Hi Mike,
I found the following presentation,
SAP Product Road Map SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Road Map Revision: June 9, 2014
https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000390622012D.pdf
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.3 HANA-only deployment
Support HANA-only deployment
Design Studio applications saved in HANA Repository
Design Studio runtime is moved to browser, No Java stack as deployment platform is needed
Using firefly instead of BICs at Design Studio runtime
Require HANA 1.0 revision SPS8 (revision 80)
I think there are some limitations like hierarchies not supported, please check.
Regards,
Raj.