My company is getting great value out of Microsoft Power BI. It’s making a big difference in enabling our users to self-serve and produce and consume their own reports and analytics from a variety of data sources. Connectivity b/w Power BI is particularly strong for […]
I‘m a SAP customer and I help influence the direction and Business Intelligence approach in my enterprise. We have SAP BW and BusinessObjects systems in our landscape, and together use these systems as a Business Intelligence platform. More simply, BW is the back-end data warehouse […]
SAP BW provides pre-configured ‘out of the box’ functionality that enables the fast implementation of data models and reports on SAP source data. The set of objects and standard semantic definitions that SAP provide from source data to report, are collectively labelled ‘SAP BW business […]
Lately, i’ve been involved in a number of projects where there is a requirement to analyse and report on SAP BW data, using external tools other than the Business Explorer (BEx) suite native to SAP BW. While some of these analytical reporting tools are non-SAP, […]
Recently I’ve been using the latest version of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.3 and have been enjoying some of the new features, including the migration wizard. This post starts off with some of the discoveries and useful features I’ve made using this tool, and then expands […]
Been a while since my last post, but things have been busy! Not too long ago a call went out from Ingo Hilgefort, SAP mentor and all things BusinessObjects extraordinaire! Ingo and the team at SAP BusinessObjects have been busy lately promoting the SAP BusinessObject […]
Following on from my previous post on Performance tips, i’d like to expand on one aspect of improving reporting performance in SAP BW – exploiting the OLAP cache. The OLAP cache is standard functionality that is setup during a technical install of SAP BW. However, […]