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SAP Product Road MapSAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

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Table of contents

Product Overview

Product description

Road map overview and major product updates

Product Road Map

Recent innovations

Planned innovations

Product direction

Product vision

• Product description

• Key trends and customer needs

• Road map overview and major product updates

Product Overview


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Quickly build ad-hoc queries and interactive reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data structure

Access to heterogeneous data sources

Leverage semantic layer and common business terms

Combine multiple data sources within a report

Flexibility and control

Create new reports or modify existing reports

Re-use shared report elements

Interactive and intuitive interface

Use the organized toolbar, drag-and-drop features, and rich

charting options

Collaborate within the reports

Online and offline reporting

Ask questions, analyze data, and identify trends no matter where

you are (mobile, web, desktop

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceFor ad-hoc query and interactive reporting


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

Recent innovations 2018 – Product direction2017 – Planned innovations 2019 – Product vision

SAP BusinessObjects Web IntelligenceProduct road map overview - key themes and capabilities

BI4.2 SP03

Trusted foundation

• dHTML vs. Java client parity

• Parallel queries

• Universe enhancements

Collaboration

• Commentary

• Shared Elements

Engaging user experience

• Geomaps

• Dynamic Input Controls

• Referenced cell

Unleash the ecosystem

• Visualization extensions

• JAVA and REST SDK improvements

Best on SAP data

• Bex authored universe

• New SAP HANA access

Trusted foundation


• Sets improvements


• New unified viewer

• BI Variants

• Charts enhancements


• REST SDK improvements

• new APIs for Custom Elements

• Additional formulas and functions

Best on SAP data

• Support BICS INA connector

• Support of complex variables

• BEx Hierarchy flattening

Enhanced consumption

experience

• Interactive analysis for the end

users

• Management by exception

• Smart tooltip

Simplified designer experience

• Bootstrap document creation

• Templates

• Best chart recommendations

Adapt to ecosystem

• Rationalize access to data

• Online data access for universes

• Trusted BI artefact

Modern experience for readers

and designers

• A modern and elegant user interface

Cognitive search

• BI artefacts creation based on

Natural Language Processing

Advanced recommendation

• Integration of machine learning

algorithms

• Advanced semantic

Semantic Layer in the cloud

• Hybrid Semantic Layer :

– bridge OnPremise data and Cloud

data in a unified layer

• DBaaS

Hybrid Web Intelligence

• Leverage your existing investment

from the Cloud

Recent innovations

Planned innovations

Product direction

Product vision

Product Road Map


Customer


Recent innovations 2019 – Product vision2018 – Product direction2017 – Planned innovations

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities

BI4.2 SP03

Trusted foundation




Collaboration

• Commentary

• Shared Elements


• Geomaps


• Referenced cell




Best on SAP data



Trusted foundation





• BI Variants






Best on SAP data





experience


users


• Smart tooltip



• Templates


Adapt to ecosystem





and designers


Cognitive search





algorithms






• DBaaS



from the Cloud


Customer

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP03Trusted foundation

Make key features available in the Web Intelligence dHTML client

Recent

innovations

The Web Intelligence HTML client is strategic

Web Intelligence comes with 2 clients: the Java applet and the dHTML client

With more restrictions on JAVA applets, the dHTML client has become the

strategic choice

Keep the WebI Rich Client for offline usage

HTML client - Data access

Data providers (including access to BEx queries)

Change source (repointing a WebI document from one source to another)

HTML client - Formatting

Number formatting

Conditional formatting


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Cumulative enhancements to help you to adopt the most recent release

Parallel queries (fetch) execution

Supported on UNV/UNX/SAP HANA Direct Access/FHSQL/Text files/BEx

New setting to enable/disable parallel queries (max. = 64)

New setting to define max parallel jobs

Sets

Author Sets in Information Design Tool (.unx)

Define sets on top of universe objects, based on data distribution or formula

New InfoObject in CMS repository: Set-container

Consume Sets through Universe : Sets are exposed as universe filter

Linked universes

Innovation is: it can be done with Information Designer Tool (IDT)

Changes to a core UNX are propagated to all derived UNX universes

Linked UNV can be converted into linked UNX

Unlock the CMS database with new data access driver

New connection server driver allowing to query directly the CMS (new unx + WebI

reports are provided)

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP03Trusted foundation

Recent

innovations

Query1 (5s)

Query2 (11s)

Query3 (7s)

~12s

Master

UNX

Dept.2

UNX

Dept.3

UNXDept 1

UNX


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Enhance collaboration between document readers, via commentaries, or document creator, via reusability of report parts

Commentary

Service provided by BI Platform : Comments are stored in the Audit DB (by default

but can be changed in CMC)

