By Molly Folan, Conference Producer I tried googling “average attention span of an adult,” but my results were scattered and irrelevant. It really wasn’t much of a surprise to hear More...

By Dr. Berg A Lovable Child Has Many Names "Analysis" started out as a BusinessObjects tool prior to the SAP acquisition. It was then known as "Voyager". However, during the update of the tool, the More...

By Molly Folan, Conference Producer  That’s the $64 million dollar question. The answer wholly depends on who you ask. And when you ask. And what you ask about. And, well, just about every More...

Tip Doctor, Insider Learning Network. The following tip is taken from the BusinessObjects Expert article “Interested in Dashboard Design? A Methodical Approach to Creating an Xcelsius Dashboard More...

Belive it or not, development for SAPinsider's spring events has already kicked off, and we are inviting folks to submit their session topics for 2012! The BI 2012 event, in particular, covers a wide More...

By Scott Wallask, SAPexperts Being flexible is a lifelong lesson many of us learn about starting in childhood. I bet my colleague David Hannon’s father even mentioned it. Young dashboards unde More...

What do the pitfalls of self-service analytics, HR reporting tool selection, optimizing supply chain performance, and mobility strategies all have in common? Over the next two weeks each of these to More...

By Dr. Berg Sapphire/ASUG annual conference 2011 in Orlando is almost over. So what is the key buzz? Hana, Hana and Hana... It has been all about in-memory processing. Let us look at a few deta More...

By Dr. Berg HANA is creating a 'buzz' in the SAP world and beyond. The idea of gradually transitioning to in-memory processing for transaction processing as well as BI is compelling. But what HANA re More...

 By. Dr. Berg BW-Accelerator is no-longer a technology toddler. It has reached school age and many of the childhood limitations are no longer present. Actually, it can now deliver on many of the More...

By Dr. Berg Yesterday, my ten year old kid bought a 64GB RAM Apple gizmo. A gizmo that has more memory than many of the BI application severs leveraged by large companies.  Why is that More...

Recently, BI expert Dr. Bjarne Berg answered questions from Insider Learning Network members about improving BI reporting performance in an exclusive moderated BI-BW forum on March 9, 2011.   T More...

By Dr. Berg In this second installement of a blog serie on performance tuning, I want to share some of the observations we discussed in the on-line BI performance Q&A today at SAP Insider Forum.  More...

As a lead-in to today’s live chat with Dr. Bjarne Berg, I wanted to share a tip from one his upcoming BI and IT 2011 presentations. The details below, pulled from his session, What you need to k More...

By Dr. Berg TOP-10 BI 7.x Performance Tuning Tricks Lately my team and I has been working on performance tuning efforts for BI7.x customers. Much of the performance issues are due to technical confi More...