SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards: The 2015 Roadmap to Current and Planned Functionality

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards: The 2015 Roadmap to Current and Planned Functionality Blair Wheadon SAP

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Analytics Solutions from SAP

Cloud

Mobile

Agile Visualization

Big Data

Advanced Analytics

Enterprise Business Intelligence

Collaboration

SAP Analytics Solutions One Suite for All Insight Build Engaging Experiences  Deliver engaging information to users where they need it  Track key performance indicators and summary data  Build custom experiences – users get what they need quickly

Agile

Agile Visualization Visualization

Discover. Predict. Create.  Discover areas to optimize your business  Adapt data to business needs  Tell your story with beautiful visualizations

Enterprise BI Dashboards and Apps

Enterprise BI Reporting Reporting

Distribute Information  Securely distribute information across your organization

 Answer related questions by interacting with pre-defined reports  Build printable reports for operational efficiency

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SAP Analytics Solutions Tuned for Key Use Cases Professionally Authored  Where there is a significant complexity to the BI content  Standardized formats, sophisticated design, complex data mash-ups, or high levels of governance  Separates the creation environment from the consumption environment.

Professionally Authored

Agile AgileVisualization

Dashboards and Apps

Visualization

Reporting Reporting

Self-Service Self-Service  Business user, analyst, or executive answering their own questions  Mobile or Web-based self-service  Combines the creation and consumption environment into a single seamless experience © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

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Dashboards and Apps Build Engaging Experiences Build engaging, visual dashboards

Portfolio

 Powerful environment to build interactive and visually appealing analytics

 SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio

 Rich set of controls: buttons, list boxes, drop-down, crosstabs, charts …  Use custom code to extend and build workflows

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 SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius®)

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Agenda Design Studio Enabling Business Value with Partners Key Features of Design Studio 1.3

For BEx Customers For Classic SAP BusinessObjects Customers Roadmap

Wrap-up

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Design Studio

SAP Design Studio For Building Analytic Applications

Overview  Built from the ground up using modern standards like JavaScript and HTML5  No dependencies on Flash or Office for easier deployment and platform support  Complete support for BW metadata and hierarchies

BI Platform

SAP HANA Design Studio

 Complete support for relational Universes  Destination for both BEx WAD and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards customers  Part of the Dashboards license – every Dashboards customer has access to Design Studio without additional cost

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SAP BW

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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis and Design Studio The Premium Alternative to BEx Ad Hoc OLAP

Web

Analytical Applications

Design Studio

Analysis, Edition for OLAP

• Premium Alternative to BEx Web App Designer • Design studio for power users to create purpose-built OLAP analysis & planning apps

• Dedicated Ad Hoc OLAP client for business users to analyze OLAP data and share it with others • Seamless interoperability between designer and ad hoc client

• Mobile support

• Customer- and SAP-delivered content

Microsoft Office

• Supporting SAP BW & SAP HANA sources

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• Supporting SAP BW & SAP HANA sources + third-party OLAP

Analysis, Edition for Microsoft Office • IT/Developers, Data Analysts, Business Users • Excel-based OLAP analysis • Excel-based BI applications

• Live PowerPoint presentations • Supporting SAP BW & SAP HANA sources 9

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.4 Design Beautiful, Responsive, and Personalizable BI Apps

Seamless Data Access to BW, HANA, UNX, ESP Event Streaming

Personalized Online Composition for end users Embedded BI and Fiori Integration

Powerful Developer Support: DS Extension SDK, DS Data Source SDK, and Lumira SDK

Full OLAP and Planning Support

Deployment Options: HANA, SAP NetWeaver, BI © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Out-of-the-box templates for Analysis, Planning, Mobile, Desktop, Self-Service

State of the art HTML5 Rendering and Mobile support 10

Design Studio Supported Platforms BI Platform

SAP BW

HANA

Data Sources BW HANA Universe

Data Sources BW

Data Sources HANA

Mobile Solution SAP Enterprise Portal On-Device

Mobile Solution Device browser

Notes

Notes

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Mobile Solution BI Mobile app

