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Yesterday SAP's Ian McAlpine  provided this webcast to ASUG. There are a great many new features coming toBusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP in BI4.1

Ian explained that Analysis OLAP is part of the ramp up starting in May. Please note that the usual disclaimer

app lies that things are subject to change.

Figure 1: Source: SAP

Figure 1 shows the prompt dialog, with lots of variables and the ability to only show the required p rompts to enter

Figure 2: Source: SAP

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Figure 2 shows that BI4.1 Analysis OLAP will provide support for BW variants.

Variants are saved criteria that you can create yourself

Figure 3: Source: SAP

Figure 3 shows that BI4.1 Analysis OLAP will offer prompt merging, a feature that is currently available in Analysis

Office today.

Figure 4: Source: SAP

Figure 4 shows that Analysis OLAP BI4.1 honors BEx query conditional formatt ing but you can’t change it.  

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Figure 5 shows that the Report to Report Interface is coming, showing that you can right click on Canada, the Goto

menu app ears, and it will show available receivers

Figure 6: Source: SAP

Open document supp ort is provided. Ian says it is easy to create  –  Ian will create a white paper

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Figure 7 shows BI4.1 Hana support .

Figure 8: Source: SAP

Custom grouping lets you combine hierarchies t ogether. Note that it is limited to the products above –  p lans coming

later for BW to allow for this.

More features are coming t o be covered in a later blog.

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Part 1 is here. Part 2 of this ASUG webcast with Ian McAlpine is shown below. Note because this discusses futurereleases things are subject to change and the usual disclaimer applies.

Figure 1: Source: SAP

Figure one shows that the Filter by Measure feature is available for non-BW sources, including Top N, bott om N.

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Figure 2 shows the expand to hierarchy level.

This feature is already in Analysis for Office.

It allows y ou to navigate to a specific level of a hierarchy.

Example in Figure 2 shows going from the Country level to the postal level, it will expand to that level and go the

other way.

Figure 3: Source: SAP

Keep members Analysis will focus on keeping those members - it is faster to keep a certain set of members.

Figure 4: Source: SAP

Figure 4 shows an often-requested feature, resize panel

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Analysis Office 1.4 is offering waterfall charts and so is Analysis OLAP 4.1 as shown in Figure 5

It changes if you are using hierarchical axes.

Figure 6: Source: SAP

Ian said Figure 6, the integration with Design Studio, is one of the biggest features for Analysis OLAP. It will"mobilize" your Analysis OLAP Workspace.

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Figure 7, although not discussed during the webcast, shows the roadmap. Planned Innovation covers features in

BI4.1 and future direction is the next release.

Subset of Question & Answer: Q: When is the BI 4.1 going into Ramp-up ?

A: Mid May

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Q: Can these work spaces consumed in Mobile?

A: BI4.1 has the opt ion to send workspace to design studio and the you can consume in Mobile ________________________________________________________________

Q: Can you please compare this analyis tool with WebI? will this replace WebI?A: This is not replacing Web Intelligence - A-OLAP is for multi dimensional data sources - recommend you search

for this on SCN at scn.sap.com

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Q: Custom Grouping - is that available on BW hierarchies (From ECC)? also is there something similar on Analysis

for Office Excel?

A: It is not yet available for BW or Analysis Office

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Q: Does 4.1 Analysis for OLAP or Analysis for Office have support for Universe creates with IDT?

A: Not yet

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Q: Is AA for OLAP available in BOBJ XI3.1 ?

A: It is part of the BI platform so no it is not available 3.1

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