I just helped a customer install Data Quality Management for SAP from scratch.  2 days start-to-finish, including customizations.  We probably could have saved some time if we had all the files downloaded prior to starting the install.Ingredients (al...

I really appreciate the quality of akvk's recent article "Scheduling BODS Jobs Sequentially and Conditionally".  And the technical accuracy is high -- yes, you can accomplish what you are trying to do with the techniques discussed in the article. Lov...

For so many of my customers, SAP Data Services is a relatively new tool. A typical DS project is mainly focused on ensuring the solution works for the business and is launched on time. Unfortunately, many of these projects fail to utilize some of the...

Lately I've had four different customers loading to BW using Data Services. All of them use DS 4.0 SP2, and all of them use an application server group to balance the load among multiple BW app servers using a message server. I'd like to clarify how ...

The new semantic layer in BI 4.0 gives you the ability to do a couple of magical, powerful things that weren't possible in prior releases. Namely, you can join data from heterogenous data sources (the so-called and much-awaited "Multi-Source Universe...