in addition to List and dropdown

• Hierarchy representation for LOV’s of Hierarchical objects

• Show / Hide and Format Input control header, body and values individually


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Improved Online analysis


Planned

Innovations

New BW Online analysis

• Support for SAP BW online access and analysis in discovery

• Delegate calculations to BW Engine from discovery

• Support Business Logic and Elements defined in BEx Queries (at par with Generic analysis template

functionalities in Design Studio)

• Gain insight on BW data with discovery user experience

• Share insight from BW data with discovery story building capabilities

Improvements to HANA Online

• Enhanced support for SAP HANA online analysis with HTTP connector

• Support for Parent Child hierarchies in HANA views

• Support for HANA Attribute views

• Securely connect to HANA with SSL


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Reworked Layout concept


Planned

Innovations

Flexible and Responsive Layout

• Responsive layout to build stories once and consume on any device

• Support for duplicating / Copy-Paste any component on the canvas

• Free flow Layout for building stories for any device

• Additional aspect ratio definition for Launchpad and Mobile to guide user for building the stories

for better rendering

• Support for overlapping any objects on the canvas

• Select multiple components to apply formatting with one action

• Preview rendering of the stories on different devices and form factors while designing


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Others


Planned

Innovations

Extensions

• Universe Query Panel and Download from BW Extensions bundled and installed by default

• Extension point to customize Login to BI Platform from discovery

Color Palettes

• Support for 12 colors in a palette

• New vibrant, bold and fresher default color palettes

Interaction

• Right click enabled for all interactions across the tool


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer & Discovery: Export to PDF Enhancements

PDF in report style PDF in WYSIWYG Style

Planned

Innovations


PDF Enhancements

• Print pages WYSIWYG, option to print a selection of large crosstabs across multiple pages in

Appendix

• PDF Outline View

• Support export of GeoMap

• Much improved chart export quality (full vectorization)

• Options to configure header/footer/appendix

• Improved PDF scripting methods

• Enhanced PDF export capabilities would also be available in Discovery story / page export with

selection options for end users for WYSIWYG or

Report Style


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer & Discovery: Reworked Bookmark Concept

Reworked Bookmark Concept

• Designer configures what is captured in a bookmark (e.g. selection of data sources, global

script variables, components)

• Increasing robustness of bookmarks against application UI changes

• Bookmark configuration as a technical component in design time

• Multiple Bookmarks can be defined within one application

• Promotion Management support of bookmarks and folders

• Personal and global bookmarks are supported

Reworked Bookmark Concept

• Discovery stories bookmark (Personal and Global views) experience would continue to

remain similar with the capability to capture

prompt values along with filters

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer: Composites

Composites

• Designers can create own components without low-level JavaScript programming, similar to app

development (formatting by drag & drop of standard

components, logic definition by data binding and

scripting)

• Based on a clean interface concept

• Usable like any other standard component: properties, methods, events (interface)

• Re-usable across applications, stored on the BI platform

• Can be used to define global components (header, footer, toolbar, global script pool)

• Can also be used to decompose complex applications into smaller, better manageable parts

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer: Improved Mobile Experience

Adaptive Layout Container

• New container component

• Supports different layouts for small, medium and large screen sizes

Desktop Deployment Tablet Deployment Mobile Phone Deployment

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0

Designer: Comprehensive Charting Enhancements

Comprehensive Charting Enhancements

• Provides Context menu at runtime to change title, change legend etc.

• Chart configuration redefined:

• New intuitive User Interface

• Select chart types and set properties in one place

• Contextually display properties according to the selected elements

• New properties e.g. “Extend label capacity”

• Simplifying chart types

• Dramatically reduce the number of chart types without losing features

• Flexible and convenient to define dual and combination charts based on the basic charts

• Improved Usability for Chart Feeding Panel

• All configuration options moved to property sheet at design time(no additional property sheet

available)

Planned

Innovations


Design Time

Run Time


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0

Designer: Renovated Map Component

Renovated Map Component

• Esri Map delivered as default basemap, Esri License included in the product license

• Supports data selection for data projection purpose

• Provides inclusive and exclusive as selection mode

• Rich configuration options at runtime via Map Property Editor

• Supports scaling factor display

• Provides Clustering capability for Markers and Bubbles

• Offers reset function to go back to the view that includes all data points on the map

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer: Conditional Formatting

Conditional Formatting for Crosstab

• Define rules for conditional formatting of crosstab cells and chart data points

• Format as background color, value color, status symbols, trend symbols

• Can be based on measures and dimension members

• Pre-defined exceptions in the BW backend (Query level) can be

activated/de-activated and format can be

adjusted.

• Available in standard context menu

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer: Improved Filter Components

Filter Line

• Filter Line Experience available in Fiori Library

Filter / Navigation Panel

• Auto Apply option now also available in Fiori library

• Bundle execution of multiple actions for improved response time

Filter Bar

• Option to automatically expand filter area on application start-up

• Option to automatically display filtered dimensions on application start-up

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer: Improved Variable Prompt Dialog

Improved Variable Prompt Dialog

• Much improved user experience in Fiori library

• Rich options for defining range of variable values

• Overview about all selected items for multiple selection variables

• Date Picker for date variables

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer: Value Help Settings

Value Help Settings

• Define dimension list and value help settings globally for the application.

• Ensure consistent behavior in all application components (Crosstab, Spreadsheet, Filter Bar,

Filter Panel and Dimension Filter)

• Support alphabetical sorting (by key or text) of dimensions, or custom sort order

• Provided in Designer as technical component

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Designer: Enhancement of Selection Options

Crosstab

• Supports Single Cell selection and related script methods to retrieve selection

• Resized column widths can be bookmarked

Spreadsheet

• Supports On Select event and related script methods to retrieve selection

• Supports Data Selection property to enable data projection of Data Sources (like in charts)

Planned

Innovations



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Inter-Operability


Planned

Innovations

Enables Business users and IT to work

together

• Support for acquired data in Discovery as a source in Designer to create Offline applications

• Open and extend Discovery stories in Designer with additional functionalities ex. Scripting

• Open and analyze customized stories in Designer back in Discovery


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Enterprise


Planned

Innovations

Extended support for Enterprise deployment

• Schedule Designer application created on acquired dataset from Discovery

• Scheduled instances in Studio application destination format

• Promotion management and Folders support for Bookmarks

• Support for Lumira server deployment on AIX and Solaris

• Extended support for discovery content on Safari and Firefox browser