This was a recent SAP webcast this other week with SAP's
smuz
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
Figure 3 Source: SAP
Significant performance improvement, improve scrolling, allows you to specify height
Figure 4 Source: SAP
It is off by default; ask your tenant administrator
Figure 5 Source: SAP
Allows story designer to create story faster, pause loading of visualization until ready to submit
Figure 6 Source: SAP
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
Figure 8 Source: SAP
It is on by default for newly created time filter
Will preserve drill state
Will see popup on older stories
Figure 9 Source: SAP
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
Figure 12 Source: SAP
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
Figure 18 Source: SAP
Ongoing commitment
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Slides are
here.
Replay is
here
Join the SAP Community Call July 15 with SAP's Gerrit Kazmaier - register here. Abstract says Get the latest news from the SAP HANA & Analytics team, including updates on SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Data Intelligence. Hear about how these products fit together with the data value chain and what this all has to do with the term “superpower." Source: SAP