Design Studio 1.5 Release Information

SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.5 has been released at 27th May 2015. Here you can find collection of all release information which is available.

UPDATE 28th May 2015, 16:14 (CEST)

• also installation and upgrades area is available, see below for details. // 16:14

 

• after checking all systems, I found out incorrect setting - customer visibility of General Availability date. Fixed. I hope now more of you can access the content. // 15:30

 

• also NW and REALTIME is available // 13:35
• you can check the direct link if you do not see yet the product itself -> Direct Link here. // 13:35

 

• you can access the software and documentation, use "Support Packages and Patches" area, those are the same installers as in the Installation area (in progress), see below for details. // 11:20

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INSTALLATION & UPGRADES

• Released: the "Installation" packages are also accessible for download // 16:14

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SUPPORT PACKAGES & PATCHES

• Released: BIP / Client / HANA / NetWeaver / Realtime
• Direct Linkhere.
  

Entry Point is the Product Availability Matrix with links to:.

• Essentials: PAM Additional Information (direct link)
  • in this document you can find the supported systems for data sources, platform and functionality prerequisites.
• Documentation Site (direct link to Help Portal)
  • at this site all relevant documentation documents are available:
    • What's New
      • summary of features delivered with this Design Studio release, see
        • What's New Guide
    • Installation, Configuration, Security and Administration Information
      • Installation guides for BI Platform, NetWeaver and Client deployment, see
        • Section for administration guides
    • Development Information
      • All information for Software Development Kit (SDK) of Design Studio, also with package containing simple components build with SDK as examples, see
        • Developer Guide: Design Studio SDK
        • Design Studio SDK Templates and Samples"
    • Application Help
      • contains documentation for application developers, see
        • Application Designer Guide
    • End-User Information and Additional Information
• Release Notes
  • Release note for Initial Shipment (Note 2133992)
    • this note will also be actualized as soon some important information needs to be published
  • Release note for Support Package Schedule (Note 1760372)
• Link to Download Area:
  • Download of initial package and SP0 via SAP Markeplace
    • go to letter "D",
    • search for SBOP Design Studio.
    • you can download the SP0 from Support Packages and Patches (same installer as the one in "Installations" area)

• you can also access now Installation & Upgrades area, the content is here same in SP0, the packaging is a bit different.

Additional Information

• Official product Tutorials at SCN
• Official Road Map - this document is actualized as soon more information is available.

Important help in case of support - notes which help you and SAP in support process

Sizing Note

Important Hints (release 1.5) in short:

• Client installers do not need any more SAP JRE installation (SAP JVM is delivered with Design Studio) - this is already the case with DS 1.4 release.

• Pay attention to platform dependent functionality (see PAM Additional Information PDF)

Support / Upgrade

In case you find some issue which you can prove as "regression" during the upgrade, create customer incident on it as soon you can. We will try to make a patch in such case.

SP1 is planned to be delivered by mid of August.

Known Issues and Solutions (from older release)    

     Design Studio BI Platform Add-On

• 1942899 - Application Service could not be established after the installation of an SDK component in a distributed environment

     Design Studio NetWeaver Add-On

• 1897054 - SBOP Design Studio: NetWeaver Add-On SP Deployment with JSPM

     Design Studio Client (documentation will follow)

• Installation does not start, currently the solution is to backup and remove 2 folders in user folder:
  • folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-config
  • folder: %USERPROFILE%\Analysis-workspace
• Upgrade Issue from Design Studio 1.1 release with support package smaller than SP3 - solution is to uninstall the 1.1 release first and then make fresh install of 1.2 release.

Feel free to ask any questions related to technical aspects of this release - I will try to answer and actualize this site.