What is SAP’s strategic direction for Dashboards?
Xcelsius will continue to be the tool of choice for the creation of standalone dashboards and as the visual content creation tool for the desktop or portal page. For the creation of Composite dashboards that combine multiple BI content types, Xcelsius should be used in conjunction with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder – for non-SAP Netweaver customers or customers that have deployed the InfoView portal – ; or with SAP Composition Environment (Web Page Composer, Visual Composer) for those customers that have deployed the NetWeaver platform. Some of the enhancements planned for Xcelsius future releases include: – Enhancements to encompass functionality from BEx Web Application Designer, in particular data binding functionality with SAP NW BW. – Integration with Pioneer. It will be possible to build Xcelsius dashboards seamlessly on Pioneer analyses. – Improved data access to directly use BEx queries and query views with BI Consumer services just like the NetWeaver BW BEx tools do in
