Comments on: Behind SAP’s Business Intelligence Accelerator http://www.appsbi.com/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:22:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rita http://www.appsbi.com/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/comment-page-1#comment-19557 Rita Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:42:54 +0000 http://www.appsbi.com/2006/08/07/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/#comment-19557 Hi Gopal, No one is doubting that BIA works. And yes, the Winter Group benchmarks do give independent validation of that. The paper also validates how poor SAP BW performance is without BIA. It is not the case that you have to pay for better performance with all vendors to correct the architectural flaws in the core product. Many vendors have high scalability and performance baked into the architectural DNA and core product - no need for additional products and hardware. SAP had to add BIA to fix the notorious performance issues of BW. Unfortunately for SAP customers, adding BIA only adds another piece of hardware, data duplication, cost and complexity to an already onerous infrastructure. Would love to hear more about what you perceive as the BIA limiations, in case I have enumerated them all. Wild guess, you work for SAP :) Warm Regards, Rita Hi Gopal,

No one is doubting that BIA works. And yes, the Winter Group benchmarks do give independent validation of that. The paper also validates how poor SAP BW performance is without BIA. It is not the case that you have to pay for better performance with all vendors to correct the architectural flaws in the core product. Many vendors have high scalability and performance baked into the architectural DNA and core product – no need for additional products and hardware. SAP had to add BIA to fix the notorious performance issues of BW. Unfortunately for SAP customers, adding BIA only adds another piece of hardware, data duplication, cost and complexity to an already onerous infrastructure.

Would love to hear more about what you perceive as the BIA limiations, in case I have enumerated them all.

Wild guess, you work for SAP :)

Warm Regards,
Rita

]]> By: Gopal B http://www.appsbi.com/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/comment-page-1#comment-19510 Gopal B Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:25:58 +0000 http://www.appsbi.com/2006/08/07/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/#comment-19510 Though there are some limitations, SAP BIA is definitely not all market hype. There are published independent performance benchmarks for BIA (winter corp). Yes you do have to pay for better performance which is the case with any vendors. BIA has some degree of failover mechanism implemented across blades. Sybase was using vertical decomposition but not in memory. There are many dimensions to 'poor' performance., in many cases sub-optimal design, code etc., which can be true for all technologies and vendors. All packaged solutions do have their own pro's and cons sam eis true with SAP BW. I would say BIA has its own limitations but definitely is not a Big Foot A wild guess., author works for Oracle Corp?? ;) Gopal Though there are some limitations, SAP BIA is definitely not all market hype. There are published independent performance benchmarks for BIA (winter corp). Yes you do have to pay for better performance which is the case with any vendors. BIA has some degree of failover mechanism implemented across blades. Sybase was using vertical decomposition but not in memory. There are many dimensions to ‘poor’ performance., in many cases sub-optimal design, code etc., which can be true for all technologies and vendors. All packaged solutions do have their own pro’s and cons sam eis true with SAP BW. I would say BIA has its own limitations but definitely is not a Big Foot

A wild guess., author works for Oracle Corp?? ;)

Gopal

]]> By: Rita Sallam http://www.appsbi.com/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/comment-page-1#comment-724 Rita Sallam Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:26:31 +0000 http://www.appsbi.com/2006/08/07/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/#comment-724 Hi Volker, Thanks for the comment and the chuckle. Is that why an SAP VP recently felt the need recently to comment about DBI in a press release?? Actually, in this case, the situation is to the contrary. While marketing hype is usually overly generous, BIA is a case where there is such a huge gap between hype and reality, that I thought some basic facts should be known. Cheers, Rita Sallam Hi Volker,

Thanks for the comment and the chuckle. Is that why an SAP VP recently felt the need recently to comment about DBI in a press release??

Actually, in this case, the situation is to the contrary. While marketing hype is usually overly generous, BIA is a case where there is such a huge gap between hype and reality, that I thought some basic facts should be known.

Cheers,
Rita Sallam

]]> By: Volker Glassl http://www.appsbi.com/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/comment-page-1#comment-721 Volker Glassl Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:16:51 +0000 http://www.appsbi.com/2006/08/07/behind-saps-business-intelligence-accelerator/#comment-721 Rita, good to read that even Oracle´s Competitive staff is afreight of the BIA´s leading edge capabilities. Things that are not good are not worth to comment - or? Best regards, Volker Rita,

good to read that even Oracle´s Competitive staff is afreight of the BIA´s leading edge capabilities.
Things that are not good are not worth to comment – or?

Best regards, Volker

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