Imran Alam's World

New Venue, New Theme This time, the location was different: The Den Theatre in Chicago—intimate, exposed, no place to hide. And the theme? “Masks.” Perfect. Because isn’t that what we all wear? The professional mask. The confident mask. The “I-have-it-all-figured-out” mask that looks great from the outside while hiding a thousand cracks underneath. The story

For those unfamiliar, The Moth isn’t just any open mic. It’s a worldwide phenomenon where real people get on a stage, without notes, and tell a true, five-minute story from their lives. No props. No gimmicks. Just a microphone, a spotlight, and the truth. I’ve been a fan of The Moth for years—listening to their

  I am pleased to share my knowledge at SAPPHIRE 2019. The session I am presenting is recap of what we at McKesson Specialty learned from our journey to SAP BI 4.2 Platform & how we want to build on top of Fiorified BI launchpad. More about this can be found on a short 3

I was asked by a colleague to list some of the questions “I” would ask if I am interviewing a person for SAP Business Objects (SAP BI Platform) admin. Their team is trying to hire a candidate and he wants some Q&A to judge the candidate. It has been 16 years when I first got

The information being fed to a normal person in today’s world is unprecedented. There is so much to consume & make sense of this information in daily routine that we often find ourselves in complex dilemmas. We often tend to change our position and stands we took once that information really sinks in to us.

This is my story. I will not be able to finish this in one sitting, so will be updating this article most of the days for next month or so. Synopsis: Writing this article in October 2017 when I am in process of re-locating to India from United States. Family has moved in May this

This video contains steps on how to use raw data and load it using “Data Services” into SAP HANA. Once the data is loaded into HANA, this video shows on how to create Universe(s) using Information Design Tool (IDT) connecting to SAP HANA. This also covers creation of Information spaces and exploration views connecting directly

This video is recording of the Webinar I have presented on SAP Analytics use at my current employer. The webinar is hands on demo of the process we have used to build SBOP Exploration views on top of Information Spaces created in SAP Information design tool. The backend database used is Oracle 11. SAP BI

There have been so many things which clicked me in last 2 weeks which I wanted to write about, make a VBlog about but as they say “It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” So I was trying to be perfectionist and do

The presentation was well attended and it was my honor to be presenting at such a huge conference by SAP in Las Vegas in September 2016. At times, it was really difficult to pick from great sessions & speakers they had. The booths were well designed & people/volunteers working on those booths were very helpful.