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Purpose

Product road maps are designed to support the product adoption planning activities of SAP

customers. A product road map helps a customer match short term and long term goals with

technology plans.

A product road map describes how the feature / function capabilities in an SAP product or

technology are planned to progress over time, in general:

Today = changes in the current release version

Planned Innovations = changes planned in upcoming development releases (next 12-18 months)

Future Direction = proposed themes for a product or technology beyond the planned releases

The product road maps are targeted for use by IT planners, enterprise architects, SAP

Consulting, and SAP consulting partners.

Complementary resources

For a more general description of the business problems / processes being solved and

supported by SAP, refer to Solution Road maps.

For more detailed technical information please refer to the Product Availability Matrix, Ramp-

up Knowledge Transfer materials and product documentation.

Introduction to product road maps


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Table of contents

Product Overview

Product description

Road map overview and major product updates

Product Road Map

Today

Planned

Future

Appendix

Product Overview

Product description

Road map overview and major product updates


Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Product description

Design beautiful, responsive & personalizable BI apps

Fully customizable UI

Custom themes / stylesheets to apply corporate branding

Custom-configurable user workflows that cover key analytical &

planning

SDKs for custom visualizations, extensions & data connectors

Power analytics on BW, HANA & UNX out-of-the-box

Analysts can leverage all analytical features of BW and HANA

and strong 3rd party data support via UNX technology

Pivot table (crosstab) and pivot chart with standard context menu

for OLAP actions

Powerful standard filter & navigation components

Rich set of standard chart types, e.g. waterfall, trellis, heat map

One toolbox for SAP Enterprise BI needs

Stand-alone BI deployments on NW, HANA & BOE

Embedded BI: Integrate seamlessly with new Business Suite on

HANA (Fiori) applications


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Planned Innovations Future Direction Today

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Roadmap

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

(Release 1.4)

Planned Nov 2014

Drag and drop in navigation

panel & navigation panel

usability

Context menu in crosstab

Cell locking (for planning apps)

Report to Report Interface

Script API extensions & global

functions

Multi language support

Enhanced standard analysis

template

Online composition of apps &

bookmarking

Data source SDK

Lumira (CVOM) SDK

Real-time streaming

Fiori / sFin integration

Offline click-through apps

Export data to PDF

Unmerge variables

(performance)

Improved designer experience

Geomaps

Lumira interoperability

Multi-selection in crosstab &

charts

Enhancements: mobile,

charting, scripting, online

composition

Better commentary handling

(based on new BW 7.40 SP8

capabilities)

Export to Microsoft PPT & Word

Pre-calculation & broadcasting

Adhoc exceptions & conditions

BW variants

Dynamic Analysis Office & Lumira

export

Local calculations

Additional hierarchical filter

components

Copy & paste variable values

Call RFC modules from DS scripts


Product Road Map

Today

Planned

Future


Customer

TODAY Planned Innovations Future Direction

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities




usability





functions



template


bookmarking

Data source SDK

Lumira (CVOM) SDK

Real-time streaming



Export data to PDF

Unmerge variables

(performance)


Geomaps



charts



composition



capabilities)




BW variants


export

Local calculations


components




(Release 1.4)

Planned Nov 2014


Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Design beautiful, responsive & personalizable BI apps

Powerful developer support:

DS extension SDK, DS data

source SDK & Lumira SDK

Full OLAP & planning

support

Seamless data access to BW,

HANA, UNX, ESP event

streaming Personalized online

composition for end-uses

State of the art HTML5

rendering & mobile support

Deployment options: HANA,

NW, BI

Out-of-the-box templates for

Analysis, Planning, Mobile,

Desktop, Self-Service

Embedded BI & Fiori

integration

Release 1.4 Planned Nov 2014


Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Major product updates

• Drag and drop in navigation panel & navigation

panel usability

• Context menu in crosstab

• Cell locking (for planning apps)

• Report to Report Interface

• Script API extensions & global functions

• Multi language support

• Enhanced standard analysis template

• Online composition of apps & bookmarking

• Data source SDK

• Lumira (CVOM) SDK

• Real-time streaming

• Fiori / sFin integration



Customer

“Drag & drop” for navigation and filter panel

• Intuitive navigation via drag & drop in navigation panel

• Designer can set drag & drop options in navigation

panel properties

New components

• Checkbox group analog to

Radiobutton Group plus multi-

selection

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Panel drag & drop and context menu

Drag & drop

within Navigation

panel

Context

menu

Context menu

• For example: Sort, Display, Hierarchy, Totals, Filter,

Change Drilldown, Attributes

• Report-Report Interface - “Jump to”



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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 RRI & planning enhancement

Report-Report Interface

With the RRI, it is possible to call a jump target online

from an application during runtime.

