Some of you might still remember a product called SAP BusinessObjects Explorer with the ability to use facet navigation across multiple dimensions, and quickly switch between different types of charts. In addition, the user also had the ability to leverage...
Using Location Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Location Analytics or Location Intelligence or perhaps simply put – the ability to put data on a map or show data as part of a physical location like a store – becomes more and more a very hot topic in our customer base. Part of our extensions for SAP BusinessObjects...
Using Location Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – Part 2
In the first part on Location Analytics, I showed how you can quickly leverage the information you have and generate a choropleth style map or a bubble map. In our second example, we will use the integration with OpenStreet Map and leverage data based on...
VBX for SAP Business Objects Design Studio – Feature Highlight: Hierarchical Filter Component
Just a few days ago, we released our updated list of Extensions for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and one of my personal favorites of the new components is the hierarchical filter. When you start working with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and you start...
VBX – Feature Highlight: Advanced Table Component
For latest enhancements please refer – VBX Advance Table for SAP Lumira Designer One of the common feedback we received from our customers about the crosstab in SAP Business Objects Design Studio was that it was “complicated” to format the standard crosstab and that...
VBX – Feature Highlight: KPI Tile
For latest enhancements on the KPI Tile, please refer to our recent blog- 10 Features To Enhance Your KPI Tiles In addition to the two previously discussed components – Hierarchical Filter and Advanced Table – we have also added a new KPI Tile as part of our...
Conditional Formatting in SAP Design Studio For Data From SAP HANA
Conditional formatting is a feature that alerts BI users about leading and lagging indicators within a report or a dashboard. This feature supported by tools such as SAP Business Objects Analysis for Office (AAO) and Business Explorer. To use conditional formatting in...
Consuming Excel Data In Enterprise Dashboards – An Introduction
Microsoft Excel is the most popular and dominant data analysis tool used by organizations today. Consequently, there is a huge demand from business users to not only download and analyze enterprise data offline but also prepare, provision and integrate excel...
Consuming Excel Data In Enterprise Dashboards – Deep Dive
As discussed in my previous blog, there are three ways that facilitate consumption of excel data in enterprise dashboards and visualizations: BW Workspaces which hold the excel sheet and this is then consumed from within SAP Design StudioSAP BusinessObjects...
A Social SAP Design Studio Application
Even wondered if & how you could build an SAP Design Studio application that would contextually pick up social trends, say for a particular Product Category or Brand from within a Sales Dashboard? The HTML Box & Script Box controls from VBX for SAP Design...