SAP HANA UI Integration Services as presented for the SAP Mentors in the SAP Mentors Monday (sapmm) session

1. Enrich Your SAP HANA XS Applications with User
Interface Integration Services
Winfried Wenisch, David Kviti, Avi Guzansky, Aviad Rivlin
November, 2013

2. Disclaimer
This presentation outlines our general product direction and should not be relied on in making a
purchase decision. This presentation is not subject to your license agreement or any other agreement
with SAP. SAP has no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this presentation or to
develop or release any functionality mentioned in this presentation. This presentation and SAP's
strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any
time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either
express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose, or non-infringement. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this
document, except if such damages were caused by SAP intentionally or grossly negligent.
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3. Agenda
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HANA UI Integration Services – Overview and Key Capabilities
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Live Demo
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Future Engagements
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4. HANA UI Integration Services and SAP HANA Platform

5. SAP HANA Platform
Platform for next-generation “smart” applications
Developers
Data Scientists
Applications
& Tools
Business Users
Executives
Consumers
Industry | LoB | Consumer | Analytics | Social | Cloud | Mobile
SAP HANA PLATFORM
Application Server | UI Integration Services | Web Server
Processing Engine
Event Processing | Planning | Calculation | Predictive Analytics
Database Services
Transactions | Analytics | Partitioning
Compression | Availability | Encryption
Rules | Text Mining | Search | Application Function Libraries | Geospatial
Integration Services
Unified Administration |
Security Services
Development | Connectivity |
Lifecycle Management
Services
Application Services
Mobile | XaaS | High-volume Replication | Real-time Replication | Hadoop
More than a DB – it’s a true platform
Re-imagined, Transformative
Supports any application
 Converged OTLP + OLAP
 Embedded business logic
 Completely re-imagined
 Transactions, analytics, predictive, sentiment and spatial
processing transformed for real-time business operations
 60% of HANA use cases are outside of the SAP Landscape
 440+ Startups are developing on HANA
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6. SAP HANA Extended Application Services (SAP HANA XS)
Small footprint application server / web server / basis for an application development platform
inside SAP HANA
Benefits
 Fast, open, and flexible application development and
deployment environment
 Reduced TCO and development due to minimized “layers”
required to deploy applications
 Leverage the built-in strengths of SAP HANA for best
possible performance
XS
 Lightweight small web-based applications
 Complex high-speed business applications with deep
integration of differentiating SAP HANA database features
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UIS
OData
XSJS
XMLA
RDL
MDX
CDS
Repo
Scope
HANA
SQL
Views
Database
SQLScript
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7. SAP HANA UI Integration Services

8. SAP HANA UI Integration Services
Value Proposition
With SAP HANA UI Integration Services, developers and designers can easily make use of standardized UI
services to be leveraged in their standalone HANA applications or - in addition - create and design application
sites based on HANA applications using consistent UI patterns to support end-to-end business scenarios with
harmonized user experience across applications.
 Provides end users a state-of-the-art user experience and
access to seamlessly integrated HANA native applications
 Enables designers to easily organize applications and
widgets into sites via intuitive design environment
 Gives developers a simple way to use standardized services
for creating application sites and integrating widgets within
their familiar SAP HANA studio environment
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9. SAP HANA UI Integration Services - Examples
 Sites and page building: state-of-the-art design environment of
for managing sites, page navigation, layout and content
XS Application Sites
Shell Services
Shell Services
 Property persistence: widget can define properties that are
persisted via customization
 Personalization: persistency of widget properties on user level
 Publish-Subscribe: eventing mechanism allowing data
interchange between widgets (mashups)
UI Integration Services
Sites &
navigation
Properties
Personalization
Eventing
Context
Widget
catalog
 Context: properties can be reflected in the URL allowing
bookmarking and sharing
 OpenSocial: integration of OpenSocial-compliant widgets
SAP HANA Platform
Detailed information about the UI services and APIs are described in the “SAP HANA Developer Guide” (http://help.sap.com/hana_platform)
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10. Developer perspective
Integrated development environment in SAP HANA studio
Editor for using UI
services API in
your code
Application site
Widget
Creation wizard for
application sites
and widgets
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11. Demo

12. Using UI Services
Developer
Develop and enrich
native applications
leveraging UI services
Create application site
in HANA studio with full
support of the lifecycle
Designer
Adjust application site
provided by a developer
Optimize the site to
match end user needs
Change site layout, add
widgets and configure
properties
End User
Assign end users who
are allowed to access
the site
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Use application site
Personalize the site
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13. Roadmap

14. SAP HANA UI Integration Services
Roadmap
End user
Core Services
 Enjoy either services or even UI
patterns from UI Integration Services
Designer
 Embedded WYSIWYG design
environment to create AppSites
 Manage site layout, hierarchy and
properties
 Additional services supporting
developer scenarios, e.g.
navigation, branding, layout
personalization in the shell
Shell
 Support of additional shell(s)
 Support of catalogs from different
sources
Developer
 Integrated development environment
in SAP HANA studio
 Wizards for creating artifacts such as
application sites and widgets
 Public APIs and consistent UI
patterns
Today
SAP HANA SP6
Widgets
Future enhancements
 Extension of the developer story to
an integration point for end users
on SAP HANA stack
 Integration of SAP HANA and nonHANA applications
 Service integration with other SAP
solutions, e.g. Cloud
 Usage of smart, contextual services
to provide the right content in the
right context to end users
 Re-useable templates for widgets
to support common requirements
e.g. responsive tables
Planned Innovations
Future Direction
This presentation and SAP‘s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided
without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement
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15. 5 easy steps to quickly get started
1) Watch the tutorial videos on SAP HANA Academy
2) Download SAP HANA developer edition
3) Join OpenSAP course to learn more and run the exercises
4) Learn more by reading the comprehensive developer guide and latest enhancements
5) Share your feedback with the SAP HANA developer community
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16. Future Engagements

17. Call for Action

If you are developing HANA native apps and need
additional information…

If you would like to provide feedback and influence the
next releases of the product…

If you are looking for additional information…
Contact Aviad Rivlin (aviad.rivlin@sap.com)
We are happy to support you and influence together the
product roadmap
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18. Further Information
Overview
Experience SAP HANA
http://www.saphana.com/welcome
SAP HANA In Memory
http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory
HANA Startup Focus Program
http://www.experiencesaphana.com/docs/DOC-1781
Twitter
@SapDevs, #sapdevcenter
Developers
SAP HANA Developer Center
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana and
http://developers.sap.com/hana
SAP HANA Help Center
http://http://help.sap.com/hana_platform (Release Notes, Developer Guide)
SAP HANA Academy
http://academy.saphana.com / http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3123
SAP HANA Developer Edition
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31722
OpenSAP courses
https://open.sap.com
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