This document discusses an agenda for an SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Influence Council meeting. It introduces the council leadership and provides an overview of the council's objectives to prioritize feedback on new features for Web Intelligence. It then reviews the current Web Intelligence product roadmap, covering improvements in the new user experience, visualizations, and data access planned for the 4.0 release. Potential future innovations discussed include enhanced developer support, mobile optimizations, and SAP HANA integration. The document aims to gather feedback from council members on shaping the future direction of Web Intelligence.

1. AP250 – ASUG Influence Council
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Karsten Ruf, Solution Management
Oct, 2012

2. Agenda
Agenda
• Introduction to the Web Intelligence Influence Council
• Web Intelligence product road map
• Open discussion and feedback
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3. Introduction

4. Introduction
Introduction
Web Intelligence IC leadership
 Gregory Botticchio, Solution Manager Web Intelligence
 Jason Olson, BI Architect, Kimberly-Clark
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5. Introduction
Introduction
Council Overview
 Where Web Intelligence is today:
 Released BI4.0 with major enhancements
 Released the SP4 (containing FP3 new features)
 What we’ve discussed during 2011/2012:
 DeskI catch-up features (WebI applet on Excel; FHQL; Grouping)
 BI Mobile consumption
 BI4.1 feature backlog
 What we plan to do for 2012/2013:
 New council started last week, next session in Nov (still open for new members)
 Scope for BI 4.2+
 Topic-based sessions
 Stronger focus on Mobile
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6. Introduction
Introduction
IC’s Objectives & Participant Expectations…
 Get prioritization and implementation feedback on:
 New interactive visualizations
 (Micro-) Charts in cells
 New interactive capabilities
 Add comments in a Web Intelligence report
 Get additional feedback on the highest priority, outstanding Web Intelligence capabilities
 Participant profile:
 Business User, Report Designer, or BI Manager
 Experienced with Web Intelligence, Dashboards, BEx web or Desktop Intelligence
 Mobile BI
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7. Web Intelligence Product Road Map

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9. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities
New user experience Developer support Mobile support enhancements
 UI focused on user activities  RESTful Web services
 Harmonization  UI customization Developer support
 Productivity improvements  Branding
Core capabilities enhancements
Improved visualizations Core capabilities enhancements
 New chart types  Custom grouping
Optimization for SAP HANA
 Enhanced chart workflows  Freeze header
 Custom palettes
Data access  Right to left support
 Common semantic layer
 Multidimensional data support Data access enhancements
 SAP NetWeaver BW  SAP NetWeaver BW
 SAP HANA  SAP HANA
 Hadoop
TODAY Planned Innovations Future Direction
(Release 4.0)*
* Up to 4.0 SP4, including FP3
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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10. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0
New user experience
Provide a new modernized user interface based on user workflows
UI focused on user activities
 Immediate access to features grouped by user activities (report, formatting,
data access, analysis)
 Modern look and feel
Harmonization
 Interoperability with other clients
 New query panel for the HTML client
 Consistent icons and terminology
Productivity improvements
 Performance optimization for the interactivity
 Web Intelligence Rich Client quick launch
 Reuse and share with copy and paste
 Report style management via CSS
TODAY
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11. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0
Improved visualizations
Visualizations improved with new chart types and ease of customization
New chart types
 Additional charts types: scatter, tree maps, box plots, tag cloud, waterfall
chart
 Dimensional charting
Enhanced chart workflows
 Drag and drop objects into charts with automatic feeding
 Fine grained chart control with dialog box
 Incomplete chart displayed as “ghosts”
 Selectable areas for direct formatting in toolbars
 Color assignment of series
TODAY
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12. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0
Data access
Common design experience across data sources
Integration with SAP NetWeaver BW
 Direct access to SAP NetWeaver BW via BICS
 Performance optimization
 Additional SAP BEx query features support
Multidimensional data support
 Hierarchy support in query panel via the member selector
 Hierarchical navigation in tables and charts
 Hierarchy support in Input Controls
Common experience across all data sources
 Common query panel for all data sources
 SAP HANA support
 Hadoop support
TODAY
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13. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities
New user experience Developer support Mobile support enhancements
 UI focused on user activities  RESTful Web services
 Harmonization  UI customization Developer support
 Productivity improvements  Branding
Core capabilities enhancements
Improved visualizations Core capabilities enhancements
 New chart types  Custom grouping
Optimization for SAP HANA
 Enhanced chart workflows  Freeze header
 Custom palettes
Data access  Right to left support
 Common semantic layer
 Multidimensional data support Data access enhancements
 SAP NetWeaver BW  SAP NetWeaver BW
 SAP HANA  SAP HANA
 Hadoop
Today PLANNED INNOVATIONS Future Direction
(Release 4.0)*
* Up to 4.0 SP4, including FP3 This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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14. Planned Innovations
Developer support
Provide RESTful Web services API for report consumption and scheduling and UI customization options
RESTful Web services
 Document consumption (view, refresh, simple prompt management)
 Scheduling
 Change data source
UI customization
 Personalized Web Intelligence clients
 Customization per user group in CMC
 Customization of UI elements and actions
Branding
 Logos and colors
PLANNED INNOVATIONS This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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15. Planned Innovations
Core capabilities enhancements
Enhanced user experience in reporting capabilities
Custom grouping
 Allow grouping of multiple member values under one name
Freeze header
 Keep table rows or columns visible while scrolling
 User defined number of first rows or columns to freeze
Custom palettes
 Create and edit custom palettes to manage chart coloring
Right to left support
 Web Intelligence Rich Internet Application and Web Intelligence Rich Client
 Mirrored interface
 Bi-directional text support
PLANNED INNOVATIONS This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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16. Planned Innovations
Data access enhancements
Continuous integration with SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA
SAP NetWeaver BW support
 Additional SAP BEx queries feature support
 Performance improvements
SAP HANA support
 Cross platform single sign-on solution via SAML
 Direct access to SAP HANA with hierarchies and variables via transient
universes and authored universes
 Query stripping
PLANNED INNOVATIONS This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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17. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Product road map overview - key themes and capabilities
New user experience Developer support Mobile support enhancements
 UI focused on user activities  RESTful Web services
 Harmonization  UI customization Developer support
 Productivity improvements  Branding
Core capabilities enhancements
Improved visualizations Core capabilities enhancements
 New chart types  Custom grouping
Optimization for SAP HANA
 Enhanced chart workflows  Freeze header
 Custom palettes
Data access  Right to left support
 Common semantic layer
 Multidimensional data support Data access enhancements
 SAP NetWeaver BW  SAP NetWeaver BW
 SAP HANA  SAP HANA
 Hadoop
Today Planned Innovations FUTURE DIRECTION
(Release 4.0)* This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
* Up to 4.0 SP4, including FP3
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18. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Future direction
Mobile support enhancements
 Ease of creation for mobile reports
Developer support
 Additional RESTful Web services APIs
 Extension points
Core capabilities enhancement
 Report and charting improvements
 Desktop Intelligence features
Optimization for SAP HANA
FUTURE DIRECTION This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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19. Discussion & feedback

20. Contact information:
Gregory Botticchio
Solution Management
Gregory.botticchio@sap.com