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!

Cache your SAP data on Mobile easily with SAP SDK for Xamarin

Overview

I am currently working on my next Pluralsight course about SAP Business Warehouse, SAP Mobile Platform and Xamarin integration and I am refactoring my example ProjectRanker app so that it can use OData with JSON for getting the information from the server. This post is about the introduction of the Xamarin SAP SDK component and it's important Caching functionality.

My native app development impressions with Xamarin and SAP Business Warehouse 7.4 integration

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

Setup your SAP Business Warehouse 7.4 on HANA in less than 1 hour

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#. 

Walkthrough to create a stunning dashboard on a SAP BW query

In that post, I will show you how easy is to connect your BW query to Expertise Dashboard Designer and build in 10 minutes an exciting presentation of your data. As a result of this guide, I will have a portable Windows based dashboard that I can use during my management meetings in the future just refreshing the data behind the scenes with a single click.

The Successful Project – A Balance of Quality, Time and Cost

Everybody wants to take part in successful projects and nobody likes the ones that are foredoomed to fail. I am sure it is a well-known fact that in the beginning of a crucial project everyone wants to take part and share the success. However, as time goes by the momentum seems to be brake down and in the end almost only the project leader works with the initial passion. This topic has been discussed much, but I personally think it is important to analyse current projects and from time to time refresh knowledge around management strategy in order to bring projects to nice end results.