How do you read a blog? – #100DaysOfSAPAnalytics

My subject matter area is all around SAP Analytics (from frontend to backend, from SAP Master Data Governance to SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP AI Core and even SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting and so on).

For sure, sometimes I just fly over some blogs for relevant information, sometimes I dig deeper and sometimes I can not find time and save it in my bookmarks.

To be true, my list of unread blogs is very long. There are a lot of good reads out there enriched with links complex visualisations and embedded videos. And this is how I ideally would read a blog:

Above I used this blog by Deniz Osoy as an example which marked with “15 minutes read”. Mh, ok, maybe if you just read the text…

And than there are some days 3, 4, 5 interesting relevant blogs are published (ok, sometimes also 0 in one week)

The thing is, my job is so knowledge intense that this is not the only thing to follow the blogs.

• Make a tutorial to try out new features, tools and concepts
• Follow a SAP Community Call
• Do a webinar
• Read the latest newsletter
• Surf the latest SAP Partner Edge updates
• Make an openSAP course from time to time
• …

And here we are just talking mainly about the technical skill and knowledge.

In staying up to date it is often just about being consistent. I like challenges like 100 Days of Code or 66 Days of Data which helps to stay on a topic longer and establish behaviours to continue it in the future.

Therefore I got the idea to start #100DaysOfSAPAnalytics on Twitter as I have not seen anything similar yet. Starting on 27.06.2022 I maintain a curated list of SAP Community blogs worth reading from my point of view in the area of SAP Analytics. These blogs are about currently relevant topics (even if the blog is some years old, often they are updated by the authors) but likely no blogs about events or collections of latest features.

I basically do it for myself but a journey is always better with company. I would be happy to see you joining (if you like Twitter) or get into the discussion what are your ways to stay current or get recommendations about blogs in this area you like and may come back to several times?

Please follow for updates and like the blogs you like most 🙂

———— List of blogs from #100DaysOfSAPAnalytics ————

1. Analytics in S/4HANA – real shape of embedded analytics and beyond embedded analytics
2. Data management concepts and techniques in SAP HANA Cloud
3. SAP HANA Machine Learning with ABAP Managed Database Procedures in SAP BW/4HANA
4. SAP (Sybase) IQ – the hidden treasure …
5. SAP Data Intelligence: Create your first ML Scenario
6. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP BW Bridge: Overview and Technical Deep Dive
7. Building Intelligent Scenarios and Sustainability on SAP BTP
8. Introduction of the end-to-end Machine Learning operations with SAP AI Core
9. Build Your Own Model with TensorFlow in SAP AI Core for defect detection
10. Sound-based predictive maintenance with SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad
11. SAP’s One Domain Model and Domain Driven Design
12. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, Data Marketplace: An Overview
13. Bi-directional Data Exchange for Individualized Data Products in the Data Marketplace
14. How to Monetize Your Data and Address 400,000 SAP Customers on the Data Marketplace for Data Warehouse Cloud
15. Distributed data and cross database access in hybrid cloud landscapes with SAP HANA Cloud and SDA
16. SAP Business Technology Platform Showcase – Overall end-to-end Demo & SAP BTP Showcase – Load data into SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
17. SAP BTP Showcase – Access the SAP HANA Cloud database underneath SAP Data Warehouse Cloud
18. Expose SAP Data Warehouse Cloud artefacts as OData v4 service
19. The importance and value of OData in the SAP ecosystem
20. Monday morning thoughts: OData
21. Using the Data Warehouse Cloud OData API with SAP Analytics Cloud
22. Introducing the Bi-Directional Integration of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning
23. SAP Business Technology Platform – software lifecycle with elements of continuous integration, delivery, and transport management
24. SAP Data Intelligence: Git Workflow and CI/CD Process
25. Transportation and CI/CD with SAP Data Intelligence
26. SAP Business Technology Platform – integration aspects in the CI/CD approach
27. Project “Piper” – Jenkins on Docker
28. Table lifecycle (aka Schema Evolution) in SAP HANA (Cloud) with .hdbmigrationtable
29. SAP BTP Showcase – SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery (SAP CI&D) for SAP HANA Cloud
30. SAP BTP Showcase – Run future sales prediction using SAP HANA Cloud Machine Learning algorithms
31. … next update on 15.08.2022 …

For a better understanding of how the blogs are connected, since Day 16 I follow the 7 + overview parts “SAP BTP Showcase”. But I take the opportunity to dive deeper with some topics, bit by bit, day by day. So currently this is my planning until Day 41 which can be changed day by day: