October, 2011 | SAP BW Consulting|SAP Project Management|My Blog

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Get 10 SAP Project Management Tips

Posted by Lonnie Ayers on Mon, Oct 24, 2011 @ 01:01 PM

Are you about to start a SAP implementation? Have you tried to implement but had to abort? You probably have some questions about how to proceed and what to expect. Fortunately, SAP has a long established methodology called SAP ASAP or Accelerated SAP which has been used on literally thousands of SAP implementations. There are various versions of the methodology and to name a few:

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9 SAP BOBJ Universe Best Practices

Posted by Lonnie Ayers on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 @ 06:19 AM

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How many KPIs are enough? Which KPIs are applicable to which Business Processes? If you are familiar with the SAP Solution Map Composer, you will know that KPIs are only defined for some processes and that it is difficult, but not impossible to find out which KPIs are related to which Business Processes. You do this by do a sort of reverse lookup within the KPI panel.

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Top 10 SAP Business Intelligence Industry Trends

Posted by Lonnie Ayers on Wed, Oct 12, 2011 @ 08:53 AM

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We recently got our Business Intelligence experts together and did a survey on what we see as the key Business Intelligence Trends affecting the vast majority of industries. There has never been a more exciting time to be working in the BI industry, with projected global spend of more than $11,000,000.00 just this year, even among all the economic doom and gloom. Of course, these trends are being driven by the continuing improvement of both hardware power and new analysis and statistical techniques. Please give it a read and if you think there are some other trends out there that are even more important, we would love to hear about them.

In-Memory Data Base, i.e., HANA or High Performance Analytic Appliance, deployment.
Replacing transactional reports, i.e., SAP R/3 reports, with BW or OLAP Reports.
Architected Datamarts and the deployment of Corporate Information Factory’s (CIF).

To see our complete list, just click on this link and download the complete report