SAP Inside Track NL talk by Martijn van Foeken SAP is quickly extending their Analytics Cloud solution and it's hard to keep up with the waves containing exiting new features, introduced on a bi-weekly basis. Now with the introduction of Application Design, SAP adds a 4th pillar besides BI, Planning and Predictive features to SAP Analytics Cloud to enabling customers to easily and quicky build custom applications. In this presentation Martijn will highlight some of the latest innovations in SAP Analytics Cloud and will talk about / live demo the first version of the Application Designer, which is currently in BETA. He will also talk about the APOS Publisher for Cloud, a partner solution that enables bursting of personalized SAP Analytics Cloud stories to end users to various destinations and in different formats.

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Can you keep up with SAP Analytics Cloud?
Application Design & APOS Publisher for Cloud
Martijn van Foeken
10-Nov. 2018

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SAP TechEd 2018

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One | Simple | Cloud

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Application Design Definition
What is an Application?
 Range from simple dashboards to complex applications
 Expose custom logic based on scripting
 Created by a few experts to be consumed by many
What is Application Design?
 Rich set of capabilities for professional designers of analysis applications to meet sophisticated business
requirements
 Intuitive design environment in the browser with function-rich scripting editor
 Drive standardization of analytics content, create reusable UI elements and application logic (such as headers,
footers, toolbars)
 Extending Applications via SDKs and APIs

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Application Design BETA (2018.13)
Released to a few select beta customers….and Interdobs ;-)
 Simple widgets: icons, buttons, dropdown menus, check box group, radio button group
 Data-driven widgets: tables, charts, filterline
 Layout widgets: pop-up
 Interactions (e.g. filter, cascading behavior) between different widgets via scripting including global
variables
 Dynamic switch between widgets (e.g. chart and table) at application runtime
 Dynamic and flexible selections on crosstab

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Application Design Use Case
#askSAP Analytics Innovations Community Call Feb 2018:
 SAP Lumira Designer remains our primary solution for application design with continued innovation
and investment
 In parallel, we are adding the Application Design use case to the SAP Analytics Cloud roadmap in H1,
2018

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Application Design Demo

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SAP Analytics Cloud Application Design
Product plan overview – key themes and capabilities

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SAP Analytics Cloud Application Design
Planning & Smart (Predictive) Capabilities (Labs Preview)
Integrating Planning Capabilities
 Support standard planning features (like mass data entry, lock cell, add comment, etc.) via context
menu in Analytic Application.
 Provide scripting capabilities to trigger planning specific functionalities (like version management,
refresh data, publish/revert data, etc.)
Integrating Smart Capabilities
 Leveraging Smart Assist features with scripting access in Analytic Applications. (Time series
forecasting, Smart Grouping, Smart Insights, Smart Discovery, R visualizations)
 Integrating Smart Predict (Import, Apply and Consume Predictive models and results in Analytic
Application

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Schedule Export of Story in PDF / Excel via Email

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APOS Publisher for SAP Analytics Cloud: Demo

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Questions?
Martijn van Foeken
SAP BI Consultant
Interdobs B.V.
SAP Consultancy
Reitscheweg 47
5232 BX Den Bosch
T +31 85 484 1984
M +31 6 1012 2746
E martijn.van.foeken@interdobs.nl
I www.interdobs.nl

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Reitscheweg 47
5232 BX Den Bosch
Tel : +31 85 484 1984
Email: info@interdobs.nl
Web : www.interdobs.nl