SAP Business Warehouse: The Big Picture now available at Pluralsight

SAP Business Warehouse: The Big Picture

New online SAP Business Warehouse Training for Beginners

I am proud to announce that my new online training for beginners in SAP Business Warehouse is already published at the training platform, called Pluralsight.

If you or your colleague have never worked with SAP BW before, you might be asking:

Why learning SAP Business Warehouse is important ?

My short answer is: I am convinced that Business Warehouse is the most important tool that helps you to develop yourself to become a trustful expert in your company.

Let me explain you how!

Load Google Analytics Data into SAP BW - PART V: Query and Excel

Load Google Analytics Data into SAP BW is possbile

Overview

In the previous post, I have initialized our Analytics Client with OAuth. As I promised, we are over the hard part of the authentication. This is where things get interesting. In this post I will be implementing the remaining 2 steps in our workflow. As a result, we will be able to Execute a Query and Save it to a CSV file. By the end of this post, we will have a working prototype of our Google Analytics Extractor that can generate a file interface for uploading it to BW.

Load Google Analytics Data into SAP BW - Part III: Preparation of Extractor with Console Application

Overview

In my previous post I have showed the usage of the Google Api Query Explorer and I chose the right parameters for my query after some testing. Now it's time to start implementing our extractor. In this post I will be preparing the skeleton of the solution that I feel as a very important step. In the past, I was always jumping directly to coding without knowing exactly how I want my solution works. In most of the cases it was a big failure since I can get lost in the details very fast. So in order to keep focused on my problem, I design first the skeleton of my program with empty methods expressing my intention about how I expect the solution should work. It's very good to start thinking only on high level because it will be a safety belt that we can grab when digging into the details. Start always with surprisingly simple things and solve more and more complex problems step by step! That worked for me so many times!

Load Google Analytics Data into SAP BW - Part II: Google API Query Explorer

Overview

Let's continue where I left my previous post: ( Load Google Analytics Data into SAP BW - Part I: The Data Flow)

I have already prepared a simple data flow with the Data Flow Wizard in SAP BW with an Excel source. Any source that can provide tha same schema that my Excel table follows can be uploaded to SAP BW for further riporting and analytics. In this post I want to explore the capabilities of our source system called Google Analytics. It's very important to get familiar with the source system in order to develop automated data extraction.