Getting ready for SAP Design Studio with Codecademy
Word got out that SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio (formerly named as ZEN) will be generally available next month! This week (9 October 2012) SAP is doing a Design Studio 1.0 Product roadmap webinar...
View ArticleBook review: SAP HANA – An Introduction
One of the most anticipated SAP books of 2012 is finally here: SAP HANA - An Introduction published by SAP Press (who else). I had the pleasure to see both authors Bjarne Berg and Penny Silvia at last...
View ArticleSAP Press finally goes e-reader!
As of this month SAP Press offers its books not only in paper and from its online library, but also in downloadable formats PDF, ePUB and Mobi. Continue reading →
View ArticleBook review: 100 Things You Should Know about Reporting with SAP Crystal Reports
100 Things You Should Know about Reporting with SAP Crystal Reports by Coy Yonce has been on the market for over a year, but really hasn’t gotten a lot of attention yet. Maybe the reason is that...
View ArticleColor schemes for charts: Colorbrewer
If you are looking for some nice color schemes to use in your dashboard or report charts you should check Colorbrewer. Colorbrewer is a color scheme picker, designed for coloring maps. Continue reading →
View ArticleHappy Holidays!
Happy Holidays to you all! If you are looking for some place to donate some money before the end of the world year, make sure you check out the Wikimedia Foundation to support Wikipedia, the #1 free...
View ArticleGet SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook for only $5/€4
Packt Publishing is having a holiday ebook sale this week. The offer is that you can get any ebook from their catalog for only $5/€4 when you buy 2 or more. So this is a good time to pick up the SAP...
View Article2012 in books
2012 must be the year I read more than any other year. The amount of material I had to read for university isn't coming close for sure. I thought it would be fun to go through my...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects Dashboards: Using the Push Button for month input
I got a mail this morning about a blogpost I wrote 2,5 years ago in which I explain how you can use the Push Button component in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards to increase or decrease a value. The...
View ArticleArticle for BusinessObjects Expert on add-ons for Dashboards
I wrote an article for the BusinessObjects Expert platform about add-ons for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. These add-ons are third-party plugins that extend the functionality of the standard toolset...
View ArticleErrors after promoting BI4 reports with BEx query data sources
Transporting (or promoting) objects in the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 environment is still a bit weird for those (like me) originally coming from the SAP BW world. The Lifecycle Manager (LCM) webapp...
View ArticleGetting into SAP HANA (part 3): SAP HANA Starter book
Last year I got a bit stuck when playing around with the SAP HANA Studio on our Amazon AWS HANA setup. In the meanwhile a great book (SAP HANA: An Introduction) has been published providing all the...
View ArticleBook review: Mastering SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP with...
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP is probably the BI4 tool I have spent the least time in yet. It can be seen as the successor to the BEx Web Analyzer and it is the web counterpart of SAP...
View ArticlePersonal Intelligence: BI on yourself
In the world of Business Intelligence (BI) we try to figure out what the state of an organization is and how we can make it work smarter. We can measure its business pocesses, transform this data into...
View ArticleSAP Design Studio and Conditions
I got an email this week by Ado A. from Atlanta, GA about an issue he has with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. He is trying to filter a set of data in Top N categories, for example to get the 10...
View ArticleFree Data Export add-on for SAP Dashboards
I want to share a nice little add-on for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards that is created by SAP BI consultant Ivo Moor and I just found out about. It is called the Data Export add-on and it lets you...
View ArticleSAP HANA Studio for Mac
Who would have thought. A full featured native Mac version of a SAP development tool. Well, it's here now. Check this page for the download of SAP HANA Studio Developer Edition (version 1.00.56) for...
View ArticleDe Nederlandse BI Podcast – episode 1
Cool, the first episode of our new De Nederlandse BI Podcast (The Dutch BI Podcast, ideas for abetter name are welcome) is now available on Podbean. Besides myself we have @konijnenburg,...
View ArticleDe Nederlandse BI Podcast – episode 2
We just recorded the second episode of De Nederlandse BI Podcast and it is already available at PodBean. Good job @konijnenburg! I’m sure it will pop up in iTunes very soon. This episode’s topics are...
View ArticleThe SAP Big Data Bus is coming to your town!
It’s now over 48 hours ago that we had the #AllAccessAnalytics webinar, and I’m still heavily fascinated by this Big Data Bus thing that was announced during the webinar. There are 60.000 SAP BI...
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