Moving toward BI

Hi professionals,
I am working in a ALE/IDOC support project and
I am an ABAP certified consultant. Now I am planning to take up BI. I have few doubts,
1. How is the job opening for an ABAP certified + BI certified person with 2+ years of experience in an ALE/IDOC support project?
2. Many say that BI is techno-functional module and no much coding involved. Is that true?
3. Some of my friends go for ABAP-HR certification? Which is good for carrier growth SAP BI or ABAP-HR.? I mean a good, demanding market for a longer time.
Please guide me by clearing these doubts. Reward points is for sureu2026
Thanks in advance.

Hello,
Take a look to the thread :
Re: How about the future of Reports
Regards

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With the demise of a staple such as GL and the desire not to jump in again so readily on a commercial product... I wonder how many, if any, have moved to something in the open source CMS arena?
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This is a long post, so if you have a short attention span, or are not interested in UI design, have a nice day and move on to the next post!
A little history first. Back in the days of OS 7 and earlier, I recall a feature lacking from the OS that was really important. For a long time, Apple did not use sticky menus, and you had to use a third-party extension to have the ability to click once on a menu heading and have the pop down menu display and stay there without having to hold the mouse down. Around OS 8 or so I recall that they made sticky menus part of the OS and all applications, and that was a welcome ergonomic improvement. No need to click and hold when we explore menus. What I plan to talk about in this post is a similar improvement -- one designed to facilitate the easy exploration of files and folders while completely eliminating the need to click at all.
My idea was inspired by another feature of OS 8 (or thereabouts). This was the ability to display the files in a folder as buttons. This allowed the user to launch the application/file with a single click, rather than the ergonomically bad double-click required in previous OS's. (You could still select a file without launching it by clicking the label rather than the icon.) This very useful feature went away in OS X. So one is back to double clicking to launch all documents, photos, movies, or whatever. If you are editing hundreds of pictures in a folder as I am, and double clicking them to launch PREVIEW for a quick inspection, you start to develop problems with the tendons in the wrist. I have to switch hands regularly to deal with the fatigue.
The elimination of buttons was a huge step backward for me in OS X. It is simply not acceptable to have to double click files to launch them. I think a future OS -- truly improved, not just one with more flash -- must solve this problem. As I thought about how it should be implemented, I realized there is a much better and more general solution than that offered by buttons. One that allows the examination of files without ever clicking at all.
Imagine a folder with multiple file types: photos, mp3's, movies, text edit files, etc, and assume the files are displayed as icons (although my suggestion would work with list view as well). You see a jpg thumbnails and want to see some of them at full size. Or you see a song and want to hear it, or a movie and want to view it. Now imagine that there is a special "preview" mode which allows you to easily and quickly examine the contents of the files without having to launch them in an application by double clicking, then close the window with another click, go on to the next icon of interest, and do this again, and again, and again until your hand is ready to fall off. Instead, you toggle an assigned key (say F5), or select an appropriate menu choice in the Finder, in order to activate what I shall call dynamic preview mode (DPM). With DPM, whenever you move the cursor over a file icon you get a preview. For example, moving the cursor over a jpg file would immediately expand it to full size on the screen. The image would stay up for as long as the cursor remained over the file's icon (which may not be visible). Moving the cursor off the icon causes the preview image to "collapse" back into the file icon. Moving the cursor over another jpg would cause its image to expand to full size until you moved on to the next, and so on. Note that you are able to view ALL of the jpg images without ever clicking the mouse once, well enough twice. There isn't any way I can think of to make reviewing large numbers of images easier. All you have to do is move the mouse around and the images appear and disappear dynamically, without you doing anything other than moving the mouse. Since you would have to do that anyway to select a file for launching under OS X, DPM brings the effort down to the bare bones minimum (short of using a slide show -- but that has other problems, which is why I don't use it except at the end for the fully edited pics). Think of DPM as a super convenient way to browse images without launching applications, closing windows, double-clicking, and so on. When you find an image that you might want to do something with, say edit the color balance in Photoshop, you then launch it using the appropriate application.
