You Want to Do What? As everyone in the BI field knows, managing end user expectations or requirements can be a challenge.Ok challenge may not be the right word, sometimes is a downright battle between awesome yet unrealistic expectations for a particular tool or timeline and well reality. As a good partner internal or external, […]
Author: EV Technologies
Show This Dimension, Well Sometimes
Object Level Security Based on User Recently I had an interesting request come up and I thought I would share the solution with my fellow universe development nerds. Hope you enjoy and questions\comments are always welcome! Just like in the Universe Designer, Information Design Tool (IDT) in BI4 gives you options to create security profiles […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2015
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 Support Pack 6 is now available.
Frucor benefits from EV Technologies’ SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 Migration Framework
Frucor New Zealand has recently completed a successful migration from SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 to the SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 platform.
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, May 2015 (SAPPHIRE Edition)
Analytics news from 2015 SAPPHIRENOW and ASUG Annual Conference.
Are you ready for Java 9?
With any luck, we won’t have to care about Java 9 by the time it arrives next year.
UMT Revisited: 2015 is the Year for BI 4.1 Migrations
For those who may be unaware, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 are going out of patch support as of 12/31/2015. This means that 2015 needs to be the year for that migration you’ve been putting off (see related article, State of the SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade, December 2014). Before reading, you may […]
Getting Started in Analytics – Data Security
When I kicked off the topic of getting started in analytics, I should have foreseen this collision of “hey we really want cool data visualization” and “OH MY GOSH THAT DATA IS REALLY SENSITIVE”. It’s also very timely that a new player in the HIPAA/Tech blog arena wrote about encryption in four succinct scenarios. In his […]
SAP Lumira Extension – Population Pyramid
I will be perfectly honest when I say I was not the biggest fan of SAP Lumira (previously Visual Intelligence) when it was first released. I found it to be an imitation of a rather good product already available in the market and several cycles behind in terms of functionality. Still within the last 18 […]
Clear the Decks
If you were a fly on the wall in my house this time of year, you’d hear my wife say “Time to clear the decks!”. Every time. It is sort of a tradition. We both have home office space, and both of them get cluttered and piled up with stuff over the course of the […]