Introducing SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 1
Disclaimer
This presentation outlines our general product direction and should not be relied on in making a
purchase decision. This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement
with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or to
develop or release any functionality mentioned in this presentation. This presentation and SAP’s
strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any
time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either
express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose, or non-infringement. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this
document, except if such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 2
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 4
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.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 5
Reporting
Distribute Formatted Information
BI Client PortfolioPlanned for 2017
Data Discovery & Applications
Discover, Analyze and Share
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 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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 6
Reporting
Data Discovery
& Applications
Office Integration
SAP Crystal Reports
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects Set Analysis
Desktop Intelligence
Crystal Reports
Web Intelligence
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 7
Convergence of SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and Design StudioLumira 2.0: 1H 2017
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
SAP BEx Web Application Designer
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 8
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0: “Convergence” of Lumira and Design Studio
2 End-User Experiences, 1 Common Technical Framework
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 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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 9
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 10
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0,
discovery component
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 12
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 13
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: New User Experience (cont.)
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 14
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0Discovery: Simplified and Enhanced Visualizations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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)
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 15
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Enhanced Filters
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 16
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Improved Input Controls
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 17
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0Discovery: Improved Online Live analysis
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 18
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Reworked Layout concept
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 19
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0 Discovery: Others
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 21
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 22
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Design Time
Runtime Time
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 23
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 24
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 25
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 26
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 27
SAP BusinessObjects Lumira 2.0Designer & Discovery: Export to PDF Enhancements
PDF in report style PDF in WYSIWYG Style
Planned
Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 28
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
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Wrap-Up
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 30
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 31
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
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 32
© 2017 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate
company) in Germany and other countries. Please see http://global12.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx for additional trademark information and notices.
Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors.
National product specifications may vary.
These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP SE or its
affiliated companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP SE or SAP affiliate company products and
services are those that are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as
constituting an additional warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop
or release any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future
developments, products, and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time
for any reason without notice. The information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-
looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates, and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
Top Related