This document provides an overview of Business Intelligence (BI) and SAP BI. It defines BI as gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help organizations make better decisions. The document then discusses SAP BI specifically, describing it as a data warehousing solution that integrates, transforms, and consolidates business data for flexible reporting and analysis. It provides historical details on the evolution of SAP BI and describes the typical data flow and architecture within SAP BI including extraction, transformation, loading, data storage, and analysis tools.
SAP Analytics Cloud combines BI, planning, predictive, and augmented analytics capabilities into one simple cloud environment. Powered by AI technologies and an in-memory database, it is one of the most advanced analytics solutions available today.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
Get the inside scoop of the future innovations of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 platform: hybrid world, new BI Launchpad interface, simplified maintenance, as well as other exciting innovations.
Slides for the Usergroup meeting for the Manchester Power BI User Group on June 27th, 2019.
Subject: Power BI for Developers about Power BI Embedded and Power BI Custom Visuals
The presentation discusses the different aspects of Power BI like Power BI for O365, Data Discovery, Data Analysis, Data Visualization & Power Maps, Natural Language Search etc.
Its a business analytics solution presented by Netwoven at the Microsoft Power BI workshop held on Oct 30th at SVC Microsoft, Mountain View.
The purpose of business intelligence is to support better business decision making. BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or a data mart and occasionally working from operational data.
Data Analytics Strategies & Solutions for SAP customersVisual_BI
SAP customers are challenged in multiple fronts today, where we have rapidly evolved tools and technologies with smaller internal IT teams to evaluate them. In this webinar replay, Visual BI will offer strategies and solutions for some of the most common challenges faced by SAP BI & Analytics Leaders, Managers and Architects.
SAP Analytics Cloud combines BI, planning, predictive, and augmented analytics capabilities into one simple cloud environment. Powered by AI technologies and an in-memory database, it is one of the most advanced analytics solutions available today.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
Get the inside scoop of the future innovations of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 platform: hybrid world, new BI Launchpad interface, simplified maintenance, as well as other exciting innovations.
Slides for the Usergroup meeting for the Manchester Power BI User Group on June 27th, 2019.
Subject: Power BI for Developers about Power BI Embedded and Power BI Custom Visuals
The presentation discusses the different aspects of Power BI like Power BI for O365, Data Discovery, Data Analysis, Data Visualization & Power Maps, Natural Language Search etc.
Its a business analytics solution presented by Netwoven at the Microsoft Power BI workshop held on Oct 30th at SVC Microsoft, Mountain View.
The purpose of business intelligence is to support better business decision making. BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or a data mart and occasionally working from operational data.
Data Analytics Strategies & Solutions for SAP customersVisual_BI
SAP customers are challenged in multiple fronts today, where we have rapidly evolved tools and technologies with smaller internal IT teams to evaluate them. In this webinar replay, Visual BI will offer strategies and solutions for some of the most common challenges faced by SAP BI & Analytics Leaders, Managers and Architects.
This presentation we walk the audience through some vital steps how to approach building, maintaining, scaling or integrating a globally distributed SAP BI4.x deployment. We also look at some examples and solutions shared by our specialists.
> For New deployments we look at a multi-tiered architecture design strategy, as well as a detailed implementation strategy involving: pre-requisites, supportability, connectivity, SAP BI4.x installation and post-configuration/customization, monitoring.
> For existing deployments we explore a number of approaches: dynamic monitoring, SAP BI4.x administration/governance, Tune/scale approach, Software integration approach, Upgrade/patch approach
Backed by Oracle and the Infrastructure of IBM the Business Intelligence Store means BI in the Cloud, Software as a Service (S-a-a-S) or otherwise known as BI as a Service. The BI Store is the concept of 3 components: Business Intelligence Software, Cloud Based Infrastructure and expert services to deliver a complete Business Intelligence package as a service. The Business Intelligence Store brings together the best in Business Intelligence software and Cloud Based Services. In a matter of weeks customers have access to a rich collection of Business Intelligence Objects such as Dashboards, Reports and KPI’s. The Business Intelligence Store is pre-loaded with an Oracle OBIEE's 11g Application and featured Analytics across all modules from Financials to Supply Chain, HR to Order Management. The Business Intelligence Store makes BI easy, affordable and fast to market.
This was a very interesting conference, TIC students oriented where I take him to the azure ecosystem for data warehousing architecture and best practices to reach powerful Business Intelligence Solutions according to the new era
Product Analysis Oracle BI Applications IntroductionAcevedoApps
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications are complete, prebuilt BI solutions that deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for everyone in an organization—from front line employees to senior management—that enable better decisions, actions, and business processes. Designed for both “single source” and heterogeneous environments, these solutions enable organizations to gain insight from a range of data sources and applications including Siebel, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards, and third party systems such as SAP.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
2. What is BI ?
SAP BI
History of SAP BI
ETL Process
Architecture of SAP BI
Typical Data Flow in SAP BI
Data Model – Info Object, Infocube(Star Schema
Extended Star Schema ,DSO etc
Business Explorer (Bex Analyser , Query Designer)
5. What is the current status of the business?
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What’s going well?
What needs improvement?
What are the business’ strengths and weaknesses?
How do we improve our decision making?
