World Premiere Design Studio 1.6 #SAPtd SAP TechEd
The usual legal disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change
Watch replay online at http://events.sap.com/teched/en/session/22630
Notes below are from a combination of attending several sessions.
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Cloud for Analytics includes reporting, planning
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Analysis OLAP converges to Design Studio
Major investments in Design Studio but not in Dashboards, BEx Web or Analysis OLAP
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Most customers are using Design Studio with BI Platform
New investments for NetWeaver and HANA deployments are not planned
If starting with Design Studio projects start with BI Platform
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Planned GA end of November, early December
Four features in Figure 4 – end user analysis
Enhanced geomaps, able to add pie chart to geomaps, or add custom markers, images, graphics
Scorecard is formatted table that can cover all formatting requirements. A butterfly table has a dimension in middle, key figure on right and left side
Standard crosstab is dimensions on the left
Spreadsheet is alternative to crosstab; more Excel like, look and feel
Timer can be used as a refresh for near real time scenarios
Tree is a new component – display hierarchical structures; the tree component to display bookmark folders on BI Platform
CSV file as datasource – in local mode, to help designers and developers create applications
Increased limit of universe connections to 20K rows, multi-source universes, right to left support
Note – the slides below were covered in a demo, but it is hard to capture those in screen shots.
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New info chart, new chart types, trellis charts, combination charts, more configuration options
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Geo map was released in 1.5; in 1.6 layer info can be displayed as a pie chart
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End user can define how chart can look like
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Drag and drop key figures and characteristics are available for the crosstab
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Custom measures, new calculated KF’s, scaling figures
Info Chart, Trellis Chart, config options
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Crosstab is used for OLAP use cases
Scorecard is used for formatted use cases
Can change font size, background color
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Analytical application is out of the box, generic analysis (ready to run application) – you can choose BW query or HANA view as a data source
Spreadsheet, hide show – what you can do with crosstab you can do with the spreadsheet component; also can use the planning scenario
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CSV file for rapid prototyping can be used in Local Mode only
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Figure 13 has been discussed before but good to see multi-source universes are supported
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Figure 14 covers the new Fiori component library
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Figure 15 was discussed mostly in the hands-on workshops
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Hi Tammy,
Thanks for sharing.
I have two questions and wonder if you have some ideas.
Does Custom Measure only work in run-time? Can we define Custom Measure in design time in advance?
And for spreadsheet component, does it provide more functions than crosstab? Or it's just a excel-style crosstab?
Best regards,
Alfred
Hi Alfred- I am sorry I just saw your questions after all the Design Studio sessions were done at TechEd Las Vegas - I recommend watching the recording, or hopefully Karol will answer - I am not sure.
Great info. Excited for 1.6 to come out. Do you know if you will be able to bind custom DS to the cross tabs?
Hi Vi,
Crosstab is a component reflecting all specialities from BW as data source. For that, Crosstab is using internal API to the BICS layer and cannot support right now the custom data sources.
You can use the Scorecard component on any data source, or the UI5 Table from SCN repository.
Karol
Hi Karol
Is it UI5 Table from SCN repository based on sap.m.table? Does it provides the "growing" feature?
Cheers
Thanks for the information. This is helpful.
Hi Tammy
Thanks for sharing all this info. I am very excited about the new Fiori Components: Foundation for responsive applications going forward. Great News!!
Cheers,
Carlos
This release will be awesome! Can't wait to install it!
Source: Roadmap https://websmp102.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700000390622012D.pdf
Hey Tammy,
thank`s for sharing the information about Design Studio 1.6.
I am honestly disappointed about the message that the use case where Design Studio reports are directly stored on a BW system without using a BI Platform will not be supported in the future.
I have sold this scenario to one of my customers. I am not sure what I`m supposed to tell them now?
I further would only partly support SAP`s point that most customers use Design Studio in combination with BI Platform. This surely applies to historic Business Objects customers. But if I think of my regular BW customers I clearly have to neglect that point.
From version 1.5 on, I sensed the feeling that Design Studio is really maturing into a great reporting tool. I was confident to demonstrate and show it to all of my customers.
They really liked it and were searching for an easy and straightforward use-case. They do not want do administrate, monitor, install or patch a BI Platform. Neither do they wish to implement complex SSO scenarios. From my customer base, only one out of many customers uses the BI launchpad as a portal. Most customers have a sharepoint or a Netweaver portal anyways.
I was really happy when Design Studio usage without the BI platform was announced.
Is there a way to influence the above depicted decision, since each slide of SAP`s presentation states that it is subjected to change?
Thank you & Cheers,
Marcus
Hi Marcus - thank you for reading and commenting; I am an SAP customer myself. I recommend discussing this with SAP product management, or perhaps creating a new discussion thread so SAP can reply to your questions.
Hi Marcus
Glad to know I am not the only one with this very same opinion.
Why SAP would like to take options away from customers? I must say, in this case the simpler options. Having to justify a BIP implementation only because you are planning to use Design Studio seems hard to me.
They way I see it, they are making the life easier for their competitors.
You can count with my help to influence SAP to reconsider this decision.
Regards
Carlos
I agree with you Mr. Preis.
If we would not rely on the BIP for the full feature set, we would not have installed the BIP at all (we are not using any other BIP tool).
Hi,
open idea on ideaplace, we will support you idea.
https://ideas.sap.com/D29896
Cheers,
Marcus
Hi Marcus,
This is a topic where a lot of tears have been shed over the years, but we really do think that we can build a better product by concentrating on the platform where the overwhelming majority of worldwide Design Studio customers are; and that's on the BIP.
And we're not pulling the plug on existing scenarios. We're not pulling the plug on existing Netweaver scenarios, but future functionality will be built for the BIP.
The Future of Design Studio Platform Development
Cheers,
Dave
Hello David,
but the future is S4/HANA, not BIP.
Design Studio should also be build for the future, not for the platform that is currently used most.
But hopefully this orientation will change when most customers have shut down their BO systems and are S4/HANA only.
Hi Tammy/Karol,
I am quite excited with planning stuff and have a question,
If we plan for current year - will actuals periods gets disabled/locked ?
Can we add/insert a new line on excel sheet with save to backend functionality? (we have this in DS 1.5).
Appreciate your help.
Thanks
SAI
Hi Marcus, Carlos,
I share your concerns. I would like to see the option to use DS directly on BW and HANA being continued. And if all the data resides in BW or HANA I don't see much benefit added by the BI platform - in contrast BI platform administration is a really complex task. I don't see why one would need an extra 5GB piece of software to just store some DS templates. And I don't really believe that adding an extra software layer would increase the overall reporting performance.
Best regards,
Hanno.
What Hanno said!
JB
Hi, Tammy,
When GA?
Mikhail - I am hoping we receive an update on our upcoming ASUG Webcast next week.
Mikhail - please see for your answer 🙂
Hi Tammy,
I'm a bit confused regarding the starting point of freezing NetWeaver investments.
All new features coming with 1.6 are actually still supported for NW or not ?
May be you can answer this.
Thanks,
Stefan
Stefan - yes, things like templates etc. will work with NetWeaver; we had an ASUG webcast on this yesterday and when I have time I will share my notes on this.
Hi Tammy,
sounds great - I am also highly interessted in your notes.
BR,
Marcus
Lot of great features ! The best one for me : the ability for the end user to create a custom measures ! Awesome !