Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier 📖 The Book in 3 Sentences 1. "The Coaching Habit" introduces a set of seven powerful questions that ignite deep thinking, challenge assumptions, and drive meaningful change. 2. This book focuses on changing the

Introduction So you're thinking of deploying the SAC Analytics Cloud, Excel Add In for Microsoft Office! Here's some lessons learnt I picked up along the way in a locked down enterprise environment and how I went about navigating some of the challenges getting this Excel Add

Introduction Microsoft Excel is the heartbeat of many corporate divisions providing familiarity and flexibility to analyze data so I recommend that you make it a key part of your analytics tool set to encourage adoption and use of your SAP analytics platforms. What doesn't help is that SAP

Introduction My last two blog posts focused on two critical parts of data extraction from S/4HANA: * CDS View Data Extraction * Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) These two frameworks allow external tools like SAP Data Services, SAP Data Intelligence and SAP Datasphere to connect and consume data from S/4HANA. One

Introduction Last blog post I covered the concepts of how you extracting business data from S/4HANA using CDS views. To continue the data extraction theme from S/4HANA, these CDS extraction views run within SAP's Operational Data Provisioning (ODP) framework and provide the mechanics around how your

Introduction S/4HANA has the capability to extract data to an external analytics platform via CDS views. Your use case could be that you need to get datasets into an analytic platform like SAP Datasphere or a Datalake solution within Microsoft Fabric. This quick guide I've written up

CDS Views are evolving!  Here's a quick start guide to transitioning to CDS View Entities. What are CDS View Entities? Traditionally, when creating CDS views, two objects are created when we use the syntax DEFINE VIEW: * The CDS entity itself * A DDIC artifact The future of how we

Welcome to the Datasphere! Today, Wednesday, March 8th 2023, SAP announced their new analytics product SAP Datasphere.  I've rounded up a bunch of links and articles for all SAP analytics professionals to get up to speed with preliminary content released this week.  I've even explored some

When applying S/4HANA's clean core extensibility concepts within SAP's Key User Extensibility concept one of the biggest lessons learnt is that this framework is heavily reliant on availability of released CDS views. Even if a CDS view is in a Released state it may not