Comment anything : commentary cell, table, chart or even table’s cell

Available in Reading and Design modes

Comments are displayed when hovering the mouse

Shared Elements

Share Web Intelligence content (report part) with other users, as shared objects

Browse and reuse Web Intelligence content created by other users

Factorize Web Intelligence content to ease the update process with reference

persistence

Access details: author, last edit, creation

Check Relationships in CMC [Shared Elements <> Documents]

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP03Collaboration

Recent

innovations


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Enhanced user experience for easier interactive reporting

Geomaps on your Web Intelligence data

Integration of a geographical database : worldwide coverage with countries,

regions, sub-regions and cities over 100K inhabitants

Dialog box to search and match the data with the geo database :

Use Naming or Latitude/Longitude

Ability to persist the matched geo data in the WebI documents

Dynamic Input Controls

Define a group of Input Controls

List of values are dynamically filtered, all together

Display selected values and the filter path

Referenced cells

A reference is a specific figure in a table, for specific dimension and value and

context (for example: [Year] = 2016, [Product] = TV)

Referenced values are listed as “Available Objects” and can be reused

Merged variables

Variables can be used as objects within the Merge Dimension functionality

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP03Engaging user experience

Recent

innovations


Customer

Enable embedded analytics and any customization of Web Intelligence

Visualization Extensions

New framework for developers to build custom elements to render in

Web Intelligence

Fully integrated into the Web Intelligence interface

Visualization Extensions can be filtered, sorted, ranked…

Managed at the CMC level

JAVA and REST SDK improvements

Expose new BI4.2 Web Intelligence features in the SDK

Deliver additional setting for the Visualization Extension feature

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP03Unleash the ecosystem

Recent

innovations


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Make reporting easier on SAP BW BEx and HANA

Display BEx queries in more user-friendly way

Create universe (SSU only), in Information Designer Tool (IDT), with a Bex query

Rename objects, regroup objects in meaningful folders, or delete unnecessary objects

BEx authored universes use the BICS connector

HANA Direct Access

Connect directly to HANA Views, no universe authoring in Information Designer Tool

Browse HANA views using a relational or OLAP connection

Usual Web Intelligences workflow with query panel, HANA hierarchies are supported

HANA Online

connect directly to HANA Views, no universe authoring in Information Designer Tool

No query panel to define queries, no microcube

Web Intelligence calculations are delegated to HANA whenever possible

Only relational access : HANA JDBC

Optional: Go back to standard mode to get additional reporting features

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence in BI4.2 SP03Best on SAP backend

Recent

innovations


Customer


Recent innovations 2019 – Product vision2018 – Product direction 2017 – Planned innovations

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities

BI4.2 SP04

Trusted foundation




Collaboration

• Commentary

• Shared Elements


• Geomaps


• Referenced cell




Best on SAP data



Trusted foundation





• BI Variants






Best on SAP data





experience


users


• Smart tooltip



• Templates


Adapt to ecosystem





and designers


Cognitive search





algorithms






• DBaaS



from the Cloud


Customer

Cumulative enhancements to help you to adopt the most recent release

dHTML vs. Java client parity

New FHSQL data provider added to the list

New specific FHSQL authorization : “Use Connection for FHSQL scripts”, at connection

level

Support of Right To Left (RTL) document content display

Sets improvements

Enhanced Visual Data steps : Insert missing values (custom values), Support prompts

context, Popup condition for scalar dimension, reorder steps and count per step

Sets Edition : allow to move set instead of copy + query panel step

Materialization : modify processing group

2017 Planned innovationsTrusted foundation


Planned

innovations


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BI Variants

Select the prompts answer to be saved in a BI Variant

You can exclude some prompts (for example the ones with dynamic default value)

Charts improvements

New chart types : Gauges and Tiles

Extended visual style for column and bar borders

Customize total value label in Waterfall charts

Customize the color of the data labels for each line in line charts

New Palette

2017 Planned innovationsEngaging user experience


Planned

innovations


Customer


Rejuvenated Web Intelligence user interface

Simplify reading and analysis workflow

Simplify reading and analysis workflow

Touch-device (tablet, mobile…) by design

Based on SAP Fiori/SAP UI5 HTML5

Integrated in the new BI Launch Pad interface

2017 Planned innovationsEngaging user experience


Planned

innovations


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Enable embedded analytics and any customization of Web Intelligence

REST SDK improvements

Web Intelligence as a Web Service : expose Web Intelligence report element

data

New APIs for: Dynamic Input Control / Group Input Control / Read Comments /

Support Fold-Unfold Section / Break / Axis / Block / Return parameters/prompts

summary

New APIS for Visualization Extensions

Full interactivity between Visualization Extensions and Extension Points

New API to define Custom Elements visualization thumbnails

Extend the Render API to identify Custom Element instances

Additional formulas and functions

Add description to Variables, Referenced cells s and Grouping : new Description

field in Formula editor that will appear in tooltip

New and improved Functions : TimeBetween() / DateBetween()

