upgrade/certify DV features to at least match classic dashboard and analysis features

Marcelo Finkielsztein

Please, consider a full review of DV capabilities comparing them against "classic" components (analysis, dashboard, dashboard-prompt, etc)

Since we started working with DV, we constantly receive complaints from our users, repeating "I used to be able to do this in Classic! you convinced me to experiment with DV and now I miss functionality; had i started this report on Classic, it would have looked less flashy but it would be finished by now and would do exactly all i need it to do".

This is not helping DV and it is also reflecting poorly on us, as the IT team who decided to adopt DV.

In our case, we now introduce DV to users who have no experience with Classic, and they seem ok accepting limitations and assuming that "all tools have limitations", because they do not know better. But experienced users see DV as a half-cooked, immature attempt to replace Classic.

Even though the official documentation from Oracle does not say dv is here to replace classic; that us out of the question.

HTH

marcelo

Michal Zima

@Marcelo Finkielsztein I had some time ago conversation

Oracle_Analytics_Classics_features_missing_in_DV.xlsx

with @Avinash Krishnaram-Oracle and have passed him Excel (see attachment) with list of features, that are in Classics, but missing in DV and which (if intention is to slowly "transfer" existing OBIEE/OAS/OAC customers from Classics to DV) need to be in place in DV (to be comparable "replacement" of Classics or having same capabilities as competitive products). Hopefully Product Mgmt is looking at them and considering to implement them in some reasonable time horizon (I hope I will not have to create separate Idea of each ot the entry in Excel).

Marcelo Finkielsztein

Hello Michal,

I must emphasize I prefer to avoid the IF condition. i stopped stating "IF intention is to transfer", because the reply i received from Oracle long ago was "DV is not planned to be a replacement". and that was the end of the discussion. I actually prefer to put it as an UNconditional request. many of my users refuse to adopt until the product matures enough.

Kind Regards,

marcelo

Avinash Krishnaram-Oracle

Hi Marco,

We continue to review & close gaps between classic and DV on a continued basis. A few critical features that we have shipped in the last year are:

1. Export to excel with formatted data
2. Parameters (variables)
3. Workbook scheduling - feature is in LA, will go GA early CY 24

A few features that are work in progress are

1. Filter persistance (end user personalization) - going public preview in Sep 2023
2. Themes to support branding colors, viz properties, data formats etc
3. Canvas layout enhancements
4. Translations of user strings on DV workbook and few more features.

I'd love to hear on specific features that is blocking your use cases on DV. Let me know if you would like meet & discuss. Thanks.

Gabby Rubin-Oracle

We appreciate the feedback and Michal's spreadsheet is very useful. However, this thread cannot be discussed as an Idea. The ideaLab aims to interact around specific requests and needs and provide updates and statuses when we have something to share. This thread encapsulates multiple requests in a way that we cannot use the tool as intended. So while each one of the requests is valid as an individual idea and can be created as such (some are already here), we can have more general discussions in the forums.

Regarding the original comment of a full review of DV capabilities, we know the gaps. What we want is community insight as to which ones are the most impactful. One way to get those insights is the ideaLab as well as direct requests such as Michal's list. The value of the ideaLab is transparency to the community.

Overall, if you agree with Michal's list, it will be an interesting 2024.