Got his first Commodore 64 at the age of eight and started programming in Basic. An enthusiastic ABAP and .NET programmer, BW developer – with a pragmatic mindset.
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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.…
EvoClock is a desktop clock that will show the time in words on a matrix of led-lit letters. It is the little sister of the much bigger (and much more expensive) wall clocks of this type. It comes as a DIY electronics experiment kit and can be used to learn the basics of modern open…
Customer exit variables… You might like them, you might hate them, one thing is for sure: you need them. They provide (some degree of) flexibility in your queries – to include a custom logic that can’t be modeled by mere selections and formulas. They are the duc(k)t tape to glue together the bits and pieces,…