What if you could simply ask your data model: "Why is the contribution margin of product group XYZ so low?" - and get a well-founded answer? GenAI and tools like Claude, Copilot & Co. promise exactly that. But how well does it really work? And what does this mean for data experts, power users and governance? An experience report between fascination and responsibility by data & analytics expert Marco Nielinger.
As "Director Senior Azure Analytics Architect", Felix Möller has worked for the technology group Avanade for the past five years and has now returned to noventum consulting to contribute his experience to the consultancy. In his last role, Felix Möller worked as an architect and project manager in large Azure Data Platform projects for German corporations. In the future, he will increasingly lead noventum BI customers into the cloud and bring the experience from the corporate world to SMEs.
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SAP systems offer advanced interfaces, which on the one hand provide delta mechanisms. On the other hand, these bring together a wide variety of base tables in order to simplify processing. This functionality can be accessed with the help of Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services and the 3rd party component XtractIS from Theobald. We have used this technology successfully many times in the last 10 years (e.g. BRITA).
Read more … Technote: Azure Data Factory supports extraction of SAP data sources via ODP
