Discover how to leverage the power of SAS for big data analytics in 'Big Data Analytics with SAS.' This book helps you unlock key techniques for preparing, analyzing, and reporting on big data effectively using SAS. Whether you're exploring integration with Hadoop and Python or mastering SAS Studio, you'll advance your analytics capabilities. What this Book will help me do Set up a SAS environment for performing hands-on data analytics tasks efficiently. Master the fundamentals of SAS programming for data manipulation and analysis. Use SAS Studio and Jupyter Notebook to interface with SAS efficiently and effectively. Perform preparatory data workflows and advanced analytics, including predictive modeling and reporting. Integrate SAS with platforms like Hadoop, SAP HANA, and Cloud Foundry for scaling analytics processes. Author(s) None Pope is a seasoned data analytics expert with extensive experience in SAS and big data platforms. With a passion for demystifying complex data workflows, None teaches SAS techniques in an approachable way. Their expert insights and practical examples empower readers to confidently analyze and report on data. Who is it for? If you're a SAS professional or a data analyst looking to expand your skills in big data analysis, this book is for you. It suits readers aiming to integrate SAS into diverse tech ecosystems or seeking to learn predictive modeling and reporting with SAS. Both beginners and those familiar with SAS can benefit.

Dive into SAP Activate, a cutting-edge methodology for SAP S/4HANA implementation, designed to enhance your project management effectiveness. This book delivers a step-by-step introduction to the SAP Activate framework, covering Agile and Scrum approaches. You will learn how this framework facilitates achieving project objectives efficiently, providing you with the tools to streamline your SAP projects. What this Book will help me do Understand the key components and significance of SAP S/4HANA. Learn the framework and pillars of SAP Activate for successful SAP implementation. Master application of Agile and Scrum methodologies within SAP projects. Explore real-world case studies demonstrating SAP Activate in action. Develop a sample project using the SAP Activate framework to build hands-on expertise. Author(s) Vinay Singh is a seasoned SAP consultant with extensive experience in SAP implementations across various industries. With a focus on methodical and actionable guidance, Vinay has crafted his writing to help readers excel in practical SAP implementation. His work is complemented by a rich understanding of Agile methodologies applied to SAP contexts. Who is it for? This book is ideal for SAP professionals and consultants aspiring to efficiently implement and manage SAP projects using the SAP Activate approach. It is especially beneficial for those familiar with SAP HANA looking to transition from traditional waterfall methods to more agile frameworks. Readers seeking to enhance their project management skillset for SAP S/4HANA will find this book indispensable.

Data is the currency of the new economy, and organizations are increasingly tasked with finding better ways to protect, recover, access, share, and use it. IBM Spectrum™ Copy Data Management is aimed at using existing data in a manner that is efficient, automated, scalable. It helps you manage all of those snapshot and IBM FlashCopy® images made to support DevOps, data protection, disaster recovery, and Hybrid Cloud computing environments. This IBM® Redpaper™ publication specifically addresses IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management in combination with IBM FlashSystem® A9000 or A9000R when used for Automated Disaster Recovery of SAP HANA.

Leverage the flexibility and power of SAP MII to integrate your business operations with your manufacturing processes. You'll explore important new features of the product and see how to apply best practices to connect all the stakeholders in your business. This book starts with an overview of SAP's manufacturing integration and intelligence application and explains why it is so important. You'll then see how it is applied in various manufacturing sectors. The biggest challenge in manufacturing industries is to reduce the manual work and human intervention so that the process becomes automatic. SAP MII explains how to bridge the gap between management and production and bring sound vital information to the shop floor in real time. With this book you'll see how to ensure existing manufacturing and information systems share a common interface for all users in your enterprise. What You'll Learn Understand the functional aspects of SAP MII Implement SAP MII in different Manufacturing sectors Explore new technical features of SAP MII 12.x Integrate scenarios with SAP MII Discover practice guidelines Who This Book is for All levels of SAP manufacturing professionals.

