I’m back! My pals here at EV Technologies have been kind enough to take the reigns over the past few steps to get to BI4. I have the honor of wrapping up our list and I’ll kick that off today with an effort to Know Your Universe. Know Your Universe For the first time in many […]
Tag: Information Design Tool
Semantically Speaking
My friend and fellow SAP Mentor, Ethan Jewett, and I, have had a series of good conversations. We kicked things off with my original post on the rift between BW-types and BOBJ-types. It caught attention and we had some great community discussion. In the spirit of our conversation, Ethan followed that up with his thoughts […]
The Power of the Information Design Tool
Imagine this scenario: you have customer delivery data in your SAP BW system and quality control data is contained in nine separate location specific Oracle databases. You need to pull the quality data associated with products that have been delivered to a customer over the last several months and will want to continue ongoing monitoring.
Organizing Work in the Information Design Tool
I really have a love/hate relationship with the new Information Design Tool (IDT). While I do enjoy the Eclipse-based interface, the multi-panel view of universes, folders, and repositories, and more, there are certainly still the “first-major-version” woes like those that my buddy Dallas points out over at his blog. But one topic that I actually still grapple with, is in how I organize my workspace, because this topic can impact not just me, but also my extended development team.