By: Bill Faison It’s a different environment today since SAP released SAP BW 1.2A on October 1998. No longer are people looking just at 24 hours old relational data from SAP ERP system based. Today’s business world requires that any data warehousing can requires access to an increasingly complex sources to data such as data […]
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Companies and other organizations have collected all manner of magnificent data that promises to make life easier, fun, more interesting, and …. Hold on a minute, is this just more blue-sky thinking when it comes to utilizing data in the digital economy. From a business perspective, when creating a data management strategy, perhaps we should […]
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Utilizing Input Parameters and Filter Expressions for Fewer, more Efficient, Views As any data modeler knows, there are many ways to achieve a desired outcome when it comes to modeling. Therefore, one of the goals of modeling should be to find the most efficient way to meet the requirements in regards to both performance and […]
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Five Common Data Readiness Missteps We are not talking about night and day differences, but we are talking about dissimilarities which, if not accounted for, will wreck a data migration effort and the larger project it is supporting. When it comes to delivering a data-set that is fully complete and ready to migrate into a […]
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Understanding Why Data Governance Has Been Given A Bad Name A data readiness and migration project is a critical part of virtually all enterprise-wide initiatives, e.g., digital transformation. The initiative may be a new on-premise application or mapping a set of data to load a cloud application, or a Big Data program. Invariably it also […]
Read MoreWhy do we manage our data? More than ever before, data consumers expect data that meets their needs…every time. These consumers include our end customers, business process owners, data scientists, and many others. Moreover, now that the volume of data stored in any enterprise is growing exponentially, the pressure is on to turn it into […]
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Users of SAP Analytics Cloud will want to apply specific layouts to their hierarchies — for example rearranging the order of Accounts in an Income Statement. However, applying that custom sorting isn’t easily apparent. Here is a quick walk-through of how to get it done. To speak to an expert about whether SAP Analytics Cloud […]
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To learn more about the future of SAP Lumira and Discovery Products and how it fits into your roadmap, read our recent whitepaper For this blog we will be discussing Lumira Designer Edition. Lumira Designer Edition is SAP’s solution to developing data visualization applications and creating interactive mobile-ready dashboards. The latest version of Lumira Designer Edition […]
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To learn more about the future of SAP Lumira and Discovery Products and how it fits into your roadmap, read our recent whitepaper. For this blog to we will be discussing SAP Lumira Discovery edition and what we can do. Lumira Discovery allows users to create business intelligence visualizations and manipulate large amounts of data […]
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To learn more about the future of SAP Lumira and Discovery Products and how it fits into your roadmap, read our recent whitepaper. SAP’s visualization offerings have evolved over the past 2 decades. Going from desktop-installed, flat-file based dashboarding to browser-based, cloud integrated solutions. Because there’s such a wide selection of products, we’ve heard that […]
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