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Notes •

Apps stored in BI platform

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Supports multiple BW and HANA systems

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Apps stored in BW Supports a single connection to BW Requires BW 7.3SP9, BW 7.31 SP7, or BW7.4SP2 SDK Deployment requires BW7.3SP11+, BW7.31SP11+, or BW7.4 SP6+

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Apps stored in HANA repository Requires HANA 1.0 SPS8 (rev 80) Direct, native access to HANA’s Information Access Service (INA) using Firefly

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Analysis and Design Studio Creating Next Generation BI Apps Transform insights into broadly consumable analytic applications

Ad Hoc Analysis

App Design

iPad

Analysis Office or OLAP

Design Studio

Design Studio App

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Enabling Business Value with Partners

Software Development Kit Software Development Kit (SDK) for customers and partners • Using SDK from SAP to develop own components for Design Studio • Custom component library is an Eclipse plug-in, but no Java skills required • Convenient deployment though “install new software” in Design Studio • Contain Description XML file, JavaScript files, Images, and CSS files • Deployment possible with BI Platform in release 1.2

Example: HICHERT Charts, Partner: Graphomate

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Example: Gauge

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HICHERT®IBCS Certification

HICHERT®IBCS CERTIFIED CHARTS seal of approval from BARC SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio with Graphomate charts add-on

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Graphomate Graph Extensions Complies with International Business Communication Standards

Deeper insight Better decisions

Faster dashboard development

Partner: Graphomate

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Graphomate Graph Extensions

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CubeServ Graph Extensions Better Visualization with Geo Reporting Show markers and HTML popups based on query data Make query selections based on position and map zoom Display route information between locations or from current position

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Visual BI Graph Extensions Selectors

Period Selector

Grid Box Selector with Alerts

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Visual BI Graph Extensions KPI Tiles and Plot Bands Plot Band KPI Tile

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Key Features of Design Studio 1.4

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Key Features of Design Studio 1.4 •

Online Composition of Apps and Bookmarking

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Drag and Drop in Navigation Panel

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Navigation Panel Usability

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Context Menu in Crosstab

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Report-to-Report Interface

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Cell Locking (for Planning Apps)

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Global Functions

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Real-time Streaming

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Fiori/Simplified Financials Integration

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Data Source SDK

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Lumira (CVOM) SDK

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Online Composition Use Case 1 – Fragment Bookmarking •

The Designer can determine what containers can be saved as a Fragment Bookmark

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Fragment Bookmarks allow the user to bookmark a section of an application

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This ensures bookmarks are “immune” from UI changes introduced in a Design Studio application

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Fragment Bookmark

Fragment Bookmark

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Online Composition and Fragments Use Case 2 – Online Composition  Allows end users to easily customize and personalize their apps

Save as Fragment Save Save as as Fragment Fragment

Create your own fragments  Users can create fragments from their own Design Studio applications and add them to fragment galleries

Save as Fragment

 Users can compose their own apps out of fragments  Fragments can come from multiple different apps

Save as Fragment

 Fragments are currently tied to a single user across multiple Design Studio applications

Fragment Gallery

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Online Composition and Fragments (cont.) 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 and purposes • Fragment Galleries store and display all the user’s personal, cross-application fragments • End users create new personal layouts simply via Drag & Drop

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Fragment Gallery

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Panel Drag & Drop and Context Menu Drag-&-Drop Navigation and Filter Panel •

Intuitive navigation via drag & drop in navigation panel Context menu

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Designer can set drag & drop options in navigation panel properties

Context menu •

For example: Sort, Display, Hierarchy, Totals, Filter, Change Drilldown, Attributes

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Report-Report Interface “Jump to“

Drag & Drop within Navigation Panel

New Components •

E.g., “Checkbox Group,” analog to radio button group, plus multi-selection

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RRI and Planning Enhancements Report-Report Interface •

Call a jump target online from an application during runtime

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Queries, transactions, reports and applications from different source systems can be jump targets, along with web addresses

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Parameterization of the target action is taken from the drilldown of the cells from which you jump

Cell Locking for Planning •

It is now possible to lock individual input-ready cells in an application for planning purposes

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During runtime you can now freeze one or more selected values while planning others

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Global Functions Global Scripting Functions •

In complex application, script code is called several times. Prior to 1.4, it was usually assigned to an invisible button.