Of course, applications are indeed launched during DPM. But not in the usual way. No doubt the Preview app would be used to handle the display of the jpg's in DPM but it would be modified somewhat for dynamically viewing images. When the cursor goes over a jpg, Preview opens it and displays it, but not in the usual window with a close box, but just as a simple untitled pane showing the image. And as soon as the cursor moves the pane disappears. Likewise, there is no Preview menu bar showing at the top of the screen, because Preview is only used for dynamic display, not editing of the jpg. Now, the user might want to launch the parent application when placing the cursor over the icon because they want to use the application to do something with it (besides viewing or listening). No problem. We simply design DPM so that when the option key is pressed while the cursor is moved over a file icon, it fully launches the application with the file, just as it now does when you double click the file icon. You get the usual titled window, application menu bar, etc. But note that you get the application running with the file loaded without having to double click. This click-less OS interaction, of course, could be implemented right now since it is a only a minor tweak on the OS.
What about other file types? Putting the cursor over an mp3 file (or other supported format) would start playing the song, and putting the cursor over a movie file would start playing the movie, again in an untitled pane. Presumably Quicktime would be used to handle both of these latter two tasks, but without launching in the usual way and taking over the menu bar. Putting the cursor over a text or RTF file would display it in a pane (possibly using Text Edit). More complicated file types (word processor, spreadsheet, statistical, etc.) would probably not be supported in a first-generation DPM. But jpg, mp3, mov, txt, and rtf files could be easily handled using just three applications that come with every Mac. Also, "compressed" stickie notes could now be deposited individually anywhere, in any folder or on the desktop, and putting the cursor over the note would expand it to full view. With the current OS, we need to run the stickies app which displays ALL the sticky notes at once, and which constrains them to the desktop only, both of which are serious limitations.
Of course, once we have DPM users will want to complicate things -- they always do. For example, they'll want the mp3 preview to have a play bar with a bug to position in the song, volume control, etc, just like the Quicktime player. But be careful what you ask for, or we are right back with full fledged apps loading with a menu bar and a window that has to be closed, and that defeats the point of a click-less preview. This is because any interaction the user might wish to have with the viewer or player will require moving the cursor, and in DPM that would normally cause the preview to cease. That's the point, after all. So I would argue that dynamic preview should be kept very simple: cursor on the icon opens a preview, cursor off the icon closes the preview.
Would this be enormously difficult to do? No. It is already being done -- kind of. For any of the file types discussed above, you can click on the file icon, then press command-I (Get Info), and you will see a preview at the bottom of the info box. If it is a pic, that's all you get. If a song or movie, you can play it. Unfortunately, if it is an rtf file, no preview is displayed -- kind of odd, that. (How hard is it to display some text?) The only thing not offered in the command-I previews for pics and movies is a full (or at least larger) screen preview. But that shouldn't be too difficult since Preview and Quicktime allow that as a matter of course.
Oh yeah. We can add folder icons to the list of icons supported by DPM. Right now, if I want to quickly peek at some folders just to see what they contain, I have to double-click each one to open it, and then click on the close box to close it again. With dynamic preview activated, all I would do is move the cursor over the folder icon and it would immediately expand to its usual size showing whatever contents can be seen in that view. Moving the cursor would make the folder collapse again. Again, all that is need to examine the contents of folders would be to move the cursor around. That's it.
(Don't get greedy -- you might want a scroll bar for the folder preview, but that defeats the point of a quick preview and would require cursor movement which, with DPM, would close the folder preview. Again, holding the option key down while placing the cursor over the folder icon could open the folder in the usual way, without needing to double click. But as with option-launched previews for images and the like, you will have to close the preview window yourself.)
Now, I do not think think dynamic preview should be activated out of the box, at least not at this point. Inexperienced users will be confused to see things popping up on the screen when they are moving the cursor around (or hearing songs). But for experienced users who have thousands of files archived in dozens of folders who need to quickly and easily examine them without the steps required now -- double-click, look or listen, close -- this would be a real improvement in the UI, one that would really make a difference. One, that once a user tried it (just like the first Mac OS) would make them say "I'll never go back!"
In closing, I must post a question, or fear being chastised for not following discussion group rules. So, what are the technical obstacles to doing what I am suggesting, and who else would like to see it done? (And, yes, I am sending these suggestions to Apple, so no need to tell me that.)
Drake

