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Migrating Analysis for Office workbooks from BW to BI Platform
We are in process of moving a lot of Analysis for Office (AfO) workbooks from a SAP BW environment to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform. Besides storing the workbooks on BI Platform, we of course want to use the OLAP connection on the BI Platform to connect to BW, instead of using the direct – locally defined – connection from AfO to BW.
AfO has a nice feature to quickly swap source systems, but it is a bit hidden. We are using Analysis for Office 2.3 by the way.
1. Open the workbook you want to migrate. Make sure your workbook is not connected to the BW system. Display the Design Panel, go to the Components tab and select your workbook. Right-click to Log Off.
De Nederlandse BI Podcast – Episode 24
Tonight we recorded edition 24 of De Nederlandse BI Podcast! We talked about TechEd Las Vegas 2016, Lumira 2.0, HANA Express and BW/4HANA.
As always, you can find the show in iTunes, on our website or just use the Podcast player below to listen instantly. Warning: Dutch content only!
SAP Lumira 2.0 – Some new insights
SAP Lumira 2.0 was announced earlier this year as the successor to SAP Lumira 1.x and SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6. But, apart from a few screenshots and roadmap slides I hadn’t seen much of this new version yet. Luckily there was a SAP Partner update webinar last Friday that gave some more insights and even showed a short demo of the new Lumira 2.0. At TechEd Las Vegas this week probably the same information will be shared.
First, the release of Lumira 2.0 is postponed and is now expected to be somewhere late Q2/early Q3 2017. As Lumira 1.x and Design Studio 1.6 won’t get any new features, I’d guess we can only expect some minor patch releases the coming year until 2.0 is GA. Reason for the delay is that the current product quality is not up to par and SAP doesn’t want to limit the scope for the 2.0 release. This means that the agile development/release approach we have seen for the past years on Lumira is now put on hold.
Next we already knew that Lumira 2.0 is a convergence of Lumira and Design Studio. There will be one product (Lumira), with two user interfaces (Designer and Discovery) using common technology. I still haven’t seen any real interoperability between the tools/interfaces, so I’m still curious what the exact advantage for the user would be here. From an BI admin perspective we’ll get a single BI Platform add-on, instead of the separate ones we now have for Lumira and Design Studio.
Below are some slides regarding Lumira Discovery, mostly showing user interface/experience changes/improvements.
De Nederlandse BI Podcast – Episode 23: We are back!
After a long break we are back with a new edition of De Nederlandse BI Podcast! This time we discuss Steve Lucas leaving SAP, a possible new BW version, SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2, BI2016, TechEd 2016 and sitNL 2016.
As always, you can find the show in iTunes, on our website or just use the Podcast player below to listen instantly. Warning: Dutch content only!
Interdobs Book Launch SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – The Comprehensive Guide
End March we had very nice book launch event for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – The Comprehensive Guide. It was hosted by Interdobs at SAP Netherlands.
Rolf Hichert gave an interesting lecture on data visualization and his IBCS standard. Dwain and Jeroen discussed the history and current state of Design Studio, and I told the story of why and how this book was created.
Check the photo album on Facebook and some of the Tweets:
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – The Comprehensive Guide
Geplaatst door Interdobs BV op vrijdag 1 april 2016
Yesterday: pic.twitter.com/9fWuBd8Z1R
— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) March 31, 2016