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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.

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Easier building and maintenance of applications.

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E.g., set visible and set CSS classes for such panels

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Real-Time Data Streaming Design Studio 1.4 comes with a real-time data extension package This supports the ability to create visualizations with streaming data from Sybase ESP (Push Use Case) “DS Timer Component” allows users 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 users to better visualize data in real time whether it 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. © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

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Time Series Line Chart Chart 1

“Standard” Design Studio line chart connected to ESP Data Source.

Chart 2 Time Series Line chart connected to ESP Data Source. Formatting applied, available as configurable properties at design time.

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SAP Fiori Integration Design Studio and SAP Fiori applications

Fiori Launchpad sFin Wave 6 with Design Studio

 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 Design Studio 1.4 is to enable those workflows for Simplified Financials (sFin Wave 6 / SP3 / SAP NetWeaver 7.40 SP9 )  Embedding of Design Studio applications in Fiori applications (Future)

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DESIGN DESIGN STUDIO STUDIO CONTENT CONTENT

DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT

DESIGN DESIGN STUDIO STUDIO CONTENT CONTENT

DESIGN DESIGN STUDIO STUDIO CONTENT CONTENT

DESIGN STUDIO CONTENT

DESIGN STUDIO CONTENT

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SAP Fiori Integration (cont.) Design Studio Templates in sFin Wave 6

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For BEx Customers

Customers with Large BEx WAD Deployments Recommendation As new projects come up, use Design Studio as long as it meets your requirements Existing BEx WAD templates can be converted to Design Studio on a case by case basis No need to engage in mass conversions of existing content to Design Studio 1.4

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DSAG Recommendation

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With the two newly developed analytics solutions, SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for MS Office, and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, SAP BW customers now have solutions to help them replace the SAP BEx tools with much more powerful client applications. SAP BusinessObjects Analysis is a suitable replacement for SAP BEx Analyzer, and even enables migration of workbooks. SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio can replace SAP BEx Web Application Designer in selected projects such as many dashboarding scenarios, web-based reporting and analysis, as well as mobile BI. Jörg Steinhorst, Head of BI Commission, DSAG

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For Classic SAP BusinessObjects Customers

Customers with Large Universe Deployments Design Studio 1.2 Added Support for UNX Universes Recommendation As new projects come up, use Design Studio instead of Dashboards as long as it meets your requirements Existing Dashboards (Xcelsius) can be converted to Design Studio on a case by case basis No need to engage in mass conversions of existing content to Design Studio 1.4

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Roadmap

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Product roadmap overview – Key themes and capabilities  Drag and Drop in Navigation Panel and Navigation Panel Usability  Context Menu in Crosstab  Cell Locking (for Planning Apps)  Report-to-Report Interface  Script API Extensions and Global Functions  Multi-Language Support  Enhanced Standard Analysis Template  Online Composition of Apps and Bookmarking  Data Source SDK  Lumira (CVOM) SDK  Real-Time Streaming  Fiori/sFin Integration  New Partner Extensions

Today

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Offline Click-Through Apps Schedule to PDF Unmerge Variables (Performance) Improved Designer Experience Geomaps Formatted Table/Scorecard Lumira Interoperability Improved Designer Experience Mobile UX Improvements Enhancements: Mobile, Charting, Scripting, Online Composition  Better Commentary Handling

PLANNED INNOVATIONS

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Export to PPT and Word Pre-Calculation and Broadcasting LCM of Applications and Dependencies Local Calculations Context Menu on Charts and Maps Variants Dynamic AOffice and Lumira Export Additional Hierarchical Filter Components Copy and Paste Variable Values Call RFC Modules from DS Scripts More Lumira Interoperability

Future Direction

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Planned Innovations Offline Click-Through Apps

