Design Studio and Lumira For BW The Full

Design Studio & Lumira
for BW: The Full Story

Eric Schemer, SAP SE
SESSION CODE: BI71

Agenda
Overview & Positioning

Lumira
Design Studio
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Agenda

Lumira
Design Studio

Analytics Solutions from SAP
Analytics Strategy
Transition to the Cloud while growing our stable core
BUILD THE GROW THE

CLOUD CORE

Closed Loop Portfolio

Business
Intelligence
Data Warehousing Advanced

& Big Data Analytics
Enterprise Enterprise
Information Performance
Management Management
Analytical
Applications

Any Device Cloud

Agile Advanced
Visualization Analytics
Enterprise
Business Intelligence
Social Trust
Big Data

The BI Portfolio Today
Reporting Applications Agile Visualization

Distribute Information Build Engaging Experiences Discover. Predict. Create.
Web Intelligence Design Studio Lumira
Crystal Reports Dashboards Explorer
Analysis for OLAP

 Analysis for Office and Design Studio as premium alternatives to BEx
Analyzer and Web Application Designer
Analysis for Office
Live Office

Planned Simplification of the SAP BI Client Portfolio
Crystal Reports
Web Intelligence Crystal Reports
Reporting
Desktop Intelligence Web Intelligence
Set Analysis
Interoperability
Lumira Desktop/Cloud/Server
Lumira Discovery & Analysis
Explorer
Analysis for OLAP*
Design Studio
Dashboards Design Studio Dashboards & Applications
BEx Web
Analysis Office Converged Office Office Integration

EPM Add-in Client
* It is planned to have OLAP-type adhoc capabilities in Lumira but you can also build OLAP apps with Design Studio

Recommendations for BW customers
Analytical Applications on BW AdHoc Analysis on BW
Design Studio Lumira Studio & Lumira

• Professional Environment for Designers & • Lumira Desktop: BW Data Acquisition
Web & Mobile
Developers to Create Purpose-Built Apps & • Custom Design Studio Apps with Highly
Templates Interactive Analytical Capabilities & built-in Self
• Planning Support Service
• Mobile Support
• SDKs
• Robust & Enterprise Ready
Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
• IT / Developers, Data Analysts, Business Users

• Excel-based Analysis & Planning
• Integrated Roadmap with EPM Excel Client
• PowerPoint Integration
• Trusted Data Discovery with BW workspaces

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Office
Key highlights
• Interactive multidimensional analysis for SAP

sources (SAP BW and SAP HANA)
• Office integration (Ad-Hoc analytic capabilities in

Excel, MS PowerPoint publishing)
• Multi-Platform Support (NetWeaver, BI Platform,

HANA)
• Integration into BI Suite (Interoperability,

Scheduling)

Client Convergence
The Convergence of the SAP of the SAP BI Excel Clients
Analysis Office
Unified Excel Client
EPM Add-In SAP SAP EPM

MDX
BW HANA 10.x

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, Edition for Office 2.0
Today
Analysis
Office
BPC
SAP BW SAP HANA
(Planning)
EPM
Add-In
Universes
Microsoft
Power BI Live
Office

Midterm
Unified Office Client

BPC
SAP BW SAP HANA
(Planning)
Universes
Microsoft
Power BI Live
Office

SAP Design Studio & SAP Lumira
SAP Design Studio SAP Lumira
Corporate Apps & Templates from Ad-Hoc Self-Service for Analysts and
Design Professionals for End-Users Decision Makers
Common Platform, Visualizations and Interoperability

Agenda

Lumira
Design Studio

SAP Lumira
On premise, in the cloud, on any device
Lumira Lumira Server Lumira Cloud

Desktop
 Server for SAP

HANA
 Server for Teams
 Server for BI
platform
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SAP Lumira
Leverage your SAP BW investment with SAP Lumira
Lumira is a self-service BI tool that allows users to:

• Interact, manipulate and experiment with data
• Perform data discovery, gain insight on past and future trends
• Apply data transformations, add business logic to an existing
BW data model
• Merge governed BW data with non-BW data
• Build visualizations and compose stories
• Share it in a visual manner with other users in the organization

