BPC on BW - is it ready for prime-time?
By: Dr. BergIn 2007 SAP acquired the planning software company called OutlookSoft. This was a boutique vendor with a growing customer base that wanted an alternative to the myriad of planning tools...
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What Should I pay - Some BI survey results
By Dr. BergIn the new economic environment with almost 10% unemployment in the UK and US and high everywhere else, there are a lot of nervousness about jobs, pay and the future of BI organizations.So,...
View ArticleFun at Reporting and Analytics 2010 in Orlando
Sitting here at R&A 2010, it is great to see a lot of attendees and a fantastic venue. For the first time we are next door to the Magic Kingdom, inside Disney World, with a monorail system running...
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A Picture Guide to SAP Dashboard Tools
I just finished delivering 3 sessions and 6 hours of material on how to pick the Dashboard tool that is right for an organization.After an additional 15 more demos at the Reporting and Analytics...
View ArticleThe Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Top -10 Pitfalls
I am often asked what are the top-10 issues and mistakes made when using SAP BI as an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). At the Information Management Conference 2010, I sat down and spent some time...
View ArticleWith Bw 3.5 almost out of support - why BI 7.x?
- By Dr. BergWhen SAP launched SAP BW 2004s in the summer of 2005, and made it generally available under the name BI 7.0 in March 2006, there were many questions about the need to upgrade. First, SAP...
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Outsourcing BW - Does it make sense?
-- by Dr. BergA long time ago, at the first 'Meet-the-Expert' sessions at first WIS SAP BI conference in 2003, I was asked if outsourcing BW ever would make sense by many of the participants. This...
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Federated Vs. Centeralized Vs. De-centeralized Data warehouse
-- by Dr. BergLast fall I was speaking at an SAP conference in Australia and was asked what the realistic options were for developing EDWs.After 20 years in this field, I strongly believe that there...
View ArticleDemo: SAP HANA and BusinessObjects Explorer with 1.2 Billion Rows
This fall I worked with the University of Wisconsin and loaded 1.22 billion rows to their HANA system and put BO Explorer as the analytical tool. In this demo we are looking at the unbelievable speed...
View ArticleDr. Berg on upgrading to BW 7.3
Listen in on Dr. Bjarne Berg;s recent podcast with BI Expert's Scott Wallask about the "inevitable" move to 7.3. In this preview of Dr. Berg's BI 2012 session in Milan in June, Dr. Berg highlights the...
View ArticleWhat to Expect in SAP BI for 2013: Dr. Berg on HANA & BusinessObjects, and...
Dr. Bjarne Berg shares his thoughts on data processing, what HANA means for BusinessObjects customers, and his 5-year outlook for BW. Listen in as Berg also addresses how Oracle's Exalytics and HANA...
View ArticleDr. Bjarne Berg: Sizing BW on HANA
Listen in as Dr. Bjarne Berg provides a preview to the presentation he is giving at BI 2013, "Strategies for budgeting, planning, and sizing your SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA project." (More details at...
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How to Automate HANA Sizing for SAP BW
SAP has released an ABAP based tool that generates a report significantly better for sizing than using just the SAP QuickSizer. This program takes into consideration existing database compression,...
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SAP BW to HANA Migration ABAP Diagnostic Tool
Many experienced developers are not aware that moving BW to HANA can in some cases result in slower transformations during data loads. Thankfully, SAP is providing a tool to identify areas in your ABAP...
View Article5 Key Steps on How to Move BW to SAP HANA
In This video blog we look at five steps that helps you automate many of the tasks of moving SAP BW to HANA, including sizing, pre-checks, cleanup, ETL automated checks and HANA migration options. By...
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Demo: SAP HANA, 426 million rows and BusinessObject tools
In this blog we look at a demo of SAP BusinessObjects on HANA with 426 million rows and a BI Workspace with 3 Dashbaords, WebI, Analysis and Crystal Reports. By Dr. Bergh2>IntroductionThis spring I...
View ArticleEmerging best practices for SAP BW HANA data modeling & reporting: Q&A with...
The SAP HANA data model is still evolving. What’s in store for InfoCubes, and what’s the status of the LSA architecture? In the future, will we see more reporting directly from SAP ERP on SAP HANA?...
View ArticleReal HANA Performance Test Benchmarks
Over the last 8 months I have been working with a team of people to move a very large SAP BW system to HANA. Overall we moved data into a 15TB BW on HANA environment and tested almost 100 of the most...
View ArticleHANA Training Video Step-by-Step
In this HANA Training Video blog we explore how to add tables in HANA, how to load data using BOBJ DataServices, how to build attribute and analytics views, how to build an information space and deploy...
View ArticleThe Many Changing Use Cases for SAP HANA (An Interview with Dr. Berg)
From MRI image processing to water pollution abatement, customers continue to find new and intriguing uses for SAP's new technology. In this interview, Dr. Berg discusses some of the more unique SAP...
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