7. SAP BI Data Warehousing Solution by SAP
Flexible reporting and analysis tool for evaluating and
interpreting the data.
Business data integrated, transformed, and
consolidated in Sap BI.
8. SAP launched the product in 1997 by the name
“Business information Warehouse (BIW), Version 1.
2A
Product Name Changed to “Business Warehouse”
(BW) with version 3.0A
Named “Business Intelligence “BI” with version 7.0
9. ETL (Extraction, Transformation, Loading)
Data Analysis & Planning
Tools for accessing and visualizing data
Publishing content from SAP BI
Performance
Security
BI Content
10. The process of the extracting data from Source systems
and making it useful for our needs is ETL
11. SAP systems (S-API Service Application Programming
Interface)
BI systems
Flat files
Database management systems (DB Connect)
Relational or multidimensional sources (UD Connect)
Web Services
12. Direct assignment
Constants
Reading master data
Routines
Formula
Initial
15. Data Source is a set of fields that are provided to
transfer data into BI
1) DataSource for transaction data
2) DataSource for master data
16. The Persistent Staging Area (PSA) is the storage area
for data from the source systems in BI.
The requested data is saved, unchanged from the
source system.
Starting point (entrance) of data into BI system
17. A DataStore object serves as a storage location for
consolidated and cleansed data.
The data in DataStore objects is stored in transparent,
flat database tables.
This data can be evaluated using a BEx query.
Contain 1) Key Fields (Ex Doc number, item etc
2) Data Fields
24. Load into PSA
3
Data Load
Monitor
Drop Indices
2
Load into ODS
4
Start 1
Roll up
Aggregate
9
Activate
Data in
ODS
5
Build DB
Statistics
8
Data Target
Maintenance
Further update
6
Build Indices
7
25. Covers Major Business Processes
Simple access to business information via a single
point of entry
High performance environment.
Standardized structuring and display of all business
information
26. Infosets now can include Infocubes as well
Remodeling. This is only for info cube.
The BI accelerator (for now only for infocubes) helps in
reducing query run time
Search functionality hass improved. You can search any
object.
The Data Warehousing Workbench replaces the
Administrator Workbench
28. Transfer and Update rules replaced by Transformation
Load through PSA has become a mandatory
Introduction of "end routine" and "Expert Routine“
Renamed ODS as DataStore.
Introduction of Write optimized DSo
Editor's Notes
During all business activities, companies create data. In all departments of the company,employees at all levels use this data as a basis for making decisions. Eg HR, Sales, Purchasing, Inventory, Operational, Quality, Finance, Marketing. Business Intelligence(BI) prepares the large set of enterprise data. By analyzing the data using BItools, you can gain insights that support the decision-making process within your company.
Example of SCI BNT vessels.Liner departments – Agents which bring business to the companyHR department – Track Payroll , leaves Purchasing department – Keep track of inventories, materials, vendors, etc
Relevant business data from SAP systems and all data sources can be integrated, transformed, and consolidated in Sap BI. Consolidate: the consolidation of data from multiple sources into a centralized system.Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.A data warehouse (DW or DWH) is a database used for reporting and data analysis. It is a central repository of data. Stores current & historic data.A Data Warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and nonvolatile collection of data in order to support management decisions,“ Bill Inmon (1996).
In 1997, the first version of SAP product for reporting, analysis and data warehousing was launched and the product was termed as "Business Warehouse Information System".Current Version SAP BI 7.3 support package 8
ETL is not a one time process as new data is added to warehouse periodically . ETL is integral, ongoing, and recurring part of the warehouse. ETL Creates a logical and physical separation between the source system and data warehouse.
SAP Source Systems: Connects SAP systems to SAP NetWeaver BI through the BI Service API (S-API) DB connect (Database connect) used to extract data from the database management systems Ex (Danaos & Afsys in SCI)UD Connect (Universal data Connect) converts and transfers multidimensional data as flat data. This technology runs on the J2EE Engine and supports the J2EE Connector Architecture.File: SAP supports automatic import of files in CSV or ASCII format for flat files.Web Services: A Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) service is used to read XML data and to store it in a the BI server. In many cases, SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) is leveraged when loading XML-based data. Staging BAPIs (Staging Business Application Programming Interfaces)Staging BAPIs are open interfaces from which third party tools can extract data from older systems. The data transfer can be triggered by a request from the SAP NetWeaver BI system or by a third party tool.
Read about1) Standard data acquisitions2) Real time data acquisition using DAEMON3) Direct access using virtual infoproviders
DataSources for transferring data from SAP source systems are defined in the source system; the relevant information of the DataSources is copied to the BI system by replicationWhen you activate the DataSource, the system generates a PSA table in the entry layer of BI. You can then load data into the PSA.
Request data is stored in the transfer structure format in transparent, in BI. PSA also allows you to check and change the data before the update into data targets
Browsing the Dimension tablesAccess the Customer dimension table and select all records with City = “New York”Access the Material Dimension and select all records with material Group =“ ABC”Access the Time Dimension Table and select all records with Year =“2011”As a result of these browsing activities, there are a number of key values(Customer ID, Material ID , Time Code ID) from each dimension table is affectedAccessing the fact table – From all the key values evaluated, select all the records in the fact table that have these values in common in the fact table record key.Characteristic values are stored in dimension tables.