What's new in sap business objects mobile 4.4.0

What’s New in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)Viswanathan Ramakrishnan / Srikanth RaoKarsten Ruf/Donnie McMillan/ Andrew Murray

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Agenda

What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS) One BI App

– Access Dashboards, Zen, Web Intelligence and CR content

– Light integration with Explorer

Enhancements in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS) Usability Enhancements Geomap Enhancements

Platform Support iOS Support Minimum Platform Requirements Backward Compatibility

What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)


One BI App

Access following new content types– Dashboards

– Design Studio 1.0 (aka Zen)

– Interactive CR

Light Integration with Explorer– Access exploration view sets from home

screen

– On tapping - it will launch Explorer App

Dashboards Overview


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 SP05Dashboards for Mobile

Access dashboards using SAP BusinessObjects BI Mobile iPad app

Access dashboards offline, data refresh can be stored on device Solution based SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform

Authored using Dashboards designer

Author once and deliver to both PC (Flash) and iPad (HTML5) Mobile preview (HTML5 output) Compatibility panel list components and features not available for iPad

Leverage existing dashboard features

Most commonly used visualizations and controls Support Excel formulas, data insertion

Connectivity

Query Panel based connectivity to BW, HANA, third party relational Prompt component not available

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

Dashboard on iPad

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Components Label Image Component Combo Box Push Button Toggle Button Label Based Menu

Charts Column Chart Bar Chart Pie Chart Line Chart Combination Chart Stacked Bar Chart Stacked Column Chart Gauge

Connectivity Via Query Panel Relational sources (Universe) BW (BEx queries) HANA (Universe)

Check Box Radio Button Icon List View Scorecard Slider Progress Bar Input Text Input Text Area

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 SP05Dashboards for Mobile supported components/charts/connections

Art Nova theme Background Rectangle Ellipse Line

Containers Tab Set Canvas Container Component Groups

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


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 SP05Dashboards for Mobile: key gaps compared to the Flash / PC version

Connectivity

Only Query Panel based data connectivity Query Prompt Component not available No XML, Web Service, QaaWS, Live Office, Xcelsius 2008 SP2 BEx

connector, UNX on Olap sources (MDX)

Components

Hierarchies in tables Support for add-on components Maps, radar, bubble, XY, waterfall charts, picture menu, hierarchical

table component, accordion menu, check box ticker, list builder selectors

Themes

Default style equivalent to Nova theme

Deployment

Dashboards must be published to the BusinessObjects BI Platform Dashboards are access using the SAP BusinessObjects iPad app

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Dashboard on iPad

*Functional gaps are planned to be addressed in subsequent releases

Design Studio Overview


SAP BusinessObjects Design StudioProduct description

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is a design environment for building analytical and planning applications optimized for multidimensional sources

Build analytic applications Intuitive design environment for IT and designers Large set of design components (buttons, tabs,

dropdown menus, etc.) Extend via scripting language (subset of

JavaScript)

Use latest technologies Eclipse plug-in for the designer HTML5 rendering

Support for OLAP sources SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA Other multidimensional sources

Lab Preview

Lab Preview


Creating Next Gen BI Apps

Step 1: Long on to BIP with dswsbobje URL

Step 2: Create a Dashboard with Design studio

Step 3: Publish the Dashboard to BIP and Add it to Mobile Category to View a Dashboard on iPad

Enhancements in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)


Geomap Enhancements

Ability to assign colors to measure, so that underperforming outlets show up in red, mid-level in yellow and well performing in green

Location awareness capability along with ability to filter report by selecting the radius of interest from radar

Support for zip code instead of latitude and longitude information

Ability to open a linked report from geomap in the full screen mode

Size of the bubble to be driven based on the measure value

When selecting the POI, an ability to see all the associated measures along with the main measure


Usability Enhancements

Continuous usability enhancements to home screen Enhancements to hierarchical prompts – Ability to

select all the child nodes from the parent node itself Double tap on the popovers in the geomap to take to

full screen mode Popovers in the geomap view to be swipe enabled Styling of the button the to be consistent between the

home and the server screen Value popovers in the charts to be visible until the

user decides to dismiss it Value popover in the stacked bar chart to correspond

to the segment/stack that I tap on Document favorite to be available as an actionable

button in the info page Consistent feedback on the tap actions by changing

the color of the background screen

Complicated Hierarchical Prompts

Feedback on tap

Platform Support


PLATFORM SUPPORT

IOS PLATFORM UPDATES Minimum support version is iOS 5.1 and Above Support iOS6

MINIMUM PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS FOR MOBI 4.3.0o BI 4.0 SP 05

BACKWARD COMPATABILITY Mobi 4.4.0 is fully supported with the feature capabilities of 4.3.0 client against older servers

– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.3.0) need to be on the following version or aboveo BI 4.0 SP04 Patch 03

– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.2.0) need to be on the following version or aboveo BI 4.0 FP03 Patch 6o BI 4.0 SP04o BI 4.0 SP02 Patch 18o XI 3.1 FP 3.8, FP 4.3, FP 5.2

– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.1.0) need to be on the following version or aboveo BI 4.0 FP 03 Patch 1o BI 4.0 SP02 Patch 13o XI 3.1 FP 4.1, FP 5.1

– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.0.3) need to be on the following version or aboveo XI 3.1 SP 3 FP 3.7o XI 3.1 SP4 o XI 3.1 SP5o BI 4.0 SP02 Patch 2o BIOD v2

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Branding & Customization


Branding & Customization

App Icon, App Text Splash screen Title Bar (Background Color, Font

Color) Home Screen Background Color (or

image) Deactivate Video Tutorial Customize date Information in Report

Icon Deactivate StreamWork Collaboration

and send to StreamWork Deactivate SUP Deactivate BIOD Ability to pre-define connections Disable help

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