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If you would like to get data in and out of SAP analytics cloud the most straightforward way to do it is to use import or export jobs from within the “Data Management” section of the model editor. Import jobs will load data from external systems – SAP BW or HANA amongst other…
SAP Analytics Cloud Analytic Applications offer a way to create interactive dashboards or even “mini-applications” based on analytical and planning data by putting your logic into script code. It offers some standard control types that you can drag and drop onto your canvas to build the user interface – texts, links, buttons, images, checkboxlists… But…
Why BICS? In our blog post Consuming SAP BW queries externally we went through the “official” possibilities of accessing BW query data from ABAP code or external systems. All these options come with specific limitations. In this blog post we are going to have a look at a “less official” but much more powerful interface:…
For various reasons you might require your users to use a specific version of Analysis for Office on their clients. You might use specific features in the workbooks which require a new version, there is a known bug in the old version, or you simply would like to avoid supporting multiple versions of the tool…
Most of the time you will use one of SAP’s standard frontends to execute BW queries: Analysis for Office, Lumira Designer, the legacy BEx suite – or maybe connect the query via live-connect to SAP Analytics Cloud. However, there are times when you need to integrate the data delivered by a query in a custom…
SAP UI5 promises simple yet powerful access to backend data via model binding – that data is ‘magically’ retrieved from the backend service via the OData protocol, the miracle drug against a modern world disease called ‘REST’. You just have to provide the URL in the manifest file… and spend a few hours or days finding…
Comments in SAP BW have always been a painful topic… There were some standard options in BEx, a few custom solutions created by consulting firms, but quite often the comment you created was saved somewhere – connected to some characteristic combination – never to be found back again… In this post, I am going to…
Just like for every IT system, for SAP BO / BI Platform you have a multi-system landscape: at least one a development system, and a productive one. Most often also a third system for testing and quality assurance. Applications are developed on the development system and then “transported” (SAP term) to test and productive systems.…