Roadmap and Latest Product Updates for SAP BusinessObjects Cloud and SAP Digital Boardroom Webcast Notes

[TammyPowlas]

SAP recently published new roadmap and just released newest version last week.  These are my rough notes from last week's public SCN webcast.





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Legal disclaimer applies, things in the future are subject to change.




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What is BusinessObjects Cloud?

Sharing analytics with suppliers

Sharing with board members




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From KXEN acquisition

“Price point is low”

Planning for  free trial; still in works

Use tutorial system or for partner – buy instance, or customer, proof of concept; not intended for migration – for new users in the cloud




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The above shows the Digital Boardroom with a big screen, in an executive environment




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Working on industry best practices




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Online connectivity is focused on HANA

Data stays on premise

Soon BW, S/4HANA




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Data sources can be on cloud or on corporate cloud (agent installed)

Offer row-level security




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New capabilities include connection to SuccessFactors




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Custom queries; cannot update queries

Replicates to cloud; limited to 40MB; look to expand to 1GB




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OData 2 minimum is supported




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Ability to copy as shown above


 




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Ability to cancel query is a new feature

 




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Ability to change languages from user preference page, new language support




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Roadmap




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Focus on bringing in data from other cloud solutions

iPaas – for third party data sources

Data repointing – test data source, stories, soon point data source to a different one (like production)




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Working on a sample of data, purely for responsive reasons

Browser support is Chrome

Additional browser support further out

 

Planned feature is templates; predefined layouts

 

 




 

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Planned feature is templates; predefined layouts

Visualizing/embedding, open doc style, planned for Q4

 




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Planned native mobile app; first planned for Digital Boardroom




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Above shows predictive plans

 

Subset of Q&A:
Q: Do BO Cloud support SSO?

A: http://scn.sap.com/community/cloud-for-analytics/blog/2016/06/16/sap-businessobjects-cloud–setup-sam...

 

Q:  is it possible to do chart linking i.e. if I drill down on say a column chart another table say a cross-tab gets changed? if not is it in the roadmap and expected when?

A: should be able to perform the chart linking already