Ask the Experts

Ask the Experts

SAP business intelligence

• How does SAP Lumira support four critical supply chain KPIs?

  Gaining visibility tops the list of supply chain management challenges. Here's a look at how the Lumira's dashboard of key performance indicators can help.  Continue Reading

• How can IT ensure a successful migration to SAP BPC?

  Successfully implementing Business Planning and Consolidation requires understanding data requirements and getting the input of various business users.  Continue Reading

• What does SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence offer?

  SAP's Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence 15.0 gives users the power to create dashboards for real-time analytics through the Self-Service Composition Environment.  Continue Reading

• What analytics features does SAP Predictive Analytics offer?

  SAP Predictive Analytics uses statistical analysis and data-modeling logic to create meaningful predictions about future events. Here's a breakdown of its main components.  Continue Reading

• How can SAP's S&OP application improve demand planning?

  One expert weighs in on how SAP Integrated Business Planning for sales and operations, which runs on HANA, may help organizations become more demand-driven.  Continue Reading

• Should I integrate SAP Predictive Analytics with Lumira?

  SAP Predictive Analytics extends SAP Lumira with the efficient handling of voluminous data that the in-memory platform SAP HANA processes.  Continue Reading

• How can SAP Commercial Project Management help project planners?

  For large, complex projects, planners may want to take advantage of the features in SAP's Commercial Project Management system. An expert outlines its capabilities.  Continue Reading

• What is the SAP HANA XS Engine, and how does it work?

  Ethan Jewett explains how the SAP HANA XS Engine is used to run lightweight applications on the SAP in-memory database platform.  Continue Reading

• How does SAP Data Services fit in with other data management tools?

  BI expert Ethan Jewett explains how SAP Data Services works, and how it fits into an ever-changing SAP data management landscape.  Continue Reading

• What difference does integrating SAP HANA with Apache Spark make?

  Do the newly announced ties between the SAP HANA platform and the Apache Spark ecosystem offer any real benefit, or is the integration just hype?  Continue Reading

• Do you need an SAP data mart, or an SAP data warehouse?

  Do you need an SAP data mart, or a data warehouse? It depends if you need to deploy data across an enterprise, or need something more focused.  Continue Reading

• The business case for integrating Hadoop with SAP HANA

  Adobe tracks everything its users do and dumps the data into Hadoop. How did the company make the business case for integration with SAP HANA?  Continue Reading

• What is SAP BW on HANA and how does it work?

  BI expert Ethan Jewett explains how running SAP Business Warehouse, or BW, on the SAP HANA database works, and what the advantages are.  Continue Reading

• What are the differences, similarities between SAP BWA and HANA?

  SAP BWA paved the way for the HANA in-memory database, so are the two all that similar? Ethan Jewett lays it out in this Ask the Expert column.  Continue Reading

• How does SAP BI compare with other suites, 'best of breed' tools?

  In this Ask the Expert column, Ethan Jewett explains the biggest difference between SAP BI and 'best of breed' tools, as well as other suites.  Continue Reading