Introducing SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2 · This is the current state of planning and may be...

Introducing SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0

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Agenda

Context

SAP On-Premise Convergence Strategy

What is SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0?

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Details

ContextSAP On-Premise Convergence Strategy


Reporting

Distribute Formatted Information

BI Client Portfolio TodayFor 2016

Data Discovery

Discover, Analyze and Share

Applications & Dashboards

Build Engaging Experiences

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

For business users, power users and

IT professionals

Create sophisticated, dynamic analytic

applications like planning front ends.

Use the included templates to rapidly

deploy self service analytics

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP Crystal Reports

Securely distribute information across

your organization

Answer new questions with predefined

interactive reports

Publish high volumes of personalized

reports via email

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira

For Business Analysts and other

business users

Mashup relational data, rapidly create

visualizations and build simple

storyboards

Office Integration

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Office

For Financial Analysts and other business users

Microsoft Office addin enables financial professionals and other business users to rapidly access, visualize, and analyze hierarchical data

within Excel and PowerPoint.


Reporting

Distribute Formatted Information

BI Client PortfolioPlanned for 2017

Data Discovery & Applications

Discover, Analyze and Share


SAP Crystal Reports

Securely distribute information across

your organization

Answer new questions with predefined

interactive reports

Publish high volumes of personalized

reports via email

SAP Lumira 2.x*

For Business Analysts, power users,

and IT professionals

Mashup relational data, rapidly create

visualizations and build simple

storyboards

Add scripting and dynamic actions to

simple storyboards

Create sophisticated, dynamic analytic

applications like planning front ends.

Use the included templates to rapidly

deploy self service analytics

Office Integration

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Office

For Financial Analysts and other business users

Microsoft Office addin enables financial professionals and other business users to rapidly access, visualize, and analyze hierarchical data

within Excel and PowerPoint.

*Planned functionality


Reporting

Data Discovery

& Applications

Office Integration

SAP Crystal Reports


SAP BusinessObjects Set Analysis

Desktop Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP


SAP BEX Web Application Designer

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Office

Live Office

EPM Add-In

SAP BEX Analyzer

Analysis Office

Convergence ResultPlanned as of H1 2017

Inte

rop

era

bili

ty

Lumira 2.x


Convergence of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and Design StudioLumira 2.0: 1H 2017





SAP BEx Web Application Designer


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0discovery component (formerly Lumira Desktop)

designer component (formerly Design Studio)

Combined server-side add-on

Data Discovery &

Applications

Benefits• Promote business user visualizations to enterprise dashboards

• Changing requirements doesn’t need a tool switch

• Improved ease of use driving broad adoption

• Aligns with Fiori UI standard (same as SAP S/4HANA)

• Support for offline applications in designer (formerly Design Studio)

• Combined server-side add-on reduces IT administration cost

• Live online connectivity with SAP BW and SAP HANA

Business IT


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0: “Convergence” of Lumira and Design Studio

2 End-User Experiences, 1 Common Technical Framework




SAP BEX Web Application Designer



SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0discovery component

(formerly Lumira Desktop)

designer component

(formerly Design Studio)

Single server-side add-on

Data Discovery &

Applications

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira & Design Studio 1.x

Lumira Desktop Design Studio

Lumira ServerDesign Studio

Server

Clie

nt

Serv

er

SAP Lumira,

Discovery

Lumira Server

Add-On

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0

SAP Lumira,

Designer


Discovery

SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Former Lumira & Design Studio experiences combined

Common Technology

Extend

Discovery

Stories

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

Designer

Professional

Enterprise

AppsCustomized

Discovery

Experience


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Feature Overview

End User

Modernized user experience

Improved Filter and Variable Prompt dialogs

Contextual export to SAP BusinessObjects Analysis,

edition for Microsoft Office

Export to PDF enhancements

Chart enhancements (new combination chart,

better defaults, properties panel)

Improved mobile experience: Responsive, scrollable container

Online composition templates (authoring components)

Planning: set BPC work status

Resize crosstab columns

Enhanced selection capabilities in crosstab & spreadsheet

Professional Designer, Developer, Admin

Re-usable composites

Robust bookmarks, LCM of bookmarks and folders

SAP Fiori library: enable conversion of all commons library applications

Additional SAP Fiori components (e.g., “Story Components”)

Enhanced conditional formatting

New BICS features (e.g., rename measures/dims)

Continuous improvements

Planned

Innovations


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0,

discovery component


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: New User Experience


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 (cont.)


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 2.0Discovery: Simplified and Enhanced Visualizations


Planned

Innovations

Charts

• Reduced number of chart types without losing features

• Extend Basic charts to dual and combinations charts with contextual

data object properties

• Capture Snapshots of visualizations to re-use later

• Enhanced Waterfall chart with ability to display Total, Highlight Bar/

Column with color

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

and display total

• Smoothened Line support for Line charts

Table

• Improvements to Cross Tab (TBD)


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 LOVs or Controls,

Calendar picker for Date and Slider for Numeric

objects

• Consolidated view of Filters in Filter bar


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Improved Input Controls


Planned

Innovations

Improvements to Input Controls

• Input Control an extension of filter to pass the values

• Drag and Drop Filters from Filter Bar to canvas for

creating Controls

• Drag and Drop Data Object to canvas to create Input

Control

• 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 LOVs of Hierarchical

objects

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

values individually


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0Discovery: Improved Online Live 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 component


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




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

Runtime Time


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0Designer: 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 2.0Designer: 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 2.0Designer: 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




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 2.0Designer & 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


Wrap-Up


SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0Major Product Updates

Single add-on means

Single server runtime (Lumira Server) for discovery and designer artifacts

Single CMC application (Lumira application) to configure and manage rights

Single Web application (Lumira Web application) to deploy and consume discovery and designer artifacts on browser

While upgrading from Lumira/DS 1.x to Lumira 2.0, the installer will take care of updating existing Lumira Server, Lumira

application and Web applications

While upgrading the application will take care of mapping existing DS application properties and rights to new Lumira

application

In case of distributed web application environment, administrators would have to manually un-deploy existing Lumira/DS 1.x

web application and deploy new Lumira web application

System

Upgrade

Lumira Server

Lumira application

Lumira web app

Lumira 1.31 AND/OR Design Studio 1.6 Lumira 2.0

BEx Web app service

DS application

DS web app

Lumira Server

Lumira application

Lumira web app

Planned

Innovations


7 Key Points

1. SAP BusinessObjects Lumira is a platform for agile visualization WITH trusted data and

scalability

2. SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 combines Lumira & Design Studio into one product,

delivering both clients on a common technology stack and a revamped user experience

3. Existing customer investments are respected from both a licensing and technical

perspective, providing conversion from Lumira 1.x and Design Studio 1.x documents and

applications respectively

4. Modern user experience for data discovery with one document model

5. Combines the strengths of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and SAP BusinessObjects

Design Studio including live SAP BW online and SAP HANA online

6. Reduced TCO with one server add-on

7. Integrates seamlessly with SAP technology: SAP BW, SAP HANA, SAP data source, BI

platform, and SAP Fiori launchpad


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