BDAqua wrote:
I agree with you totally... except the clickless preview though, since Apple doesn't like to give you options to turn stuff off or not use it at all if they go to the trouble of putting it in the OS!
Well, they give you the option to display the contents of a folder in list, icon, or column view. So why can't you have the option to view files with and without dynamic previewing? It is the dynamic equivalent (off vs on) of the static options provided by list, icon, and column view. Also, by the logic you give above (for Apple), one should not have preferences, because that makes the functioning of the OS or app different from one user to the next. And as a counter example, the features of the OS for people with disabilities are great to have, but they are not active just because they are there. One has to want to use them...
And if you think about it, Expose is an optional utility, as is Dashboard. Some people use them, some don't. DPM would be the same.
Every new OS release makes me spend a lot of time learning how to shut off/disable things like Spotlight, Dashboard, Time Machine, Transparent Dock & Menubar, ad infinitum!
Me too. Although I have learned to like Spotlight (although it has bugs), and the dock.
Did I ever tell you Leopard's System Preferences icon in the Dock looks like a Skull & Crossbones to me?
If you close one eye & squint the other one until it does to you, then you'll get an idea what OSX looks like to me... LOL.
I tried, but couldn't conjure it up! I must have too limited an imagination.
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Hi all,
Iam not understanding why oracle is moving to ADF where OAF is available..
Please clarify when we have to go for OAF....
and when we have to go for ADF...?
thanks and regards
Durga

Hi Durga;
Please check Steven Chan's blog:
OA Framework or ADF?
http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2007/06/oa_framework_or_adf.html
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+ADF+FAQ
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http://shiv-saroj.blogspot.com/2008/03/oaf-vs-adf-with-respect-to-oracle.html
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Hi regards to VMware strategy that for further release it only to utilize Esxi Hypervisor infrastructure, i try to find out information whether the Esxi is supported by SAP on productive use
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I do require some clarification:
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Does this make sense?
2.)   The value in spanning L2 domains across data centers in a services-oriented architecture is clear. It facilitates vMotion and vStorage and creates clusters of compute and storage resources, which can be leveraged for SAN replication, disaster recovery, cloud computing (IT/Software as a Service), and running active/active application services).
But does flattening the network mean that there will be one massive subnet that will be considered one broadcast domain? Albeit, unicast flooding and ARPs will have to be re-engineered to operate in this environment. This doesn't seem likely.
Any   thoughts?
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There are as many ways to skin the cat as you can dream up.
But clearly you cannot expect to change roles completely and have everything stay the same.. although the Mac should not need to start over.. TM should be able to have multiple setups where it recognises the different network layouts.. at least with ML it can do that. If you are using SL as per your profile.. no.. it has to be manually setup.
The first obvious solution is this.
Network B: Mac connects to LAN via a non-Apple wi-fi router; TC connects to Mac via ethernet cable
Do the same in network A.. Use the Mac by wireless for internet.. and backups to the TC connected directly by ethernet. Do not plug the TC into the network.
A variation on this.
You can even do it by ethernet.. simply have a switch and plug in both Mac and TC.. but use the TC on a different IP address. You can set statically double IP on the one ethernet port.
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Conclusion
I guess I am asking for help or advice. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Illogan,
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I'll be happy to have a look into this for you and try and get the line up and going again.
Could you drop me in an email please? Use the 'contact us' form in my forum profile under the 'about me' section. You can find it by clicking on my username.
Thx
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Hi Experts,
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<a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/5393">https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/5393</a>
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https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/thread?threadID=377935&tstart=0
Bye
Ankur

How to smoothly scale movieclip while moving it towards viewer?