New and improved Functions : PromptSummary() > New parameters to sort the

result and show BEx definitive prompts

2017 Planned innovationsUnleash the ecosystem


Planned

innovations


Customer

Make reporting easier on SAP BW BEx and HANA

Support HANA OLAP through BICS INA

Complex variables operators for SAP BW

Already supported for SAP HANA (SAP BI 4.2 SP3)

Flatten BW/BEx Hierarchies

Automatic creation of level based dimensions in Web Intelligence documents

2017 Planned innovationsBest on SAP backend


Planned

innovations


Customer


Recent innovations 2019 – Product vision 2018 – Product direction2017 – Planned innovations


BI4.3

Trusted foundation





• BI Variants






Best on SAP data




Trusted foundation




Collaboration

• Commentary

• Shared Elements


• Geomaps


• Referenced cell




Best on SAP data




experience


users


• Smart tooltip



• Templates


Adapted to ecosystem





and designers


Cognitive search





algorithms






• DBaaS



from the Cloud


Customer

2018 Product direction

Enhanced consumption experience

Simplify report consumption and enable true interactive analysis for the end-users

Continue to modernize and simplify the consumption experience

New Input Controls in the report

New Element Linking allowing to highlight the impacted data in context

Propose an “Interactive analysis” mode enabling : turn to, best chart recommendations, add objects, add

calculations, some formatting …

Alerting (management by exception): create and follow metrics

Notifications : be notified when alerts is triggered or a comment is sent to you

Smart tooltip : new tooltip type for the charts generated automatically or authored


Product

direction


Customer



Being able to achieve exactly same things than in past version but three times faster

Propose a modernized and simplified Designer experience thanks to progressive disclosure of features

Search WebI artefacts and use them directly to build a report

Propose BI Templates (documents / blocks / styles)

“Best chart recommendations” when selecting objects to create a block

Suggestions of existing document, report part and query at design time, based on usage

New report layout for Mobile readiness: placement and layout snaps into place cleanly, responsive

Ease calculations creation (variables) via visual action

Multiple block enhancements : beautiful block by default, micro-charts, new tooltip type, forecasting, reference and

trend line, …


Product

direction


Customer


Adapted to ecosystem

Propose access to modern data, enable collaboration between users

Fully leverage new data sources (unstructured, big and cloud data, cloud data, social data, APIs)

Rationalize access to data by proposing “Online data access” for universes and other data sources

Allow end users to collaborate thanks to new notification service and new collaborative space

Enable creation of sharable “Trusted BI artefacts” (Query, data (cached), block) that end user can use directly

Deliver key blocking/promised/cumulative features (legacy): DeskI features, Top ideas Place, Publications ERs …


Product

direction


Customer


Recent innovations 2019 – Product vision2018 – Product direction2017 – Planned innovations


Trusted foundation




Collaboration

• Commentary

• Shared Elements


• Geomaps


• Referenced cell




Best on SAP data



Trusted foundation





• BI Variants






Best on SAP data





experience


users


• Smart tooltip



• Templates


Adapt to ecosystem





and designers


Cognitive search





algorithms




• DBaaS



from the Cloud


Customer

2019 Product vision

Cognitive search

BI artefacts creation based on Natural Language Processing


Integration of machine learning algorithms

Advanced semantic in IDT to serve the machine learning

Hybrid Semantic Layer

Build a business layer in the cloud; bridging OnPremise data and Cloud data

Enable DBaaS to serve the hybrid semantic layer


Leverage your existing investment from the Cloud

Allow the consumption of your Interactive Web Intelligence report from the Cloud


Product

vision


Customer

Summary

Key messages

We are listening to your needs

WebI Intelligence will continue to be enhanced with innovations

We are working on a modernized and simplified web intelligence experience

We will increase end-user autonomy regarding data access and analysis


Thank you

Road map contacts for customers and partners

Pierpaolo Vezzosi

Gregory Botticchio

Laura Vega

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Product Manager Web Intelligence - Semantic Layer

Product Manager Web Intelligence

Product Manager Web Intelligence

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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Key links for more informationFor customers and partners

Key links

SAP Road Maps http://www.sap.com/roadmaps

SAP Community Network http://www.sap.com/community

IT Planning Resources https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/x/ggvRGg

SAP Innovation Discovery http://www.sap.com/innovationdiscovery

What’s new in Web Intelligence 4.2 SP03 What’s New in WebI 4.2 SP03

Best Practices to Design a Web

Intelligence document

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-58571


Where to go to provide product feedback and ideas

SAP Idea Place https://ideas.sap.com

Influence programs http://service.sap.com/influence

SAP User Groups http://www.sapusergroups.com/

http://www.sap.com/roadmaps

http://www.sap.com/community

https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/x/ggvRGg

http://www.sap.com/innovationdiscovery




https://ideas.sap.com/

http://service.sap.com/influence

http://www.sapusergroups.com/


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