Shreekant Shiralkar

• Bachelor of Engineering
• Visiting Professor at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology

Delight to discover book being referenced in research.

We began by acquainting the participants with our teaching approach, touching briefly on the theory behind the experiential learning cycle to highlight the power of REFLECTION and the superior retention rates associated with ACTIVE LEARNING, as opposed to passive methods. This set the stage for a comprehensive agenda that wrapped up our initial dis...

Delighted to discover book being regularly referenced across the world, through research, presentations, conferences white papers, articles.

One more citation for the book on experiential learning and games (DOI 10.2991/978-94-6463-236-1_7)

Forbes Coaches Council published a post that reinforces message on the relevance of Experiential Learning & it's application.

A session with Academia was the most engaging interaction on "POST-COVID challenges & opportunities". Shared observations on impact to facilitate, ideas & deliberations on opportunities.

Innovations and evolving business models are part of a rapid change that is forcing Industry and Academia professionals to learn, deploy, and adopt new ways and maintain their competitive advantage. Here’s an opportunity to attend uniquely designed programme that sensitizes participants towards game-based-approach for rapid paced transformation. T...

ABC Inc. is a large, complex, and global organization and so far has managed to ensure that all of its IT assets are securely protected under multiple layers. With the rapid rise of internet technologies and its acceptance as one of the pillars of modern infrastructure, cybersecurity incidents have witnessed an exponential growth. Security concerns...

With a view to being competitive, ABC Inc. is keen to identify new revenue streams while consolidating its existing revenue base by identifying upselling and cross-selling opportunities of their existing portfolio of products and services. Predictive Analytics has been identified to support this endeavor; however, their best efforts and attempts to...

The Analytics solutions at ABC Inc. are not in the same league with Analytical Solutions used by the competition of ABC Inc.: for example, the Use of a Mobile device, Use of Machine Learning, or Predictive algorithms in Analytical applications. Further, the solutions are not even meeting operational expectations, let alone enabling a competitive ed...

As a global organization, ABC Inc. has multiple teams working on diverse datasets with specific requirements. Each of these team have, in collaboration with IT teams, built customized versions of analytical applications that are neither standardly offered from the product nor qualified as a standard across ABC Inc. While grappling with the lack of...

In Chapter 2 and specifically in item 5 of the section titled “Customer’s Current Landscape and Pain Points,” we discussed how legacy applications hosted on archaic and outdated infrastructure needed perpetual maintenance, causing lack of availability on a regular basis. ABC Inc.’s legacy analytics systems are primarily batch driven and do not prov...

The pace of innovation and evolution of technology compounded with a dynamic business environment make it absolutely essential for every organization to understand and manage IT and associated risks that are incident upon and their implications for business. With an ever-growing adoption and application of technology across enterprise functions, th...

Rapid business growth of ABC Inc. coupled with them aggressively acquiring companies and lines of businesses across the globe has resulted in a huge diversity of information and systems. The problem is this data is spread across a variety of different systems and software: data stored in various ERP systems, CRMs, databases, and Excel spreadsheets....

Running a successful enterprise depends on the ability to gain insight into enterprise data and to extract and present information in a meaningful way. A company’s employees need to be able to transform data into actionable insight no matter where they are located in the enterprise.

Being a large global enterprise, ABC Inc. has multiple business functions cutting across Lines of Business. Each of these business functions works independently with their own set of tools. This has resulted in multiple tools being used across locations and business functions for the same or similar decision-making processes. Multiplicity of System...

ABC Inc. is a multinational company with interests in multiple industries ranging from retail to real estate and manufacturing. Figure 2-1 represents ABC Inc. in a graphical map. In the recent past, it has acquired companies to consolidate its position in their focus industry sectors and countries of interest. ABC Inc. aspires to grow, remain compe...

Discover the capabilities and features of SAP Analytics Cloud to draw actionable insights from a variety of data, as well as the functionality that enables you to meet typical business challenges. With this book, you will work with SAC and enable key decision makers within your enterprise to deliver crucial business decisions driven by data and key...

Discover the capabilities and features of SAP Analytics Cloud to draw actionable insights from a variety of data, as well as the functionality that enables you to meet typical business challenges. With this book, you will work with SAC and enable key decision makers within your enterprise to deliver crucial business decisions driven by data and key...

Supreme Education boss stresses importance of experiential learning

In a short program, participants were introduced to the concept and got initiated as probationer for designing games. Participants were then enabled with facilitation skills for successful execution of the approach. By mid-course, participants had become proficient to facilitate learning from games for their situations and contexts. Second half of...

