I attended this APOS webcast today. It is always interesting to consider options with your tools and certainly some options were shown today.
Today’s APOS webcast started with an attendee poll:
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Most attendees were on BI4.1
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Most attendees had not started Lumira development yet
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Figure 3 shows attendees who have started Design Studio development
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Figure 4 shows Lumira themes; it is complementary with Web Intelligence
Will Lumira replace Web Intelligence? No
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Figure 5 is APOS’s summary of the SAP BI convergence themes; SAP has a history with Web Intelligence
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Figure 6 shows the connectivity needs – introducing the APOS Data Gateway
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Figure 7 shows two editions of the APOS Gateway
Desktop is targeted trusted tactical data sources
Server edition is for data discovery and exploration – Lumira & Design Studio includes trusted enterprise data sources
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Figure 8 shows the various APOS Gateway editions
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Lumira developer can connect to a block of data in Web Intelligence and use that as a data source to use Lumira
Authentication is happening when connecting to BI Platform, connect to instance of Web Intelligence report
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Figure 10 shows the data gateway for Lumira Edition is for trusted data sources; any database
Database Gateway is the middleware
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Data restriction for universe 5K rows or 50K cells is capped; the APOS Gateway offers an unlimited mode
It offers multi-dimensional mode and Unv & UNX connectivity
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Figure 12 shows the release dates; Server editions are coming in quite near term; no exact date –next few weeks
I asked if there was a trial available, and the answer was yes
Towards the end of the webcast, the presenters encouraged everyone to attend the ASUG SAP Analytics BusinessObjects Conference and SAP TechEd Las Vegas.
Join ASUG for these upcoming Design Studio webcasts:
- June 8: Best Practices for Data Visualization and Dashboard Design with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
- June 10: Moving from BEx Tools to Analysis and Design Studio: Question & Answer Session
- June 22: Enabling Your Salesforce through On-Time Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
- Aug. 10: Tetra Pak's BI Reporting Strategy Using Applications Created by SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio