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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:…
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…
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…
If you try to make SAP BW and a Qlik Sense installation work in tandem, you will find that there are a lot of resources to fetch data from SAP into Qlik. You can load the data from external HANA views generated for your cubes, ODS or even queries, or use the extractor connector provided…