Discover the power of SAP Analytics Cloud in solving business intelligence challenges through concise and clear instruction. This book is the essential guide for beginners, providing you a comprehensive understanding of the platform's features and capabilities. By the end, you'll master creating reports, models, and dashboards, making data-driven decisions with confidence. What this Book will help me do Learn how to navigate and utilize the SAP Analytics Cloud interface effectively. Create data models using various sources like Excel or text files for comprehensive insights. Design and compile visually engaging stories, reports, and dashboards effortlessly. Master collaborative and presentation tools inside SAP Digital Boardroom. Understand how to plan, predict, and analyze seamlessly within a single platform. Author(s) None Ahmed is an experienced SAP consultant and analytics professional, bringing years of practical experience in BI tools and enterprise analytics. As an expert in SAP Analytics Cloud, None has guided numerous teams in deploying effective analytics solutions. Their writing aims to demystify complex tools for learners. Who is it for? This book is ideal for IT professionals, business analysts, and newcomers eager to understand SAP Analytics Cloud. Beginner-level BI developers and managers seeking guided steps for mastering this platform will find it invaluable. If you aim to enhance your career in cloud-based analytics, this book is tailored for you.

Learn SAP's real estate management integrated solution to effectively manage the real estate portfolio at your organization. You will configure SAP REFX for business scenarios covering solutions from master data to financial posting and reporting. You will address all phases of the real estate life cycle, including real estate acquisition or disposal, portfolio management, and property and technical management. To succeed in today's global and highly competitive economy, asset optimization in real estate management has become a strategic task. Organizations need to ensure insight into their property portfolio to make informed decisions, improve portfolio performance, and reduce compliance costs. Sophisticated solutions are needed to manage changing consumer demands and the global workforce as well as information management, compliance adherence, and leasing and property management. SAP Flexible Real Estate Management by Daithankar is a full-featured book that integrates REFX with Controlling (CO), Plant and Maintenance (PM), CRM, SAP AA (ssset accounting), and SAP PS (project systems). You will refer to real-world, practical examples to illustrate configuration concepts and processes, and learn in an interactive, hands-on way through the use of screenshots, menu paths, and transaction codes throughout the book. What You Will Learn: Understand the SAP REFX Solutions landscape and industry best practices for SAP REFX implementation Configure SAP REFX Integrate REFX with other modules Understand how processes are supported by SAP REFX Who This Book Is For: CIOs/CEOs of organizations with real estate portfolios, SAP REFX purchasing decision makers, SAP REFX pre-sales teams, SAP REFX implementation/AMS consultants

Learn how to configure, implement, enhance, and customize SAP OEE to address manufacturing performance management. Manufacturing Performance Management using SAP OEE will show you how to connect your business processes with your plant systems and how to integrate SAP OEE with ERP through standard workflows and shop floor systems for automated data collection. Manufacturing Performance Management using SAP OEE is a must-have comprehensive guide to implementing SAP OEE. It will ensure that SAP consultants and users understand how SAP OEE can offer solutions for manufacturing performance management in process industries. With this book in hand, managing shop floor execution effectively will become easier than ever. Authors Dipankar Saha and Mahalakshmi Symsunder, both SAP manufacturing solution experts, and Sumanta Chakraborty, product owner of SAP OEE, will explain execution and processing related concepts, manual and automatic data collection through the OEE Worker UI, and how to enhance and customize interfaces and dashboards for your specific purposes. You'll learn how to capture and categorize production and loss data and use it effectively for root-cause analysis. In addition, this book will show you: Various down-time handling scenarios. How to monitor, calculate, and define standard as well as industry-specific KPIs. How to carry out standard operational analytics for continuous improvement on the shop floor, at local plant level using MII and SAP Lumira, and also global consolidated analytics at corporation level using SAP HANA. Steps to benchmark manufacturing performance to compare similar manufacturing plants' performance, leading to a more efficient and effective shop floor. Manufacturing Performance Management using SAP OEE will provide you with in-depth coverage of SAP OEE and how to effectively leverage its features. This will allow you to efficiently manage the manufacturing process and to enhance the shop floor's overall performance, making you the sought-after SAP OEE expert in the organization. Manufacturing Performance Management using SAP OEE will provide you with in-depth coverage of SAP OEE and how to effectively leverage its features. This will allow you to efficiently manage the manufacturing process and to enhance the shop floor's overall performance, making you the sought-after SAP OEE expert in the organization. What You Will Learn Configure your ERP OEE add-on to build your plant and global hierarchy and relevant master data and KPIs Use the SAP OEE standard integration (SAP OEEINT) to integrate your ECC and OEE system to establish bi-directional integration between the enterprise and the shop floor Enable your shop floor operator on the OEE Worker UI to handle shop floor production execution Use SAP OEE as a tool for measuring manufacturing performance Enhance and customize SAP OEE to suit your specific requirements Create local plant-based reporting using SAP Lumira and MII Use standard SAP OEE HANA analytics Who This Book Is For SAP MII, ME, and OEE consultants and users who will implement and use the solution.

