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Avoid precision loss in your SAP BI implementation Print E-mail
Written by Sandeep Banerjee - 25/05/2010   
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
25 May, 2010
Key concept:
Data Type FLTP - Floating point number, accurate to 8 bytes is often required for persistent key figures which are calculated in BI. BI developers often ignore this data type when maintaining a key figure. 
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SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 Excel Workbook Pre-calculation or Scheduling Print E-mail
Written by John Appleby   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009

10 November, 2009
I often get requests about NetWeaver BW Pre-calculation Servers. Why use one? Because you want to send out Excel workbooks with BW content in them on a scheduled basis. You can send them to email or to the NetWeaver 7.0 Portal Knowledge Management engine, which can put them on a network drive, or Sharepoint server, or internal portal KM folders. Your choice.

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Enterprise Portal Landscape Strategy Print E-mail
Written by John Appleby   
Monday, 19 October 2009

19 October, 2009
One of the questions that I'm asked most often about Technical Architecture is what  an Enterprise Portal strategy should look like. How many portals do we need? What should we run on each of them? How should they interact? I'm going to talk about this - particularly taking into account what seems to be the two most common scenarios: Self Service, and BW - but also taking into account other Java environments like SRM, MDM and Solution Manager.

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Building the benefits case for a BI project Print E-mail
Written by Tony Harper   
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Thursday 29 January, 2009
In the current climate IT budgets are facing increased pressure. Whilst large strategic BI projects are still going ahead, for example driving a performance management culture based on measures provided by BI, many tactical projects are facing tough competition. Only those offering clear quantifiable financial benefits will progress.
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Multiple language translation and supplementation in BW Print E-mail
Written by Rhett dela Cruz Gaza   
Wednesday, 07 March 2007
A global BW implementation will usually need to cater to the different language needs of the user. In this article we investigate the ways to implement Language Translation and Supplementation in a BW system that has multiple language requirements.
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