PROS – CONS of Dashboards and Design Studio
This document will help those who frequently deal with Dashboards and Design Studio
Dashboards/Xcelsius:
Provides a rich set of visualization and controls to build highly interactive dashboards on third-party data sources.
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PROS |
CONS |
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Build rich, interactive dashboards and visualizations |
Long development process due to multiple layers of technology in workflow |
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Broad visualization library to support KPIs and executive Dashboards |
Slow performance when initializing Flash content |
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Leverage enterprise BI infrastructure with support for the semantic layer |
Slow performance and in some cases can not handle larger datasets |
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Recommended for use on third party data sources |
Limited HTML5(Mobile) visualization |
Design Studio:
Provides a development environment that contains a broad library of controls and visualizations to build analytic applications on BW, HANA and Universes.
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PROS |
CONS |
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Modern development environment with JavaScript programming/control and HTML5 runtime |
New tool, not fully matured |
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Native BW and HANA support |
Not as many visualizations as Dashboards |
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Recommended by SAP for BW customers |
Requires scripting programming skills for more complex applications |
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Can handle larger datasets |
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Supports embedding of Dashboards(Xcelsius) content |
It has been observed that Dashboards is preferred with universe as data source however Design Studio is recommended for BW and HANA as data source.
Regards,
Tejas Tamhane