1. What´s New? SAP HANA SPS 07
HANA UI Integration Services
Aviad Rivlin, Product Manager
Winfried Wenisch, Area Product Owner
David Kviti, Product Owner
December, 2013

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3. Overview: SAP HANA
Extended Application
Services

4. SAP HANA Extended Application Services (XS)
Introduction
What: Small footprint application server / web server / basis
for an application development platform inside SAP HANA
Rationale: Enable application development and deployment
while minimizing architectural “layers”
 Create apps that have an http-based UI (browser, mobile apps)
 Apps run directly on SAP HANA, w/o additional external servers or
components
-> simplified system architecture = low TCO
 Tight integration w/ SAP HANA DB -> best possible performance
Scope: wide range of apps
 Lightweight small web-based applications
 Complex enterprise business applications
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5. Development model for SAP HANA based native applications
SAP HANA extended application services offer
 Easy access to SAP HANA database via HTTP-based consumption
 Attractive, dynamic HTML5 UI applications via OData services or by
writing native application-specific code that runs in SAP HANA context
 Built-in web server to access static content stored in
SAP HANA repository
 …and much more
Application development following a layered approach
 UI rendering completely in the client (browser, mobile apps)
 Server-side procedural logic in JavaScript
 All artifacts stored in the SAP HANA repository
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6. SAP HANA Extended Application Services – Overview
Front-end Technologies
 http/s
 HTML5 / SAPUI5
 Client-side JavaScript
Control Flow Technologies
 OData
 Server-Side JavaScript
 XMLA
Client: Browser or Mobile
Presentation logic
SAP HANA
XS
Control flow logic
Data Processing Technologies
 SQL / SqlScript
 Calculation Engine Functions
 Application Function Library (AFL)
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Data
Calculation logic
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7. Overview: HANA UI Integration
Services

8. SAP HANA UI Integration Services
Overview
With SAP HANA UI Integration Services, developers and designers can easily make use of standardized UI
services to be leveraged in their standalone HANA applications or - in addition - create and design application
sites based on SAP HANA applications using consistent UI patterns to support end-to-end business scenarios
with harmonized user experience across applications.
 Provides end users a state-of-the-art user experience
to seamlessly integrated HANA native applications
 Enables designers to easily organize applications and
widgets into sites via an intuitive design environment
 Gives developers a simple way to use standardized
services for creating application sites and widgets,
integrated in the SAP HANA Developer Studio
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9. SAP HANA UI Integration Services
Key Capabilities
 SAP HANA UI Integration Services provide a
set of UI services and UI patterns on top of
HANA XS allowing the easy re-use of those
services as well as the aggregation of
wrapped XS applications into shell
experiences
 The SAP HANA UI Integration Services are fully
integrated into the SAP HANA Developer
Studio and provide wizards and a visual design
time environment for creating those shell
experiences
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10. Benefits
 Consistent user interface and state-of-the-art user experience
 Unified access point to assigned sites and applications
 Options to personalize preferences
End user
 Quickly compose and configure application sites via site designer
 Aligned user experience by using same paradigms for widget configuration
 Allow easy extensibility of custom-build or partner applications
Designer
Developer
 Simple way to use standardized services as part of HANA native (XS) development
environment for creating well-performing, two-tier applications
 Easily build and reuse HTML5-based applications using widgets
 Design the application UI with the design environment embedded in SAP HANA studio
 Create and manage all artifacts directly from SAP HANA studio and repository
 Allow the business developer to focus on the business apps
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11. SAP HANA UI Integration Services - Overview
 Sites and page building: state-of-the-art design environment of
for managing sites, page navigation, layout and content
 Property persistence: widget can define properties that are
persisted via customization
 Personalization: persistency of widget properties on user level
 Publish-Subscribe: eventing mechanism allowing data
interchange between widgets (mashups)
UI Integration Services
Sites &
navigation
Properties
Personalization
Eventing
Context
Widget
catalog
 Context: properties can be reflected in the URL allowing
bookmarking and sharing
 OpenSocial: integration of OpenSocial-compliant widgets
SAP HANA Platform
Detailed information about the UI services and APIs are described in the “SAP HANA Developer Guide” (http://help.sap.com/hana_platform)
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12. End user perspective
Quick access to interactive application sites
Flexible navigation
based on the user’s
roles
Application site
with interactive
widgets
Native HANA
application
wrapped as widget
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13. Designer perspective
Intuitive design environment for managing application sites
Web-based editor for creating and organizing application sites and content
Application site
Standalone
native application
wrapped as
widget
Full flexible page
layout
Manage site
properties
Manage
navigation
structure
Adding widgets to
the site
Manage site
layout
Widget catalog
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14. Development Environment
 SAP HANA UI Integration Services
are tightly integrated into the SAP
HANA Studio – the development
environment for SAP HANA Native
applications
 The creation of UI Integration
Services related objects is supported
by dedicated wizards
Editor for using UI
services API in your
code
Application site
Widget
 Developers enjoy the full life cycle
support of SAP HANA
Creation wizard for
application sites and
widgets
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15. What’s New in SPS07

