Category Archives: SAP Business Intelligence

How to manage scope changes with SAP®BusinessObjectsTM Planning and Consolidation 10.0, Version for SAP Netweaver Starter Kit for IFRS? Part 1


This first series of seven blogs is dedicated to handling scope changes using “SAP® BusinessObjectsTM Planning and Consolidation 10.0, Version for SAP Netweaver Starter Kit for IFRS". The objective is to illustrate in the BPC Starter … Continue reading

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A Deeper Look At Sybase: Sybase IQ

Somewhere around 1994 Sybase acquired a company named Expressway that had taken a novel approach towards handling analytics-type workload. Their principal innovation was to physically store data not by row, but by column — despite fully supporting the… Continue reading

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New SCN Community Social Responsibility Initiative for 2011

We are thrilled to introduce the next generation of SAP’s partnership with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, and feeding more than 20 million people every year.

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Podcast: SAP BI Thorny Questions – Eve of SAPPHIRE NOW Edition

On the week before SAPPHIRE NOW, I went after some very thorny SAP BI questions with my semi-regular SAP BI podcast co-host Vijay Vijayasankar. To spice things up, we brought in special guest James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions.

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SAP Workspaces On Demand

SAP Workspaces On Demand is one of the latest innovations in the BI/Portal space.

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Introducing the BI Fellowship Program

SAP Business Analytics evangelist Jason Cao introduces a new program on SCN to create deeper, transformational engagements that fosters the development of future BI experts. Learn how the program works, and how you can apply to become a BI Fellow.

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Webi Extension Points

Our team recently had the opportunity to start building with Webi Extension Points and I was impressed. The ability to manage the Web Intelligence Interface has improved greatly since the initial release.

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Where does our reporting data come from? Find out how in Metadata Management in BusinessObjects Information Steward 4.0

ASUG Webcast lecture notes/summary on SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward 4.0, SAP’s next generation solution for data quality assessment and analysis. Part I covered Metadata Management.

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SAP Integration Update 12 – SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Solution Architecture

In this blog SAP Mentor Ingo Hilgefort introduces the updates SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 BI Solution architecture.

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Silverlight vs Flash

Which application development platform is the surefire one to use going forward?

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