For many SAP BusinessObjects customers migrating to BI 4.1, the next step on their migration timeline is the adoption of SAP's new standard in dashboard and application design, Design Studio[1]. This new technology offers substantial benefits, especially to organizations that are looking to enhance their users' mobile experience. Integration of dashboards and Web apps into SAP BusinessObjects Mobile solutions enables more effective communication of a shared version of the truth, which serves to improve alignment of decision making processes across the enterprise.
Design Studio is disruptive technology in the best sense of that phrase: it is transformative in that it changes the way and the effectiveness with which you communicate. Its multidimensional, interactive and mobile-ready visualizations mark a significant advance. Scalability and re-usability make it the dashboard solution for the future.
Design Studio is a result of SAP's ambition to provide cutting-edge, multi-platform visualization across the enterprise. It consolidates the development of dashboards and Web apps within a single environment. While it may present a learning curve for your dashboard designers, its range of use makes the retraining and repurposing of resources quite worthwhile. However, such retraining and repurposing takes time, so the transition from Dashboards is one that must be managed.
As a platform manager, you will have many needs for which to plan. The first need is for you to plan a clear path to Design Studio adoption. Because Design Studio is a completely new technology, you can't simply migrate your dashboards to Design Studio in the way that you migrate a UNV universe to UNX.
Adopting Design Studio may seem to be a classic case of "no pain, no gain," but the challenges you face are eminently manageable, and the rewards will be immense. Your initial challenges:
Managing your dashboard migration timeline may become a lesson in bizarre business geometry: the shortest line between two points just may not be a straight line. Getting from point A to point B may require some resource juggling, and some resourcefulness of your own.
Fortunately, SAP has numerous online resources to help you manage the transition to Design Studio:
In addition, SAP is actively encouraging its partner ecosystem to develop solutions to smooth the transition. One such solution is the APOS Dashboard Migrator, which can help with many of the challenges described here. Developed in collaboration with SAP, the APOS Dashboard Migrator lets dashboard designers include components or whole dashboards built in Dashboards (including third-party extensions) as elements in Design Studio dashboards.
[1] Refer to the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboarding Strategy and Statement of Direction
(http://cdn.blog-sap.com/analytics/files/2012/04/External-SAP-SOD-Dashboarding-2012.pdf)
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