The April 20, 2017,
SAPinsider Q&A focused on the SAP BI Convergence Strategy, and nowhere is
that convergence more apparent than in the merger of SAP Lumira and SAP Design
Studio.
The coming release of
Lumira 2.0 will unite the Lumira and Design Studio code base in recognition of
the fact, as David Stocker put it during the Q&A, that " the use cases of an agile viz tool and a custom app actually
overlap in the wild." The merger of these two solutions is meant to
simplify the workflow from business users to designers.
The backend convergence will facilitate
such workflows, while the maintenance of separate client applications will
preserve and improve usability for the business user and the designer. Blair
Wheadon described the SAP vision:
Lumira 2.0 has
major improvements in usability, data access, and is converged with SAP
BusinessObjects Design Studio to enable the creation of sophisticated analytic
applications… Data access: Key new features include online access to BW from
Lumira Discovery 2.0 (the successor to Lumira Desktop) and improved access to
Universe data in Lumira Designer 2.0 (the successor to Design Studio desktop
1.x) which removes the row limit for Universe access. This will ensure direct
access to governed data and remove the need to create data extracts and
ungoverned data silos. In addition to data access, the usability of Lumira
Discovery is much improved with a single canvas UX, improved filtering and
input controls, new chart features like smoothed lines and improved formatting
control. Finally the ability to open a Lumira Discovery visualization with
Lumira Designer and turn it into a full blown analytic application is very
powerful. This means that any dashboard from the simplest visualization up to
full-blown planning applications can be handled by the same tool. As
requirements change, you don't need to switch tools.
The combination of Lumira
Discovery 2.0 (formerly Lumira Desktop) and Lumira Designer (formerly Design
Studio Desktop) will enable seamless collaboration between business users and designers
to create custom dashboards and analytic applications from business user visualizations.
You can make this collaboration
even more effective by expanding your data connectivity options. The
APOS Data Gateway
solution is designed to help you do just that.
The APOS
Data Gateway is a data connection and data transformation solution which
provides extended data source and data volume options for SAP Lumira and SAP
Design Studio. It also enables enhanced interoperability with BI components
across the SAP landscape.
You can find more about
the Lumira / Design Studio convergence in the Q&A transcript, which you can
access from the APOS On-Demand Webinars page:
Future posts will look
at what's new in Web Intelligence, Analysis for Office, and SAP BusinessObjects
Cloud.
