Knowledge base

What’s the difference between a CDP and DMP?

DMPs & CDPs are Marketing Data tools. This is what you need to know on their similarities, differences and which tools fits best your use-cases.

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Azure Machine Learning Services: a complete toolbox for AI?

Azure Machine Learning Services is a the new AI toolbox released in Microsoft Azure Cloud. We tested it hands-on and these are our findings

Sunday, 5 May 2019

Optimising the Supply Chain with Artificial Intelligence & Microsoft Azure

Meat&More is a fast-growing company in the food industry specialising in meat and ready-to-eat products. Meat&More is end-to-end active from production to retail-sales with production, logistics and administration centralized in Aalter. element61 developed for this customer an AI driven approach for Demand Forecasting in a production environment.

Monday, 15 April 2019

All you need and wanted to know about SAP BPC 11 on BW4/HANA

SAP BPC 11 on BW/4HANA is a completely different product than the BPC-Optimized version for S/4HANA. Read more about BPC 11 on BW/4HANA

Tuesday, 9 April 2019

Microsoft BI project @AminoLabs on top of Microsoft NAV

Aminolabs is the preferred supplier of internationally renowned companies in health and sports nutrition. The combination of innovative concepts and a flexible yet high-quality production is convincing. Consumers around the world enjoy the products that are developed and produced at their facilities in Hasselt, Belgium. Aminolabs is owned by Waterland Private Equity.

Friday, 5 April 2019

Is there room for yet another product in SAP’s financial Consolidation product portfolio?

With SAP BPC (BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation), customers can already benefit from one single platform where management reporting, planning processes and financial consolidation are unified.

Bjorn Van Damme

Bjorn Van Damme

Wednesday, 13 March 2019

Microsoft Power BI on top of SAP Data sources : a winning combo ?

Power BI is a Self-service Business Intelligence solution from Microsoft. In this Insight we discuss the approach and the limitations for connecting to SAP Data Sources including SAP HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP BPC cubes and SAP BW4/HANA.

Monday, 18 February 2019

Lineage key or audit key

A Lineage key or audit key is an extra column in a dimension or fact table that has a foreign key relationship to another table in which data about Extract Transfer Load (ETL) processes is maintained.

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Hybrid Online Analytical Processing

HOLAP storage is a combination of MOLAP and ROLAP. Detail data is kept in the relational data source. But aggregate data and indexes are loaded into MOLAP storage during processing, as shown in figure below.

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

How to parallelize your AI scripts using Azure?

Parallel Computing is the process of running different tasks at the same time. In training and building AI and Machine Learning, algorithms parallelism is often crucial for the following use-cases.

Thursday, 17 January 2019