Marcel Westra on 12 Nov 2014 02:48:54
- Comments (48)
RE: SAP
SAP BW
RE: SAP
Connector for SAP BW would be nice.
RE: SAP
SAP BW and SAP ECC/R3 is a must
RE: SAP
SAP HANA would be a great source...
RE: SAP
In my mind the SAP Netweaver Gateway would be a good choice for all. The Gateway should be available for everyone with a Business contract automatically. On the other hand the GW is the promoted Connectivity method of the future in order to connect to non SAP Systems. All BAPI and RFC related Objects in ERP, BW and other Netweaver based products will be available via ODATA. So OATA in combination with Netweaver Gateway would be my choice.
RE: SAP
Connectivity to SAP BW could be a game changer for Power BI. SAP tools for querying the data are not very user friendly. If Excel and/or Power BI Designer had SAP BW as a data connector (not the BO Universe connector), this would make life so much easier for end-users who would no longer have to wait on their IT department to do everything for them. Tableau has it, Power BI needs it!
RE: SAP
ERP connectivity then BW then HANA. All of my customers run SAP, this would really help drive adoption of PowerBI for our enterprise customers.
RE: SAP
I made a suggestion yesterday for "What should be build next" but it does not seem to work today, Anyway, I am happy to retype it for a good cause.
40% of US EPG customers run SAP and over 50% of US EPG customers are SAP customers. A typical SAP customer will have a very mature BW implementation that is used company wide for reporting (BW stands for Business Warehouse). Hundreds of thousands if not millions of users are using the SAP technology called BEX to extract data from BW into excel and then use HLOOKUPS, VLOOKUPS and SUMIFs to build reports in Excel / PowerPoint. There is never a sales cycle with and SAP customer where this does not come up and today we have no answer for BW connectivity. This is hugely important.
ability to connect directly to SAP is somewhat interesting too, however, it is a level of magnitude less common.
Currently, it is uncommon for IT departments to enable self service access for end users to HANA, therefore I think this is the least important. It's a nice have, but since Hana is a direct compete with SQL Server, I would prioritize it last.