Dashboards Best Practices with SAP Solution Manager 7.2

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SAP Solution Manager 7.2 provides two frameworks to create and display powerful Dashboards for the IT and the business:

• Dashboard Builder.


• Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager.

The Dashboard Builder and Focused insights complement the Application-specific Dashboards available for each SAP Solution Manager area or scenario.

 



 

The combination of those two components in SAP Solution Manager 7.2 offers a complete dashboard solution for:

• Simple usability and deployment,


• for cross-scenario support and integrated views,


• with appealing user interfaces with mobile support.


• designed to support operations and management of SAP Solutions for Operations and Innovation Control Centers.

 

What is the Dashboard Builder?

The Dashboard Builder is a browser-based tool included as standard in SAP Solution Manager 7.2. It enables you to quickly create tile-based dashboards in order to visualise data for analysis.

Please check this blog to get more information on Dashboard Builder.

 

What is Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager?

Focused Insights is turnkey solution based on SAP Solution Manager made for immediate consumption. Focused Solutions are ready-to-run, highly integrated, pre-configured, and automated.

With Focused Insights for SAP Solution Manager you can build and distribute powerful customer-specific dashboards in minutes using state-of-the-art user experience.

Please check this blog to get more information on Focused Insights.

Online demo are accessible here: https://blogs.sap.com/2017/09/18/focused-insights-online-demo/

 

Key Differentiator

Dashboard builder is an open infrastructure when you can compile KPIs from the SAP KPI catalog. You need to know what you want to assemble.

Focused Insights is best practice and model based. Based on 7 best practice models for OCCs, you can quickly assemble and configure your personal dashboard.

 

Benefits

Focused Insights and Dashboard Builder provides real-time visibility and transparency on application metrics and business indicators for your SAP Solution and your SAP processes.

It enables SAP basis administrators and business key users to build the perfect reporting and monitoring content with all relevant data needed for their teams and their organizations.

Focused Insights has been designed to support cross-scenario dashboard to aggregate, unify and correlate different sources into single charts. It supports three different dashboard use-cases: Operation, Governance, and Strategic .

The Dashboard Builder is used to support multi-scenario dashboard with powerful drill-down capabilities to access and display all SAP Solution Manager BI data.

 

Key Features

	Focused Solutions	Dashboard Builder
Delivery	SAP Solution Manager Add-on ST-OST	SAP Solution Manager standard.
UI Technology	SAPUI5-based	SAPUI5-based
Data Sources	BW Query Bex Views ITSM / ChaRM System Monitoring Business Process Monitoring Interface Connection Monitoring Business Process Analysis MAI Alerting Custom Code Management Solution Documentation (Process Management) End User Experience Data Volume Management Test Suite Focused Build Cross Data Base Comparison EWA Configuration Validation (Security) Focused Run Alerts Transaction (STAD) Table Jobs (JSM) Code Quality (ATC)	KPI Catalog BW Query Fonction Module Business Process Monitoring Business Process Analysis BAdI
Features	Tile based for cross-scenario aggregation. Multiple KPIs can be combined into a single graph. Focused Insights delivers dedicated metrics catalog for all SAP Solution Manager scenario. Metrics are consumed by four main views: history, trend, service level and score card. Jump-in capabilities to SAP Solution Manager expert tools is provided.	Tile-based dashboard for multi-scenario visualisation. Each tile is associated to a single KPI. Standard tiles based on KPI catalog are provided. Custom tiles based on supported data sources. Drill-down views can be associated to each tile.
Graphical Libraries	Trend Single scale: Line Chart, Line-Column Chart Trend Double scale: Dual Line Chart, Dual Line-Column Chart Trend Table: History Table, Trend Table Comparison: Column Chart, Bar Chart, Dual Bar chart, Stack Bar/Column Chart Distribution: Cluster Stack Column Chart (2 Labels), Pie Chart, Donut Chart, Waterfall Chart, Bubble Chart Compliance: SLR, SLR Table Table: Dynamic Table, Alert Table	Micro chart: Line, Column, Comparison Single scale: Number Line, Bar, Column, Pie Chart, Double scale: Combination Stack chart: Bar Chart, Column Chart. Table Chart: Table Chart Smart View support for drilldown
Pre-packaged  content	Dashboards models (pre-configured content) for different dashboards use-cases: Operation: Merge different alerting sources in a combined view modeling service’s organization. Operation Control Center: Unify and correlate different sources of data into a single chart. Service Level Reporting: Provide Service Level compliance reporting capabilities to get transparency on IT Processes. Tactical: Report the status and the trends for SAP Solutions Readiness: Track and report project's progress based on indicators compliance and quality gates. IT Scorecard Demonstrate and control the value of SAP services. Application Performance Measure and report on their SAP Application Performance. Detect and diagnose application performance problems.	Templates for main SAP Solution Manager areas:   Generic Templates Tile-based Template Application Operations Availability Performance User Experience IT Service Management IT Service Management Analytics IT Service and Change Management Dashboard Service Order Analytics Service Request Analytics Project Management Project Analytics - 360 Degree Project Analytics – Standard Change Management Change Control Management Analytics Cross Applications SAP Solution Manager Usage