September 2019

The Internet of Things, Big Data and a Fischertechnik factory – Part 5: Visualization using CalculationView and SAP Cloud for Analytics

Thorsten Stossmeister 17. September 2019

The previous parts of this blog showed how the sensor data from the factory simulation was finally made available as a table (more precisely: as a table link) in SAP HANA. The next step would now be to create a scripted (or alternatively graphical) CalculationView

The Internet of Things, Big Data and a Fischertechnik factory – Part 3: The Big Data Cluster

Thorsten Stossmeister 17. September 2019

In the first two parts of this blog, we presented the Fischertechnik factory simulation. This factory simulation should now continuously generate data that should end up in a big data cluster on the one hand and be reportable using SAP BW or SAP Analytics for

The Internet of Things, Big Data and a Fischertechnik Factory – Part 2: Consequences for architecture

Thorsten Stossmeister 17. September 2019

In the first part of this blog, I outlined the challenges that big data poses for a data warehouse, which leads to simple conclusions for the big data architecture of such an EDW in the specific case of SAP BW on HANA or SAP BW/4HANA: