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so.. SAP Lumira is dead.. now What ?

As a consultant I’m responsible for the Analytics environment for an Innovative Company in Natural Chemistry and innovative in their IT. Recently I was forced to ponder on the post-Lumira question “ Now what ? ”.

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Fetching XML API data

Fetching XML API data

I recently finished a project for which I had to fetch public data of parking lots and load it to a multiprovider to use it in reporting.  The data that I needed to fetch was from an open data API. After successfully finishing this project I thought I would share how I did this as an easy guide for others.

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Take on the fight with Python

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 said: “Can’t this be automated or made simple?”. On a given moment at my customer I was asked to do a data-compare of two data providers with over 50 characteristics each and containing millions of records in SAP HANA. At first I started to run queries against the SAP HANA-tables to check the data but soon enough I thought…