In this book, noted expert Andrew Okungbowa explains SAP Asset Accounting (FI-AA) in SAP-ERP, including its associated business benefits, and guides you through the considerable complexities of SAP-ERP configuration. Using FI-AA for fixed asset management enables you to manage assets in multinational companies across a broad range of industries and produce reports to meet various needs in line with legal requirements. Configuring SAP-ERP can be a daunting exercise, however, and there are few resources that address these issues. Asset Accounting Configuration in SAP ERP fills that resource gap by covering the major aspects of SAP FI-AA for anyone with SAP experience and the basic accounting knowledge and bookkeeping skills necessary to apply configuration. It provides configuration explanations in the simplest forms possible and provides step-by-step guidance with illustrations and practical examples.

Master the SAP product ecosystem, the client environment, and the feasibility of implementing critical business process with the required technical and functional configuration. SAP Project Management Pitfalls is the first book to provide you with real examples of the pitfalls that you can avoid, providing you with a road-map to a successful implementation. Jay Kay, a SAP Program Manager for Capgemini, first takes a deep dive into common pitfalls in implementing SAP ERP projects in a complex IT landscape. You will learn about the potential causes of failures, study a selection of relevant project implementation case studies in the area, and see a range of possible countermeasures. Jay Kay also provides background on each - the significance of each implementation area, its relevance to a service company that implements SAP projects, and the current state of research. Key highlights of the book: Tools and techniques for project planning and templates for allocating resources Industry standards and innovations in SAP implementation projects in the form of standard solutions aimed at successful implementation Managing SAP system ECC upgrades, EHP updates and project patches Learn effective ways to implement robust SAP release management practices (change management, BAU) Wearing a practitioner’s insight, Jay Kay explores the relevance of each failed implementation scenario and how to support your company or clients to succeed in a SAP implementation. There are many considerations when implementing SAP, but as you will learn, knowledge, insight, and effective tools to mitigate risks can take you to a successful implementation project.

Dive into "SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook" to master the SAP Data Services platform and learn how to efficiently prepare, implement, and optimize ETL processes. This comprehensive guide makes it easy for you to understand both fundamental and advanced techniques of this powerful tool. What this Book will help me do Develop a thorough understanding of SAP Data Services concepts and architecture. Effectively set up and configure an ETL environment using SAP Data Services. Master advanced ETL design techniques to process and manipulate data effectively. Gain expertise in data cleansing, validation, and applying data quality methods. Build real-time ETL workflows and integrate various data systems seamlessly. Author(s) None Shomnikov is an experienced IT professional specializing in SAP Data Services and ETL processes. With years of practical experience, they bring a wealth of knowledge to help readers grasp concepts quickly and apply them effectively. None enjoys sharing practical solutions to complex problems in a clear and approachable manner. Who is it for? This book is ideal for IT professionals and engineers who are seeking to deepen their understanding of SAP Data Services. Readers should have a basic background in programming concepts and SQL to fully benefit from this book. It is particularly suited for professionals involved in ETL development and data quality management. By the end of the book, you will have a strong grasp of building reliable ETL workflows and managing data services efficiently.

Take a deep dive into SAP Fiori and discover Fiori architecture, Fiori landscape installation, Fiori standard applications, Fiori Launchpad configuration, tools for developing Fiori applications and extending standard Fiori applications. You will learn: Fiori architecture and its applications Setting up a Fiori landscape and Fiori Launchpad Configuring, customizing and enhancing standard Fiori applications Developing Fiori native applications for mobile Internet of Things-based custom Fiori applications with the HANA cloud platform Bince Mathew, a SAP mobility expert working for an MNC in Germany, shows you how SAP Fiori, based on HTML5 technology, addresses the most widely and frequently used SAP transactions like purchase order approvals, sales order creation, information lookup, and self-service tasks. This set of HTML5 apps provides a very simple and accessible experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

