The document discusses SAP's strategy and roadmap for application design capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud. Key points include: - SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP's primary strategic solution for application design going forward, with most new enhancements delivered there. - Current application design scope in SAP Analytics Cloud includes basic widgets, data widgets, scripting, smart functions integration, and design-time features. - Future plans include more advanced widgets, composites, custom widgets, planning/predictive capabilities integration, and enterprise features like theming and scheduling. The document provides an overview of SAP's vision to deliver innovative application design capabilities primarily in the cloud, with SAP Analytics Cloud as the

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Jie Deng, SAP SE
03, 2019
Application Design with SAP
Analytics Cloud

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Product Description
One | Simple | Cloud
PredictiveBusiness Intelligence Planning
Sharing
Simulation
Data Preparation
Storytelling
Forecasting
Automated Insights
SAP Analytics Cloud
Unified experience for Planning, BI and Predictive all in one service
Live data connectivity enables SaaS for everyone
End-to-end analytics for the Intelligent Enterprise
Digital Boardroom
On Premise CloudHybrid
Application Design
Custom Apps
SDK Extensions
Mobile SAP Analytics Hub

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Product Description
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Customers requiring an on premise
solution
Application Design
Cloud first strategy
Lumira Designer
State-of-the art Application Design for
professional users spanning across BI,
Planning & Predictive
SAP Analytics Cloud
SAP is committed to delivering innovative application design (for analytics, planning &
predictive) in the Cloud. Consistent with this, our strategic direction for application design
follows on and aligns with our broader Analytics strategy. Specifically:
 SAP Analytics Cloud is SAP’s primary strategic app design solution moving forward.
 The majority of new enhancements for application design will be delivered via SAP Analytics
Cloud, with only selected continuous improvements in Lumira Designer

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Product Description
Application Design | What it is
Professional design of centrally governable analytic content, ranging from dashboards via guided
analytics to sophisticated planning and Smart Predict applications
What is an application?
 Applications range from simple dashboards to complex
applications
 Applications expose custom logic based on scripting
 Applications are created by a few experts to be consumed by
many
What is application design?
 Rich set of capabilities for professional designers of analysis
applications to meet sophisticated business requirements
 Dedicated development environment with advanced scripting
capabilities
 Drive standardization of analytics content, create reusable UI
elements and application logic (such as headers, footers,
toolbars)
 Extending Applications via Custom Widgets and APIs

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Stories Applications
 They are guided
 The provide semi-casual users with the tools to easily
tell stories about their data
 They can easily get to the place to enjoy the view
 They are guided along the way
 The user is able to define where they want to go and how
to get there
 The provide professional users with the tools to provide
custom interactivity for their data
 There are no theoretical limits
Application Design | Stories & Applications

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Application Design | Levels of Abstraction
STORY APPLICATION
Cover
custom
scenarios
Cover
standard
scenarios
 Applications and Stories share functionality and widgets
 Applications and Stories provide same user experience
 Applications and Stories are different artifacts
 Applications and Stories are created with different Design Environments

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Product Description
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
 Simple widgets: images, buttons, dropdown menus, check
box group, radio button group, shape, text, web page, RSS
reader, clock
 Data-driven widgets: tables, charts, filter lines, R widget
 Container Widgets: pop-up/dialog and other container
widgets
 Dynamic Layouts: Dynamic adjustment of screen real-estate
without re-arranging all elements
 Interactions (e.g. filter, cascading behavior) between different
widgets via scripting
 Dynamic switch between widgets (e.g. chart and table) at
application run time
 Dynamic and flexible selections on Crosstab and Charts
 Powerful scripting capabilities
 Script Objects for modularizing and reusing code for
enterprise applications
Application Design Fundamentals

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Product Description
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Extension capabilities to enable customers or
partners to extend the tool
 R Widgets with scripting access
 Composites
– Designers can create a collection of widgets to make a composite
– Format by drag and drop of standard widgets, logic definition by data
binding and scripting
– Re-usable across applications
– Decompose complex applications into smaller, manageable parts
 Custom Widgets
– Developers can create sophisticated custom widgets
– Custom functionality
Extensions

