Improving your SAP Analytics Cloud Stories Performance and Usability Webcast Summary, Q&A

Improving your SAP Analytics Cloud Stories Performance and Usability

This was an SAP webcast last week with Christina Obry and Tunir Kapil

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The slides are available here

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Difficulty telling when objects are loading

Difficulty navigating large hierarchies; dropdown menu is small, or when scroll members are truncated

Performance is important

Creating large volume can cause story to slow down

When expand page or story filter with a hierarchy can be slow

Common characteristics – multiple data models with a lot of model info – 40 or more measures/dimensions, large hierarchies

Now offer optimized view mode

Optimized view mode addresses usability issues, improves performance in scenarios

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Filter improvements and visualization improvements cover usability improvements

Now support view time undo and redo

Tool tip will follow your mouse

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New rendering experience

Filtering can be slow today

Active viewport rendering – all other objects will be paused until bring to active viewport

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Optimized view mode will not solve all performance challenges, but will solve some client side performance challenges

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Dashboard had client side performance side challenges

Performance improvements depend on complexity of dashboard

Need edit rights for optimized view mode

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Available in 2021.14

Models: planning enabled models not supported

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Provide incremental updates

Custom sort, multiple browser support, zero suppression support

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4 categories of unsupported features

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Hover tool tip why not working shown in above right

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Hierarchies will load incrementally (all data sources)

Some performance improvements differ based on data source

For live BW, improvements in caching, reduce amount of round trips between client and server

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Where improvements help you – persist information, each of the widgets

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Will no longer retrieve model information as open story, to improve story opening time

Only download information when you need it

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Recommended to be on latest BW patches – stay as up to date as you can, SAP recommends

Linked analysis with complex filters – requires BW 7.5 SP16

Install SAP notes above

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Optimized view mode (wave 14) improves usability and performance in certain cases – loading indicator, visual experience

Addresses client side performance challenges

Question and Answer

Q: Does it make sense for me to switch all my stories to optimized view mode, even if I don’t expect performance improvements?

A:  Start with the most used/critical stories, to see if compliant, will get usability improvements

See how compliant how story is

Q: Active view port rendering – only load content visible to viewer, all content paused, when beneficial to use active view port rendering?

A: Loads in browser window, and everything fits on screen, may not see difference

Most stories have information further down and have to scroll down

Then beneficial for active viewport rendering – only updates widgets you see

Still value in classic rendering – presentation style, and no filter changes, scroll down  – classic rendering will have loaded everything

Designer can choose default rendering experience; viewer can override on a per session basis

Q: Active viewport work with canvas and responsive?

A: Works on both page types

Q: Optimized table – go back and update?

A: Not automatically move over

Optimized table – scrolling behavior

Today you have to go on each table and enable it

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The legal disclaimer applies to this session, everything in the future is subject to change

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