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I have a movieclip (mstone) depicting a signpost, which is within another movieclip (graphic1). I am trying to scale mstone to increase by about 44%, and it needs to move along the screen in such as manner that it is moving towards the user. Some how the scale and the x,y coordinates I am providing don't seem to reflect the same way as it normally would, when I see the website live.
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Moving iTunes library to an external drive converting to different format

I want to move entire iTunes library to an external drive. I've found several Mac 101's to help but those helps makes no sense. I should be able to move music to another drive and give iTunes the path to find it but that does not work.
All files are iTunes Plus including everything from Amazon but I want to convert everything to a mp3 or other format so all files are independent of iTunes. Lots of old music from CDs I imported and lots from iTunes as well as Amazon. I guess i could sit and burn everything to a physical cd but that would take months and hundreds and hundreds of cds. Can someone advise how I can convert these files and then move to an external drive?
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HI Limnos,
Thanks for the reply. Something I forgot (age) to mention, this quest to move the library is precipitated by the Mac drive is running out of space. While I still have about 50 gigs of room left, I was thinking I should just plan on opening up the space by moving the iTunes library.
The other reason is, I read an article about how upon ones death one can not bequeath ones digital music or book files to loved ones. IE; If all of the music was on LP's, tapes, cd's then this physical format can be left in ones final will. But according to what I read and trying to read the user policy by Apple, Amazon etc when one downloads music or a book or whatever that use policy says we don't own the material we only can read it or listen to it. When we die it dies with us. Several people in the article as well as myself believe this is crap. At one time I was purchasing content and then burning it. I stopped because I thought how silly to burn it, I have back ups on an external drive. Man was I wrong. If I have to I'll sit here in my last days and burn hundreds of cd's.
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Problem in moving Rotated Shape object

Hi All,
I want to move the rotated shape object based on the mouse movement
m able to move the object which is not rotated, but m facing the problem when i move the rotated object its moving position is not correct . I am expecting to maintain both shape objects movement is same, i mean if i did mouse movement to right rotated object moves upwards and normal object moves towards right insted of moving both r moving towards to right.
Pls help me
the following code is m using to moving the object
The one which in red color is not rotated and the one which is in black color has rotated.
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.Shape;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import com.clinapps.LDPConstants;
public class MoveRotatedObj extends JFrame
 public MoveRotatedObj()
 JPanel pane = new Dorairaj();
 add(pane);
 public static void main(String[] args)
 MoveRotatedObj f = new MoveRotatedObj();
 f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 f.setSize(400, 400);
 f.setLocation(200, 200);
 f.setVisible(true);
 static class Dorairaj extends JPanel
 implements
 MouseListener,
 MouseMotionListener
 Shape o = null;
 Rectangle2D rect = new Rectangle2D.Double(
 10, 10, 100, 100);
 Graphics2D g2 = null;
 boolean flag = true;
 int x=10,y=10,x1, y1, x2, y2;
 AffineTransform af = new AffineTransform();
 AffineTransform originalAt = new AffineTransform();
 int origin = 0;
 public Dorairaj()
 addMouseListener(this);
 addMouseMotionListener(this);
 protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
 super.paintComponent(g);
 g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
 g2.draw(new Rectangle2D.Double(0,0,500,500));
 g2.translate(origin, origin);
 g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
 RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
 rect = new Rectangle2D.Double(
 x, y, 150, 100);
 g2.setColor(Color.RED);
 g2.draw(rect);
 g2.setColor(Color.black);
 originalAt = g2.getTransform();
 g2.rotate(Math.toRadians(270), 200, 200);
 g2.draw(rect);
 g2.setTransform(originalAt);
 * Invoked when a mouse button has been pressed on a component.
 public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)
 e.translatePoint(-origin, -origin);
 x1 = e.getX();
 y1 = e.getY();
 public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
 x2 = e.getX();
 y2 = e.getY();
 x = x + x2 - x1;
 y = y + y2 - y1;
 x1 = x2;
 y1 = y2;
 repaint();
 public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
 * Invoked when the mouse button has been clicked (pressed and released)
 * on a component.
 public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
 repaint();
 * Invoked when a mouse button has been released on a component.
 public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e)
 * Invoked when the mouse enters a component.
 public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e)
 * Invoked when the mouse exits a component.
 public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e)
Edited by: DoraiRaj on Sep 16, 2009 12:51 PM
Edited by: DoraiRaj on Sep 16, 2009 1:00 PM
Edited by: DoraiRaj on Sep 16, 2009 1:07 PM

