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smith21r
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9 years ago

Is anyone using the SAP BW Connector with reasonable response times?

Hello, I've been using Power BI for some time against a variety of data sources.  However, I pretty much can't use the SAP BW Connector against our BW instance because it is so slow.  I don't get tim...
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9 years ago

Not really correct to answer here but maybe you can help me with an issue i am having as shown in the picture

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    j567boston
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    9 years ago

    I've seen similar behavior with Power BI, Tableau, and MicroStrategy.

     

    The query runs fine in BEx on top of BW, but if you connect to BW through some sort of MDX connector the performance drops off a cliff.  Completely unusable.

     

    I am hoping that connecting through HANA solves this.

     

    -Jeff

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      smith21r
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      9 years ago

      Jeff, when you get a chance to try the HANA connector, let us know if it performs better.

       

      Thanks!

       

      Ryan