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 ArticleThe HANA facts from the floor of ASUG/Sapphire 2011
By Dr. BergSapphire/ASUG annual conference 2011 in Orlando is almost over. So what is the key buzz? Hana, Hana and Hana... It has been all about in-memory processing.Let us look at a few details that...
View ArticleWebI Query Stripping - Keeping Current in the XI 3.1 and BI 4.0 Environments
By Dr. BergKeeping current with Fix-Packs and SupportPacks for SAP BusinessObjects XI-3.1 has been a challenge for many companies. Some are simply waiting for BI-4.0 and have given up keeping their...
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Outsourcing BW and BI - When Does it Make Sense?
By Dr. Berg This fall in Las Vegas, I will be speaking at the new SAP outsourcing Conference (Nov -2-4).. Unfortunately, too many companies I work...
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The Four Approaches to Implementing Standard BI Solutions
Over the last decade, SAP has offered a packaged enterprise data warehouse (BW) and BI solutions for your ERP system. Today, many customers are looking at ways to implement these and newer tools....
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...
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...
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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...
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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 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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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...
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Xcelsius: Adding Localized Budgeting - An example
By Dr. BergIn this blog we look at how Xcelsius can be used for localized budgeting for a company. The example is intended to show how developers can add interactive features to their dashboards,...
View ArticleThe Impact of ERP and BI Outsourcing - Real numbers
In the SAP community there is a significant volume of ‘chatter’ about lost IT jobs, ERP and BI outsourcing, Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing. In this blog, we will look at some real numbers...
View ArticleThe SAP Turnaround - Finally Back on Track?
After extreme expansion in the last two decades, has SAP lost steam? That is the question from many customers and investors. In this blog, we look at the mixed messages from the performance of SAP...
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The SAP BI and ERP Survey Results - Key Factors for Outsourcing
Since there are little facts and figures available on actual SAP outsourcing I decided to collect some real data. For two years I collected 1,889 surveys from participants at four major SAP conferences...
View ArticleThe Risks and Benefits of BI Self-Service
Many are starting to use BI self-service and in this blog I look at the benefits and risks of deployment based on the concept of BI-self-service in the business with information consumers as the...
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