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BI or DIE – Insights SAP and Strategy SAP DWC – Talking with Mohamed Abdel Hadi, SAP | EN

We talk to Mohamed Abdel Hadi (Mo) about the latest developments in SAP Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC) and integrations with existing customers.

As Global Vice President for SAP Data Warehouse Product Management & Strategy, Mo is responsible for the entire data warehouse and on-premise portfolio.

He has been focusing on analytics and data warehousing at SAP for more than 11 years now. With this background, he provides a strong technical, market and customer focused vision for new products and technology driven development projects. Leading a global team, he focuses on delivering best-in-class analytics and data warehousing products to customers and strengthening SAP’s position in the converging data and analytics markets.

Mo graduated from Flensburg University of Applied Sciences with a degree in Business Intelligence, Database Systems and Algorithms. He lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and enjoys traveling to exciting countries in his spare time. Furthermore, he performs magic and magic tricks, challenges friends in  table tennis and loves spending time with them.

In our chat with Mo, we discussed cultural specifics of projects around the globe. For whom do references count, who is into comprehensive POCs, who are early adopters of the latest products etc.? In addition, it becomes clear why SAP has taken the path towards the Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC), why SAP focuses especially on customer use cases and shows openness towards other product vendors. There are clear project recommendations for customer who want to use SAP Analytics Cloud and Data Warehouse Cloud. But we also talk about existing customers who are using SAP BW or older frontend tools and discuss possible implementation approaches for the new SAP products.

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BI or DIE – IBCS in SAC – Transformation through Design-thinking – Talking with Nico Licht, SAP| EN

Viktoria, Kai and Nico Licht are talking about implementing the IBCS-Standard in the SAP Analytics Cloud, how he changed the design and way of thinking at SAP and the perfect dashboard.

Nico is an experienced designer (interaction design, design thinking, media production) with 20+ years design experience, 10+ years software development experience, 5+ years cloud software development experience in the field of Data Management, Analytics and Planning. He is leading a global team of domain experts (user experience, user assistance, design services) in the field of Data Management, Analytics and Planning. Nico has a background in advertising and studied audiovisual media, interaction design and documentary film in Stuttgart, Sunderland and Toronto.

In this episode, Nico Licht, Vice President Design at SAP, reveals why he decided to work for SAP, what the advantages and challenges of implementing the IBCS standards are, his recipe for success, and why design-thinking is so critical not only for designer, but for everyone. Which assets can designers bring to the table? What do young in-house designers need to keep in mind when starting at a new company? What does the perfect dashboard look like? Learn more about Nico as a person in our quickfire questions round and about what we can expect from him and his team in the future.

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• Nico Licht
• SAP 

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BI or DIE – Mobile BI – Best Frontend BI Tool – Data Scientists | EN

Viktoria and Kai about best time of starting a dashboarding initiative and good dashboards.

In this episode Viktoria brought 5 questions for Kai.

Topics of today’s episode:

  • Mobile BI
  • Good Dashboards
  • Favorite BI Tool
  • Best time of starting a dashboarding initiative
  • Data Scientist – sexiest job of the 21. century?

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