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December 29, 2023
Video: SAP Analytics Cloud Filter Script Performance
Scripting allows us to elevate simple SAP Analytics Cloud stories to very advanced dashboards. But, make sure you are aware of performance issues that might come with this! In this video we look at what happens when using different scripts to filter the data in widgets, including how to get insights on the loading times […]
December 20, 2023
De Nederlandse BI Podcast: SAC Black Belt Walldorf en Toekomstige Innovaties
Vandaag gaan we dieper in op de door ons gevolgde SAP Analytics Cloud Black Belt training in Walldorf en bespreken we de nieuwe ontwikkelingen die op de horizon liggen. We duiken in verschillende onderwerpen, waaronder Custom Widgets, JustAsk, Composites, Planning Areas, de Digital Boardroom, Composable Analytics en een verrassing die te maken heeft met Chrome…. […]
November 13, 2023
De Nederlandse BI Podcast: SAP Analytics Cloud & AI
SAP Analytics Cloud en AI is het onderwerp van deze Podcast! Wat doen JustAsk en Joule en hoe gaat de toekomst eruit zien volgens ons? Jef Baeyens, Xavier Hacking, Joost Hinderink en Ronald Konijnenburg geven hun mening en wat zal nou echt toegevoegde waarde geven aan onze klanten?
November 6, 2023
De Nederlandse BI Podcast: SAP TechEd 2023
We’re back!! 😉 SAP TechEd 2023 is inmiddels weer achter de rug. Wat is er allemaal aangekondigd? Wat viel op tijdens de keynote? Wat is er nieuw in SAC en Datasphere? Dit en meer in een splinternieuwe aflevering van De Nederlandse BI Podcast! [Sorry, Dutch only, but maybe some AI tool can translate the podcast! […]
July 19, 2023
Video: SAP Analytics Cloud Debugging [2023.14]
With the introduction of the Unified Story Mode, scripting within SAP Analytics Cloud becomes more accessible for many story developers. Let’s look at some options to debug your SAC scripts!
June 4, 2023
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms 2023
Sometimes it feels as we are at the end of history and nothing changes anymore. I’ve been reading these annual Gartner “Magic Quadrant” reports on the state of Analytics and Business Intelligence (ABI) for a couple of years now and every edition concludes the same, at least for the “big four” that I look at […]
August 16, 2022
Book review: SAP Analytics Cloud – Financial Planning and Analysis (SAP Press)
Another review on yet another SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) book? Oh yes! This time I read SAP Analytics Cloud – Financial Planning and Analysis, again by SAP Press, and I was very glad to see this 450+ pages strong book on SAC Planning being announced some time ago. Few may know that planning is actually the […]
July 29, 2022
Book review: Designing Dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAP Press)
Developing dashboards and reports with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) does not only require skills on using the tool itself, but also some fundamental knowledge on how to design a dashboard and how to communicate data in a proper way. Of course, there are already some good books and resources on how to work with SAC […]
July 28, 2022
Dashboards are dead? Really?
I saw this nice discussion on LinkedIn last week on the state of dashboarding. And yes, I was as surprised as you to see a relevant, professional post on this platform in 2022, as LinkedIn has turned into some sort of Facebook lately, but okay… 😅 The premise of the post was that dashboarding has gone completely […]
July 13, 2022
Book review: Security for SAP Analytics Cloud – Authorizations and Provisioning
It’s been a while since I reviewed some SAP related books here at HackingSAP.com and what better way to pick this up again than with a book on SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) that was even written by my very own Interdobs colleague Martijn van Foeken! Security for SAP Analytics Cloud – Authorizations and Provisioning is a so […]
