Hands-onPlanning
Hands-on: SAC data actions driven by story filters
Step-by-step guide to the SAP Analytics Cloud data filter parameter (QRC3 2026): exclusions, dynamic dates and changed-only scoping in data actions.
SAP Tips
Short, to-the-point articles on SAP BW/4HANA, Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAC and planning. What I wish I'd found when I ran into each problem.
SAP Datasphere
AI in SAP Datasphere: natural-language SQL and Pipeline Analyzer
What the September 2026 SAP Business AI features bring to Datasphere: SQL views from a prompt and AI summaries of pipeline errors and impacts.
Hands-onSAP Datasphere
Hands-on: stacked Analytic Models with custom variables in Datasphere
Step by step: reuse an Analytic Model as the source of another in SAP Datasphere, choose Inherit, Map To or Set Value, rename variables and validate.
Business Data Cloud
SAP BW NetWeaver beyond 2030: the new SAP BDC modernization option
SAP now lets you run BW 7.5 until the end of 2033 inside SAP Business Data Cloud. Who qualifies, what is included, what is not and how I would plan it.
Hands-onSAP Datasphere
Hands-on: scheduled delta replication flows in SAP Datasphere
Step by step: stop a delta replication flow running 24/7 with At Scheduled Time, a task chain, a cron schedule and proper validation in SAP Datasphere.
Business Data Cloud
Data Product governance in SAP BDC: access on request
What Data Product governance in SAP Business Data Cloud (wave 2026.20) changes: access requests, data stewards, access agreements and how to prepare.
SAP BW/4HANA
7 best practices for process chains in SAP BW/4HANA
How to design process chains in SAP BW/4HANA that are easy to maintain and monitor: naming conventions, meta chains, parallelism and housekeeping.
SAP Datasphere
SAP Datasphere: why expose data to SAC through an Analytic Model
Fact view, Analytical Dataset or Analytic Model in SAP Datasphere: the differences and how to organize your layers for consumption in SAP Analytics Cloud.
SAP BW/4HANA
aDSO types in SAP BW/4HANA: which one to choose and why
Standard, Staging, Data Mart or Direct Update: which tables each aDSO type creates in SAP BW/4HANA, how activation behaves and when to use each one.