This was a session from this past week’s ASUG Annual Conference. These are my notes as I heard them and do not necessarily represent SAP’s.
Figure 1: Source: SAP
On Figure 1, Eric Schemer, SAP, said there are no silos and with interoperability SAP is “one team”.
Figure 2: Source: SAP
Figure 2 shows the positioning slide, where SAP Design Studio fits to “build engaging application experiences”.
Figure 3: Source: SAP
On Figure 3, Eric explained you can build OLAP ad hoc applications with Design Studio, especially in version 1.5
Figure 3 is an updated convergence slide
Figure 4: Source: SAP
Figure 4 shows the product description. On this slide, Eric said SAP Design Studio has over 5K customers, with 150 new customers every month.
Figure 5: Source: SAP
Most feature rich now for Design Studio is the BI platform. SAP HANA is a key platform. SAP has invested in NetWeaver, but it is “not a going forward investment”
Figure 6: Source: SAP
New HANA connector that gives capabilities
Parallel queries being executed in Design Studio
SAP is investing in the universe, which is an ongoing journey. In version 1.5 it will open up to all databases that UNX supports. It will still not support multi source universes in 1.5. Version 1.6 will allow 20K records. Also with 1.5 SAP is shipping out more templates for self-service visualization for end users.
Figure 7: Source: SAP
Version 1.5 is not completely offline yet, but working on that for the future
You can build data bound components without scripting
Several standard apps for data exploration and self-service
- Customers have scenarios where they want to change the UX of self-service application
- Brought in templates that look like Lumira; you can customize them and change them to your own needs
Figure 8: Source: SAP
Figure 8 please note the side effects and session management in the backend. This is something to discuss with your SAP Basis team before undertaking.
Figure 9: Source: SAP
On this we saw a demo of this capability. It can use Open Street Maps “out of the box”.
Figure 10: Source: SAP
This type of application can be handed to any user
Also shown in Figure 10 is a Lumira-like chart picker
To be continued…
Hi, Tammy,
Thank you for your post. This version looks impressive 😉 .
Are there any date for GA?
Also I am very glad that SAP pays some attention for SAP Design Studio usage with UNX and in 1.6 version will allow up to 20K records per data source. Will there be any updates regarding current 5K limitation in 1.5 version? Did SAP elaborate why is this limitation at all?
Anyway thanks for sharing with us. Keep up posting 🙂 .
Best regards,
Donatas
I am not aware of any updates for the 1.5 version for the record row limit
I don’t recall what they said about reasoning for the 20K limit – my guess is performance
1.5 GA is planned for end of May (this month)
Thank you Tammy!
Regards,
Tanisha
Hi Tammy,
Thanks for this info, seems this release will be awesome!
One question that (depending on the answer) worries me a bit.
As per your slide, it says that on this relase we will have query parallelization but…can you please confirm if it will only be available for BW? Will it be available for HANA / or relational Universe data sources?
I’m asking this because the title of the slide says “BW Query parallelization” but the first bullet says that it will be available for all data source types.
Could you please confirm this?
Thank you in advance,
Juan Carlos
Hi Juan – I believe it is for BW only but I will try to clarify tomorrow as we have a follow-up ASUG webcast
I recall there was a discussion on BW session management – so I think this is just for BW.
Thanks for your response Tammy.
It would be really a pity if it is only for BW as all the power that HANA provides can’t be used without paralle processing data sources.
I know that deployment of Design Studio on HANA allows parallel processing but it will not be easy to force all customers to deploy Design Studio on their HANA platform (specially if it is a Suite on HANA environment).
I look forward to your clarification based on ASUG webcast.
Best regards,
Juan Carlos
Hello Juan Carlos,
the parallel processing is available for all data sources : BW, HANA, Universes.
regards
Ingo Hilgefort, Visual BI
great thank you Ingo!