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A while ago I posted a blog on Reporting on SAP data with Microsoft tools and have an update regarding SQL Server 2008. Integration Services for SQL Server 2008 supports the extract of data from or the export of data to SAP BI InfoProviders such as InfoCubes...
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Spreadsheets are ubiquitous, perhaps the most used application in the workplace for a large majority of people and definitely not going away. However sometimes they can also be, well, dangerous and secretly costing you plenty of cash so it is worth looking...
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If you belong to a mid-market company you may feel a little hard done by when it comes to selecting an effective Business Intelligence platform, after all they have the same problems as larger customers face but the BI packages available are often either;...
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As Microsoft is so ubiquitous in the IT world it stands to reason that most organisations that use SAP also use Microsoft products as part of their technology mix but few are aware of just how much they can use both technologies together. I have read...
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Whilst attempting to save back 10 years Long Term Plan data in a planning enabled workbook I encountered the unusual situation where only the data for the years 2008 - 2011 would save back successfully. I investigated all the usual potential causes and...
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I have been working on an unusual and complex planning workbook that has 32 separate queries embedded in it and was recently shown a quick and easy way to list all of them. We have a naming convention to identify all the queries that should be in the...
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An Business Intelligence solution can be perceived as expensive but does business really spend enough time calculating the value of the benefits it can bring? I recently encountered a business that is replacing its manual Excel based financial reporting...
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If you have ever used BExSetData formulas in an Excel workbook for a planning scenario then you probably have a setup like so: A formatted user facing worksheet containing; an area where the user enters their plan data with a BEx save data button, an...
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I have recently been using SAP IP distribution based on reference data planning function to perform the allocation of budget and plan expense data based on certain key values. In my scenario all the costs generated by shared cross company functions such...
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I have recently completed some functional testing running SAP on a remote Citrix Web Server and was pleasantly surprised by the results. Citrix software enables software to be hosted on central servers and run remotely by the users without having to install...
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In the past week I created a input enabled query in BEx Analyzer to save back long term plan data over a 10 year period. To accomplish this I used an offset variable range from the current year to current year +10, simple enough. I then inserted the query...
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A neat trick to easily access a custom ABAP program built in SE38 is to add a custom transaction in SE80. To do this select Repository Browser , then Program from the drop down list and enter the ABAP program name. Next right-click on the Transaction...
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In my current project we have a typical system landscape where we use a project stack consisting of 3 servers (Development/QA/Production) and also a production stack. The project stack is used by multiple projects for the client and many other system...
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When SAP purchased Business Objects (BO) and released the new joint roadmap of the way forward (More details at https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/businessobjects ) one of the thing I noticed that was conspicuously missing was a clear message about which...
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When SAP purchased Business Objects back in January the SAP user community breathed a sigh of relief, good times ahead we all thought, and no doubt they will be but what do existing SAP customers do now when it comes to decision making on an effective...
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