"Real Time Analytics with SAP HANA" offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to mastering analytics and data modeling in the powerful SAP HANA environment. This book covers everything from basic data modeling concepts to more advanced techniques like creating calculation views and leveraging SAP HANA artifacts. What this Book will help me do Understand and build analytics/data models in the SAP HANA environment. Create schemas, packages, and delivery units in SAP HANA Studio. Master real-time data replication using SLT and SAP HANA Studio. Learn about full-text search, fuzzy search, and other analytical capabilities in SAP HANA. Develop comprehensive use cases combining SAP HANA concepts and tools. Author(s) Vinay Singh, the author of this book, is a seasoned SAP HANA expert with extensive experience in analytics and data modeling. He has worked on multiple SAP HANA implementation and migration projects and brings this expertise into his writing. His practical examples and hands-on approach make SAP HANA concepts accessible to learners at all levels. Who is it for? This book is ideal for SAP HANA data modelers, developers, implementation or migration consultants, project managers, and architects. It is designed for individuals aiming to enhance their skill set in SAP HANA and master real-time analytics. Whether you are actively working with SAP HANA or just starting, this book will serve as a valuable guide.

SAP is a market leader in enterprise business application software. SAP solutions provide a rich set of composable application modules, and configurable functional capabilities that are expected from a comprehensive enterprise business application software suite. In most cases, companies that adopt SAP software remain heterogeneous enterprises running both SAP and non-SAP systems to support their business processes. Regardless of the specific scenario, in heterogeneous enterprises most SAP implementations must be integrated with a variety of non-SAP enterprise systems: Portals Messaging infrastructure Business process management (BPM) tools Enterprise Content Management (ECM) methods and tools Business analytics (BA) and business intelligence (BI) technologies Security Systems of record Systems of engagement The tooling included with SAP software addresses many needs for creating SAP-centric environments. However, the classic approach to implementing SAP functionality generally leaves the business with a rigid solution that is difficult and expensive to change and enhance. When SAP software is used in a large, heterogeneous enterprise environment, SAP clients face the dilemma of selecting the correct set of tools and platforms to implement SAP functionality, and to integrate the SAP solutions with non-SAP systems. This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains the value of integrating IBM software with SAP solutions. It describes how to enhance and extend pre-built capabilities in SAP software with best-in-class IBM enterprise software, enabling clients to maximize return on investment (ROI) in their SAP investment and achieve a balanced enterprise architecture approach. This book describes IBM Reference Architecture for SAP, a prescriptive blueprint for using IBM software in SAP solutions. The reference architecture is focused on defining the use of IBM software with SAP, and is not intended to address the internal aspects of SAP components. The chapters of this book provide a specific reference architecture for many of the architectural domains that are each important for a large enterprise to establish common strategy, efficiency, and balance. The majority of the most important architectural domain topics, such as integration, process optimization, master data management, mobile access, Enterprise Content Management, business intelligence, DevOps, security, systems monitoring, and so on, are covered in the book. However, there are several other architectural domains which are not included in the book. This is not to imply that these other architectural domains are not important or are less important, or that IBM does not offer a solution to address them. It is only reflective of time constraints, available resources, and the complexity of assembling a book on an extremely broad topic. Although more content could have been added, the authors feel confident that the scope of architectural material that has been included should provide organizations with a fantastic head start in defining their own enterprise reference architecture for many of the important architectural domains, and it is hoped that this book provides great value to those reading it. This IBM Redbooks publication is targeted to the following audiences: Client decision makers and solution architects leading enterprise transformation projects and wanting to gain further insight so that they can benefit from the integration of IBM software in large-scale SAP projects. IT architects and consultants integrating IBM technology with SAP solutions.

Thoroughly updated and expanded! Includes new coverage on HANA, the cloud, and using SAP’s applications! In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll get up and running with the latest SAP technologies, applications, and solutions. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson strengthens your understanding of SAP from both a business and technical perspective, helping you gain practical mastery from the ground up on topics such as security, governance, validations, release management, SLA, and legal issues. Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks. Quizzes and exercises help you build and test your knowledge. Notes present interesting pieces of information. Tips offer advice or teach an easier way to do something. Cautions advise you about potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster. Learn how to… Understand SAP terminology, concepts, and solutions Install SAP on premises or in the cloud Master SAP’s revamped user interface Discover how and when to use in-memory HANA databases Integrate SAP Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions such as Ariba, Successfactors, Fieldglass, and hybris Find resources at SAP’s Service Marketplace, Developer Network, and Help Portal Avoid pitfalls in SAP project implementation, migration, and upgrades Discover how SAP fits with mobile devices, social media, big data, and the Internet of Things Start or accelerate your career working with SAP technologies

