Tips & Best Practices when using SAP BW and SAP HANA Connectors in Power BI
This blog gives 6 key areas to focus on when using the SAP BW and SAP HANA Connectors in Power BI. These tips and best practices can greatly improve troubleshooting and performance when building Power BI Dashboards based on SAP environments. SAP BW Connector...
Understanding Level of Detail Expression (LOD) – Include
Level of Detail Expressions (LOD) are very versatile and flexible. It enables users to get deeper insights into data. Understanding LOD can be a bit tricky. In this blog, we will be focusing on understanding the concept of Include LOD and its benefits. What Include...
Dimensional Node – Adding Drilldowns to a ValQ Node
Value Driver Trees are a good tool to use for modeling business scenarios and allow you to visualize the flow of a business or its operations. More importantly, these visualizations allow analysts to map their key operational processes to their most important business...
Fundamental Visual Design Rules to Design a User-Friendly Interface
What is an Intuitive Interface? A user interface of a report, dashboard or application starts with the visual presentation. Therefore, the first interaction a user has with an interface is visual communication. Furthermore, today’s BI reports are evolving into more...
Visualize ‘Top N & Others’ in SAP Lumira Designer using Ranking Measure Sort
In our previous blog, we outlined a way to achieve visualization for Top 5 & 'Others' through Query Designer and Lumira Designer (formerly known as BusinessObjects Design Studio). This approach is a great workaround to answer a very common request from users-...
Designing a Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) in Azure Data Factory using SQL Server Temporal Tables
Temporal tables were introduced as a new feature in SQL Server 2016. Temporal tables also known as system-versioned tables are available in both SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. Temporal tables automatically track the history of the data in the table allowing...
6 Best Practices for Efficient Tableau Server Performance
Tableau Server delivers powerful capabilities through processes that govern extract refreshes, database connections, workbooks, data sources etc. Since so many processes are involved, it is recommended to optimize Tableau Server for better performance. In this blog we...
Design Thinking in a Nutshell
Why Design Thinking? Since the rise of User Experience Design in software development, the practice of "Design Thinking" has become widely applied in every aspect of the business. Design thinking is not a methodology used by only artists (don't let the word 'design'...
6 Tips & Tricks For Better Tableau Performance
It is not uncommon for users to face performance issues while consuming dashboards deployed in Tableau Server. This may be experienced in the form of longer load times and/or longer interaction response times. In this blog we will be looking at a few ways to optimize...
A User-Centric Approach to Choosing Self-Service BI Tool
In a recent article, we have laid out a comprehensive comparison of most popular self-service BI tools in the market. But before considering which tool to choose from based on its back-end connectivity and functionality, it is important for IT to understand business...
3 Important Reasons Why Lumira Designer is the Ultimate Choice for a Design Thinker
It might be difficult to comprehend the power of SAP Lumira Designer (formerly known as BusinessObjects Studio) because the tool by itself is presumed to be not meant for end-users or business users. Also, its commonly considered an on-premise tool that may not be...
SAP Business Objects SSO – SAML- Part 01
After we discussed the various Single Sign-on options that you can use for secure Integration of Business Objects with your Landscape in our previous blog, we dwell deep into each one of those options. Security Assertion Markup Language which is abbreviated as SAML is...
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