Hi,
I have requirement in my project to design and develop Dashboard with 20 + kpis. Also dashboard should have offline capability as well. can anyone suggest me best practice to design dashboard. Also which option should I select for connectivity -will it be QAAWS or BIWS
Dashboard will be generated on weekly basis and will have data at organisational level ,division level and business unit level
Thanks in advance
niranjan_d (BOB member since 2003-11-21)
Version of dashboard is SAP BI 4 SP08
niranjan_d (BOB member since 2003-11-21)
QAAWS or BIWS are both good options. Choose QAAWS if the structure of your data lets you, else BIWS.
Avoid LiveOffice as a connector (especially when you need a lot)
Offline is not possible with SAP busObj.
Users need to connect to BI Launchpad to view the dashboard.
ps
There are 3rd party tools which can help you to distribute your (xcelsius dashboard) offline. But they cost money and off course not supported.
Tiny 
(BOB member since 2004-11-10)
Er, that’s not entirely true. All you need to do is export your dashboard to a SWF file, and you can distribute it to anyone. All they will need is a browser to view it.
Best practice for dashboard design is not something that can easily be summed up in a forum post. That’s pretty much a book topic. SAP has some pretty good advice in their documentation ( http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Dashboards+(Xcelsius)+General+Best+Practices ). There are a number of excellent blogs and third-party sites out there (I tend to favor http://everythingxcelsius.com/ personally).
You will have one special challenge in the offline requirement. Dashboards are expected to either work with a single static set of data (e.g., demonstrating the results of a research project) or to provide a portal to frequently updated data (e.g., monitoring status). This in-between state of yours (requiring weekly updates but being offline between) will be tricky. My best advice off the cuff would be to design it as though it were static data. Then generate a new SWF file each week with the updated static data.
Lugh (BOB member since 2009-07-16)