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Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Story Performance in SAP Analytics Cloud Webcast Summary
This was a recent SAP webcast this other week with SAP’s Sofiya Muzychko
SAP says “We’ve been hard at work adding a number of features for speeding up your story performance.
During this webinar, we will:
- Review recent performance enhancements for SAP Analytics Cloud
- Learn what specific changes you can make to your stories to improve performance
- Interact directly with product managers to ask questions” abstract, source: SAP
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BI specific, what you as a story designer you can do.
Performance related topics
Recent performance enhancements
Actions you can take
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Shown in the demo
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Significant performance improvement, improve scrolling, allows you to specify height
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It is off by default; ask your tenant administrator
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Allows story designer to create story faster, pause loading of visualization until ready to submit
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Hide unnecessary dimensions and measures
Helps when loading story
Simple action on model side to help performance
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On tenant side
Allows for faster consumption
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It is on by default for newly created time filter
Will preserve drill state
Will see popup on older stories
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Make performance improvements on the back end they do not talk about
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Calculated in front end
Improved overall time it takes with top N
No action required from story designer/modeler
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Stories that do have a larger number of visualizations – introduced logic for load that are in immediate view port of user
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Allows for faster performance
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Prioritize visible elements – loading data visualization
Suggest keep page filters collapsed, to improve overall performance of tool
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Open-end – e.g. 2008 to end of data
No action for you to take
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Visualizations that have similar data structure, those queries batched together and sent together
Improves performance of page as data returns together.
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Scenarios to improve overall performance
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Allow geo maps to come back faster
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Ongoing commitment
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Slides are here.
Replay is here