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Hi there! Welcome to the third stage of our Tour of SAP Datasphere! During this stage we will be tackling a very exciting feature...

SAP has introduced SAP Datasphere as the successor to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, with a range of new capabilities to improve data discovery, modeling,...

Hi there! Welcome to the first stage of our Tour of Data Warehouse Cloud! These days it’s rather challenging to keep up with the...

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is a cloud tool that runs on a HANA database. Although native connectivity with SAP Analytics Cloud exists for reporting...

It’s not common and recommended to work directly in a production environment. So, in most of your BW projects, you must import SAP BW...

Hi again, in this short article I’ll go over 5 functions of Business Objects I often used and think are worth spreading the word...

Atteignez un niveau d’analyse supérieur grâce à SAC Planning ! Sur base des données collectées au sein de leurs entreprises, les dirigeants sont chargés...

Pareto chart in SAP Analytics Cloud In this blog we will explain you how we can create a Pareto chart in SAP Analytics Cloud...

Organizations are looking for best-of-breed solutions to tackle data challenges. While lots of organizations are using SAP HANA for reporting and analyzing SAP ECC...

SAP BW (parent/child) hierarchies in Power BI Hierarchies are a very powerful concept in the world of data processing and visualization. For anyone working...

Get started with a FREE process discovery analysis of your SAP system Hello and welcome to this blog post on SAP Process Insights. In...

How to reuse a BW hierarchy in Calculation views and expose it to reporting ? Maybe you have tried in the past to advantage...

New Planning Area for Data Entry In SAP Analytics Cloud, release 2021Q4 (2021.20.12) many new features were introduced. (https://help.sap.com/doc/00f68c2e08b941f081002fd3691d86a7/2021.20/en- US/c96a267c5da04fff90bb55313ee9f77c.html One of these new...

Data Services Python Script Call In the magical world of data extraction Data Services offers great out of the box functionality to extract data...

Automatic Lineage Reporting Do you get these types of questions a lot? We’re changing something in ECC/APO/…, what’s the impact in BI?How many reports...

Through the looking glass, with Web Intelligence Exactly two years, that’s the amount of time I’ve been working with Business Objects and more specifically...

Project management, keep it plain and simple That project management plays a very useful role in IT related projects is nothing new. But what...

Comment créer une vue à partir d’une Cluster Table sur SAP Une table au niveau de la base de données peut parfois contenir de...

Advantages of using SAP Analytics Cloud for a Rolling forecast What is a rolling forecast? A rolling forecast is a way of reporting that...

SAP BW BI Content Installation What is Business Content? In the Business Warehouse context, SAP’s Business Content, is an accumulation of pre- defined and...

SAP Analytics Cloud: Open your story with a variable constraint via a URL In SAP Analytics Cloud, you can create a story URL with...

Apache Log4j Security Vulnerability impact on Java (CVE-2021-44228) Last week, a serious security breach was found with a Common Vulnerability Scoring rating of 10/10.This...

Working From Home: Tips & Tricks (Part II) Due to the prevalent pandemic and subsequent measures, many employees are forced to work from home...

Working From Home: Tips & Tricks (Part I) When COVID-19 came knocking onto our doors, most companies had to switch to work-from-home mode. While...

How to set up SAP Cloud Connector on Linux? First go to https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloud and download the corresponding SCC, SAP_JVM and jco files.Put all of the files...

How to create an AMDP Routine in BW Transformations What is AMDP ? ABAP-Managed Database Procedures is one of the recommended patterns for use...

Geolocation Setup Prerequisites: HANA licensed for SAP HANA spatial HANA system has to be configured with a valid SRID (Spatial reference Identifier) HANA Live connection setup Dataset with...

Agfa "For many years already, Agfa can rely on Cubis as its main analytics partner. Their knowledge and expertise in the field of SAP...

Barco Keeping the complex BW environment sync with future needs “Cubis has been a flexible and valuable partner in our analytics journeys. With the right...