This concise book shows you how experiential learning can be used to overcome the challenges posed in applying and delivering information technology (IT) to your business needs through an innovative, game-based approach. Technology innovations and evolving business models are part of a rapid change that is forcing corporate and management professi...

A leading newspaper published an article that echoes the relevance of the Game based approach applied for rapid skill building on new technology and change.

A research paper on Game-based Learning Market by Ambient Insights points to the relevance of the Game based approach applied for learning . [https://goo.gl/9F8uGz ]

Learn the basics of embedded SAP BW and its technical details. Get an overview of the different architectural scenarios that leverage embedded SAP BW specifically from an SAP S/4HANA context, including those recommended by SAP. In addition, review the pros and cons of embedded SAP BW, which facilitates choosing the appropriate deployment option.

Workshop on "Software Project Management" was held on 3rd and 4th July, 2017 on VIT Campus. The event will be jointly organized by VIT, University of Mumbai and TCS. Certificate will be offered to participants at the end of completion of the Workshop.

Learn about two new data access options, SAP HANA Direct Access and SAP HANA Online, introduced with SAP BusinessObjects 4.2 for SAP HANA. Learn a step-by-step procedure for creating connections between Web Intelligence with SAP HANA views using these new options. [http://sapexperts.wispubs.com/BI/Articles/How-to-Connect-SAP-BusinessObjects-4-2-Web...

Journey of an idea into book

Collaboration is key to accomplishing a collective outcome; for instance, an IT program has many team members, and a team leader needs to foster collaboration and deliver the collective outcome. Teams are formed on the basis of individual skills needed for accomplishing the outcome and not necessarily on the basis of team members’ ability to work i...

We began the book by learning about the concept of experiential learning (EL) and its effectiveness over conventional methods in the first chapter. We then leveraged EL through the game-based approach to learn, adopt, deploy, and deliver scenarios in IT. In this concluding chapter, I intend to motivate you to apply your learning so far, and I begin...

This concise book shows readers how experiential learning can be used to overcome the challenges posed in applying and delivering information technology (IT) to their business needs through innovative, game-based approach. e-Book is available on Kindle & GooglePlayStore... http://tinyurl.com/IT-Thru-EL-1 & http://tinyurl.com/http-tinyurl-com-IT...

You know your BW basics, but have you mastered Integrated Planning? In this e-book from the leading SAP publisher, learn how to create real-time InfoCubes, define characteristic relationships, set data slices and aggregation levels, and more. Then, with all your planning filters, functions, and sequences ready to go, put the pieces together to desi...

Business environments are rapidly changing, and information technology (IT) is at the core of such a change. Innovations in technology, along with completely new business models, are part of the rapid change that is forcing corporate and management professionals to learn, deploy, and adopt IT for survival and competitive advantage. IT is no longer...

Optimal SAP Business Warehouse reporting performance requires regular monitoring and identification of a potential performance issues. In this book, you will learn the most important processes and tools that help identify bottlenecks and solutions to solve them. Dive into the fundamental aspects of data modeling to efficient ETL (Extract, Transform...

Don't just read about SAP BW; get your hands dirty with this updated, must-have guide. Tackle all of the common tasks you'll encounter when working with SAP BW, from creating objects, to extracting and transforming data, to mastering the BEx tools. Keep your skills sharp with information new to this edition, including updates for SAP BW 7.4 and BW...

Demand planning (DP) is an important process for supply chain management (SCM) across businesses and has a significant impact on the overall efficiency of business operations. In this book, you will learn how to apply key demand planning concepts to SAP APO DP and familiarize yourself with important considerations like statistical forecasting. Usin...

Demand planning (DP) is an important process for supply chain management (SCM) across businesses and has a significant impact on the overall efficiency of business operations. With this book you will learn how to use the SAP ERP system for production planning and supply chain execution activities and how to use the Advanced Planner and Optimizer...

An asset management system (AMS) facilitates management of electronic assets of a software service delivery organization. The AMS may facilitate classification of the electronic assets according to delivery phases in which each electronic asset is usable and accordingly enables users to identify and download the suitable assets usable in a desired...

The Predictive Analysis Library (aka PAL) is a set of predictive algorithmic functions embedded in SAP HANA. Each of the algorithms is written in native C++ and is capable of execution at the database layer (i.e., in-memory computing). Execution at the database layer enables computing of an extremely large set of data with millions of rows in a few...

A method for assessing performance of a decision support system is disclosed. In an implementation, the computer implemented method includes obtaining relevant application data from among application data associated with a business intelligence application operating on the decision support system. Further, a plurality of performance parameters and...

