Advanced Visualizations for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio using Visual BI Extensions Webinar Recap

This was a Visual BI webcast given yesterday by Ingo Hilgefort, SAP Mentor

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Ensures nothing is breaking in your system

50 additional chart types

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Figure 3 covers “Why is this interesting for you?”  Extensive mapping capabilities, create a responsive dashboard (not possible today out of the box)

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50+ charts

Overlap with SAP

Comes down to details – how detailed can you control the chart, in terms of properties, style sheets

Data utility – reuse a single data source for multiple charts to help with performance

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As Figure 5 shows, gauges, risk matrix, added functionality to charts are part of the 1.5 features

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Figure 6 shows the linear horizontal gauge and a gauge up to 2 scales on the right and trend indicators

Added conditional formatting

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Extended tree map for drill down capabilities

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Figure 8 shows a calendar heat map – assign values to calendar map

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Figure 9 shows a risk matrix for project management – to show business impact

Based on where X and Y crossing

Third measure is significance to assign money value to risk

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Waffle chart, 10 by 10 matrix – see this in Infographic style charts

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Master-details, shown in Figure 11, limit which part of the chart you want to see

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Differs from SAP Chart Picker – you decide which charts to offer

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Today Design Studio does not provide out of the box maps

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As Figure 14 shows, conditional formatting for maps has been added

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Enhanced filtering with conditional formatting

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Search in hierarchical filter

List box – compounded characteristics

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Figure 17 shows the slider with conditional formatting

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List and combo box come with a search

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Figure 19 covers the utilities; exporting to e-mail and the What-if analyzer are highlighted

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KPI tile with templates, can choose header, footer, alert icon, Spark Line chart, and decide how many elements to have

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With the KPI tile you can create trends

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With the Pictogram component, shown in Figure 22,  you can choose how many of visuals you want to show

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Define how dashboard should appear based on screen resolution and device type

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With the BI Explorer, shown in Figure 24, you can have self-service on any device

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Figure 25 shows the roadmap (subject to change, of course, per Figure 1)

Looking at geo fencing

Question and Answer

Q: How do you reverse geo code

A: Address reverse geo code is done from Google API

Q: Is everything available on mobile?

A: Yes, works on Mobile BI or open on mobile browser

Q: Lumira 2.x, new options, ESRI integration

A: Lumira 2.0 is some time away, next year, SAP has announced ESRI integration, Lumira ESRI integration is based on the basemap; you can’t hook up own ESRI server

Q: If use chart with a timeline – is it possible to change format?

A: yes

Q: components work with universe?

A: Yes, supports what Design Studio supports

Also offer data connectivity to Excel and Google Sheets