SAP Lumira Key Capabilities
Acquisition Transformation Visual Discovery Storytelling and

Sharing
 Acquire data from a variety of  Combine sources without  Use fast and flexible workflow  Build visual stories
sources scripting
 Build engaging visualizations  Publish to
 Stored in  Cleanse, add calculations and Lumira Cloud and server
columnar store groupings
 Publish to the BI platform

Lumira Components
Lumira Desktop
Lumira Server Lumira Server Lumira Server for teams Lumira

for HANA for BIP Lumira Edge Cloud
Enterprise Teams - LOB & SMB

Infographics
Key User: Analyst
 Reports & boards converge into

Infographics
 Page layout options for fit-to-
screen, scrolling layout or fit to
content
 Re-order pages in story
 Cascading layout supporting
mobile devices
 Improved input controls
 Support viz from more than 1 Lab Preview
dataset
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Interactive Crosstab
Key User: Analyst
 Table component replaced with

flexible, interactive crosstab
 Place dimensions or measures on
row or column axis
 Create sub-totals on dimensions
on the column axis
 Conditional formatting on
measures to highlight exceptions
 Sparklines

Visualizations & Viz Extensions
Key User: Analyst
 Upgraded to CVOM Infocharts

with enhanced chart properties
 Edit viz properties in viz room
 New Mekko, Bullet & Unit
charts
 Improved design / readability /
layout
 Viz extensions include custom
properties

Today Planned Future
Connectivity options to Connectivity to SAP BW Continuation on SAP

SAP BW data queries investments
Connect or download from SAP HANA Download from SAP BW Mature integration on SAP BW
Connect via BI4 .unx Universe Connect online to SAP BW Agility for analysts
Load data from Excel or text file Interoperability

Today Planned Future
Connectivity options to Connectivity to SAP BW Continuation on SAP

SAP BW data queries investments
Connect or download from SAP HANA Download from SAP BW Mature integration on SAP BW
Connect via BI4 .unx Universe Connect online to SAP BW Agility for analysts
Load data from Excel or text file Interoperability

Data Acquisition Mode
Download from SAP BW
Connectivity to :
• InfoProvider and BEx query
Data mash up and visualization
Slice of BW data is combined with other acquired data (SAP / non-SAP)
Data modeling is performed by LoB, Lumira data preparation features are key
Data level security is expected when authoring content
* BW on HANA will provide better response times and experience but is not a pre-requisite

Connect to SAP BW queries
• Connect to the BW system with SSO support *
• Leverage BW OLAP connections defined in the BI Platform
• Resolve BEx variable prompts to filter data – strong support

for BW variable types
* SAP Front End is leveraged if installed but is not required; connection details
to BW systems are read from the saplogon.ini file if it exists

Acquire data into SAP Lumira
• Select the Dimensions and Measures to work with
• Filter data acquisition with Explicit Member selection and Level

Selection
• Leverage full data manipulation capabilities
• Explore, and analyze data
• Gain insight with visualizations and create interactive stories

Publish and share with others
SAP Lumira Desktop
SAP Lumira Server SAP Lumira Cloud BI4 SAP Lumira Edge
No data refresh from BW No data refresh from BW Data refresh from BW Data refresh from BW

Data acquisition enhancements
• Preview data sample before acquisition
• User-configured application of BW filters (Conditions)
• Time data type support (dimensions and measures)
Prompting
• List of value member retrieval by range
• Change of prompt values for server-side data refresh *
* Requires deployment of SAP Lumira, Edge edition or BI 4.1 deployment with SAP Lumira, server edition for BI4

Lumira Roadmap / BW customer focus
1H 2015 2H 2015 Future or Partner Solutions
Add support for BW Enhance support for BW, Enable wider enterprise
acquired modes HANA, location, large adoption
data
Blend data from Advanced big data charts
acquired sources Blend data from
interactive and acquired Advanced spatial analytics
Consolidate story sources
layout types to Standardization and
infographic Interactive and dynamic templates
analysis across multiple
Deliver analyst baseline elements
features
Hichert visualizations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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Agenda

