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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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 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 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 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...
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 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 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 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 ArticleBPC 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...
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...
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...
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