Most of you might not be aware of a feature introduced on SAP HANA SPS5. This new feature is called "Flexible Tables", which means that you can define a table that will grow depending on your needs. Let's see an example...You define a table with ID, NA... [Read more...]

The other day I was thinking about writing a blog using PowerBuilder, but couldn't decide which one other technology I should integrate it...of course...R came to my mind...My journey started around 4 days ago...when I start looking for ways to call R ... [Read more...]

Since I wrote my blog When SAP HANA met R - First kiss I had received a lot of nice feedback...and one those feedbacks was..."What's new?"...Well...as you might now SAP HANA works with R by using Rserve, a package that allows communication to an R Serv... [Read more...]

As you may already know...I love R...a fancy, open source statistics programming language. So today, I decided to learn something new using R.There aren't much Web Servers for R, but there's one that I really like called Rook, that I covered on my blog... [Read more...]

Thanks to an initiative of Krista Elkin, Jonathan Druker and myself ( with a lot of support from Craig Cmehil and Helena Losada ), SAP CodeJam Montreal is going live on Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 3 to 9 pm in the SAP Labs Montreal offices.This is... [Read more...]

Early this year, in March, I was visiting my team mates in SAP Labs Palo Alto, and my good friend a team mate Rui Nogueira asked to participate in his most excellent Technology Innovation Podcast show where we spoke about R and SAP HANA. By the end of ... [Read more...]

A real developer never stops learning that's a quote I always love to repeat...because it applies to my life...you can know a lot of things but there's always something new to learn, or to re-learn. That's why a couple of days ago I start reading wxPyt... [Read more...]

This is a presentation that I did on the Community Theatre at SAP TechEd Las Vegas 2012. Happy sap hana friends from Alvaro Tejada In this presentation, Blagbert helps his friends Nerdbert to set up his first SAP HANA project using different technol... [Read more...]

So...I'm back with Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012 for XBox Kinect. Why? Because I want to loose some weight and get back in shape of course -;)The reason I stop playing the game is simple...I'm lazy...but this time, I have come back with a goal...bur... [Read more...]

DISCLAIMER: I'm not an SAP HANA expert or an R expert, not even a Python expert. I'm just a guy with a lot of ideas who loves to write blogs.The other day I was thinking about making some nice with SAP HANA and R, because people doesn't seem to ... [Read more...]

As I wrote in my blog Analytics with SAP and R (Windows version) we can use RSAP to connect to our ERP system and play with the data. This time I wanted of course, to keep exploring the capabilities of RSAP, but using something else. As everybody kno... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I started to think about SAP HANA and R on Amazon Web Services...as far as I know, graphics can't get generated using this kind of integration because the graphic will get generated on the server and could not make the trip back i... [Read more...]

My good friend and programming guru Piers Harding wrote a blog called Analytics with SAP and R where he showed us how to link the wonderful worlds of R and SAP. Yes...SAP...not SAP HANA...but the good old NetWeaver...Piers build the RSAP extension usin... [Read more...]

In my last blog I'm following you in Twitter...are you following me back? I show you how to use the Twitter APIs to get a list of the people that you follow but doesn't follow you back.This time, I want to extend the tool as I installed the ... [Read more...]

If you spend some time on Twitter, you might have some followers and some people that you follow...the more time you spend, the more people you're going to interact with...Sometimes, you just realized that you're following some many people that might o... [Read more...]

If you follow my blogs (I hope you do) then you know I really love the R programming language but I also love SAP HANA and in the past I have dealt with integration between those two:HANA meets RR meets HANASanitizing data in SAP HANA with RBut...those integrations ... [Read more...]

From April 10 to April 11, my team (Anne, Juergen and myself) host an InnoJam in Boston. It was a really great event, but the data provided by the City of Boston wasn't exactly in the best shape, so we took a lot of efforts (with a help of the SAP Guru... [Read more...]

A couple of days ago, I was toying with the idea of doing something with SAP Gateway...I thought of using SUP, but as I recently wrote 2 blogs about it, I decided to go back to one of my favorite programming languages...R...So...Gateway can be consumed... [Read more...]

If you read my last blog called HANA meets R you will remember that we read data from HANA into R directly, without having to download an .csv file, but using ODBC. This time, we're going to read data from HANA as well, but after do some nice tricks on ... [Read more...]

In my previous HANA and R blogs, I have been forced to create .csv files from HANA and read them on R...an easy but also boring procedure...specially if your R report is supposed to be run on a regular basis...having to create an .csv file every time ... [Read more...]