Monitor Process Chains

When running a steady-state BI implementation you certainly spend a lot of time loading data from your source systems to make them available in your reports and for interfaces. Since the timely and correct loading of data is critical to the success of a BI implementation the monitoring of the load process is vital.

See below a few tools and transactions, which I commonly use to get an overview (and drill down to the details) of the status of the BI loading.

My first impressions from India

Being in India, more specifically Mumbai, for a few days now, I can say that India is quite some cultural change / challenge for me. Things are just so different here from the countries I have previously traveled and it takes some time and understanding to get used to the Indian way of living. Especially …

Good bye Munich, hello Zurich

Left Munich for a 35min flight to Zurich. I think the taxiing was longer then the time in the air. Well, increased my carbon footprint again and feeling bad for it. Have to walk a few more kilometer and use public transport when back in Singapore. Weather in Zurich started of cold (compared to where …