SAP Design Studio Roadmap minor – but interesting – update

To my surprise a new roadmap for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio was published last week: version July 22 2015. This is only two months after the previous update (May 5 2015) and it is still covering the same current 1.5 release. You can find the roadmap here (S-account required).

I went through it and made some comparisons:

Searching for changes with last roadmap (05/04): “Offline enhancements” are out of Planned Innovations… pic.twitter.com/lqqUPJqbA0

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

Design Studio focus will be on BI Platform and HANA deployments. New BW depl investments are NOT PLANNED! pic.twitter.com/2TnOYExPyA

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

New Design Studio roadmap also gives a nice feature support matrix for all deployment options: pic.twitter.com/6cLviVHzTp

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

Conclusion: SAP BI Platform deployment is the #1 option if you want most/all of the Design Studio features. #SAPDesignStudio

— Xavier Hacking (@xjhacking) July 26, 2015

SAP Design Studio 1.5 Q&A replay now available

We had a lot of fun last night doing the SAPinsider Q&A chat on the new Design Studio 1.5 release. We had over 200 registrants and thus a ton of questions to discuss.

If you somehow missed it and want to check out the Q&A chat, a ‘replay’ is now available at SAPinsider. Later an edited transcript will also be available.

SAPinsinder Q&A on What’s New in Design Studio 1.5 this Wednesday

Jeroen and I are doing another SAPinsider chat this Wednesday June 10th. Topic is the new Design Studio 1.5 release. If you have questions you can already submit them through the SAPinsider Q&A tool, or just ask them during the chat.

The chat starts at 11am EDT/4pm GMT at SAPinsider.com. If you can’t join us live, there will be a replay/transcript available later.

How Does SAP Design Studio Change Dashboard Design and Performance? Q&A on What’s New in Release 1.5

How does Design Studio fit your dashboarding needs? Design Studio is held out as the successor to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius), and the latest version – release 1.5 – is being called the “performance release.”  What is changing in 1.5?

Join this one-hour online chat on June 10 with BI 2015 speaker Jereoen van der A and Xavier Hacking for their insights on top improvements and significant changes in performance and dashboard creation. Whether you are evaluating Design Studio or looking at an upgrade to 1.5, post your specific questions, including:

• What are the performance and load-time improvements in 1.5 and what should we expect to see changing after upgrade?
• What’s new with geomapping support?
• When should we use SDKs and when should we build our own components?
• How does Design Studio compare to Analysis for Office and Dashboards?
• Any updates to Design Studio integration with Lumira?
• What data sources are supported and how will parallel processing impact performance with 1.5?

We’re looking forward to a great Q&A and to your questions on this chat on Design Studio 1.5.

Design Studio 1.5 Preview

Later this quarter the next big SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio update will be generally available: version 1.5. Let’s have a look at what we can expect in this edition.

Performance, performance, performance

Despite the fact that Design Studio is developed in a much more future proof way than SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius), it still appears to be pretty difficult to develop apps/dashboards that load quickly and respond rapidly to user inputs (setting a filter value for example). Particularly in the case of dashboards that use multiple data sources this is a problem. Until Design Studio version 1.4 these data sources were in fact executed sequentially. The effect of this was that 10 pretty fast queries, each of which only needed 1 second to execute, still would take about 10 seconds to finish.

Version 1.5 finally offers a solution to this problem and lets data sources be run in parallel, just as we are used to from SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. This will obviously lead to huge reductions in load times. On the other hand, this will probably lead to more peak loads of the source systems (e.g. SAP BW). The developer can manage this with so-called processing groups that indicate which data sources should or should not be executed in parallel.

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insiderPROFILES Magazine feature Design Studio Q&A

 SAPinsider featured our SAP Design Studio Q&A chat we did earlier this summer in its latest edition of the InsiderProfiles paper (!) magazine. In the article a selection of questions and answers from the Q&A chat is given.

Check the article below. If you’re looking for the whole Q&A transcript, follow this link.

You can find more information on SAPinsider insiderPROFILES Magazine here.