1. What’s New in SAP BusinessObjects
Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)
Viswanathan Ramakrishnan / Srikanth Rao
Karsten Ruf/Donnie McMillan/ Andrew Murray

2. Agenda
What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)
 One BI App
– Access Dashboards, Zen, Web Intelligence and CR content
– Light integration with Explorer
Enhancements in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)
 Usability Enhancements
 Geomap Enhancements
Platform Support
 iOS Support
 Minimum Platform Requirements
 Backward Compatibility
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3. What’s new in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)

4. One BI App
 Access following new content types
– Dashboards
– Design Studio 1.0 (aka Zen)
– Interactive CR
 Light Integration with Explorer
– Access exploration view sets from home
screen
– On tapping - it will launch Explorer App
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5. Dashboards Overview

6. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 SP05
Dashboards for Mobile
Access dashboards using SAP BusinessObjects BI Mobile
iPad app
Access dashboards offline, data refresh can be stored on device
Solution based SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform
Authored using Dashboards designer
Author once and deliver to both PC (Flash) and iPad (HTML5)
Mobile preview (HTML5 output)
Compatibility panel list components and features not available for iPad
Leverage existing dashboard features
Most commonly used visualizations and controls
Support Excel formulas, data insertion
Connectivity
Query Panel based connectivity to BW, HANA, third party relational
Prompt component not available
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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7. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 SP05
Dashboards for Mobile supported components/charts/connections
Components Charts
Label Check Box Column Chart
Image Component Radio Button Bar Chart
Combo Box Icon Pie Chart
Push Button List View Line Chart
Toggle Button Scorecard Combination Chart
Label Based Menu Slider Stacked Bar Chart
Progress Bar Stacked Column Chart
Input Text Gauge
Input Text Area
Art Containers Connectivity
Nova theme Tab Set Via Query Panel
Background Canvas Container Relational sources (Universe)
Rectangle Component Groups BW (BEx queries)
Ellipse HANA (Universe)
Line
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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8. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 SP05
Dashboards for Mobile: key gaps compared to the Flash / PC version
Connectivity
Only Query Panel based data connectivity
Query Prompt Component not available
No XML, Web Service, QaaWS, Live Office, Xcelsius 2008 SP2 BEx
connector, UNX on Olap sources (MDX)
Components
Hierarchies in tables
Support for add-on components
Maps, radar, bubble, XY, waterfall charts, picture menu, hierarchical
table component, accordion menu, check box ticker, list builder
selectors
Themes
Default style equivalent to Nova theme
Deployment
Dashboards must be published to the BusinessObjects BI Platform
Dashboards are access using the SAP BusinessObjects iPad app
*Functional gaps are planned to be addressed in subsequent releases
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9. Design Studio Overview

10. SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Product description
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is a design environment for building analytical and planning
applications optimized for multidimensional sources
Build analytic applications
Intuitive design environment for IT and designers
Large set of design components (buttons, tabs,
dropdown menus, etc.)
Extend via scripting language (subset of
JavaScript)
Use latest technologies
Eclipse plug-in for the designer
HTML5 rendering
Support for OLAP sources
SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP HANA
Other multidimensional sources
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11. Creating Next Gen BI Apps
Step 1: Long on to BIP with dswsbobje URL
Step 2: Create a Dashboard with Design studio
Step 3: Publish the Dashboard to
BIP and Add it to Mobile Category
to View a Dashboard on iPad
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12. Enhancements in SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 4.4.0 (iOS)

13. Geomap Enhancements
 Ability to assign colors to measure, so that
underperforming outlets show up in red, mid-level
in yellow and well performing in green
 Location awareness capability along with ability to
filter report by selecting the radius of interest from
radar
 Support for zip code instead of latitude and
longitude information
 Ability to open a linked report from geomap in the
full screen mode
 Size of the bubble to be driven based on the
measure value
 When selecting the POI, an ability to see all the
associated measures along with the main
measure
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14. Usability Enhancements
Complicated Hierarchical Prompts
 Continuous usability enhancements to home screen
 Enhancements to hierarchical prompts – Ability to
select all the child nodes from the parent node itself
 Double tap on the popovers in the geomap to take to
full screen mode
 Popovers in the geomap view to be swipe enabled
 Styling of the button the to be consistent between the
home and the server screen
 Value popovers in the charts to be visible until the user
decides to dismiss it
 Value popover in the stacked bar chart to correspond
to the segment/stack that I tap on
 Document favorite to be available as an actionable
button in the info page
Feedback on tap
 Consistent feedback on the tap actions by changing
the color of the background screen
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15. Platform Support

16. PLATFORM SUPPORT
IOS PLATFORM UPDATES
 Minimum support version is iOS 5.1 and Above
 Support iOS6
MINIMUM PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS FOR MOBI 4.3.0
o BI 4.0 SP 05
BACKWARD COMPATABILITY
 Mobi 4.4.0 is fully supported with the feature capabilities of 4.3.0 client against older servers
– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.3.0) need to be on the following version or above
o BI 4.0 SP04 Patch 03
– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.2.0) need to be on the following version or above
o BI 4.0 FP03 Patch 6
o BI 4.0 SP04
o BI 4.0 SP02 Patch 18
o XI 3.1 FP 3.8, FP 4.3, FP 5.2
– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.1.0) need to be on the following version or above
o BI 4.0 FP 03 Patch 1
o BI 4.0 SP02 Patch 13
o XI 3.1 FP 4.1, FP 5.1
– For backward compatibility servers (with client functionality of 4.0.3) need to be on the following version or above
o XI 3.1 SP 3 FP 3.7
o XI 3.1 SP4
o XI 3.1 SP5
o BI 4.0 SP02 Patch 2
o BIOD v2
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17. APPENDIX

18. Branding & Customization

19. Branding & Customization
 App Icon, App Text
 Splash screen
 Title Bar (Background Color, Font
Color)
 Home Screen Background Color (or
image)
 Deactivate Video Tutorial
 Customize date Information in Report
Icon
 Deactivate StreamWork Collaboration
and send to StreamWork
 Deactivate SUP
 Deactivate BIOD
 Ability to pre-define connections
 Disable help
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