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BW Performance Tuning Book Released

The business environment is changing at a rapid pace and so is the fierceness in competition. Today’s business demands decision at the ‘speed of thought’. It is obvious that such decisions need most efficient information acquisition, integration, transformation and finally presentation in the most efficient way at a matching speed and without increasing the cost of doing so.

A data warehouse is set up in a company with a clear focus to support decision support system involving collecting useful information, harmonizing it and transforming and finally presenting it for answering business questions. For instance ‘What is the sales trend of a specific material?’

It is an established fact that most SAP-BW projects succeed when they deliver the above objectives by providing;
1.     Acquiring data from various data sources like OLTP system and presenting accurate information.
2.     A Capability to provide drill-down or ‘slice-n-dice’ capability for analyzing the different perspective of the information.
3.     Decision support enablers like Self service options, Exception reporting etc.

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In this book we have listed performance tuning parameters right through the data model, to extraction of data, to data loading, to fine tuning of the database while ending with proactive operational maintenance mode (e.g. review aggregates, build new ones, delete unused ones, find problem queries) as an ongoing cycle.

Also covered in the book is how to evaluate the actual performance whether there is a scope of improvement or other avenues of performance tuning have to be explored. However the book is not dealing with ‘extremely technical’ aspects of the performance tuning, as such content would cater to “purely technical� readers.

To see the full detail click here

Resume and Job posting database arriving shortly

We're in the process of loading the new functionality to the site. Following that we'll run our final tests and then it will be time to launch!!!

Webinar on SAP Event Management

I will be giving the following webinar on September 13th, 1PM CST

Implementing SAP's Supply Chain Event Manager for Order to Cash Monitoring (a case study)

(Originally presented at ASUG 2007 in Atlanta) (register for SAP EM webinar here)

New look and feel for ERPGenie.COM

We're a couple of weeks into the new look and feel of ERPGenie.COM. I hope you like it.

I have found the following useful when navigating:

1. The google search bar at the top right


2. The search above the google search bar searches the content on the site exclusively. Same as the Search link


3. The SiteMap is a great tool to browse the content


4. Log in to see more content and contribute your own

New publication on Workflow by Genie Press

We have launched our 4th in the series "201 Interview Questions" and this one covers workflow in detail. Check out Rehan Zaidi's compelling read at http://201interviewquestions.com/books/workflow.htm

ERPGenie.COM News

Couple of things I aught to mention:

1. We have temporarily suspended the job and resume hosting services until we are able to relaunch the new functionality. We will be doing so in the latter part of July


2. We are reworking the entire website to make it more flexible and database driven, allowing easier searching


3. We will also be adding a new database to the mix, namely a solutions database where we will list all ERP related 3rd party solutions available for your review


4. Our ABAP tips and tricks database is growing like crazy so keep those tips coming


5. When you register for ERPGenie, ABAP tips and tricks or the solutions database your user ID and password will remain the same between the databases

I'm excited about these new developments. It's been about 5 years since our last major overall and it was time to jump into the 21st century....

ASUG and SAPPHIRE 2007

Well, ASUG and SAPPHIRE have come and gone. I don't think you'll be able to find too many people that would agree if you if you thought the event was a poor display....

SAP put on an incredible show with almost zero glitches. 10/10 for presentation.

Once again, it was very interesting walking through the shark infested waters known as the "Vendor" hall where each stall has a salesman's eyes tracking you (and in particular, your ID badge) to see if you are to be labeled as a potential victim, um, I mean, customer!!!

It seemed like every stall had a free IPod drawin, except most were drawing at the end of the conference when most people were stranded at Atlanta airport, due to the storms around the country!

Needless to say, the IPods are safely in someone else's pocket but my kids did come away with some goodies.... The big hit was Esker's little luminous stick on lights. They must have made 100,000 of these things and about the same number of T-Shirts. They take the overall prize for money well spent... They can tell us if it was well spent. ;) Bouncing balls, glowing balls, shirts, .... all made the trip home.

I sat through 2 usability sessions on Redwood and Supply Chain Event Management's integration with Outlook and those were fun. They dished out some nice thank you gifts there as well.

At my talk, which seemed to be about a mile from the "Shark Tank", there were a few interested folks which I was pleased with. In addition to the talk, I was able to catch up with several colleagues of the past including Dave (Hoosie), Laurent, Brian, John, Sue, Julie, Greg, Shreekant, ... You know who you are and it was great catching up with you.

Hopefully we'll all meet again at Tech-Ed.... and then meet some new faces.

ASUG 2007

Come and say hi to me at the SCEM presentation on Wednesday at lunch time. I always have time for our ERPGenie.COM faithful. See you in Atlanta...

New Genie Press book on Holocaust Survivor launching

Check out are latest book from Genie Press, an inspirational autobiography from the holocaust survivor, Marion Baumann-Parkhurst. See details at http://searchingsurvivor.com

ASUG Gig this year

I have broken down and once again entered the arena of speaking at a conference.... It's been about 9 years of avoidance but I finally have a topic that of interest to me and possibly others. Supply Chain Event Management!!! A great tool hidden in SCM but can be used seamlessly across the board to integrate your disparate messages into a cohesive process chain.... I'll also be following up with more on it with an SDN blog and an article in the SCM Expert Magazine by WISPubs. Should be a fun few months...

Sponsorship in Africa

As co-founder of Genieholdings.com inc. it's always been important for me to give back to the less fortunate in our community at large. This year we have embarked on additional charitable causes through World Vision. We have taken up sponsoring 4 children on monthly case. their names are Peggy Muntanga from Zambia, Branwell Syamunda from Zambia, Ebenyo Nasilo from Kenya and Tibuyile Magongo from Swaziland.

HIV/AIDS orphans more than 6,000 children every day. Even more children are impacted and left vulnerable. World Vision has taken on the challenge of poverty and injustice.....

Who Is World Vision?

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

We will do what we can. ...

ABAP Tips and Tricks Database Launched at ERPGenie.COM!!!

We now have database driven functionality serving tips, tricks, utilities, sample code and downloads / whitepapers to our users. The functionality is extremely easy to use and very functional with searching capabilities (outside of the normal google search) as well as a comprehensive up-to-date site map of all current articles. We currently have a competion running where the best tip submitted prior to 3/31/2007 will receive $100. Check it out at http://erpgenie.com/abaptips