Lumira Interoperability

 Ability to design apps with guided navigation for offline mobile usage

Schedule to PDF  Schedule the export of a DS app into a PDF document

Unmerge Variables

 One step export to Lumira Server  Promote a Lumira story to a Design Studio application  Take data from a DS app offline into Lumira Desktop  Take refreshable query snapshot into Analysis for Office

Improved Designer Experience

 Being able to unmerge variables form multiple data sources will gain performance on BW

 Reduce the need for scripting in Design Time

Mobile UX Improvements

Geomaps

 Full gesture support, improved scrolling

 Out-of-the-box geomap component for designers

Various Enhancements

Formatted Table/Scorecard  Table with custom formatting of rows/columns and trend/status icons based on measure values

 In areas such as Mobile, Charting, Scripting, Online Composition

Better Commentary  BW only: Based on new BW 7.40 SP8 Capabilities

PLANNED INNOVATIONS This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

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SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio Product roadmap overview – Key themes and capabilities  Drag and Drop in Navigation Panel and Navigation Panel Usability  Context Menu in Crosstab  Cell Locking (for Planning Apps)  Report to Report Interface  Script API Extensions and Global Functions  Multi Language Support  Enhanced Standard Analysis Template  Online Composition of Apps and Bookmarking  Data Source SDK  Lumira (CVOM) SDK  Real-Time Streaming  Fiori/sFin Integration  New Partner Extensions

Today

         

Offline Click-Through Apps Schedule to PDF Unmerge Variables (Performance) Improved Designer Experience Geomaps Formatted Table / Scorecard Lumira Interoperability Improved Designer Experience Mobile Ux Improvements Enhancements: Mobile, Charting, Scripting, Online Composition  Better Commentary Handling

Planned Innovations

          

Export to PPT and Word Pre-Calculation and Broadcasting LCM of Applications and Dependencies Local Calculations Context Menu on Charts and Maps Variants Dynamic AOffice and Lumira Export Additional Hierarchical Filter Components Copy and Paste Variable Values Call RFC Modules from DS Scripts More Lumira Interoperability

FUTURE DIRECTION

(Release 1.4) This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

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Related Roadmaps Readers may also be interested in the following related road maps Related product road maps available on Service Marketplace: (requires login credentials)  SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP  SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office  SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Other business analytics product roadmaps can be found on the Analytics tab of the Roadmaps page on Service Marketplace (requires login credentials)

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Wrap-up

Key Links for More Information For customers and partners Key links  Roadmaps on SAP Service Marketplace*

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

 SAP Community Network

www.sdn.sap.com/

 Design Studio Release Notes*

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

 PAM information*

https://websmp230.sapag.de/sap(bD1kZSZjPTAwMQ==)/support/pam/pam.html?v=i&smpsrv=https%3A%2F% 2Fwebsmp207.sap-ag.de#pvnr=67838200100900007316&pt=g%7Cd&ts=0

 Documentation

http://help.sap.com/boad

 Sizing Information*

https://websmp130.sapag.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/optimizethe-performance-of-your-sap-businessobjects-design-studio-solutions-tips-and-tricks

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Key Links for More Information (cont.) For customers and partners 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

www.sapusergroups.com/

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Where to Find More Information Learn Design Studio http://sap.com/learnBI OR http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-30272 Dashboards Statement of Direction http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/2012/04/17/the-future-of-dashboards-strategy-and-direction/

BI Client Convergence http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/2014/06/25/run-simple-convergence-of-the-sap-businessobjects-biproduct-portfolio/

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7 Key Points to Take Home 1.

Design Studio supports all 3 platforms: BI Platform, SAP NetWeaver, HANA

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Design Studio supports UNX Universes, as well as BEx Queries, BW Cubes, and HANA data

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Analysis Office and Analysis OLAP can automatically create Design Studio applications

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Design Studio integrates with partner charting extensions

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Design Studio is recommended by the German SAP User Group (DSAG)

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Design Studio 1.4 supports real-time streaming via Sybase ESP, HANA, or BW

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Design Studio 1.4 supports online dashboard composition by end users

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Thank You Blair Wheadon [email protected] @blairtwheadon © 2015 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

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