Empowering Self-Service Analysis with SAP’s BI Tools

Removing the technical complexity from report creation and data analysis is one of the leading tenets for business users when it comes to accessing data. For nontechnical professionals, a degree in computer science along with extensive knowledge in SQL is no longer a requirement in today’s BI landscape. That work can be left for the data scientists and BI/DW team. But for actual decision makers and their staff, retrieving information from the data warehouse (running queries and building reports) should be intuitive and an extension of their business knowledge.

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How to Work Remotely Without Becoming a Security Risk

Remember back in the day where the only place you really got to do focused work was on screen were in your home or at work itself. But the world has changed and we blame coffee shops. Starbucks made it their mission to create a “third place” that was neither home nor work, but gave you the comforts and the ability to do all the things you’d do in either of those. And now, that third place is everywhere. You are probably able to do work as effectively from home, at a coffee shop, in an airport, even in an airplane at 35,000 feet as you do while you’re in the office.

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