Lumira
Design Studio

SAP Design Studio 1.5
Professionals Design for Large Numbers of Users
Seamless Data Access to
Geo Map Personalized Online
BW, HANA, UNX, ESP
Composition for end-uses
Event Streaming
Performance
Improvements (query
parallel processing,
variable unmerge etc)
Full OLAP & Planning

Support
Deployment Options:
HANA, NW, BI
Out-of-the-Box Templates for Analysis, State of the art HTML5
Planning, Desktop, Self-Service Rendering & Mobile Support

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Key Features Design Studio 1.5
• Performance: query parallelization, unmerge variables
• Export to pdf / printing (baseline)
• Geo maps (baseline)
• Online composition: enterprise / multi-user support,
filtering of fragments
• Standard analysis template – browse data sources,
bookmarking, printing
• Commentary solution and attribute planning based on
BW-IP (BW7.4SP8)
• Offline click-through apps
• Data-bound component properties
• Navigation panel
• Horizontal filter bar
• Crosstab: multi-selection
• Charts: more scripting options, chart type selection
component
• Scripting: array index access
• LCM of bookmarks (e.g. bulk deletion)
• Multi-language support on BIP
• Context menu: Custom entries, back to start
• SDK: transfer attributes and exceptions
• Universe support: all relational databases
• Export data to SAP Lumira
Performance Improvements with Release 1.5
Query Parallelization
Query Parallelization
 All Data Source types supported
 Option to assign the Data Source to processing groups in design
time
 Separate backend session for each processing group
 Each scenario to be individually assigned based on your
requirements
Side effect you need to take under consideration:

 Potentially more work load on the backend server, please refer to
sizing guide
 Parallel query execution does not use OLAP cache
 Variable unmerge will be applied for parallel execution
 Planning scenario is not supported

Geo Map
Geo Map
 Ability to change base map at runtime
 Any base map provider that has a web URL is supported
 Up to 10 layers on the map are supported
 Different Layers can be assigned to different data sources
 Drilldown possible with onSelect() scripting method
 Data can be represented as shape, point and bubble chart
 For type shape you can select color (start color and end
color) to represent measures
 Limitations with release 1.5 SP0
– Not able to be exported as PDF/Printing
– Not able to be saved as smart object (portable fragment
bookmark)
– Not be able to deployed on the HANA Platform

Enhanced Analysis Template Menu Filter Area
Ad-hoc Analysis Template

 Includes:
– Menu
– Filter Area
– Navigation area
– Setting area for chart and table
– Data Area including table view, chart view and
table/chart view
– Action area
 new components
– Data Connection
– New Navigation Panel
– Filter Line
– Chart Type Picker
– Enhanced Context Menu
– Enhanced bookmark functionality
Setting Area for
New Navigation Panel Chart /table Action Area

Filter Line
Filter Line
 Horizontal filter option
 No scripting effort is required
 At runtime user can easily select filters and filter
values
 At design time designer can configure whether key
figures should be included in filter line

Navigation Panel
Navigation Panel
 Separate component only for navigation
purpose via drag and drop
 Measures can be shown separately
 Can be used as a dimension list
 The sequence of displaying dimensions can be
changed in design time
 At run time user can find the dimension or key
figure via “Search”

Chart Type Picker
Chart Type Picker
 Enable user at run time to choose different chart
types
 Designer can add additional chart types to this
component in design time

Context Menu
Enhanced context menu
 “Undo previous step” as the new entry
 Add custom entry to context menu via property
sheet (e.g. jump to Analysis Office Workbook,
Lumira story board etc)

Exporting to PDF
Exporting to PDF
 PDF as technical object needs to be added in the
design time
 3 Exporting/Printing options controlled by APIs:
– Export with WYSIWYG screen
– Export an application to PDF, as report style
– Export a panel to PDF, WYSIWYG
 Report style option supports meta data, crosstab,
chart and SDK components
 Conditional formatting of the crosstab is exported
 Export configuration option:
– Page size
– Page Orientation
– Header and Footer with Text
– Images (e.g. Logo) can be defined in design time

