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Using Consistent Colors Across Visualizations in SAP Design Studio
It is a well-established best practice for dashboards and analytical applications to have consistent colors across components and views to identify specific measures (eg. Sales Amount is always Blue,...
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Trend Analysis in Power BI
One of the features that comes with the Power BI suite of analytics tools is DAX (Data Analysis Expression). DAX provides a wide range of functionalities for Trend Analysis such as YTD, MTD, QTD etc....
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SAP Meets Big Data: SAP HANA and Hadoop Ecosystem
Overview Big Data has been around for a long time and with it getting popular, Hadoop is also being widely adopted and implemented as part of Data storage and processing. Many SAP Customers have Hadoop...
View ArticleVisual BI at 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Annual Conference
This time – Orlando! Visual BI is exhibiting and presenting at the 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Annual Conference from May 16th – 18th, 2017 at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), Orlando, Florida....
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SAP BW4HANA Transformation – HANA Pushdown
Custom transformations in SAP BW (as of SAP BW 7.4) are implemented using ABAP Routine as Start, End or Expert- executing it on ABAP Application server. During execution of ABAP based transformation,...
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SAP HANA VORA – New Engines and Use Cases
In the previous article, the purpose of VORA and its core features was explained. In this series, VORA’s new engines; Time series, Graph, and Document store engines are going to be discussed. Time...
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SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (BOC) Connectivity & Modeling – An Overview
This blog looks at architecture and modeling options available for enterprises to make the best use of the analytic capabilities that SAP BusinessObjects Cloud (BOC) has to offer. SAP’s BusinessObjects...
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BW/4HANA – Query Designer
Introduction Query designer in BW/4HANA, an Eclipse based tool-set, is a new and improved tool for working with BEx Queries. Since the BW 7.5 edition for HANA, it has been made mandatory that this...
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5 Use Cases For Bullet Charts
Bullet charts are a variation of a bar chart developed by Stephen Few as a replacement for gauges and meters. The Bullet chart has the following advantages over the gauges. Space saver – require less...
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Evolution of Data Warehousing on the SAP Platform – The Road to BW4/HANA
Data Warehousing is a concept that has been around for a long time and continues to evolve at a fast clip. Enterprises are now looking at building their Data Warehouse into a data platform which...
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In SAP’s HTML5 world, Lumira is just a name and the secret sauce is Fiori
We’re investigating how Fiori fits into the grand scheme of things at SAP and how it is poised to become what defines SAP analytic tools. As SAP moves their front end to HTML5, we are privileged to a...
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Using Web Intelligence Data in SAP Lumira Designer & SAP BusinessObjects...
I’m sure many of you have been in a situation where you started your next dashboarding project and wanted to re-use data that you already have available in other reports. Especially when it is about...
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Democratizing IT infrastructure – How Cloud Infrastructure can be used as a...
In many cases, IT infrastructure gets mired in red tape and more often than not, planning storage and servers for projects take up a lot of time. In most projects, application capacity is taken for...
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Episode 1 – Boardroom Presentation
This is the first Episode of the BI Story Series based on the theme- ‘Using SAP BI technologies to analyze the performance of the entire organization’ Boardroom Meeting It is Jan 2017 and Stephanie is...
View ArticleVisual BI at 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Annual Conference
This time – Orlando! Visual BI is exhibiting and presenting at the 2017 SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Annual Conference from May 16th – 18th, 2017 at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), Orlando, Florida....
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BI Story Series: 1 – Boardroom Presentation
This is the first Episode of the BI Story Series based on the theme- ‘Using SAP BI technologies to analyze the performance of the entire organization’ Boardroom Meeting It is Jan 2017 and Stephanie is...
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Tips & Tricks: Implementing a Tornado Chart (a.k.a Butterfly Chart) in SAP...
In this blog we talk about how one can develop a tornado chart in SAP Design Studio / Lumira Designer. The Tornado chart, also known as the Butterfly Chart is a modified version of the Bar chart. It is...
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BW/4HANA – Query Designer
Introduction Query designer in BW/4HANA, an Eclipse based tool-set, is a new and improved tool for working with BEx Queries. Since the BW 7.5 edition for HANA, it has been made mandatory that this...
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5 Use Cases For Bullet Charts
Bullet charts are a variation of a bar chart developed by Stephen Few as a replacement for gauges and meters. The Bullet chart has the following advantages over the gauges. Space saver – require less...
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Evolution of Data Warehousing on the SAP Platform – The Road to BW4/HANA
Data Warehousing is a concept that has been around for a long time and continues to evolve at a fast clip. Enterprises are now looking at building their Data Warehouse into a data platform which...
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