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Product Description
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Capabilities for closed-loop scenarios
 OData calls to call into transactional system
 Support planning capabilities with scripting access
– Expose Planning Features via toolbar and quick action menus
– Customize the planning workflow programmatically by scripting
 Supporting predictive capabilities with scripting access
– Use trained model to predict the future
– Control prediction workflow by scripting
– Visualize and access predictive results
Closed-loop Scenarios
Predict
Simulate
Order

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Product Description
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Fully flexible navigation to Stories, Explorer and
smart functions
 Support Explorer via context menu and with additional
scripting capabilities (e.g. set default dimensions)
 Create story from Application
 Leverage Smart Assist functionalities with scripting access
– Time Series Forecasting
– Smart Grouping
– Smart Insights
– Smart Discovery
Seamless Integration with Business Applications
 Support bi-directional communications via scripting APIs:
– Analytical Applications embedded into other Business
Applications
– Analytical Applications host and communicate with other web
pages
Navigation & Integration Capabilities
Embedding
Applications into
other web pages
Communicating with
other web pages

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Product Description
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
 Translation of texts in applications
 Bookmark
 Composites as re-usable widget
 Export to PDF/CSV etc.
 Shared DataSources
 Application performance features
 Lazy Loading of Data Sources
 Parallel Execution
 Theming
 Template
 Broadcasting and Scheduling
Enterprise Capabilities

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Application Design
Current Scope (Beta Program, GA planned for Q2/2019)
 Simple widgets: images, buttons, dropdown menus, check box group,
radio button group, shape, text, web page, RSS reader, clock
 Data-driven widgets: tables, charts, filter lines
 Container widgets: popup
 Interactions (e.g. filter, cascading behavior) between different widgets via
scripting including global variables
 Dynamic switch between widgets (e.g. chart and table) at application run
time
 Dynamic and flexible selections on Crosstab
 Global Variables
 Embeddability : Application sharing API with URL parameters
 Powerful scripting capabilities
 Leverage Smart Assist functionalities with scripting access (Part I)
– Time Series Forecasting
– Smart Grouping
 Design-time features:
– Layout outline with context menu to add and edit scripts
– Design area
– Properties and script editor
– Where-used-list

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Outline View and Widgets
 Outline view
– Can be turned on/off
– Including UI widgets, global scripts and popups
– Provides the following options via context menu
– Hide/Delete/Rename widget
– Add/Delete scripts or events
– Where-used-list
 Application Design specific widgets
– Filterline, Dropdown box, Radio Button Group, Checkbox
Group, Button
 Reuse and extend story widgets
– Image, Text, Crosstab and Chart
– Extended with additional app design properties
– Naming, Visibility at view time and scripting capabilities
Application Design

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Rich Scripting Capabilities
 Subset of JavaScript
 Content assistance available – getDimension(), setFilter(),
etc
 Completeness and syntax check
 Glance over several scripts at once
 Commenting and uncommenting
Application Design
Recent Innovations

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Filtering data sources via Dropdown, Checkbox Group,
Radio Button Group and Button
 Via scripting capability
 E.g. “Table.getDatasource().setDimensionFilter “
Filtering data source via Filter Line
 Via build panel
 Source widget to identify the data source of filter line
 Default dimensions can be set in build panel
 Via copy filter script command to transfer the filter value to other
widgets
Application Design
Recent Innovations

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Dropdown box cascading behavior
 Result of the selection in one dropdown can influence the
selection options of the other dropdown box
 Can be done via scripting capability
Application Design
Recent Innovations

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Dynamic switch widgets (e.g. table and chart) at
application runtime
 Define widgets at design time
 Set visibility properties in styling panel at design time
 Using scripting capability to show or hide the widgets at
application runtime
Application Design
Recent Innovations

