Analytics Blogs

How often do you get to mix work with fun?  Well, if you work at Dunn Solutions with SAP products, all the time.  But when we got the opportunity to enter the “Early Bird Baseball Challenge” we got a chance to take fun to the next level- predict who was going to win the 2014 World Series! Obviously, lots of people try to predict who is going to win and for many reasons (just go to...
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One of the main benefits of using the SAP BI Enterprise platform is its compatibility with Windows Active Directory authentication. This compatibility allows users to login to the SAP BI platform using the same credentials that they use to login to their work computer, email, intranet sites and any other platforms that their company might have set-up. Not only can the users access the platform...
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In this post we'll discuss a few recent developments in the SAP HANA space, including new features available in the recent versions of SAP BW on SAP HANA. My objective here is not to write a How-To Document (there are way too many how-to docs available from SAP), but rather to start a discussion. While there are many new features/functionalities introduced with the latest version, there is...
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As an instructor, I’m often asked if I’ve heard of different brands of software.  One of the most commonly mentioned programs is a dashboarding tool called QlikView.  I noticed that there is a free, personal edition on their web site, so I thought I’d give it a shot.  Once I passed the hurdle of bringing in my data set, I was amazed at how quickly things “just worked.”  I...
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I suspect other users may be running into this same problem, so I thought it would be helpful to share a recent experience.   I ran into a problem with a client using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence (Webi) who tried to mix formatting rules with hyperlinks.  No matter what we did, the hyperlink would not appear.  It turned out that the formatting overwrote the document...
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