Thanks for replay and suggestion morgalr,
I mean MoveRotatedObj1 is MoveRotatedObj only jsut m maintaing a copy on my system like MoveRotatedObj1.
finally i solved my problem like this ,
Is this correct approach m followinig or not pls let me know .
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.Shape;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import com.clinapps.LDPConstants;
public class MoveRotatedObj extends JFrame
public MoveRotatedObj()
JPanel pane = new Dorairaj();
add(pane);
public static void main(String[] args)
MoveRotatedObj f = new MoveRotatedObj();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.setSize(400, 400);
f.setLocation(200, 200);
f.setVisible(true);
static class Dorairaj extends JPanel
implements
 MouseListener,
 MouseMotionListener
Shape o = null;
Rectangle2D rect = new Rectangle2D.Double(
 10, 10, 100, 100);
Rectangle2D rect1 = new Rectangle2D.Double(
 10, 10, 100, 100);
Graphics2D g2 = null;
boolean flag = true;
double lx, ly;
int x = 10, y = 10, x1, y1, x2, y2;
int l = 20, m = 20;
int angle = 270;
AffineTransform af = new AffineTransform();
AffineTransform originalAt = new AffineTransform();
int origin = 0;
public Dorairaj()
 addMouseListener(this);
 addMouseMotionListener(this);
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
 super.paintComponent(g);
 g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
 g2.draw(new Rectangle2D.Double(
 0, 0, 500, 500));
 g2.translate(origin, origin);
 g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
 RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
 rect = new Rectangle2D.Double(
 x, y, 150, 100);
 g2.setColor(Color.RED);
 g2.draw(rect);
 rect1 = new Rectangle2D.Double(
 l, m, 150, 100);
 g2.setColor(Color.black);
 originalAt = g2.getTransform();
 g2.rotate(Math.toRadians(angle), 200, 200);
 g2.draw(rect1);
 g2.setTransform(originalAt);
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e)
 e.translatePoint(-origin, -origin);
 x1 = e.getX();
 y1 = e.getY();
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
 boolean left, right, up, bottm;
 int dx, dy;
 left = right = up = bottm = false;
 x2 = e.getX();
 y2 = e.getY();
 dx = x2 - x1;
 dy = y2 - y1;
 x = x + dx;
 y = y + dy;
 up = dy < 0;
 bottm = dy > 0;
 left = dx < 0;
 right = dx > 0;
 if (left || right)
 // b += dx;
 m += dx;
 if (up || bottm)
 // a -= dy;
 l -= dy;
 x1 = x2;
 y1 = y2;
 repaint();
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)
 repaint();
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e)
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e)
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e)
}

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Currently we are running Oracle Database lite 10.3.0.2.0 (Android client is not out yet).
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here is my background
Thanks,
TsterT

Ok, here's a step in the right direction, but beware that
without a fundamental knowledge of after effects some of this may seem a bit complex:
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