With the advent of HANA, SAP BW is endangered species? - Part -I
I happen to check latest 'SAP BI Platform with HANA' and found that BW is replaced by HANA. Next thought cross my mind was...With the advent of HANA, SAP BW is endangered species? Apr. 21, 2011
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Challenges of being SAP BW-BI-EPM SIs (System Integrators) - part 3
Post ‘BO acquisition by SAP’ your SAP information management team is stacked up against data warehouse groups...how are you still growing? Feb. 9, 2011
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Challenges of being SAP BW-BI-EPM SIs (System Integrators) - part 2
In part 1 I discussed the areas SIs should focus during this volatile phase. In this blog I am discussing how old SAP BW projects are different from new SAP BW/BI projects from efforts perspective. Dec. 9, 2010
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Challenges of being SAP BW-BI-EPM SIs (System Integrators) - part 1
SAP BW / BI / EPM solution space is full of volatility now and presents new challenges for System Integrators. Which shall be your focus areas and why? Dec. 9, 2010
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Concept of Migration - Methodology of drawing migration roadmap
I was digging my notes and found this one, I prepared it long back when 'NW2004s BI 7'was making an entry...but this is still so much relevant for any upgrade / migration road-map. Dec. 7, 2010
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SAP BO Advanced Analysis, Road Ahead for BW BEx Analyzer?
As SAP Business Object Advanced Analysis is being considered Road-Ahead for SAP BEX, I have got a few concerns...Share your thoughts please.  Oct. 7, 2010
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #16
Worried about BW transports? Here is the tip... Jun. 28, 2010
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #15
Did you try using navigational attributes on Infosets? May. 27, 2010
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Time to take SDN Collaboration to NEXT Level?
So how do you rate collaboration on SDN in the present form? On the scale of 1-5, I personally would not rate it more than 3. It is a huge community and still growing and I am proud to be part of it. But....  Apr. 26, 2010
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #14
Did you try using tcode RSA2 in your source system? Jan. 18, 2010
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #13
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Oct. 21, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #12
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Oct. 9, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #11
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Sep. 28, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #10
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Sep. 21, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #9
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Sep. 14, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #8
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Sep. 7, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #7
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Sep. 2, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #6
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Aug. 24, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #5
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Aug. 17, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #4
The idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles. Aug. 10, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #3
Idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles.  Aug. 3, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #2
Idea is to learn something in couple of seconds without going through lengthy blogs or articles  Jul. 27, 2009
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Learning SAP BW, The Twitter way - BW-Tweet #1
Learn something in 2 seconds every week...Introducing BW-Tweet!!! Jul. 20, 2009
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SAP BI and Business Objects – Drawing Transition Roadmap (Customer Perspective) –Series II
In introductory blog of this series (https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/11198), I talked about categories of customers accordingly their choices will vary. In this blog I shall discuss plan for 'Customers using only SAP BI solution'. Oct. 10, 2008
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SAP BI and Business Objects – Drawing Transition Roadmap (Customer Perspective) –Series I
With this series of blog, I propose to open a discussion which shall try to analyze customer’s point of view and shall help them building them their own BI Roadmap. Sep. 27, 2008
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ONE STOP SHOP!!! For All Your LO Cockpit Needs
ONE STOP SHOP!!! – For All Your LO Cockpit Needs Purpose of this blog is two fold: a. To introduce my new article on SDN and that is on Enhancement of LO DataSource b. And to collate all the good work available in LO Cockpit area on SDN.  Dec. 18, 2006
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Query Performance, Pareto, Goldratt’s TOC & Me
Quantitative Approach can be coupled with world famous concepts of “Pareto Principle” and Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints in order to improve Query Performance.  Nov. 15, 2006
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An Experience with SAP TechED’06 Session at Bangalore – BIM205
Little tweaking of famous quote “He came he saw and he conquered” will display my experience at TechED’06 Bangalore…. In my case it truly was “I went I saw and I was floored….” Nov. 15, 2006
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Getting Through the Maze of Query Performance Improvement–a Quantitative Approach
This is the session you all voted for; I humbly thank each one of you for that and look forward to see you in Bangalore!!! Oct. 19, 2006
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Enable Trend Reporting – by Manipulating Variable value
Do the terms "To Date",MTD,YTD, Prev MTD, Prev YTD,Average YTD, Average MTD etc sound greek to you...more so when you are trying to do any kind of trend analysis in BEx. Atleast these used to bother me a lot, but no more... This article throws light (High Intensity)on how to achieve "Trend Analyis in BEx by Manipulating Variable Value.  Oct. 17, 2006
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7 Ps of Successful BI Implementation
In one of my previous blogs,I introduced the concept of “Information Supply Chain” and like every Supply Chain it will have a product which to be successful needs to follow generic marketing rules and one of those rules is “7 Ps”. This blog is an effort to amalgamate these two streams.Feel free to add / delete your own "P" to these "P"s.  Sep. 19, 2006
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SAP BI - ROI & Payback Period – A Product Relevant Quantitative Perspective
This blog tries to present a framework to justify SAP BI project's ROI. Sep. 11, 2006
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Dos and Don’ts of BI Usage
Almost every company faces the challenge of getting a comprehensive view on its processes and their performance. Such a view can be achieved by selecting and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). What is a typical business intelligence architecture for supporting this and what are the dos and don’ts of business intelligence usage? Aug. 16, 2006
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SAP BW Upgrade – A New BI Forum Category – Support it to Get it!!!
Walking through my SAP Notification mails, I stumbled upon two "End of SAP BW Maintenance..." & "General Release of NW2004s" and realized there will be many of us working on SAP BW Upgrade projects - If we have got problem at hand then why not solve it collectively…Right now we have Six major category in SAP BI forum on SDN and to my belief “SAP BI Upgrade” has got the potential to be the Seventh one. Support IT!!! Jul. 18, 2006
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In What “Sequence” OLAP processor look for Query relevant data?
This weblog tries to explain just that --Sequence in which OLAP Processor looks for Query Relevant data during Query Execution. Apr. 26, 2006
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Query Performance – Is "Aggregates" the way out for me?
You talk of BW Query Performance & start hearing echoes “Aggregates” from all the corners…and this leads to belief that aggregates are the only way to improve query performance. This blog tries to answer - Is there a way to know whether aggregates will help in my specific case? Apr. 17, 2006
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Load lots of data “Faster” with Buffering Number Range
“ Keep loading millions record and you have taken care of every thing to optimize the loading process… but still want to save few more seconds, may be you did not think of it … “Buffering Numbers” can help you reduce data loading time” Apr. 5, 2006
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