It is an exciting time as SAP modernizes it’s best of breed reporting solution to take advantage of innovate “visualization as a service” offerings for BI4.2. Naturally, we immediately plugged in our CMaps Analytics JS API (which inherits Google Maps for Work), and with a few hours of experimenting we had a new custom element working. New to BI4.2 is custom elements, which allows BI administrators to enable a new wave of visualization options for Web Intelligence. Here is a fantastic article on SCN that explains how to use new 4.2 GeoMaps The components are the same found in Explorer and Lumira.
GeoMaps transform report tables into interactive maps using common geographies.
New out of the box geomaps are long over-due but finally here for basic map requirements. BI4.2 delivers a double whammy for BI administrators to deliver amazing geographic visualization and analysis features. Maps are a hot button when it comes to Web Intelligence, which is one of the most requested features as long as I can remember.