"Learning SAP Business Objects Dashboards" is your definitive guide to mastering the creation of professional, interactive dashboards tailored for both desktop and mobile use. Whether you are starting with basics or looking to enhance your existing BI skill set, this book offers step-by-step guidance to build customizing and visually appealing dashboards using SAP Business Objects. What this Book will help me do Gain proficiency in using SAP BO Dashboard Designer to create compelling BI dashboards. Learn how to integrate data seamlessly into SAP dashboards for dynamic insights. Master the art of building interactive and responsive dashboards suitable for various devices. Explore advanced visualization techniques including maps, selectors, and styling. Understand how to ensure data security and successfully deploy your dashboards. Author(s) Taha Mahmoud is an experienced Business Intelligence consultant specializing in SAP technologies. With years of experience in crafting custom BI solutions, Taha brings a practical and approachable teaching style to the complex realm of dashboard design. His goal in writing this book is to impart practical skills to learners so they can confidently excel in their BI careers. Who is it for? This book is ideal for business analysts, BI developers, and data visualization enthusiasts aiming to learn or improve their SAP Business Objects dashboard skills. It requires basic knowledge of MS Excel and an analytical mindset. If you're tasked with presenting data in clear, impactful visuals or making interactive dashboards for your organization, this book is for you.

SAP ERP modules are notoriously hard to configure and use effectively without a lot of practice and experience. But as SAP ERP Financial Accounting and Controlling : Configuration and Use Management shows, it doesn't have to be so difficult. The book takes a systematic approach that leads SAP Financial Accounting and Controlling (FICO) users step by step through configuring and using all the program’s facets. This approach makes configuration complexities manageable. The book’s author—SAP expert, trainer, and accountant Andrew Okungbowa—ensures that both you and your end users are up and running quickly and confidently with FICO. He also provides sound and tested procedures that ensure your implementation works without error. SAP ERP Financial Accounting and Controlling : Configuration and Use Management is in fact the most comprehensive and easy-to-follow SAP FICO configuration book in the market. It incorporates a hands-on approach, with hundreds of screen shots and practical examples, that allows a person without prior configuration training to make SAP FICO ready for use in the enterprise. You’ll find that you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to grasp the concepts explained and apply them to your work—even when the finances are complicated, such as with the ins and outs of taxes, currency conversions, or special general ledger entries such as down payments or bills of exchange. Providing an in-depth coverage of both configuration and end user procedures, the book covers most aspects of the SAP FICO certification syllabus—SAP’s view of the module’s key tasks and procedures—including: Configuring and using the general ledger and accounts payable and receivable screens Configuring and completing closing procedures, asset accounting, and financial reporting Configuring global settings and enterprise variables Accounting for both profit and cost centers Creating a house bank Integrating FICO with other SAP modules Taking a jargon-free tone and providing an abundance of examples, Andrew Okungbowa provides a clear understanding of configuration techniques and the breadth of functionalities encompassed by SAP FICO. And as an accountant, Okungbowa understands the needs of end users as well as of those answering to the CIO.

BLU Acceleration is a new technology that has been developed by IBM® and integrated directly into the IBM DB2® engine. BLU Acceleration is a new storage engine along with integrated run time (directly into the core DB2 engine) to support the storage and analysis of column-organized tables. The BLU Acceleration processing is parallel to the regular, row-based table processing found in the DB2 engine. This is not a bolt-on technology nor is it a separate analytic engine that sits outside of DB2. Much like when IBM added XML data as a first class object within the database along with all the storage and processing enhancements that came with XML, now IBM has added column-organized tables directly into the storage and processing engine of DB2. This IBM Redbooks® publication shows examples on an IBM Power Systems™ entry server as a starter configuration for small organizations, and build larger configurations with IBM Power Systems larger servers. This publication takes you through how to build a BLU Acceleration solution on IBM POWER® having SAP Landscape integrated to it. This publication implements SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Systems as part of the scenario using another DB2 Feature called Near-Line Storage (NLS), on IBM POWER virtualization features to develop and document best recommendation scenarios. This publication is targeted towards technical professionals (DBAs, data architects, consultants, technical support staff, and IT specialists) responsible for delivering cost-effective data management solutions to provide the best system configuration for their clients' data analytics on Power Systems.