Queries, transactions, reports and applications from

different source systems can be jump targets, along with

web addresses.

Parameterization of the target action is taken from the

drilldown of the cells from which you jump.

New component “Context Menu” gives the designer full

flexibility

Cell lock planning

It is now possible to lock individual input-ready cells in an

application for planning purposes

During runtime you can now freeze one or more selected

values while planning others.



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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Scripting extensions

Global scripting functions

In complex application script code is called several

times, Prior to 1.4, it was usually assigned to an

invisible button.

It is now possible to create any number of the new

technical component type "Global Script Objects“,

which provides a grouping of global script

functions.

Easier building and maintanance of applications.

e.g. set visible

and set CSS

classes for

such panels



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Multi language support


Work with Design Studio applications in native

language

Design time is still English, DS applications are fully

translatable

New component text pool to add translations centrally



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Online composition

Use Case 1 - Fragment Bookmarking

The Designer can determine what containers can be saved

as a Fragment Bookmark.

Fragment bookmarks allow the user to bookmark a section

of an application.

This ensures bookmarks are “immune” from UI changes

introduced in a Design Studio application.

Fragment Bookmark Fragment

Bookmark



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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Online composition

Use Case 2 - Online Composition

Allows end-users to easily customize & personalize their

apps

Create your own fragments

Users can create fragments from their own Design Studio

applications and add them to fragment galleries

User can compose their own apps out of fragments

Fragments can come from multiple different apps

Fragments are currently tied to a single user across

Multiple Design Studio applications

Save as

Fragment

Save as

Fragment

Save as

Fragment

Save as

Fragmen

t

Save as Fragment

Fragment Gallery



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Online composition – fragment building blocks

User empowerment

• Users can now autonomously create BI applications

online

• Self-service approach eliminates the time-consuming

process of consulting with development for every little

application change

App designer can determine the behavior and the

degree to which apps can be modified and (re)-

composed

• App designers can create different online composition

apps for different users & purposes

• Fragment galleries store and display all the users

personal, cross-application fragments

• End-users create a new personal layouts simply via

drag & drop

Fragment Gallery



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Real time / data streaming

Design Studio 1.4 comes with a real time data extension

package.

This supports the ability to create visualisations with streaming

data from esp. (Push use case)

“DS timer component” allows to pull data near real-time (regular

updates 3/5 secs) from HANA or BW (Pull use case)

Time based line charts with time axis scaling allow to better

visualise data in real time whether that is streamed or pull based.

Note: SAP Event Stream Processor enables you to

create and run your own complex event processing

(CEP) applications to derive continuous intelligence

from streaming event data in real time.



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Data source SDK

Data source SDK

• With the data source SDK it will be possible to consume

data from all kinds of data sources (for example CSV

files, via URL, 3rd party sources, or simply local data

manually added via a spreadsheet in design studio)

• SDK components and charts can consume SDK data

sources

SDK -

JSON

BW/HANA/UN

X

External

Source

As an SDK Developer you:

• Reuse the already existing communication format (‘SDK-

JSON’)

• Need to implement the SDK data source interface with its

main design studio scripting functions

• Can also implement a data buffer, which extends a SDK

data source that provides the addcell method for easily

adding data to the data source.



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Data source SDK

Static datasource

• Currently 2 components:

• CSV datasource

• Static datasource

• “Static datasource” delivers an editor grid in the

additional properties to add data manually in the

design time.

• Supports crosstab: shows numbers and alphabetic

characters. Supports chart: shows numbers, ignores

alphabetic characters.

• Additional new functions in the script editor, e.g.

Search, format and ‘go to line’.

* ESP Datasource not yet completely implemented. Release 1.4 Planned Nov 2014


Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 CVOM SDK

Lumira & Design Studio interoperability

Mobile

Web Monitor. Explore. Explain.

Design Studio Lumira (Desktop)

Explore. Enrich.

Explain.

