Being either SAP consultant
or guy at SAP’s customer side we all know that there are many BI tools in SAP’s
portfolio. Partially it is caused by acquisitions done by SAP over the years
but also partially by SAP’s pursuit of new technologies and offerings built on top
of them. Basically like in every part of life a lifecycle comes in place and the
new offerings (Lumira)
are supposed to replace old technologies/tools (BEx)
in long run.
It is clear that there has
to be done something about all these tools. This is not only to relieve a worries
of customers bit. But also as SAP is sticking to their newest strategy: Run simple as echoed in this year spring
at annual SapphireNow conference in Orlando. As per run simple mantra it should
be up to customers to keep existing BI content in place but from SAP side there
is a focus on few core products allowing customers to do possible migration
from existing tools to the new ones.
This means the portfolio of
SAP BI products should potentially shrink a bit. Some tools will not be
developed further and their functions will be covered by other tools. Possible
paths of replacements can be as follows:
SAP
BusinessObjects Explorer -> SAP Lumira
SAP
BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) -> Design Studio
*picture
taken from blog: SAP
BI strategy behind Lumira roadmap ASUG BOBJ conference
Of course one can argument
that tools which is supposed to left behind have features which are not
included yet in those who are supposed to stay. There are issues like this but
there is no “do migration now!” approach. Customers can keep using what they
use at the moment but they should evaluate and test new things just in case to
be prepared for migration which may come in future.
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