The April 20, 2017,
SAPinsider Q&A on the SAP BI Convergence Strategy has provided a nearly
endless supply of blogging material, but this will be my last post on the
subject. If you want to read the full transcript, go to the APOS On-Demand
Webinars page:
So far, I've focused
on the place of individual SAP products within the SAP convergence strategy (the merger of Lumira and Design Studio, what's new in SAP Web Intelligence, BOC),
on the newest platform developments (what's new in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP4), and on the convergence strategy itself.
Now let's look at a
topic that was a little less defined, but ever-present nonetheless: data
connectivity.
As convergence reduces the SAP BI toolset, the need for greater connectivity grows, and the pressure is on to supply that connectivity. One of the registrants for the Q&A commented:
As convergence reduces the SAP BI toolset, the need for greater connectivity grows, and the pressure is on to supply that connectivity. One of the registrants for the Q&A commented:
Will there be more
emphasis on adding new features in the BI reporting/analysis toolset to support
non-SAP databases? We see lots of new features and capabilities to better
report off of SAP HANA and BW data, but not much related to Microsoft SQL
Server, Oracle, etc.
Another guest asked
about row and cell limitations in Design Studio:
Design Studio has
a row and cell limitation. We were hoping this limitation was removed with the
convergence of DS and Lumira.
SAP's David Stocker
replied:
In BEx and SAP
HANA datasources, you can define what the limits are in the backend. For
universes, we still have the same hard limit as in 1.6. We've not changed
anything in that corner for 2.0. We do plan to revisit this in the future, now
that we have the new velocity infrastructure.
Another guest asked
about OLAP connectivity:
Hi Team, When
would SSAS OLAP based universes or direct non-SAP OLAP connections be
supported?
Merlijn Ekkel replied:
We already support
various non-SAP OLAP datasources. Please check our Product Availability
Matrix
Another guest asked
about BOC connectivity:
Our company is
planning to move more to cloud rather than using on-premise, so my detail
question is, how is SAP BusinessObjects BI Cloud able to access data on our
company (within firewall)? Example, I have Crystal Report access Oracle
database in my company, if I want to move that Crystal Report to SAP
BusinessObjects BI Cloud, is it possible?
Henry Kam noted:
SAP
BusinessObjects Cloud is able to access data within the firewall by utilizing
the BOC Cloud Agent to import data into BOC… It is not currently possible to
move Crystal Reports to SAP BusinessObjects Cloud.
Another guest:
When will Lumira
support SSAS?
Merlijn:
Today we have no
direct road map plans to support SSAS (or other OLAP datasources). Today the
best option would be the APOS Data Gateway that solves the gap.
We thank Merlijn for
his acknowledgement of how the APOS Data Gateway is
leading the way with enhanced data connectivity for SAP BusinessObjects. Check
out the available connectivity options:
- APOS Data Gateway, Lumira Edition
- APOS Data Gateway, Design Studio Edition
- APOS Data Gateway for SAP BusinessObjects Cloud
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