Design

Studio SDK

Lumira

SDK

Lumira (CVOM) SDK can be leveraged by both

Design Studio* & Lumira Lumira SDK for

visualizations only

Design Studio SDK is DS specific visualizations,

business logic, printing & exporting, drag & drop etc…



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 CVOM SDK

Lumira (CVOM) SDK integration to Design Studio

• Build custom CVOM extensions once and use them both in

Lumira and Design Studio.

• Application designers can use these chart components

together with the components created with the Design

Studio SDK and the standard components of Design Studio

in their applications.



Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 SAP Fiori integration

Design Studio and SAP Fiori applications

Embedding of Design Studio applications in SAP Fiori

Launchpad

Seamless drill-through from Fiori applications and KPI tiles to

Design Studio applications (e.g. for deep analysis)

Drill-through from Design Studio to Fiori applications

Key investment in DS 1.4 is to enable those workflows for

Simplified Financials (sFin Wave 6 / SP3 / Netweaver 7.40 SP9 )

Embedding of Design Studio applications in Fiori applications

(future)

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Fiori Launchpad sFin Wave 6 with Design Studio



Customer

Design Studio Templates in sFin Wave 6

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 SAP Fiori integration



Customer

PLANNED INNOVATIONS Future Direction Today





usability





functions



template


bookmarking

Data source SDK

Lumira (CVOM) SDK

Real-time streaming



Export data to PDF

Unmerge variables

(performance)


Geomaps



charts



composition



capabilities)




BW variants


export

Local calculations


components




(Release 1.4)

Planned Nov 2014


Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Planned innovations



Ability to design apps with guided navigation for

offline mobile usage

Export data to PDF

Download data froma DS app into a PDF document

Unmerge variables

Being able to unmerge variables form multile data

sources will gain performance on BW

Geomaps

Out-of-the box geomap component for designers


Taking data from a DS app offline into Lumira

Desktop

Deploy Design Studio applications to Lumira Server

with BIP


Reduce the need for scripting in Design Time

Multi selection in cross tab & charts

Select multiple values and pass them on to other

componets, e.g. for filtering

Various enhancements

In areas such as Mobile, Charting, Scripting, Online

Composition

Better commentary

BW only: Based on New BW 7.40 SP8 Capabilities

PLANNED INNOVATIONS


Customer

FUTURE DIRECTION Planned Innovations Today





usability





functions



template


bookmarking

Data source SDK

Lumira (CVOM) SDK

Real-time streaming



Export data to PDF

Unmerge variables

(performance)


Geomaps



charts



composition



capabilities)




BW variants


export

Local calculations


components




(Release 1.4)

Planned Nov 2014


Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Future direction

FUTURE DIRECTION





BW variants

Dynamic Analysis Office & Lumira export

Local calculations

Additional hierarchical filter components





Customer

Related road maps

Readers may also be interested in the following related road maps

Related product road maps available on Service Marketplace:

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office

Other business analytics product road maps can be found on the Analytics tab of the Road Maps page on

Service Marketplace

https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000974352011E.htm



Thank you

Road map contacts for customers and partners

Jie Deng [email protected] Product Management

mailto:[email protected]


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Key links for more information For customers and partners (1 of 2)

Key links

Road maps on SAP Service

Marketplace

http://service.sap.com/saproadmaps

SAP Community Network http://www.sdn.sap.com/

Design Studio Release Notes

https://websmp130.sap-

ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?

numm=1948049

PAM information https://service.sap.com/pam

Documentation http://help.sap.com/boad

Sizing Information https://websmp130.sap-

ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?

numm=1177020

Performance Tips and Tricks http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-design-

studio/blog/2013/11/29/optimize-the-performance-of-your-sap-

businessobjects-design-studio-solutions-tips-and-tricks



http://www.sdn.sap.com/

https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?numm=1948049




https://service.sap.com/pam

http://help.sap.com/boad





http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-design-studio/blog/2013/11/29/optimize-the-performance-of-your-sap-businessobjects-design-studio-solutions-tips-and-tricks






























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Key links for more information For customers and partners (2 of 2)

Where to go to provide product feedback and ideas

SAP Idea Place https://ideas.sap.com/ct/s.bix?c=6055F3C4-E8DA-454F-9C49-

85D5A5070BCE

Influence programs http://service.sap.com/influence

SAP User Groups

http://www.sapusergroups.com/

https://ideas.sap.com/ct/s.bix?c=6055F3C4-E8DA-454F-9C49-85D5A5070BCE









http://service.sap.com/influence

http://www.sapusergroups.com/


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