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Dfferences between Design Studio 1.4 and WEB I 4.1 SP2

Hi Every one,

Could you please let me know the differences between Design studio and WEB I at the granularity level and in terms of performance of the tools to create a dashboard.

Need your valueable inputs.


krish007 :india: (BOB member since 2006-10-06)

Too many to list, like comparing a car to a boat.

To summarize:
With Webi user can easily create reports, which are page based, they can be scheduled as well. Multiple data sources can be merged
Keywords: Self-service, ad-hoc
Preferred dara source: universe and SAP BEx queries; MS Excel can be used as well

With DesignStudio a developer will create the dashboard, which can then be viewed and refreshed by a regular user. At this time these dashboards cannot be scheduled, they are HTML5 and do not work with a standard letter size or DIN A4 page layout.
Multiple data sourceS cannot be merged.
Preferred data source: SAP BW or SAP Hana; universe possible as well though


Andreas :de: (BOB member since 2002-06-20)

Thanks Andreas for your valuable inputs.

We are working in both tools like WEB I and SAP Design Studio 1.4 SP02
on a Project but I have seen a lot of limitations and Performance practically by creating 4 dashboards in Design studio. Even we went back to SAP with our questions showing what the user requires in the design studio but they never came back with a good solution all the time.
Since this was a scenario my architect asked why cannot we go with WEB I and try with that tool I have even expalined him a lot of difference and told him we cannot compare both. ie why I thought to pose the above query.

Once again thanks for your valuable inputs.


krish007 :india: (BOB member since 2006-10-06)