Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Story Performance in SAP Analytics Cloud Webcast Summary

This was a recent SAP webcast this other week with SAP’s Sofiya Muzychko

SAP says “We’ve been hard at work adding a number of features for speeding up your story performance.

During this webinar, we will:

• Review recent performance enhancements for SAP Analytics Cloud
• Learn what specific changes you can make to your stories to improve performance
• Interact directly with product managers to ask questions” abstract, source: SAP

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BI specific, what you as a story designer you can do.

Performance related topics

Recent performance enhancements

Actions you can take

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Shown in the demo

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Significant performance improvement, improve scrolling, allows you to specify height

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It is off by default; ask your tenant administrator

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Allows story designer to create story faster, pause loading of visualization until ready to submit

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Hide unnecessary dimensions and measures

Helps when loading story

Simple action on model side to help performance

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On tenant side

Allows for faster consumption

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It is on by default for newly created time filter

Will preserve drill state

Will see popup on older stories

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Make performance improvements on the back end they do not talk about

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Calculated in front end

Improved overall time it takes with top N

No action required from story designer/modeler

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Stories that do have a larger number of visualizations – introduced logic for  load that are in immediate view port of user

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Allows for faster performance

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Prioritize visible elements – loading data visualization

Suggest keep page filters collapsed, to improve overall performance of tool

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Open-end – e.g. 2008 to end of data

No action for you to take

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Visualizations that have similar data structure, those queries batched together and sent together

Improves performance of page as data returns together.

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Scenarios to improve overall performance

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Allow geo maps to come back faster

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Ongoing commitment

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Slides are here.

Replay is here 

Join the SAP Community Call July 15 with SAP’s Gerrit Kazmaier – register here.  Abstract says Get the latest news from the SAP HANA & Analytics team, including updates on SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP Data Intelligence. Hear about how these products fit together with the data value chain and what this all has to do with the term “superpower.” Source: SAP

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