Data Warehousing

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

30. May 2014 in Data Warehousing, Administrators, Analysts, BI Professionals, DW Developers, Integrated Planning Developers by sapbwmentor

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#.

Introduction to ABAP for SAP Business Warehouse Developers

25. April 2014 in Data Warehousing, DW Developers by sapbwmentor

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.

SAP NetWeaver 7.3 - Practical Guide (2nd Edition, 2013)

7. September 2013 in Data Warehousing, Modeling, Planning by sapbwmentor

With the help of this new book about SAP NetWeaver 7.3 you can learn the basic principles and concepts of BW and you can get step-by-step instructions for performing BW tasks.

What's new in SAP BW 7.4

29. August 2013 in Data Warehousing, DW Developers by sapbwmentor

SAP BW 7.4 is released and we are excited to check the new functionality in the system. In this blog series we will collect the most interesting to us new or enhanced features of the system – Integration with SAP HANA database, Planning in SAP BW, LSA++, Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) and so much more.

How to load and manage RDA based HybridProviders

16. August 2013 in Data Warehousing, DW Developers by sapbwmentor

This blog post will explain the new functionalities around real-time data acquisition and reporting in SAP BW 7.3. More particularly, I will explain the use case and benefits from HybridProviders based on Standard DSO with Real-Time Data Acquisition (RDA).

Why partitioning is important? Have you tried SPO in SAP BW 7.3?

16. August 2013 in Data Warehousing, Modeling, DW Developers by sapbwmentor

This blog post will guide you through one of the very important performance features in SAP BW – partitioning and the new semantically partitioned object (SPO). You will read in details about the different types, benefits and reasons why to implement partitioning.

Virtual Infoproviders in SAP BW 7.3: Types and Benefits

16. August 2013 in Data Warehousing, DW Developers by sapbwmentor

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.

SAP BW Mentor

Hard to Learn SAP?

First online SAP training video on Pluralsight

Overview