Commentary Solution based on BW-IP
Commentary Solution based on BW-IP
 Pre-requisite: BW 7.4SP8
 Commentary texts need to be defined as the
type Text KPI in BW system
 Planning queries need to be modeled in the
backend
 Using Design Studio planning capability you can
add commentaries in the crosstab
Limitation for release 1.5

 Not able to break the text into multiple lines
automatically
 Not able to add line break manually by end
users

Attribute Planning based on BW-IP
Attribute Planning based on BW-IP
 Pre-requisite: BW 7.4SP8
 Attributes need to be defined as the type Text
KPI in BW system
 Master data of attributes reside within BW
system
 Using Design Studio planning capability you can
add attributes in the crosstab
Limitation for release 1.5

 Not able to sort attributes
 No value help while entering attributes

Offline Click-Through Application
Offline Click-Through Application
 Via key combination Ctrl+Alt+R to start recording
 You can reset, stop, pause and download the
recording
 Downloaded recording is a Zip file containing html5
pages
 „index.html“ starts the application on desktop (mobile
devices are not supported)

Bookmark Administration on BI Platform
Bookmark Administration on BIP
 Centralized on BIP to allow ease of control over Bulk
deletion of Bookmarks.
 Supports the management of all Bookmark types
(application bookmarks, fragment bookmarks and
portable fragment bookmarks)
 Filter/Search/Sort Bookmarks by users, groups, types,
creation/modification time, application, containing
queries, system etc.
 Actions supported
– Delete Bookmarks individually
– Selection of Multiple Bookmarks for Bulk deletion
– Move Bookmarks to different folders

Online Composition Enhancements
Online Composition Enhancements
 Enterprise Support for Sharing of Smart Objects
between users.
o Smart objects created by Power Users are now
consumable by End Users.
o Use the Smart object “Group identifier” to define what
organization Unit they belong too.
 New Bookmark Folder concept allows for further
granular categorization of Smart objects
o Bookmark Folder hierarchy can be dynamically defined
in the Bookmark Administration area of your BIP CMC
o A New Bookmark Filter Component is available for
Designers to add to a Smart Object Producer App. This
will allow a Power user add a category to a Smart Object
o Bookmark Filter Component can also be used in
combination with the Smart Object Gallery to allow an
end user filter their Smart Object Gallery.

Online Composition Template
Online Composition Template
 In 1.5 we have delivered an out of the box Online
Composition template for our Smart Objects
 Allows customer to see straight away how this new
self service concept can work with minimal
development needed
 Works in conjunction with our improved Generic
Analysis App which once both are deployed on BIP
will work without any coding needed.
 Can be further enhanced by designers to to meet
customer needs.

Export to Lumira
Export to Lumira
 Data in the crosstab are exported as Lums file
 Lums file can be opened in SAP Lumira for further
analysis purpose

SAP Design Studio
Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities
 Performance: query parallelization, unmerge  Crosstab: drag & drop  Component composition & re-use
variables  Offline enhancements
 export to pdf / printing (baseline)  Scheduling and broadcasting
 Chart enhancements  Annotations / comments
 Export data to Lumira
 Geomap enhancements  Offline enhancements
 Geomaps (baseline)
 Export to PDF enhancements  Local calculations & projection
 Online composition: enterprise / multi-user support,
filtering of fragments  New visualization components  Formatted table / scorecard
 Offline click-through apps  Calculations at runtime  Improved design experience
 Standard analysis template – browse data sources,  Enhanced context menu customizing  Further mobile improvements
bookmarking, printing  Improved mobile experience  Variant support
 Data-bound component properties  Enhanced client interoperability  WebI as a data source
 Navigation panel  Enhanced Universe (UNX) connectivity
 Horizontal filter bar  Enhanced Universe (UNX) support
 Continuous improvements  Extending administrative capabilities (e.g.
 Crosstab: multi-selection
 Charts: more scripting options, chart type selection LCM)
component  Improved product standards compliance
 Scripting: array index access (e.g. right-to-left, accessibility, designer
 LCM of bookmarks (e.g. bulk deletion) translation)
 Multi-language support on BIP
 Context menu: Custom entries, back to start
 SDK: transfer attributes and exceptions
 Universe support: all relational databases
 Improved HANA connectivity
Today Planned Innovations Future Direction

