SAP Business Intelligence · Luxembourg
BI platforms that hold up under audit.
ALM-Consulting designs, migrates and secures SAP Business Intelligence platforms for banks, insurers, public institutions and industry — built on more than ten years inside mission-critical environments.
The position
Most BI problems are not reporting problems. They are architecture, security and governance problems that only surface when the platform is upgraded, audited, or asked to survive a failover.
ALM-Consulting is an independent consultancy run by Alexandre Magadoux, BI Team Leader and Lead Architect. The work is the unglamorous part of business intelligence: the version matrix, the security matrix, the ETL flow that has to finish before the accounting cut-off, the SSO configuration that has to satisfy an auditor. Ten years of it, in banks, insurers, public administrations and industrial groups — including four years leading BI delivery inside a large European financial institution.
Services
Six ways I get called in.
Short audits, project leadership, or long-run platform ownership — scoped as a fixed engagement or as ongoing support.
BI platform architecture & migration
Design and upgrade of multi-environment SAP BusinessObjects landscapes — version alignment across DEV, QA and PROD, migration planning, and cutover without an unplanned outage.
→Security, governance & compliance
Definition and enforcement of the BI security matrix, SAML 2.0 single sign-on, privileged access control, and the evidence trail an internal or external audit will ask for.
→Data integration & modelling
Design, optimisation and rescue of ETL flows — SAP Data Services and Oracle Data Integrator jobs, BW/4HANA flows, HANA calculation views, and custom scripting where the tool stops.
→Reporting & analytics delivery
Universes, Web Intelligence reports and dashboards that people actually use — plus SAP Analytics Cloud setup, Live Data connections, import scenarios, and Power BI where it fits better.
→Platform audit & performance
An independent read on an existing platform: architecture, sizing, performance bottlenecks, security gaps and operational risk — delivered as a prioritised, costed remediation plan.
→Support, training & enablement
Run-phase support with proper ticket discipline, plus hands-on training so your team keeps the platform after I leave — Web Intelligence levels 1 and 2, Information Design Tool, administration.
→Coverage
The whole stack, not just the dashboard.
A BI platform fails at its seams. These are the six layers I work across — and the technologies I work in at each one.
Layers highlight as you scroll. Everything listed is hands-on, production experience.
Who you work with
Alexandre Magadoux
Founder · BI Team Leader & Lead Architect
I spent the last decade building and securing SAP Business Intelligence platforms — first as a consultant across French and Luxembourg clients, then for four years as BI team leader and lead architect inside a large European financial institution, where I ran platform upgrades, the security matrix, SAP Analytics Cloud rollout and the audit of the whole SAP BI estate.
ALM-Consulting is the independent continuation of that work. You get the person who does the work, not a pyramid — which means direct answers, written decisions, and no handover to a junior after the sales meeting.
Insights
Notes from inside the platform.
Short, practical write-ups on SAP BI architecture, security and migration — written from delivery, not from a brochure.
What a BI platform audit actually looks for
An audit is not a tool scan. It is six questions about architecture, access and recovery — and most platforms fail on the same three.
Single sign-on for SAP Analytics Cloud: what breaks and why
SAML on SAC is straightforward until it isn't. The failures cluster around four things, and all of them are avoidable at design time.
Migrating a BI platform without losing a weekend
Upgrades go wrong in the preparation, not the cutover. Here is the sequence that keeps the go-live boring.
Bring me the platform nobody wants to touch.
A first call costs nothing and usually tells you within thirty minutes whether the problem is architecture, licensing, or process.