Day: January 27, 2018

ICYMI: Employers may have a difficult time figuring out which employees are entitled to take meal and rest breaks and what rules they have to follow when offering those breaks. Here’s what employment law attorneys told SHRM Online about federal and state break rules. https://goo.gl/Ea25qX #GlobalHR #HRTech

The Trump administration has indicated that it may eliminate the trainee and internship categories under the J-1 visa, or impose new requirements on employers using the program. While the eventual fate of the visa is currently in flux, this article outlines a few basic things about the program—and specifically the intern and trainee categories that thousands of U.S. employers use for international talent pipelining, training and onboarding—that employers should know. https://goo.gl/z1BR9P #GlobalHR #HRTech

Earlier this week I wrote SAP Inside Tracks by Country.  Little did I know it is far more interesting to look at it by city.  I also missed an Inside Track in my previous post: Berlin – apologies to Oliver Kohl – he also streamed Inside Track Berlin, parts of which I watched online live.

First, from the previous post, I used the “interoperability” from Discovery to Designer and learned this:

So I couldn’t execute locally in Designer, something I am so used to.

So I uploaded to the BI Platform

Because I wanted to see it on SAP BusinessObjects Mobile, I assign a mobile category on the BI Platform

Above shows how it looks like on the “Fiori-fied” BI Platform

Here is how Europe looked

On Mobile iOS:

I really like the crisp views of Lumira Designer 2.1 on the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile software; thanks to Vivek Das and team.

Inside Track by City – Lumira Desktop 1.31.9

Now I struggled to find Bogota, Colombia with Lumira but fortunately it suggested Bogota, DC

Above shows Lumira Inside Track by City (including Berlin) using 1.31.9

Lumira Discovery 2.1

What I liked about Lumira Discovery is the marker feature on the maps.  You can see that SAP Inside Tracks in Eastern Australia are covered well.

Customized Maps Lumira 2.1

A nice new feature is using customized baseline maps in Lumira Discovery 2.1

Setting:

Once you create a geographic hierarchy on cities Lumira also looks at regions/sub regions.  Above is using a Stamen baseline map.  You can see that New South Wales had 3 SAP Inside Tracks last year (in Sydney)

It’s a geography lesson for me, learning that Hannover is in Lower Saxony

Because Lumira couldn’t find Ballerup on the map, I changed it to the closest city, Copenhagen.

How does it compare to previous years?

See this video by year:

In 2016 Australia had 3, in 2017 they had 6

Here’s the raw data

Country
2015
2016
2017

Brazil
3
6
5

Australia
2
3
6

Germany
4
3
6

India
2
3
2

Mexico
1
2
1

Turkey

2
2

United States
2
2
2

Belgium

1
1

Canada

1
1

Jamaica
1
1

Japan
1
1
2

Netherlands
1
1
1

Peru

1

Poland
1
1
1

Switzerland

1
1

United Kingdom
1
1

Denmark

2

Argentina

1

Colombia

1

France

1

Spain

1

Italy
1

Malaysia
1

View by Country by year:

I don’t like this line graph; I find it hard to read

Reading Stephanie Evergreen’s visualization book, she is not a fan of area charts, but I think it depicts the data better than the line chart.

I resorted to Excel as I wanted to show the years on the X-axis:

You can see trends for Europe and APJ on the upswing.  North America in 2017 didn’t have as many SAP Inside Tracks in Mexico or the Caribbean.  I still maintain that North America will be lower due to the active 38 ASUG Chapters spanning the United States and Canada.

Raw data by region:

Region
2015
2016
2017

Europe
8
8
14

APJ
6
9
12

South America
3
7
7

North America
4
6
4

In working on this I reflected how in 2015 I helped John Astill with SAP Inside Track Washington DC, in 2016 I presented at SAP Inside Track Mississauga thanks to William Laverde and 2017 I presented virtually at SAP Inside Track Bangalore.

 

Reference

SAP Inside Track Wiki

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