16. What’s new in SAP HANA SPS07

Enhanced Catalog Services allowing to retrieve
non-widget content

Widget Directory leveraging the new catalog
service enhancements

New permissions mechanism on Application
Sites

Introduction of a new navigation service

Supporting the Golden Reflection Theme and the
new Blue Crystal Theme

Demo content available as part of the SHINE
demo package
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17. Demo
Recorded YouTube demos
›
End user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhhTKXCVxY
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Designer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNMx-S32ERU
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Developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at712OWL_iU

18. Summary and Roadmap

19. Summary

With SAP HANA UI Integration Services,
developers can easily make use of
standardized UI services to be leveraged
in their standalone HANA applications

They can create and design application
sites based on SAP HANA applications
using consistent UI patterns

All of the above, to support end-to-end
business scenarios with harmonized user
experience across applications
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20. Roadmap
End User
Core Services
 Easy access to / navigation between
HANA native applications
Designer
 Embedded WYSIWYG designer
environment to organize application sites
and widgets
 Manage site layout, hierarchy and
properties
Future Enhancements
 Extension of the developer scenario to
grow into the integration point for end
users on the SAP HANA Platform
 Additional services supporting the
developer scenarios (e.g. navigation,
branding, layout and site structure,
personalization)
 Consumption of cloud-based AppSites
 Integration of SAP HANA and non-HANA
applications
 Integrations with cloud based solutions
offering predefined content and services
 Integration with other SAP solutions (e.g.
SAP JAM)
 Usage of smart, contextual services to
provide the right content in the right
context to end users
Shell
 Support of additional shell(s)
Developer
 Integrated development environment in
SAP HANA studio
 Wizards for creating artifacts such as
application sites and widgets
 Public APIs for consistent UIs
Today
 Support of catalogs from different sources
Widgets
 Re-useable widget templates to support
common requirements (e.g. responsive
tables)
Planned Innovations
Future Direction
SAP HANA SPS7
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.
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21. Further Information
Overview
What’s new in SPS7 Blog
http://tiny.cc/HANAUIS-SP7
YouTube Demos
www.youtube.com/user/SAPNetWeaverPortals > HANA UI Integration Services
Twitter
@SapDevs, @Portal_SAP, #sapdevcenter, #hanauis
Developer Information
SAP HANA Developer Center
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana
SAP HANA Help Center
http://http://help.sap.com/hana_platform (Release Notes, Developer Guide)
SAP HANA Academy
http://academy.saphana.com / http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3123
SAP HANA Developer Edition
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31722
OpenSAP courses
https://open.sap.com
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22. Thank You
Contact information
Aviad Rivlin
Product Manager
aviad.rivlin@sap.com | AskSAPHANA@sap.com
E-mail: aviad.rivlin@sap.com | Twitter: @AviadRivlin | LinkedIn: il.linkedin.com/in/AviadRivlin/

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