June 2017 - Visual BI Solutions

10 Design Tools for Data Visualization

by pavithraa | Jun 23, 2017 | Dashboards

There is a plethora of tools for visual design, wireframing and prototyping. After working with various tools the past year to design analytical dashboards, here are the ones I find myself reaching for the most. Adobe Illustrator My most favorite tool, ever! Oh, the...

SAP BW4HANA vs. BW on HANA Series : Part 1 – Query Execution & Algorithmic Pushdown

by Arun Varadarajan | Jun 19, 2017 | Business Intelligence, Database, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA

One question that I often hear from customers is why one must look at SAP BW4HANA when they already have BW on HANA. In this series of blogs, let us look at some of the key differences between BW4HANA and BW on HANA from various perspectives. Query Execution The way...

SAP HANA VORA for Machine Learning: SAP HANA PAL vs Spark ML

by Jueun Hwang | Jun 13, 2017 | SAP HANA, SAP VORA

Our previous blog posts in the VORA series showed how VORA could process different types of data (streaming, semi-structured, unstructured) and combine them with enterprise data to perform a sentiment analysis. In this post, data mining application is presented by...

Your Exit Strategy from SAP Dashboards/Xcelsius

by Eshwar Venkatadri | Jun 7, 2017 | Custom Add-Ons, Custom Component, Dashboards, Extensions, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, VBX Product Extensions, Xcelsius

Background Adobe Flash has been going through a long, arduous downfall ever since Apple drove the first nail in its coffin by denying flash support on iPhone & iPads. Popular gripes that are driving the demise of flash-based tools and apps, like SAP...

[Tips & Tricks] 5 Handy Tooltip Customizations in SAP Lumira Designer (SAP Design Studio)

by Bhupinder Singh | Jun 5, 2017 | Business Intelligence, Custom Component, Extensions, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, Tips and Tricks, Tooltip and Data Label Customization, Top Business Intelligence Blog 2017

This is part of the Tooltip and Data Label Customization blog series. Can Tooltips be customized in SAP Lumira Designer/Design Studio? The answer is Yes! Tooltips are information display panels which are visible on hovering your pointer over one or more data points in...