BOBJ Analysis is here - is BEx Dead yet?
By Dr. BergIs "Voyager"->"Pioneer"-"Advanced Analysis"->"Analysis" Here?Yes, after having 4 names in 19 months, Analysis has finally arrived and it is the replacement for most of the BEx...
View ArticleA BW 7.3 Upgrade this Summer?
By Dr. BergI know there are rumors that SAP will delay the 7.3 release of BW that is planned for May 30th, 2011. That would be a shame.Why consider BW 7.3?The much awaited 7.2 release was cancelled in...
View ArticleMore BI7.x Performance Tips and Tricks
By Dr. BergIn this second installement of a blog serie on performance tuning, I want to share some of the observations we discussed in the on-line BI performance Q&A today at SAP Insider Forum. We...
View ArticleXcelsius Step-By-Step: using Query as a web Service (QaaWs)
By Dr. BergA few years back, I saw a great presentation by Joerg Boeke that covered QaaWs and decided to give it a try -- and it worked!! In this blog and will cover the steps so that you can also...
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Getting Xcelsius Requirements - A Real Example
Yesterday I was contacted by a large car manufacturing company asking how to approach the building of dashboards and how to get the ‘right’ requirements. They asked if ASAP was the best methodology for...
View ArticleBW 7.3 News from BI at Amsterdam
By Dr. BergI just finished a session on how to do a BW 7.3 upgrade at the BI conference in Amsterdam (download your copy at SAP Insider), and had a lot of great questions. In this blog, I will address...
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Advanced Trend Forecasting in BPC/Excel - Step-by-Step example
By Dr. BergEvery spring I teach a Management Science class for MBA’s where we cover the latest in advanced forecasting. For example, in ECC we have options that use factors to discover and adjust for...
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The Death of ASAP? Selecting the Right BI methodology - A White paper
by Dr. BergThis long blog (actually a mini-white paper), explores some of the SAP BI methodology choices and approaches to gather business requirements from a current and historical perspective. It...
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The BI 4.0 Install - Things to Plan for
By Dr. BergThere seems to be a lot of confusion about the components of BI 4.0 and what is really required to make it work from a compatibility standpoint. This is despite an excellent job from SAP to...
View ArticleMajor BI tools available in the market - comparing Oracle-SAP-IBM and others
by Dr. BergThere seems to be a real confusion about the different BI tool categories and why SAP has so many types of tools. There is a lack of understanding of what Managed Query Environment (MQE),...
View ArticleBW 7.3 Feature map
By Dr. BergI was recently asked by a client to put together a map of major new features in the last four versions of SAP Business Warehouse, so that he could make the decision if he wanted to upgrade...
View ArticleTop-10 BI 7.x performance tuning tips
By Dr. BergTOP-10 BI 7.x Performance Tuning TricksLately my team and I has been working on performance tuning efforts for BI7.x customers. Much of the performance issues are due to technical...
View ArticleTips on implementing BW-Accelerator (BWA)
All SAP teams want their solutions to run as quickly and efficiently as possible. When it comes to SAP NetWeaver BW performance, there is a solution that can help make this happen: SAP NetWeaver BW...
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Xcelsius Flexibility Guide for Dashboards - with Examples
In this blog we will take a look at a few examples of interactive dashboard features for Xcelsius. By using these capabilities, you can avoid searching for the ‘ultimate’ requirements and meet multiple...
View ArticleThe BI Service Level Agreement Checklist
In this blog we will look at the top-10 questions you want to address in a Service Level Agreement with your internal, or outsourced, IT partner. If your SLA covers all this, you probably have the...
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Analysis is Replacing BEx- Who is impacted?
By Dr. BergA Lovable Child Has Many Names"Analysis" started out as a BusinessObjects tool prior to the SAP acquisition. It was then known as "Voyager". However, during the update of the tool, the name...
View ArticleTop 10 Transactions for BWA Management
By. Dr. BergBW-Accelerator is no-longer a technology toddler. It has reached school age and many of the childhood limitations are no longer present. Actually, it can now deliver on many of the...
View ArticleThe Road to HANA
By Dr. BergHANA is creating a 'buzz' in the SAP world and beyond. The idea of gradually transitioning to in-memory processing for transaction processing as well as BI is compelling. But what HANA...
View ArticleThe Need for SAP BWA
By Dr. BergYesterday, my ten year old kid bought a 64GB RAM Apple gizmo. A gizmo that has more memory than many of the BI application severs leveraged by large companies. Why is that?Google does not...
View ArticleSAP BPC for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
By: Dr. BergGlobal Reporting Standards and the USAs the world merges into a logical unit (yes it is happening), multinational companies are paying an increasing costs of BI systems that have to submit...
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