SAP is a market leader in enterprise business application software. SAP solutions provide a rich set of composable application modules, and configurable functional capabilities that are expected from a comprehensive enterprise business application software suite. In most cases, companies that adopt SAP software remain heterogeneous enterprises running both SAP and non-SAP systems to support their business processes. Regardless of the specific scenario, in heterogeneous enterprises most SAP implementations must be integrated with a variety of non-SAP enterprise systems: Portals Messaging infrastructure Business process management (BPM) tools Enterprise Content Management (ECM) methods and tools Business analytics (BA) and business intelligence (BI) technologies Security Systems of record Systems of engagement When SAP software is used in a large, heterogeneous enterprise environment, SAP clients face the dilemma of selecting the correct set of tools and platforms to implement SAP functionality, and to integrate the SAP solutions with non-SAP systems. This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains the value of integrating IBM software with SAP solutions. It describes how to enhance and extend pre-built capabilities in SAP software with best-in-class IBM enterprise software, enabling clients to maximize return on investment (ROI) in their SAP investment and achieve a balanced enterprise architecture approach. This book describes IBM Reference Architecture for SAP, a prescriptive blueprint for using IBM software in SAP solutions. The reference architecture is focused on defining the use of IBM software with SAP, and is not intended to address the internal aspects of SAP components. The chapters of this book provide a specific reference architecture for many of the architectural domains that are each important for a large enterprise to establish common strategy, efficiency, and balance. The majority of the most important architectural domain topics, such as integration, process optimization, master data management, mobile access, Enterprise Content Management, business intelligence, DevOps, security, systems monitoring, and so on, are covered in the book. However, there are several other architectural domains which are not included in the book. This is not to imply that these other architectural domains are not important or are less important, or that IBM does not offer a solution to address them. It is only reflective of time constraints, available resources, and the complexity of assembling a book on an extremely broad topic. Although more content could have been added, the authors feel confident that the scope of architectural material that has been included should provide organizations with a fantastic head start in defining their own enterprise reference architecture for many of the important architectural domains, and it is hoped that this book provides great value to those reading it. This IBM Redbooks publication is targeted to the following audiences: Client decision makers and solution architects leading enterprise transformation projects and wanting to gain further insight so that they can benefit from the integration of IBM software in large-scale SAP projects. IT architects and consultants integrating IBM technology with SAP solutions.

" SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) elucidates the numerous features of the core programming platform, which is used for development for the entire SAP software suite. SAP ABAP uses numerous hands on business oriented use cases and a valuable dedicated e-resource to demonstrate the underlying advanced concepts of the OO ABAP environment and the SAP UI. SAP ABAP covers the latest version (NetWeaver 7.3 and SAP application programming release 6.0) of the platform for demonstrating the customization and implementation phases of the SAP software implementation. Shorn of weighty theoretical treatment and preoccupation with language syntax, SAP ABAP is a comprehensive, practical one stop solution,which demonstrates and conveys the language’s commands and features through hands on examples. The accompanying e-resource is a take off point to the book. SAP ABAP works in tandem with the accompanying e-resource to create an interactive learning environment where the book provides a brief description and an overview of a specified feature/command followed by the user switching over to the accompanying e-resource, where a step-by-step guide to creating and running the feature’s object is available. The presentation of the features is scenario oriented, i.e. most of the features are demonstrated in terms of small business scenarios. The e-resource contains the scenario descriptions, screen shots, detailed screen cams and ABAP program source to enable the reader to create all objects related to the scenario and run/execute them. The underlying concepts of a feature/command are conveyed through execution of these hands-on programs. Further exercises to be performed independently by the reader are also proposed. The demonstration/illustration objects including the programs rely on some of the SAP application tables being populated, for example an IDES system which is now a de facto system for all SAP training related activities. "

IBM® DB2® with BLU Acceleration is a revolutionary technology that is delivered in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Release 10.5. BLU Acceleration delivers breakthrough performance improvements for analytic queries by using dynamic in-memory columnar technologies. Different from other vendor solutions, BLU Acceleration allows the unified computing of OLTP and analytics data inside a single database, therefore, removing barriers and accelerating results for users. With observed hundredfold improvement in query response time, BLU Acceleration provides a simple, fast, and easy-to-use solution for the needs of today's organizations; quick access to business answers can be used to gain a competitive edge, lower costs, and more. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the concepts of DB2 with BLU Acceleration. It discusses the steps to move from a relational database to using BLU Acceleration, optimizing BLU usage, and deploying BLU into existing analytic solutions today, with an example of IBM Cognos®. This book also describes integration of DB2 with BLU Acceleration into SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) and SAP's near-line storage solution on DB2. This publication is intended to be helpful to a wide-ranging audience, including those readers who want to understand the technologies and those who have planning, deployment, and support responsibilities.