Embracing the Cloud for Analytics – Part 3

In the first two blogs we were introduced to SAP Leonardo with: Embracing the Cloud Part 1 – Creating an SAP Cloud Platform trial account and creating our first HANA database in the cloud and Embracing the Cloud Part 2 – Configuring the SAP HANA Development within Eclipse and loading data into the SAP Cloud […]

Embracing the Cloud for Analytics – Part 2

In the other two blogs related to this post series are here: Embracing the Cloud for Analytics – Part 1 – Creating an SAP Cloud Platform trial account and creating our first HANA database in the cloud Embracing the Cloud for Analytics – Part 3 – Creating an SAP Analytics for Cloud trial account and creating […]

Embracing the Cloud for Analytics and Applications

The other two posts following this introduction are here: Embracing the Cloud for Analytics – Part 2 – Configuring the SAP HANA Development within Eclipse and loading data into the SAP Cloud Platform Embracing the Cloud for Analytics – Part 3 – Creating an SAP Analytics for Cloud trial account and creating your first story […]

Migrating BEx-based Information Spaces to BusinessObjects 4.0

Sometimes in software it can feel that you take two steps forward and one step back. One example of this is with BEx-based Explorer Information Spaces when migrating from XI 3.1 to BO 4.0. In 4.0, SAP removed the ability to create information spaces against the legacy universe (unv) and instead required everyone to use […]

Dealing with Small Numbers in Explorer

Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time with Explorer and I’ve made a few interesting discoveries that I wanted to pass along. I’m not sure why some of my BI colleagues haven’t been giving Explorer any love (see the DSLayer Explorer Gets No Love podcast), but I think it’s a phenomenal product… but with any […]