What is the roadmap for BEx Web Application Designer?
• WAD is a flexible tool and is used in many different scenarios: dashboarding, light-weight reporting, and heavy weight web-based BI applications • Xcelsius is the clear flagship product for high-end BI dashboards and sophisticated visual presentations: Xcelsius will be integrated with Pioneer and it will be possible to build Xcelsius dashboards seamlessly on Pioneer analyses. It will also be enhanced in order to directly use BEx queries and query views with BI Consumer services like the NetWeaver BI BEx tools do in NW BI 7.0. Xcelsius will also be integrated with SAP NetWeaver’s Visual Composer in order to add Xcelsius’ sophisticated visual capabilities to composites built with Visual Composer and in order to build seamless integration between composites and pure Xcelsius dashboards. • For heavy-weight web-based BI apps, BEx Web Application Designer is still available but will be gradually replaced by SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment and Visual Composer • Visual Composer will pi