Let the BI Games Begin
ASUG/SAPPHIRE Wrap Up
The strongest impression I got from my trip this year down to the annual SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando was the deliberate movement of SAP® toward the end user experience. This has by no means been familiar territory for the world's largest ERP vendor. The giant from Waldorf has never been known for being big on user interfaces.
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ROI in a TCO World
This brief article is the second in a series of three regarding TCO and ROI. This discussion is an overview of ROI and its place within TCO. In later discussions, we will look at ROI's applicability within an SAP environment.
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SAP BI and the Conservation of Complexity
You may remember a rather obscure law of science from your high school days in physics called the Conservation of Energy:
The total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant. In other words, energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.
I don't claim to understand this principle fully, but essentially it's saying there is a finite amount of energy in any given system and that amount cannot be changed. All you can do is change the way it's packaged. I guess It's a little like the mess in my boys' room – it never really goes away; it only changes form now and then.
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