Design Studio 1.3 - Concern

[former_member184871]

Hello Community,

With the release of Design studio 1.3 - the client expectation has gone up. There are few question that need to be addressed.

1. How feasible is Design Studio 1.3 over SAP Dashboard designer in adopting and in implementation ?
2. If the client is having only BW with them without any BI/BOBJ landscape in picture, can design studio 1.3 be a wiser choice over Dashboard designer? If Yes then why ?
3. In BW landscape what need to be done to get mobile access of design studio dashboard ?
4. Does Design studio support Data caching for offline report access and for faster report access - considering back-end as BW not running on SAP HANA ?
5. How complex is the coding with respect to custom development ?

Awaiting detailed answers.

Regards

Kumar

[TammyPowlas · Accepted solution]

Kumar:

How feasible is Design Studio 1.3 over SAP Dashboard designer in adopting and in implementation ?

It depends on your requirements and needs.  SAP has said many times this year if your data source is BW, HANA or a universe that Design Studio supports, start with Design Studio.  Otherwise, per SAP, you have an automatic migration project.

Q: "If the client is having only BW with them without any BI/BOBJ landscape in picture, can design studio 1.3 be a wiser choice over Dashboard designer? If Yes then why ?"

A: How would they use Dashboard Designer in BW only?  Where would they deploy?  Not following.

See previous answer re: automatic migration project if you start with dashboarding on BW.

Q: In BW landscape what need to be done to get mobile access of design studio dashboard ?

A: BW only? Question came up at ASUG Annual Conference. In the SAP Enterprise portal there is a Design Studio iview and a portal mobility pack

Q: Does Design studio support Data caching for offline report access and for faster report access - considering back-end as BW not running on SAP HANA ?

A: It does not support offline today.

Q: How complex is coding?

A: I am not a coding expert, but I am able to apply SDK components.  We heard customers at conference say they deploy without coding too.  If you know JavaScript, you will be comfortable with Design Studio is what I have heard.

[former_member184871 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Tammy for quick response. Can you please explain "Automatic Migration Project" ? Got confused with it

Regards

Kumar

[TammyPowlas · Accepted solution]

As explained at the conference:

Let's say you start with Dashboards on BW; SAP has explained in their statement of dashboarding direction (see ) that the tools (Xcelsius/Design Studio) are converging into Design Studio - so if you start with Dashboarding, you have an automatic migration project to Design Studio sometime in the future.

See http://www.asug.com/discussions/docs/DOC-37897

Convergence slide - sometime in the future - no set date (source: SAP)

[former_member184871 · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot  Tammy 

Regards

Kumar

[Former Member]

I am always interested in good discussions. This is one of them. My two cents from our (team) experience.

Q. How would Dashaboard Designer align with Microsoft Office updates?

A. If you are on  Excel 2010  or lower then it will work otherwise not. DD is not compatible with excel  2013. My team mate had to downgrade his MS Excel  for DD to work.

Regards

Angad

[former_member184871]

Hi Angad,

It would be very informative if you can put up a blogs or a documents - on challenges in Design Studio 1.3 Implementation.

Regards

Kumar