Atteignez un niveau d’analyse supérieur grâce à SAC Planning ! Sur base des données collectées au sein de leurs entreprises, les dirigeants sont chargés d’avoir une vision globale de leurs activités. Pour pouvoir y parvenir, ces dirigeants sont idéalement accompagnés, et ce par la planification. La planification au sein d’une entreprise est une réelle manière […]
Pareto chart in SAP Analytics Cloud
Pareto chart in SAP Analytics Cloud In this blog we will explain you how we can create a Pareto chart in SAP Analytics Cloud using a Live Data connection to BW. A Pareto chart is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual values are represented in descending bars […]
Virtualizing your Azure Data Lake with SAP HANA
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 or SAP S/4HANA data, ‘data lakes’ are often used in parallel for other use cases. Data Lakes are ideal for storing large volumes of information in a cost-effective way. In an […]
SAP BW (parent/child) hierarchies in Power BI
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 with hierarchies, it’s important to understand the different formats that can exist on DB level, and how they can be handled in the reporting tools. In this blog we’ll specifically look […]
Get started with a FREE process discovery analysis of your SAP system
Get started with a FREE process discovery analysis of your SAP system Hello and welcome to this blog post on SAP Process Insights. In this blog we are going to talk about the current challenges businesses are facing with regards to Business Process Management and how SAP wants to tackle these challenges using SAP Process […]
How to reuse a BW hierarchy in Calculation views and expose it to reporting ?
How to reuse a BW hierarchy in Calculation views and expose it to reporting ? Maybe you have tried in the past to advantage of BW hierarchies using HANA calculation views in vain ? As a consultant I don’t always have the choice of having a BW query at the top level of my data […]
New Planning Area for Data Entry
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 features was a bit hidden in the background, but of great importance when using SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning. Especially when using Planning on large Data Models with millions of records. […]
Data Services Python Script Call
Data Services Python Script Call In the magical world of data extraction Data Services offers great out of the box functionality to extract data from databases like SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle… and from SAP ECC. However, to extract data from REST APIs it lacks some functionality. Therefore, we will use one of the most […]
Automatic Lineage Reporting
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 do we have right now? Are we already reporting on source/dataset X? Where does the data in this set of reports come from? We also come across such questions very […]
Through the looking glass, with Web Intelligence
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 with Web Intelligence. Time to put pen to paper and give an honest (I promise) opinion on the little brother of the reporting tools. Down the rabbit hole we go! Growing […]