This was a Visual BI webcast that Ingo Hilgefort provided last month.
Figure 1: Source: Visual BI
The legal disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change.
Figure 2: Source: Visual BI
Figure 2 shows the Visual BI extensions; this includes no scripting, standard features for charts
The Data Utility is the ability to reuse a single data source for multiple charts
Figure 3: Source: Visual BI
Figure 3 shows some of the Visual BI features, with some things I have never heard of like identical scale (but important once you learn).
Conditional formatting is available for dimensions as well.
Figure 4: Source: Visual BI
You can integrate maps with existing content
Navigate from map, click on marker, hand over to Web Intelligence report, including context, filtered down to outlet
You can configure up to 3 levels of drilldowns
Figure 5: Source: Visual BI
DSX1.4 is planned for first half of November
Figure 6: Source: Visual BI
More drilldown chart, hierarchy support, bullet chart
Edit labels; BW says “Net Revenue” and you want to say “Sales”
Figure 7: Source: Visual BI
Figure 7 shows a trend line bar
Figure 8: Source: Visual BI
Figure 8 shows a feature that is similar to the chart picker
User can select at runtime
Figure 9: Source: Visual BI
GeoJSON – industry standard syntax – create your own custom regions in maps
Send syntax and will plot
Lasso selection; large map with a lot of markers, select outlets – mouse – draw area around markers and those can be used as a filter
Figure 10: Source: Visual BI
Figure 10 shows facet navigation (like BusinessObjects Explorer)
You select measures, select visualization, click in facet will filter data
The slider has 3 different modes: 1) static data 2) date value – month, quarters and years 3) binding slider to data
Figure 11: Source: Visual BI
Export to PPT
Export to Outlook – sending an e-mail – combine email and embed dashboard
Responsive container – moving dashboard from iPad Pro to iPhone6, portrait to landscape
Planned Functionality
Figure 12: Source: Visual BI
Figure 13: Source: Visual BI
I didn’t have detailed notes on Figures 12 & 13, but hopefully we’ll learn more in 2016
ASUG has 2 upcoming Design Studio webcasts this week:
