Category Archives: SAP Business Intelligence

Podcast: Straight Talk about HANA with SAP


There are plenty of practical questions about HANA that need more detailed answers. In that spirit, here is a 40 minute podcast with three SAP Mentors posing some key HANA questions to Jake Stein and Thomas Zurek of the SAP HANA team.

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Would you like to experience the new age of SAP BusinessObjects supportability?

For our SAP BusinessObjects install-base, we developed a tool dedicated to the remote supportability. It is called Remote Support Component (RSC). The RSC is a support component that allows customers to better manage, monitor and evaluate their SAP Bus… Continue reading

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OSS Note Reply – It is By Design ?

In BPC we encountered an issue. Currency Conversion in the Business Rules implementation only works for one year at a time. SAP Says this is by design. We say, Yes but is the design GOOD?

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SAP BI 7.0 — InfoCube Partitioning

This blog will discuss about the steps of commonly used physical partitioning of InfoCube and aggregates in SAP BI 7.0. By using partitioning you can split up the whole dataset for an InfoCube or aggregates into several, smaller, physically independent… Continue reading

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List BEx Analyzer 7.X variables and generate the associated PROCESS_VARIABLES commands

This blog provides Excel VBA code to list the BEx Analyzer variables / values stored in the BEx XML repository. It also provides VBA code to generate the associated BEx commands (CMD PROCESS_VARIABLES).

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Open to all – Upcoming ASUG Webcasts Covering Cloud, HANA, BI On Demand and Data Quality

America’s SAP User Group continues to open up webcasts to non-members. An uppcoming webcast in July on Data Quality is now open, and don’t miss next week’s "Cloud, Virtualization, and Appliance Deployments: Cutting Through the Hype And Exploiting … Continue reading

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Part 4 – Embedding Xcelsius Dashboard In MS Office Documents

This document explains, how to include the SWF file into office documents (Word, PPT, Excel etc.), as a part of deployment of Xcelsius 2008 (SAP Crystal Dashboard Design) Dashboard. This document shows the steps required for deployment.

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Can you use VBA with BusinessObjects Analysis? Find out here

Tobias Kaufmann of the Customer Solution Adoption group (formerly known as RIG) provided a webcast earlier this month on VBA in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis MS Edition for Office. He provided examples and instructions to get you started.

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BPC Elite is coming to Europe – Aug 1-5, 2011 in Walldorf

BPC Elite Partner Enablement is coming to Europe – Aug 1-5, 2011 in Walldorf. Register here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHVtRm5wWkY2VEpKMXI3UC10Nm1wY2c6MQ

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SAP BusinessObjects 4.x – SAP TechED / ASUG Pre-conference

In this blog SAP Mentor Ingo Hilgfort shares the details of the upcoming SAP TechED ASUG Pre-Conference workshop on SAP BusinessObjects 4.x and the integration with SAP systems.

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