Let us review a case where organization’s database contains personal data that is not supposed to be accessed by most users. This data may include individual names, personal details, social security numbers, dates of birth, etc. This is especially relevant with the adoption of GDPR in the European Union (The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union). READ FULL ARTICLE #GDPR #BW4HA

It is BW Workspaces that bring additional agility in business planning applications with SAP BW 7.5 on HANA and BW/4HANA. SAP BPC Embedded is a strategic business planning tool leveraging the power of HANA with top down disaggregations on large datasets and HANA-optimized planning functions. At the same time SAP BPC Embedded has become more agile from the business user’s point of view. Master data management and data modelling by Line of Business users (LOB) can be done easie

Learn about SAP BW/4HANA and considerations to evaluate when making the decision to migrate. Understand how the effort of implementing SAP HANA-based enterprise data warehousing empowers companies, leads to greater returns, and reduces total cost of ownership. Learning Objectives Reading this article, you will learn about: How to use SAP BW/4HANA and how it is different from traditional SAP BW The features and capabilities of SAP BW/4HANA Migration considerations and evaluati

Historically Business Analytics technologies and traditional datawarehousing implementations were associated with long projects, enormous workloads, high costs and doubtful returns. This has changed with the introduction of modern cloud-based in-memory solutions and EDW platforms such as SAP BW/4HANA. In the post below I will go through a few points that are vital for efficient EDW solutions delivery. Specifically, I focus on Cloud infrastructure, Agile architecture and Self-

Just a few years ago SAP has introduced a new Business Analytics presentation layer tool that has immediately caught attention and became a leader in the industry. Today SAP Lumira 1.31 has a lot of visual capabilities that help analyze data from many different sources including SAP HANA, SAP BW, MS Excel, Universes, SQL Server, Hadoop, etc. SAP Lumira is a self-service tool used directly by LOB (Line of Business). Technical job is to prepare a robust data model and have it e

Most organizations want to take advantage of the benefits offered by in-memory technologies that support their SAP BI and SAP BW needs in business analytics, operational and strategic reporting, and planning. One of the leading in-memory products on the market is SAP HANA. Over the course of my career, I have had some large organizations that I worked with decide not to implement SAP HANA because of concerns about anticipated high costs, lack of resources, and complexity. I r

When I first heard about SAP HANA and its enhanced performance, I was very interested in discovering more about the product and learning about the benefits of its in-memory capabilities. It seemed as if SAP HANA would deliver on the most critical of the issues BI projects need to solve: improving query run time and data-load performance. It also seemed that data loads may not be needed at all as all data is sitting in memory. I have many years of implementation experience wit

Here is a short summary of new functionality in BW 7.4 on HANA for those familiar with traditional SAP BW. I have collected and highlighted a few features out of many that I believe are crucial for understanding the benefits of BW on HANA SP8 and making architectural decisions. READ FULL ARTICLE #HANA #BW #upgrade