"The experience was very positive. Cubis was attentive to the specificities of our industry and ensured our support. Manuel Correira,CEO, VP Business Intelligence &...

Web Intelligence optimizations Central Management Console Retry failed schedules There is an option within the CMC that allows for a retry of the schedule...

OCR With Python In many cases the data that you want to report on is already in a digital format.But what if that is...

Don't kick Business Objects of its throne just yet! IT changes constantly. Which makes it hard to follow and adapt to the new trends...

Your transport guide – SAP BW Hey everyone,A couple of months ago I encountered a rather big task to perform at my customer.I had...

La méthodologie Scrum L'agilité, c'est quoi ? L'Agile Manifesto a été créé pour rassembler un ensemble de valeurs et de principes permettant de définir...

XML With Python DOM (DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL). We load the entire file in memory because then we can access the content like it’s an...

Let's Encrypt [Part III] Using “Let’s Encrypt” certificates with SAP/HANA web dispatcher and XSA on an Azure deployment for SSL communication. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In the...

Let's Encrypt [Part II] Using “Let’s Encrypt” certificates with SAP/HANA web dispatcher and XSA on an Azure deployment for SSL communication. Note: this is the...

Let's Encrypt [Part I] Using “Let’s Encrypt” certificates with SAP/HANA web dispatcher and XSA on an Azure deployment for SSL communication. _____________________________________________________________________________________ In our...

CREATING AN ODATA SERVICE WITHIN THE BW4/HANA APPLICATION LAYER [Part II] Note: this is the second part of the blog. Missed the first part? Read...

CREATING AN ODATA SERVICE WITHIN THE BW4/HANA APPLICATION LAYER [Part I] Project background In a recent project I did, the client wanted to expose...

SAP Datawarehouse Cloud [Part IV] Governance & Architecture with SAP Datawarehouse Cloud ______________________________________________________ Note: This is the last part of the blog series.  If...

SAP Datawarehouse Cloud [Part III] Data Modeling in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ________________________________________________________________ In previous blogs (Part I and Part II), we introduced SAP Data Warehouse...

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud [Part II] Spaces Within SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ____________________________________________________________ In our previous article, we discussed SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and its capabilities....

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud [PART I] An intro to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud ________________________________________________________ Introduction In these modern times, data is spread across different...

I recently had to download the attachments from a few thousand emails that were sent to me by an automated process at my current...

L’utilisation des données dans le combat contre la COVID-19 S’il y a bien une chose que l’on retiendra de l’année 2020, c’est la pandémie...

Fetch SOAP web service call with deep structure in ABAP [Part III] This will be the last article that concludes the blog about fetching...

Fetch SOAP web service call with deep structure in ABAP [Part II] Below is my second article out of 3 for fetching web service...

Fetch SOAP webservice call with deep structure in ABAP [Part I] Here is a step by step guide on how I retrieve data from...

Use-case and value-driven implementation approach Not the title you would expect in a Cubis blog? Think again! A BI implementation is only as powerful...

BODS – ETL Framework [Part II] Note: this is the second part of the blog. Missed the first part? Read it here. For the extraction...

BODS – ETL Framework [Part I] Requirements Each execution step in a job should be logged in a logging table Provide a delta and...

Consider your pods (Azure) Recently, we ran in some issues when doing training with several trainees on our SAP Datahub environment that is running...

2020 SAP COIL Hackathon winner: Cubis! Last week a team from Cubis participated in the , organized by the - ( ). The event...

Passion meets project [Part II] Note: this is the second part of my article on sports, data and the link in between. Missed the...

Passion meets project [Part I] Foreword I'm curious, I like to write, I like basketball and I'm an IT-consultant specializing in SAP technology. Nothing...

Scheduling in SAP Analytics Cloud Many customers have asked for it, and finally, it is available in SAP Analytics Cloud: scheduling stories and dashboards...

