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Available soon: SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – The Comprehensive Guide Audiobook
As you may know I’m a big fan of podcasts and audiobooks, so I’m extremely happy to announce the unabridged audiobook edition of our recently released book SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – The Comprehensive Guide.
In this audiobook we take you on a 37 hour non-stop journey through all the aspects of Design Studio. From the tool architecture, developing your first app, using JavaScript and CSS, until custom component creation with the SDK; everything is covered!
So are you going on a business trip or commuting to work? Be smart and use your traveling time to learn by simply listening to this audiobook on your mobile phone. You’ll be a Design Studio expert before you arrive!
Or, maybe you are training for a marathon and going on some very long runs? Instead of listening to the same music over and over, take this audiobook with you and get smart while getting fit! You’ll be sure to go for that extra 10K round!
Don’t worry about missing anything out of the hardcover version. A PDF-file with screenshots and other images will be made available and the narrator will make additional references when required.
We are currently working on the final recordings and edits. You can listen to the 5 minute sample below to get an idea. The audiobook will be available soon.
Edit 2 April 2016: Just to be sure: April Fools! 😉
SAPinsider Q&A webinar on Design Studio 1.6
Jeroen and I are doing a Q&A webinar on SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6 hosted by SAPinsider.com Thursday next week (March 31). This webinar is free and you can already submit your questions at SAPinsider.com.
The chat will start at 10.30AM EDT/3.30PM GMT. If you can’t join us live, there will be a replay/transcript available later.
Update: Replay is available now here.
What’s New in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6? Q&A on New Features, Deployment Options, Use Cases, and More
Q&A with Jeroen van der A and Xavier Hacking
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016
Time: 10:30 AM EDT / 3:30 PM GMT
Duration: 60 minutes
A new release of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio was announced at the end of last year, and with its many new features and enhancements, it’s being hailed as the most mature tool yet. But what exactly are these new features, and what can they do for your business?
Join our live Q&A with SAP BI experts and BI 2016 speakers Jeroen van der A and Xavier Hacking of Interdobs to find out more about the new capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6, to hear what organizations are doing with it, and to get a rundown of the different deployment options. Whether you are evaluating Design Studio for the first time or looking to upgrade to 1.6, this live Q&A is a chance to hear experts answer your most pressing questions, including:
- What are the key features in of Design Studio 1.6?
- What is the preferred deployment option for Design Studio?
- How does Design Studio 1.6 compare to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius)?
- Can we migrate BEx WAD or Xcelsius reports/dashboards to Design Studio?
- What are the mobile dashboard options available with this new release?
Sign in and join this live Q&A and post your questions for our panelists!
SAP Cloud for Analytics – first impressions
A lot is happening in the SAP BI spectrum: new versions of Design Studio, Lumira, BI4.2 just went General Available, the acquisition of Roambi. You would almost forget that SAP is working on a completely new front-end platform called SAP Cloud for Analytics (C4A).
Since the TechEd 2015 in Las Vegas, it was possible to register for demo access to this platform. But, almost nobody got an actual login for this. Fortunately I was able to participate in a 3-day SAP Partner Test on C4A at SAP headquarters in Waldorf earlier this month. This gave me the opportunity to work hands-on with the system and to provide direct feedback to the development team.
Overview
The idea behind C4A is that SAP wants to create a platform that will contain at least all existing analytical capabilities, which we know from all the other SAP front-end BI tools. The C4A environment is built from scratch and runs completely – and only – in the cloud (unlike old on-premise cloud solutions as CrystalReports.com for example). This also means that no migration will be possible from existing tools. By the way, the development capacity for the on-premise tools remains on the same level, so no need to panic. For C4A mostly new developers are recruited.
Data Connectivity
C4A has two strategies on using data from data sources: Import and Online. The import option is very similar to the Lumira scenarios in which the data has to be imported first, and then can be fully customized and used for visualization and analysis. In the online option the data replication is not needed, so the data can be used instantly.
De Nederlandse BI Podcast – Episode 19: Design Studio book & Cloud for Analytics
In tonight’s edition of De Nederlandse BI Podcast we talk about our just released Design Studio book and one of SAP’s newest BI tools: Cloud for Analytics.
As always, you can find the show in iTunes, on our website or just use the Podcast player below to listen instantly. Warning: Dutch content only!
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – The Comprehensive Guide NOW AVAILABLE!!
Today is a glorious day, as SAP Press released our new book: SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – The Comprehensive Guide!! I can’t believe this is already the fourth book with my name on it…
Together with my Interdobs colleagues Jeroen van der A and Dwain Chang we created the book over the past 11 months. Pfew.
So when we started this project in April 2015, Design Studio was only on version 1.4! You can imagine the amount of changes this tool has had over the past years. And not only looking at pure tool features, also the number of organizations that are actually using Design Studio!
Design Studio is more and more moving from a pure dashboarding solution to a broad purpose tool to create BI apps that not only visualize data, but also support ad-hoc data analysis and even data input features.
It was clear that our 2013 book Getting Started with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio needed a big update, as it included only the features up until Design Studio version 1.1. The new edition is updated for Design Studio 1.6 and with a whopping 750 pages almost doubled in size!
The book is divided in five parts:
- Getting Started, introduces Design Studio and compares it to the other SAP BI front end tools. Design Studio use cases are discussed and the installation procedures are walked through step-by-step .
- The Basics, goes through every detail of the Design Studio client tool and its components, and shows you how to develop an application.
- Advanced Concepts, describes how to add interactivity to apps, set up planning, format and enhance applications and finishes with a set of guidelines and best practices for data visualization and dashboard development.
- Software Development Kit, dives into the world of creating custom components.
- Examples, provides a set of step-by-step examples of Design Studio applications.
At the book page on SAP Press you can check a sample chapter and the full index. The book is available in a hardcover printed edition and an eBook version.
Until 31 March 2016 the following coupon code can be used for a 15% discount: SPBNDS15
SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio: The Comprehensive Guide
750 pages, 2nd, updated and revised edition 2016, Print edition hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4932-1297-2
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