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Popup widgets
 Popup widget is a container widget
 You can use Popup widget to show details
 Open or close Popup via scripting capability
Application Design
Recent Innovations

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Selection on Crosstab
 On select event can be defined for Crosstab
 Different selected value based on data cell in crosstab can be
transferred as filter value to other widget
Application Design
Recent Innovations

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Recent Innovations
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Application on-initialization
 Application on-initialization event can be defined at design time
 Using scripting capability to define the application on-
initialization event
 Gaining the flexibility to add custom parameters for initial
loading of applications (e.g. different start up view)
Application Design
Recent Innovations
Start Up view with chart and
dimension location
Start Up view with Table and
dimension Product

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This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Q1/2019 & Q2/2019
Capabilities for closed-loop scenarios
 OData calls into transactional system
 Supports planning capabilities with scripting access
– Expose planning features via toolbar and quick action menus
– Customize the planning workflow programmatically by scripting
 Supporting predictive capabilities with scripting access
– Consume and visualize predictive results
Application Design Planning
SimulateOrder

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This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Q1/2019 & Q2/2019
Fully flexible navigation to Stories, Explorer and
Smart Assist capabilities
 Support Explorer via context menu and with additional
scripting capabilities (e.g. set default dimensions)
 Create story from Application
 Leverage predictive functionalities with scripting access
(Part II)
– Time-series Forecasting
– Smart Grouping
Seamless integration with business applications:
 Support bi-directional communications via scripting APIs:
– Analytical Applications embedded into other business
applications
– Analytical Applications host and communicate with other web
pages
Application Design
Embedding
Applications into
other web pages
Communicating with
other web pages

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Product Plan
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
Q1/2019 Future DirectionQ2/2019
Application Design
 Planning support (Part I)
– Possibility to work with planning models in tables
on a canvas page
– Enable planning features as in Story
 Predictive (Part II):
– Smart Insights
– Smart Discovery
 R widgets with scripting access
 Hyperlink support for image and shape widgets
 Script Objects: Re-usable functions to modularize
the code for enterprise applications
 Seamless integration with business applications:
– Support bi-directional communications via
scripting APIs
 Supporting Explorer via context menu and with
additional scripting capabilities (e.g. set default
dimensions)
 Extending pop-up widget to dialog widget
 Design time feature enhancements:
– Outline UI improvements
– Value help improvements
– Error panel and others
 Predictive with scripting access
 Planning support (Part II): Provides scripting
capability to trigger Version Management, Publish,
Revert and Version Management History
 OData Calls:
– OData function calls in the context of an App
Design script
– Programmatic access to OData
 Create story from widget
 Translation of texts in applications
 Dynamic Text enhancements
 Global Variable enhancements
 Text Input Widget, Slider and Range Slider Widget
 Adding analytical applications to recently used list
on HOME page
 Scripting value help enhancements
 API enhancements:
– E.g getUserID, DataSource APIs, Prompt APIs,
Navigate to APIs, Result Set APIs
 Container Widgets
– Tab strips, panels, grid layouts, etc.
 Dynamic layout : Dynamic adjustment of screen
real-estate without re-arranging all elements
 Standard (pivot-style) analysis
– Slice and dice analysis of data from BW queries
 Custom widgets
 Story features catchup: Geo map, blending support
 Integrating global search with scripting access
 Application performance features
– Lazy loading of data sources
– Parallel execution etc.
 Enterprise features
– Bookmark, Composites as re-usable widget
– Export to PDF/CSV, Templates
 Script refactoring capabilities
 Digital Boardroom integration
 Theming
 Shared data sources​
 Mobile support

24. Thank you
Jie Deng
Product Manager, SAP Analytics
contact: jie.deng@sap.com

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For customers and partners
Key links
 sapanalytics.cloud website
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 Pre-built business content
 Community
 Help and technical specs
 How to get support
 Blogs
 What’s New series