Archive for February, 2009

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

SAP BPC — Running List of Updates/Changes Between v. 5.1 and v. 7.0.

On this post, I’d like to begin a running list of expected changes between BPC 7.0 (NW) and BPC 5.1. The Ramp-up period is expected to conclude this month (February).
Note: Most of these will be true even with the Microsoft platform version as well.
What is In
Integration with NetWeaver BI
Increased dimensionality
New Validations engine
Integration with [...]

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Saturday, February 7th, 2009

BI Graph of the Day – Job Losses in This Recession vs. 2001 & 1991

This is really something.  For an exercise in what is called “visualization” take a look at the job losses in this chart.  In the words of the immortal Harry Carry:  “Holy Cow!”
Source:  Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=1683
This chart compares the job loss so far in this recession to job losses in the 1990-1991 recession [...]

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