SAP BusinessObjects customers spend a career focused on relational sources. It is what they know. We talk to fellow SAP Mentors John Appleby and Ethan Jewett about where SAP BW could fit into the family. And, with Steve Lucas FTW!
Steve joins us at the 9:30-ish mark, so stick with us.
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Ethan Jewett |
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John Appleby |
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Steve Lucas |
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Greg Myers |
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Jamie Oswald |
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Eric Vallo |
You also must understand the limitations of BusObjects reporting against OLAP and SAP BW in particular.
Seeing that BusObjects was acquired in Feb 2008 by SAP you are way behind if you have not educated yourself on SAP BW. There are a couple of things SAP BW does really well such as: hierarchies, currency conversions (fixed, as of a certain keydate), language translation, etc.
One must not love SAP BW (Business Warehouse), but realize that many, many customers worldwide are using SAP BW as one of their data warehouse solutions. In particular if they are using SAP R/3 (ECC, FICO etc.) OLTP systems.
SAP HANA does not replace SAP BW. SAP HANA replaces the underlying database of an SAP BW.
I do think that one positive thing that came out of this podcast was that cubes can be powerful, and not a lot of BOBJ folks have a ton of exposure to that. I do find it interesting that SAP folks think of data warehouses largely in cube terms, but not everyone has that same imagery.