SAP BW Mentor

Mobile challenges : Project Ranker app

I am working now on my new course for Pluralsight about building native mobile apps integrated with SAP and you can see on the pictures below the ready prototypes. The app itself shows a list of projects ranked by their cash-flow in different statuses, like Idea, In progress or Completed. 

These are the challenges that might occur during a mobile project:

• Multiple target platforms: Android, iOS, Windows Phone
• Multiple screen sizes: smartphone or tablet
• Performance issues: limited resources in network, phone
• Mobile platform choice: Native, HTML5 or Hybrid ?
• Data Quality: data is in different systems 
• Data Access: how to make the information accessible ?
• Cost: different technologies increase the time and money of a project

Hard to Learn SAP? 

As an SAP trainer I received a lot of feedback from my students in the past. Most of them said that “Learning SAP is not so easy!”. 

The question is „Why is hard to learn SAP?”. Based on my experiences, I found that the answer lies in the availability of the SAP Systems. You could not just download and install an SAP development environment and use it within 10 minutes, as the way you do it like in C#. 

First online SAP training video on Pluralsight 

We are ready with our first online SAP training video which is published by Pluralsight training portal, as a first material in SAP category. This course brings ABAP programming and SAP Business Warehouse together. Learn ABAP development practices that will bring balance, quality, and performance to your projects.

Overview

In this blog post I will describe the different VirtualProviders that SAP BW offers as well as their specifics and implementation considerations. I will also introduce the features of HybridProviders, which are clearly one of the exciting new features of BW 7.3.