Since release of SAP HANA more and more calculations and rules are pushed into database layer to fully gain all performance benefits that SAP HANA is providing. As every other database, implementation of these rules is highly dependent on database developers.
It’s definitely a different world 13 years later – My takeaways on Analytics Center of Excellence from the Gartner BI Summit in London.
Thirteen years after my first Gartner BI Summit, the summit in London a week ago was a walk through memory lane. Yes, the technical innovations, trends and challenges that were being discussed were miles ahead of where we were back in 2001. But then again, despite big data, flashy, mobile-enabled dashboards and the ever-growing data discovery solutions, companies must be prepared to optimally leverage these innovations to be able to remain competitive and effective in their approach to business analytics.
Join Clariba at the SAP Forum, Oman on 24 March
Clariba is pleased to be part of the SAP Forum in Muscat and we hope you will have the opportunity to join this forum and experience the Future of Business. This forum will give you the opportunity to:
SAP Web Intelligence and Information Design Tool - Tips and Tricks
Clariba honored by SAP
During the SAP Partner Kick-off Meeting for MENA in Dubai, Clariba was recognized for two awards — Best Partner for Validated Expertise by Industry or Solution Category 2013 and Partner Challenge EMEA 2013. Clariba was awarded winner ranking # 2 for the Partner Challenge EMEA for having the ability to stand out from their competitors through innovative sales approaches and other key success factors. Further, Clariba successfully has grown as an organization and has been viewed as an early innovator for new SAP technologies.
SAP Explorer Views with Geographical Data
SAP Explorer has become one of the most useful tools in the Business Objects Toolkit, although sometimes we do not appreciate all its potential. If our data set has one or more geographical dimensions, like city, country, state.., we should use the geographical variable types for these dimensions. This kind of dimensions allow us to introduce map analytics in our Exploration Views, which is a plus. Below we will proceed to explain the needed steps in order to set up these dimensions and explain how to better use them. First of all, we need to log on SAP Explorer with an account with permission to "Manage Spaces".
Tips and tricks on HTLM5 Dashboard conversion for BI Mobile
Automating queries to SAP BusinessObjects System repository
The system CMS is an encrypted transactional repository where we can find the “current snapshot” of what is going on in BusinessObjects. Everything related to content, security and platform services can be found here, at a real time. Bringing this information into our reporting environment has always been key for administrators and power users and a line of investigation for years. Automating the capture of this data is the starting point for projects involving data quality reports, monitoring, alerts and corporate portals.
Running SAP BusinessObjects Explorer on top of SAP BW
Running SAP Explorer on top of BW This blog describes the only successfully tested way to run SAP Explorer on top of SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse (SAP BW) info-providers. This is not a straight forward configuration and it requires knowledge of Information Design Tool, Data Federator Administration Tool and SAP Logon application for SAP BW.