A recent article in the Harvard Business Review by Thomas Davenport, professor and fellow at MIT, caught my attention. Davenport refers to the beginnings of a new era: “After Big Data” in his article Analytics 3.0. While organizations built around massive data volumes — such as Facebook, LinkedIn, eBay, Amazon and others — may be ready to move to the next wave of analytics, the full spectrum of big data capabilities is yet to be realized in the traditional organizations we work with on a daily basis.
SAP BW on SAP HANA: when and why?
In this article we will analyse the advantages of the SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) on SAP HANA solution in comparison with a Data Warehouse built directly on SAP HANA. We will also benchmark the performance of a SAP BW vs. SAP BW on HANA in a big data scenario. Most of us are aware of the last trends in BI/EPM market and where it is heading. SAP's mid and long term strategy shows that they are committed to convert SAP HANA in the core of many of their solutions including SAP ERP and SAP BW. SAP HANA can be used either as a database for other Custom Applications or as an Enterprise Corporate Datawarehouse (EDW) to take advantage of its big data and in-memory capabilities.
Clariba holds the SAP Strategy Management Expert Session in Muscat on November 26
The second edition of our SAP® Strategy Management (SSM) Expert Session took place in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on November 26. It brought together SSM senior executives from SAP, SSM experts from Clariba, strategy execution experts from The Palladium Group and a range of companies from the Muscat area.
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report showing prompts with scientific notation
A while ago I was delivered a relatively easy task: create a SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence report that only needed one user entry in the prompt to calculate all the needed parameters for the query. After creating all the calculations and receiving the correct data in the Universe I proceeded to update the query of the Web Intelligence report, but encountered a problem. Due to unknown circumstances the report started showing the numbers and dates with scientific notation. When modifying my Web Intelligence report with the new values for the prompt, the SQL generated was showing the numbers in exponential form. "5.93e2" for example, as opposed to the actual value "593".
Migrating SAP BusinessObjects Explorer spaces to BI4
SSM 10.1 is now available
SAP Strategy Management Expert Session - Muscat - November 26
Clariba & Spinneys SAP HANA success featured in Arabian Computer News
We at Clariba are ecstatic to have our SAP HANA implementation success story at Spinneys Dubai supermarket mentioned in the October issue of Arabian Computer News. The article “Unlocking the potential of HANA” features Dr. Vishal Sikka, Executive Board Member & head of technology and innovation at SAP. Vishal talks about why SAP HANA was created and how SAP is bringing it to the market. Look for our story in the "HANA early adopters in the Middle East" section.
Clariba & SAP host the first SAP Strategy Management expert session in Doha
IT trends 2013: Hype or business reality?
With the last quarter of this year already in fast motion, the race to the finish line of 2013 is on! Perhaps it is already a good moment to look at whether some of the IT Trends 2013 predicted by Gartner, PwC and many others, have actually surfaced for our customers and what this may mean for your organization.