How will Designer look like in the next version ?

Version BI4 is officially out and among all articles and presentations that you can find online here is a very good one written by Joshua Fletcher, who presents the new Designer capabilities:

http://geek2live.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Joshua-Fletcher_Day-2_Track-C_13.25-v2.pdf

The roadmap of HANA

Here is  another taste of what can we expect from HANA in the upcoming years :

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/24398