I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of projects with a significant number of customers that have really really large systems. At the same time, I’ve been just as lucky to be a part of projects with small systems. There is a consistent theme in either, though. Someone has to cough up the cash […]
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10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Get The Business Buy-In
Get your business users to buy in to your upgrade strategy.
Enterprise Software – Easy to Download and Install
A few weeks ago, I began digital journaling about some of the things that frustrate me about Enterprise Software. After venting a bit, I got down to the fact that Enterprise Software vendors are facing an impending dilemma. As corporate decision makers begin to ascend from those who have lived their lives with computers in […]
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Get All Key Players to Table
Begin your SAP BI4 upgrade project by getting ALL IT stakeholders to the table.
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Introduction
The SAP BI4 upgrade is going to take partnership and collaboration between the business and IT.
Semantically Speaking
My friend and fellow SAP Mentor, Ethan Jewett, and I, have had a series of good conversations. We kicked things off with my original post on the rift between BW-types and BOBJ-types. It caught attention and we had some great community discussion. In the spirit of our conversation, Ethan followed that up with his thoughts […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2013
Welcome to 2013! It’s a new year. Time for new IT budgets and project plans. Many organizations are planning their SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 upgrades (BI4). But which patch version of BI4 to use- Support Pack 4 (SP4) or Support Pack 5 (SP5)? Earlier this month, I tweeted the following: As it turns out, […]
How to Disable the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer iOS Password
Each time a user launches SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iOS, they are prompted for an application password, as shown in this screen shot from Explorer for iOS 4.1.5 running on an iPhone 5. Although a BI 4.0 administrator can disable the password requirement for SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI for iOS from the business intelligence platform, […]
SAP Updates Minimum Hardware Requirements for BI4
SAP has quietly updated the minimum hardware requirements for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 as part of the release of Support Pack 5 (SP5). Here are the minimum hardware requirements from the Support Pack 4 Product Availability Matrix (PAM): And here are the minimum hardware requirements from the Support Pack 5 Product Availability Matrix (PAM): […]
Web Intelligence Default Paper Size
Like the definition of “football” and the use of the metric system, Americans also differ from most of the world on the definition of a standard paper size. Most of the world uses a standard paper size called A4 for letters, which is why SAP has chosen that paper size as its default for SAP […]