(Release 1.5)

SAP Design Studio
Planned Innovations New Visualization Components
Crosstab: Drag & Drop  Enhanced set of standard components to visualize and/or
 Drag & drop dimensions & measures into crosstab (e.g. from navigate data
Filter and Navigation Panels), drag & drop inside crosstab
Calculations at Runtime
Annotations / Comments (Baseline)  Calculations on top of enterprise KPIs created by end-users
 Annotate, comment and share application snapshots
Enhanced Context Menu Customizing
Offline Enhancements  Hide standard entries, rename entries
 Mobile consumption of offline click-through stories
Improved Mobile Experience
Chart Enhancements  Mobile-optimized component library
 New chart types
Enhanced Client Interoperability
Geomap Enhancements  Export to Analysis Office
 New chart types, default basemaps
Enhanced Universe (UNX) Connectivity
Export to PDF enhancements  Extend data volume limit from 5K to 20K rows
 Include geomaps, configuration options
PLANNED INNOVATIONS

SAP Design Studio
Future direction
Component Composition and Re-Use Formatted Table / Scorecard
 Compose new components from others and save/share for re-use  New component to cover dashboard table needs for formatting,
trend / status icons etc.
Scheduling & Broadcasting (Baseline)
 Scheduled distribution of applications and bookmarks as links and Improved Design Experience
data views as PDF/Excel to users and groups  Simplify component styling and application theming, reduce need
 Initiated by business users, controlled by IT for scripting in common interaction patterns
Annotations / Comments (Enhanced) Further Mobile Improvements

 Shared comments across all BIP-based client tools  Full scrolling & gesture support, responsive layouts, tabular data
support for smartphones
 Inplace collaboration workflows
Variant Support
Offline Enhancements
 Personal and shared variants, application-level and data source-
 Dashboards with offline data cache, flexible user interaction with
level
offline data
WebI As a Data Source
Local Calculations And Projections
 Leverage investments in WebI for dashboards
 Light-weight manipulation of query results in the application (e.g.
additional rows/columns, overwrite backend measure texts), use
of local data projections and selections Enhanced Universe (UNX) Support
 E.g. support for multi-source universes
FUTURE DIRECTION

SAP Design Studio
Future direction
Extending Administrative Capabilities
 Simplify administration and operation of BI solutions
Improved Product Standards Compliance

 E.g. support right-to-left, accessibility, translation of Designer UI
FUTURE DIRECTION

Questions?
Contact information:
Eric Schemer
VP Product Management – SAP BI
SAP SE
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SESSION CODE: BI71

Overview & Positioning

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 2

Overview & Positioning

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 3

BUILD THE GROW THE

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 4

Closed Loop Portfolio

Data Warehousing Advanced

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 5

Any Device Cloud

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 6

Reporting Applications Agile Visualization

Web Intelligence Design Studio Lumira

Crystal Reports Dashboards Explorer

Analysis for OLAP

© 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Customer 7

Analysis Office Converged Office Office Integration

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Design Studio Lumira Studio & Lumira

Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office

• IT / Developers, Data Analysts, Business Users

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• Interactive multidimensional analysis for SAP

• Office integration (Ad-Hoc analytic capabilities in

• Multi-Platform Support (NetWeaver, BI Platform,

• Integration into BI Suite (Interoperability,

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The Convergence of the SAP of the SAP BI Excel Clients

Unified Excel Client

EPM Add-In SAP SAP EPM

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Unified Office Client

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SAP Design Studio SAP Lumira

Common Platform, Visualizations and Interoperability

Overview & Positioning

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Lumira Lumira Server Lumira Cloud

 Server for SAP

Leverage your SAP BW investment with SAP Lumira

Lumira is a self-service BI tool that allows users to:

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Acquisition Transformation Visual Discovery Storytelling and

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Lumira Server Lumira Server Lumira Server for teams Lumira

Enterprise Teams - LOB & SMB

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 Reports & boards converge into

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 Table component replaced with

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 Upgraded to CVOM Infocharts

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