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Closing the loop from Insight to Action
Over the course of the year, I have had several conversations with my colleagues Andy Steer, Simon Williams and Frank Jacobs on the subject of why SAP HANA is a perfect storm for SAP customers….
#itelli2018 Theme
We tend to describe the early part of our conference cycle as “under the radar”, meaning that we are generally working on internal, non-public activities, many of which were discussed in my previous blog . The…
The Modern Data Platform – Challenge 5 – Lack of Governance
In the first part of this blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the initial project. I concluded by outlining the 5…
The Modern Data Platform – Challenge 3 – Slow Performance (Part 2)
Following on from part one of previous blog I will now continue to go through challenge three of Slow Performance beginning with Data Consumption. Before getting into the detail, I want to introduce the concept…
An Introduction to SAP BW/4 HANA
A brief recap In the first blog in this series, I discussed the challenges faced by SAP customers with respects to the technical debt built up over many years to deliver operational reporting and some…
The Modern Data Platform – Challenge 4 – Slow Performance (Part 1)
In the first part of this blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the initial project. I concluded by outlining the 5…
The Modern Data Platform – Challenge 2 – Complex Architecture
In the first part of this blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the initial project. I concluded by outlining the 5…
The Modern Data Platform – Challenge 1: Inflexibility
In the first part of this blog series I discussed the traditional data warehouse and some of the issues that can occur in the period following the initial project. I concluded by outlining the 5…
The Modern Data Platform – Introduction
“If you Don’t Know your History” It seems to be a very long time since we put to bed the arguments over the need for data warehouses. I remember the first project I worked on,…
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