Le 1er Avril était la date du lancement officiel de Cubis Luxembourg. Cubis est spécialisée dans les solutions analytiques de SAP avec une position...

Managed Big Data: DataBricks, Spark as a Service The title accompanying this blog post is quite the mouth full. This blog post will explain...

Agile BI : A Scrum Adaptation (Part 1 & 2) Agile BI : a SCRUM adaptation (part 1) At the end of the year,...

Embedded analytics, the end station for enterprise reporting? At Cubis, we see an increasing number of customers starting to upgrade their R/3 or other...

Consuming S/4HANA CDS views in PowerBI With ABAP Core Data Services, SAP S/4HANA provides us a very powerful way to model and consume the data which resides...

How to use Analysis Process Designer as an alternative for Open Hub. Last year, our colleague Nico wrote a blog post on how to...

December 2020 That is the deadline when you are running a BW version 7.4 or older. SAP will end the mainstream maintenance for older...

Making forums a better place Before starting my career in IT, I almost never went to online forums. However quickly after starting my career...

so.. SAP Lumira is dead.. now What ? As a consultant I’m responsible for the Analytics environment for an Innovative Company in Natural Chemistry...

Fetching XML API data I recently finished a project for which I had to fetch public data of parking lots and load it to...

HANA optimizations to speedup queries Hi network, since September I’m working as an SAP Analytics consultant for Cubis. Since then I had two months to...

Take on the fight with Python Introduction If there is one thing common in everyone’s career than it is that at some point everyone...

Open Hub Destination with BEx Query as an InfoProvider Introduction A SAP BW system is mostly known to consolidate data to give reporting or...

Getting started with SAP HANA SDI in less than a day This is part 2 of the series. Herein, we’ll cover dataflow creation within...

Getting started with SAP HANA SDI in less than a day (The Twitter case) – Part 1 I was recently asked by a client’s marketing department...

Cubis participates at the Chainport Hackaton From 11/10 to 13/10 Cubis will participate in the Chainport Hackaton at Antwerp Expo organised by Port of Antwerp. The Hackaton will focus...

BODS Data Extraction Loading data into a DWH can sometimes be a hassle. Defining your delta too. So let’s keep things simple. There are...

How SAP Analytics Cloud and BPC come together? In a SAP BPC standard environment, the main interface to input data is MS Excel. In...

SAP HANA views organised in layers Getting structure in the new HANA environment is not as easy as it first seemed. It all started easy,...

Process chain (flows) optimization Part 3 This will be the last article about process chain optimization. In the previous article we covered the optimization...

Process chain (flows) optimization Part 2 In the previous article I did a small intro and showed you how to check if a process...

Process chain (flows) optimization Part 1 Following will be an article which is divided into 3pieces. First an introduction to what I do and...

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Lumira 2.1 Discovery, a first glimpse On Friday Dec 15th, SAP made Lumira 2.1 Discovery available for the general public. During the last few...

STIB-MIVB: How Business Intelligence Makes Public Transportation Smarter in Brussels Great movie about the analytics vision of the STIB_MIVB and the world premiere implementation...

Organizing a Business Intelligence department in a world of self-service 27 november 2017 What do you get when asking 10 Cubis customers to fill...

Cubis releases the "text chart"​ extension for SAP Design Studio We are proud to announce that Cubis has released its first extension for SAP...

Cubis 5 year - Interview with Jeroen and Wim On the occasion of our 5th anniversary Wim and Jeroen were interviewed in Magazine X...

Agfa-Gevaert NV as the Bronze Winner of the SAP quality awards supported by Cubis. 04 september 2017 Congratulations to our customer Agfa-Gevaert NV for...

Giving back to the community: Cubis and Ganspoel At Cubis, we also believe in bringing added-value to the community, and we consider that one...

Yesterday, we headed off for a 5 hour drive from Antwerp to Walldorf (Germany) to participate in a BW4HANA Partner testing workshop. Walldorf probably...