Expert tips for moving your existing Xcelsius dashboards to the BI 4.0 or 4.1 platform.
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Transaction Logs on Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
Dallas Marks recently posted a great primer for customers tinkering with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 running on the default CMS and Audit database, SQL Anywhere (see related article, Getting Somewhere with Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1). He uncovered great information for getting acquainted with SQL Anywhere, querying it, scaling it for a multi-node cluster and more. […]
Getting Somewhere with Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
Some pointers for getting started with SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere.
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2014
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 is dead! Long live SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1!
VIDEO: How to Custom Group Objects in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2
I still remember the first time I found out I couldn’t group objects in Web Intelligence like I could with Desktop Intelligence (Deski). I was in a training session and another student asked the instructor where on the toolbar was the button to group dimensions. It was just assumed the functionality would be there. When […]
BOBJ for BW: [Video] Connect SAP Lumira to your BW Data
As of SAP Lumira SP12, users now have the added ability to connect their SAP Netweaver BW data to Lumira. However, a quick glance at the available connections for SAP Lumira and you will not find a connection called “Business Warehouse”. One way around that would be to get your BW data onto HANA. If […]
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Support Pack 2
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Support Pack 2 is now available in the SAP Service Marketplace.
SAP Lumira Eats SAP BusinessObjects Logs for Lunch
A few weeks back, it occurred to me that one of the common debugging tools used for mass log munging here was Splunk, but I had something new in my bag of tricks…SAP Lumira. Why? If you’ve ever spent time analyzing SAP BusinessObjects server trace logs, you know this is not necessarily a “fun” activity. […]
Video: Create Drill-Down Mobile SAP Dashboards
As of SAP Dashboards 4.1 SP1, developers have the added ability connect to data from a QaaWS connection for Mobile Dashboards. Previously, only the internal query browser within Dashboards was Mobile compatible. Now you can pull in BI Services published from Web Intelligence into Mobile Dashboards. This added functionality brings a new level to Mobile […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool We continue our series on BOBJ for BW with our second method to creating an OLAP BICS connection. This method utilizes the Information Design Tool (IDT). The IDT comes as part of the standard installation of the BI4.x client tools. Previously, we covered the OLAP […]