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 supports two types of universes, unx and unv. The unx universes, introduced in the 4.0 version, can be used to connect to a multitude of visualization tools such as BusinessObjects Explorer and Crystal Reports Enterprise. On the other hand, the unv universes do not support connectivity to these tools and therefore it is a...

Extracting unstructured text data from social media and using it to analyze customer sentiments, market trends, and the public’s perception of products, services, or advertisements has become essential to staying relevant and competitive. The retail, insurance, consumer products, and goods industries are improving their competitive edge by inclusiv...

They say that the best way to learn is by doing. With this practical guide to SAP NetWeaver BW, put that theory to the test. Start with conceptual explanations and then dive straight into real-world application—all with the help of a case study that teaches you how to meet common business intelligence requirements. Whether you want to create object...

This book revolves around the well-defined standard measures prescribed in the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model and procedure to capitalize the standard Business Content from SAP NetWeaver BW (SAP BW) for a rapid implementation. Salient features • Easy reference for rapid realization of Supply Chain Analytics. • Explanation on supply...

Re-initializing the delta queue is a time-consuming, resource-intensive activity, but it is necessary to maintain the data integrity and accuracy of information. Follow step-by-step instructions for an alternative process that avoids the re-initialization, yet maintains the data integrity and accuracy of information.

An investment proposal, such as a new technology initiative or research project, is received and evaluated by generation of a score value. The score is generated based on selected parameter values and scoring rules. The parameters are grouped into categories, and category wide scoring rules are applied to scores for each parameter in the category t...

A computer optimizes application portfolios by maintaining a mapping data specifying mappings between software components (that may form part of any application portfolio) and a corresponding one of a set of equivalent (in terms of business functions, usability, cost effectiveness, etc.) optimal components. When an application portfolio is sought t...

This book provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0, utilizing a real-world, scenario-based approach to detail the core, fundamental components and features. You'll learn about the primary features and functions of SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0, including architecture, data modeling, data extraction, data staging, and more...

Discover how you can streamline planning in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization by using a Business Add-In that minimizes the amount of Characteristic Value Combinations uploaded into Demand Planning.

SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 contains a modified data staging and distribution process, called the Data Transfer Process, as a part of the extraction, transformation, and loading process. This element provides an efficient mechanism for error handling because it splits the staging, distribution, and loading process. In addition, a request-based database ta...

In this book the authors have listed performance tuning parameters right through the data model, including extraction of data, data loading, fine tuning of the database, concluding with proactive operational maintenance mode (e.g. review aggregates, build new ones, delete unused ones, find problem queries) as an ongoing cycle. Also covered in this...

Extracting data from an SAP source system into SAP BW consists of triggering an InfoPackage from BW. In the background, this process involves a sequence of IDoc exchanges between BW and the source system. Clearly understanding the process behind this IDoc exchange can help you in many scenarios, the most important being recovering a failed data upl...

The data back-up component of Advanced Planning and Optimization 4.1 supports a full extraction of data from the planning area, which is taxing on your storage space. See a step-by-step procedure to develop a delta-capable DataSource from the planning area. It allows you to extract only new or changed data, which takes up less storage space.

Using these step-by-step instructions, you can customize a user exit macro to perform tasks not offered by standard functionality, such as calculating deviations from actual sales.

Upgrading plug-ins is a necessary part of maintaining BW. Discover how to make the process as painless as possible with these expert suggestions.

Learn how implementing Business Add-In (BAdI) /SAPAPO/SDP_FCST4 enables you to store the results of each forecast run in the system along with the forecasting errors. Analysis of these errors helps you to improve the forecast results and thereby improve the forecast accuracy.

SAP APO 4.1 provides a collaborative planning platform for Demand Planning (DP) that helps you to capture demand directly from customers or from your field sales force over the Internet. Learn tips from a recent implementation, and take advantage of improvements in key performance measures like forecast accuracy.

Most DataSources within an SAP system are delta capable. However, the delta capability is not available when you connect to external databases using DB connect. By following this process, you will be able to connect your BW system to an external database and make the DataSource delta capable.

Introducing RFID to a shop floor, warehouse, or retail environment requires that the SAP professional learn about new kinds of hardware and standards. Discover the differences among the different RFID tags and readers, and see how you might integrate them into an SAP landscape.

F4 search is a popular tool to find characteristics for filtering. It generates a list of values that can be used for limiting query results so that users can find just what they're looking for. While popular, F4 can add to your system overhead and cause end-user dissatisfaction if proper maintenance is not observed.

A better understanding of the role the "ROCANCEL" field plays in R/3 and the corresponding "0RECORDMODE" InfoObject in BW allows you to design better delta load solutions. The authors introduce "ROCANCEL" and "0RECORDMODE" and describe a custom extractor they created for processing these values.