Transforming Behavioral Health Care With Predictive Analytics

When contemplating data and analytics technologies – particularly highly technical systems like SAP – most people think in terms of supply chain management, sales, accounting, data governance and other enterprise business processes. Useful, valuable applications that, truthfully, may not be very exciting to the average individual. But more often than you might think, we get […]

Trekwars: Nerdalert – An SAP HANA App

Whether you are into building cool apps on SAP HANA, a rabid Star Wars fan, a faithful Star Trek fan eagerly waiting with ticket in hand to see Star Trek Beyond, or like me…love both (true story, my family and I are watching all of Star Trek chronologically and won’t miss anything Star Wars), I […]

A Prediction about Predictive Analytics for 2016

Since the start of the new year all I’ve heard are predictions. It may have something to do with it being an election year in the US, as well as an Olympic year. Elections and Gold Medals aside, if you’re reading this blog post, the most important thing about this year for you may indeed […]

SAP HANA Viewed with OLAP inside of BI Launchpad

Inside of the SAP BI 4.x Platform there is now the ability to view analytic and calculated views from SAP HANA directly with OLAP connection.  In turn, these OLAP connections can be consumed with Analysis inside of the BI launch pad.  These are not your parents OLAP Connections.  They are not just reserved for BW […]

Enterprise BI is for Curmudgeons

This post is my final thought of my prior post on SAP Lumira from a few weeks back.  I really hope you’ll find us talking about this over on dslayer.net soon.  In my career I’ve been a Business Objects guy for going on 15 years and an IT guy for even longer.  That gives me some longevity here in […]

An SAP Lumira Server Wish List

Last week, I explained why I believed something so subtle as a release note on SAP Lumira Server connectivity within SAP Lumira v1.15 was a big deal. I also teased with a post on Enterprise BI Curmudgeons. That last part is going to have to wait because today, I want to talk about my wish list for SAP Lumira Server and anything set to follow.