Comments on: Ideas and Questions

By: Alex Schuchman

Alex Schuchman — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:29:10 +0000

Here’s my idea for a new podcast, comparison of “sprint” style development techniques which have been recently adopted by SAP vs. more traditional development “cycle” releases(which take months or years).

FYI: I love listening to the podcasts on my droid…”droidcasts” doesn’t quite sound right.

By: Neil Gardiner

Neil Gardiner — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:43:32 +0000

Here you go: http://www.sportstatz.com/ss/web.asp?mode=17&club=417

By: Alex Schuchman

Alex Schuchman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:45:26 +0000

First I wanted to add my two cents about Vijay’s comments regarding CRM and Web Services. Having travelled up to SAP Labs Montreal and working with the CRM TPM Team, they are told to review all of the available technologies within SAP before making a decision on what to use for their specific products(like TPM). There didn’t seem to be a specific SAP mandate that all groups need to conform and use the same technologies, which makes life extremely difficult for us customers(complete agreement with Vijay on this point). It would be nice if the SAP Product Managers had more power to enforce standards.

For Steve’s comment about Terradata and BOBJ, this is a very recent announcement(and still not clear). We have a meeting with them on Monday to get some clarity but from what I’ve heard it’s just a partnership with Terradata. Not the same like BOBJ merger, so you’ll still have to buy the terradata tools. There’s lots of third party vendors who pull in BW/BI data into an in-memory database for full flexible reporting. I just looked at the QlikView product and it’s got a really slick UI and feature set. Also don’t forget SAP’s P* (code name) or Business Objects Explorer(proper name) since you throw your BI data into BWA and then use Polestar to report on it.
This still requires loading and wait time as Steve points out, the concept of a hybridprovider was discussed by SAP for the past couple of years. This would allow BI Reports to be based on historically loaded data(cube) as well as the merge from an ODS or some other temp repository objects which would allow a close fit to the “real-time” reporting you mention. Heard this is coming in BI 7.2 so still waiting for it.

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:15:34 +0000

Hey guys,

I really like your podcasts and all the effort you are putting to help out the SAP community. I have a suggestion for a video podcast similar to the ABAP freak show but something that is geared towards beginners. For example, you could show new coding techniques, ABAP Objects, internal table techniques, how would you go about solving specific problems, best way of fetching data from multiple tables or sources, etc. I would love to see something similar for Business Workflows. I think this will help a lot of beginners in this field.

Thanks again for your great podcasts.

Ali

By: Steve Jones

Steve Jones — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:51:52 +0000

I enjoy your energy and enthusiasm. I’m interested in your take on solving challenges around latency from source to BW Infocubes. Users seem to be asking for more frequent data refreshes and the processing in between institutes delays. Does the recent Terradata announcement help here? Can we put all this data in one location and leverage BW & BObj?