Informatyka
Xavier Jean-Marie Hacking, David Lai, XJ Hacking
Xcelsius 2008 was recently included in SAP’s BusinessObjects 4.0 family, rebranding “Xcelsius Enterprise” as “SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0”. With features like flexible design and what-if scenarios, the powerful dashboarding software allows enterprises to make business decisions at a glance, and this book allows you to go far beyond the basics of these techniques. This cookbook full of practical and applicable recipes will enable you to use the full latest capabilities of Dashboard Design to visually transform your business data. A wide range of recipes will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to perform tasks like configuring charts, creating drill- downs, making component colors dynamic, using alerts in maps, building pop-up screens, setting up What-If scenarios, and many more.The recipes begin by covering best practices for using the Dashboard Design spreadsheet, the data-model, and the connection with the components on the canvas, later moving on to some from-the-trenches tricks for using Excel within Dashboard Design. The book then guides you through the exploration of various data visualization components and dashboard interactivity, as well as offering recipes on using alerts, dashboard connectivity, and making the most of the aesthetics of the dashboard. Finally, the recipes conclude by considering the most important add-ons available for Dashboard Design and enabling you to perform relevant and useful tasks straight away.
Ivan Shomnikov, Stanislav Pereyaslov
Want to cost effectively deliver trusted information to all of your crucial business functions? SAP Data Services delivers one enterprise-class solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text data processing. It boosts productivity with a single solution for data quality and data integration. SAP Data Services also enables you to move, improve, govern, and unlock big data. This book will lead you through the SAP Data Services environment to efficiently develop ETL processes. To begin with, you’ll learn to install, configure, and prepare the ETL development environment. You will get familiarized with the concepts of developing ETL processes with SAP Data Services. Starting from smallest unit of work- the data flow, the chapters will lead you to the highest organizational unit—the Data Services job, revealing the advanced techniques of ETL design. You will learn to import XML files by creating and implementing real-time jobs. It will then guide you through the ETL development patterns that enable the most effective performance when extracting, transforming, and loading data. You will also find out how to create validation functions and transforms.Finally, the book will show you the benefits of data quality management with the help of another SAP solution—Information Steward.
Chandrasekhar Mankala (USD), Ganesh Mahadevan V., Ganesh...
SAP HANA is a real-time applications platform that provides a multi-purpose, in-memory appliance. Decision makers in the organization can gain instant insight into business operations. Thus all the data available can be analysed and you can react to the changing business conditions rapidly to make decisions. The real-time platform not only empowers business users and top management to make decisions but also provides the capability to make decisions in real-time.A practical and comprehensive guide that helps you understand the power of SAP HANA’s real-time and in-memory capabilities. It also provides step-by-step instructions to exploit all the possible features of the SAP HANA database, enabling users to harness the full potential of this technology and its features.You will gain an understanding of real-time replications, effective data loading from various sources, how to load data, and how to create re-usable objects such as models and reports.Use this practical guide to enable or transform your business landscape by implementing SAP HANA to meet your business requirements. The book shows you how to load data from different types of systems, create models in SAP HANA, and consume data for decision-making. The book covers various tools at different stages creating models using SAP HANA Studio, and consuming data using reporting tools such as SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Lumira, and so on . This book also explains the in-depth architecture of SAP HANA to help you understand SAP HANA as an appliance, that is, a combination of hardware and software.The book covers the best practices to leverage SAP HANA’s in-memory technology to transform data into insightful information. It also covers technology landscaping, solution architecture, connectivity, data loading, and setting up the environment for modeling purpose (including setup of SAP HANA Studio).If you have an intention to start your career as SAP HANA Modeler, this book is the perfect start.
Tom Sluiter, Dmitry Anoshin
SAP on Azure Implementation Guide. Move your business data to the cloud
Nick Morgan, Bartosz Jarkowski
Cloud technologies have now reached a level where even the most critical business systems can run on them. For most organizations SAP is the key business system. If SAP is unavailable for any reason then potentially your business stops. Because of this, it is understandable that you will be concerned whether such a critical system can run in the public cloud. However, the days when you truly ran your IT system on-premises have long since gone. Most organizations have been getting rid of their own data centers and increasingly moving to co-location facilities. In this context the public cloud is nothing more than an additional virtual data center connected to your existing network.There are typically two main reasons why you may consider migrating SAP to Azure: You need to replace the infrastructure that is currently running SAP, or you want to migrate SAP to a new database. Depending on your goal SAP offers different migration paths. You can decide either to migrate the current workload to Azure as-is, or to combine it with changing the database and execute both activities as a single step. SAP on Azure Implementation Guide covers the main migration options to lead you through migrating your SAP data to Azure simply and successfully.
Michael Missbach, George Anderson
System SAP jest uznanym zintegrowanym systemem informatycznym do zarządzania firmą. Charakteryzuje się ogromnym bogactwem funkcjonalności i elastycznością, ułatwiającą zmianę skali lub profilu działalności przedsiębiorstwa. Użytkownikami SAP są firmy o różnej wielkości i o różnych modelach biznesu. Szczególnie cenną możliwością SAP jest optymalizacja komunikacji i współpracy z otoczeniem: SAP CRM ułatwia zarządzanie relacjami z klientami, SAP SCM — zarządzanie łańcuchem dostaw, a SAP SRM pomaga w zarządzaniu relacjami z dostawcami. Niniejsza książka pozwala w bardzo krótkim czasie zapoznać się z systemami SAP. Składa się z 24 rozdziałów-lekcji. Przyswojenie materiału każdej z tych lekcji nie powinno trwać dłużej niż godzinę. Ten niezwykle praktyczny przewodnik umożliwia solidne opanowanie podstaw, a następnie zapoznanie się z bardziej zaawansowanymi zagadnieniami. Dzięki temu szybko można zrozumieć, na czym polega planowanie, wdrażanie systemu SAP i korzystanie z niego. Aby umożliwić utrwalenie materiału, każdy rozdział zakończono praktycznym studium przypadku. W książce omówiono: podstawy SAP oraz opis aplikacji i komponentów systemu, instalację systemu SAP w wersji stacjonarnej i w wersji systemu w chmurze, SAP z punktu widzenia biznesu i z punktu widzenia informatyki, najnowsze rozwiązania: bazy HANA, nowy interfejs użytkownika, Software as a Service i inne, operacje biznesowe w SAP, praktyczne podejście do implementacji, migracji i aktualizacji systemu SAP, SAP a internet rzeczy, media społecznościowe, wielkie zbiory danych i inne zagadnienia najbliższej przyszłości. SAP — zostań ekspertem w 24 godziny! Dr Michael Missbach jest dyrektorem Cisco SAP Competence Center. Opracowuje zbiór dobrych praktyk związanych z korzystaniem z aplikacji SAP HANA i innych ważnych usług biznesowych implementowanych w chmurach publicznych i prywatnych. Dr George Anderson jest starszym architektem i dyrektorem programowym w Microsoft Services, specjalizuje się w projektowaniu i implementowaniu ważnych rozwiązań biznesowych SAP i Microsoft Dynamics.