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Video demo of SAP Crystal Reports against SAP HANA. Getting started & knowing the details is the biggest challenge when you start working with something new or with technologies you have very little experience with. I have tried to simplify for users on how to get started with creating Crystal reports for Enterprise against the

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

If your company uses SBOP Explorer 4.2, you need to read this. There is a potential showstopper in SAP 4.2 SP5. The error we see on the charts is “It was not possible to generate the chart.” The knowledge base which documents this issue is can be found on the link below. (2558269) This particular

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

Thought to add details about the session I will be presentation/demo at ASUG DFW chapter meeting at Irwing Convention Center. This will be very technical demo of steps involved after you finish gathering the KPIs you want to use. It will be step by step process where we will create SAP BO Universe in Information Design

September 14th 2015 It’s been a while since I have written “posts” here. Will try and be frequent from here on and do a “new” posts every week. Since, its been a while, I will keep this post to miscellaneous things., “Cricket” to be precise. Below Uploads are from Spyda Cup ( India Vs Pakistan

This article is the first of the series which would discuss in concise but comprehensive manner, the facts and factors which, if understood and applied properly, can play a big role for the College and university graduates who are about to join the corporate world  with their dream jobs.  Let us consider a scenario… you’ve

SAP Business Objects Explorer is powerful Analytical tool which can help business analysts or end users get answers in very intuitive way. My first exposure to it was at client migrating their old cubes to Business Objects explorer version 3.1. I must confess it was “not” love at first sight but soon I started to

It has been a while since I started my career as developer looking at data in different forms and formats. Doing the critical thinking and then coming up with presentable way which end users can easily understand and make their daily decisions. During this vast period (About 14+ years to date) I have spent, doing

Excited to be playing with TOG Americas and TOG Badshah’s in Houston Cricket League. Please make a note of this schedule and save the image to your computer or mobile devices if needed for quick look. This should help everyone to plan the availability for games this summer. Best of Luck and lets go unbeaten