Prepare for the future of your SAP data warehousing—from legacy to innovative cloud architectures. Written as a decision-making aid for existing SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) customers, this expert guide provides insights into how to continue with existing SAP platforms as the end of maintenance for SAP BW is approaching, and as SAP is planning to invest mainly in cloud software such as SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud in the future. This book provides an overview of the solutions ...

SAP BW/4HANA has introduced a new era in data warehousing at SAP. Further steps towards simplification, flexibility, and performance are now possible with SAP HANA as the proven technological basis. SAP BW/4HANA offers modern concepts for data management, operation, and modeling and thus opens the door for fully innovative application scenarios.This book will show you how the SAP HANA database influences the Business Warehouse and how you can optimize your system. As a practical gu...

Sketching User Experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood—by both designers and the people with whom they need to work— in order to achieve success with new products and systems. So while the focus is on design, the approach is holistic. Hence, the book speaks to designers, usability specialists, the HCI community, product managers, and business executives. There is an emphasis on balancing the back-end concern with usability ...

OCEB Certification Guide delivers expert insight into BPM from one of the developers of the OCEB Fundamental exam, offering full coverage of the exam material for both the business and technical tracks. The first study guide to prepare candidates to take and pass the OCEB Fundamental exam, it explains and builds on basic concepts, focusing on key areas and testing knowledge of all critical topics with sample questions and detailed answers. Suitable for practitioners and those newe...

How do you design engaging applications that people love to use? This book demonstrates several ways to include valuable input from potential clients and customers throughout the process. With practical guidelines and insights from his own experience, author Travis Lowdermilk shows you how usability and user-centered design will dramatically change the way people interact with your application.Learn valuable strategies for conducting each stage of the design process—from interviewi...

Invoice verification in SAP is an often misunderstood subject, despite its central role in contributing to a company's fiscal health. Adding to the confusion is the fact that it falls between two teams the MM team and the FI team and each assumes that the other is responsible for the design and configuration of Invoice Verification. Although the process can be streamlined, many organizations get the design and use of invoice verification wrong, resulting in vendors not being paid and accou...

The corporate market is now embracing free, "open source" software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among numerous developers who volunteer their time and energy to create better software.The truth is, however, that the overwhelming majority of free software projects fail. To help you beat the odds, O'Reilly has put together Producing ...

Prepare for CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam CLO-001 with McGraw-Hill Professional—a Platinum-Level CompTIA Authorized Partner offering Authorized CompTIA Approved Quality Content to give you the competitive edge on exam day.Filled with practice questions, CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certification Study Guide (Exam CLO-001) covers what you need to know--and shows you how to prepare--for this challenging exam.100% complete coverage of all official...

Get beyond the basics with Excel 2007 macrosNow you can take your Excel skills to the next level with help from this hands-on guide. Excel 2007 Macros Made Easy shows you how to create, run, and revise macros to simplify repetitive tasks and store the instructions for complicated ones. You'll learn to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), add macros to the Excel toolbar, and share your macros with other users. Discover how easy it is to develop custom m...

Bring real business insights to your company through effective and engaging dashboards in QlikViewKey FeaturesBook DescriptionQlikView is one of the most powerful analytical tools in the market. Based on an in-memory associative model, it lets users freely navigate through the data, spot trends and make better decisions. This platform is capable of integrating a wide range of data sources like ERP systems, data warehouses or spreadsheets into a single ...

Develop and deploy fully functional applications and microservices utilising Tomcat, Glassfish servers, Cloud and docker in Java EE 8 Key FeaturesExplore the complete workflow of developing enterprise Java applicationsDevelop microservices with Docker Container and deploy it in cloudSimplify Java EE application developmentBook DescriptionJava EE is one of the most popular tools for enterprise application design and developmen...

Over 80 recipes to help you master VMware vCloud DirectorKey FeaturesLearn how to work with the vCloud APICovers the recently launched VMware vCloud Suite 5.5Step-by-step instructions to simplify infrastructure provisioningReal-life implementation of tested recipes, packed with illustrations and programming examplesBook DescriptionVMware vCloud Director is an enterprise software solution that enables the building of ...