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VedaPointe Announces Seed Funding Round Q2 2022

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Eric

VedaPointe is about to turn three years old. We formed our company, assembled an amazing team, and quite unexpectedly went into stealth mode. Over the last two and a half years, we’ve put our vision of building an ecosystem of VedaPointe Store occupants into action, organizing ourselves around other startups with like-minded innovations that want […]

Time to Go to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3

Posted on August 31, 2021 by EV Technologies

I cannot believe I first wrote about BI4 in May of 2010. It was a mythical creature at the time…we were still calling it “XI4”. At the time, it was such a huge shift that it made customers re-evaluate the entirety of their investments in SAP BusinessObjects to date. It was the beginning of the […]

Better Late Than Never – Upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2

Posted on December 3, 2020 by EV Technologies

With all of the excitement surrounding SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3, it’s sometimes easy to forget that not every organization has the luxury of being the early adopter. For a variety of reasons, some organizations find themselves as late adopters to new releases of enterprise software. The reasons vary, from small, overworked IT teams to “if […]

State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, July 2020

Posted on July 8, 2020 by EV Technologies

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.3 SP0 went into General Availability on June 12, 2020. How should your organization respond? Read the latest in my State of the SAP BI4 Upgrade series on the SAP Community site.

SAP BusinessObjects in the Cloud

Posted on April 16, 2020 by EV Technologies

It’s time to start thinking about SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3. But it’s also time to consider cloud-based analytics. No doubt you’ve heard about SAP Analytics Cloud, a relatively new offering from SAP that can connect to cloud-based data sources as well as on-premise data sources via a connector to your SAP BusinessObjects platform. But did […]

Drawing Clouds

Posted on April 15, 2020 by EV Technologies

If you’re currently sheltering in-place at home with school-aged children, you’re probably spending your lunch hour making Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems. However, if you’re like us, you’ve been drawing clouds. No, not THOSE clouds. THESE clouds. Cloud based-architectures for analytics and web applications. We’re big fans of diagrams.net (formerly draw.io). And thankfully the three […]

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and Xcelsius End of Life Doesn’t Have to Mean End of World

Posted on January 14, 2020 by EV Technologies

Steve Jobs is often given credit for killing Adobe Flash when he penned his essay Thoughts on Flash in April 2010. At the time, Apple received heavy criticism for not allowing Adobe Flash on its new iPhone. After a lot of effort to make Adobe Flash viable, seven years later Adobe would come to the […]

Google in Healthcare? Apparently So.

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Glen Schuster

I need Google Search for my closet. In some areas, I am well-organized, but then there’s my closet. I can never seem to find that one piece of clothing I want. You know, the comfortable long-sleeved shirt, the old pants I use for working outside, or the one dress shirt that looks great with my new sport coat…. I need help. Speaking of Google, […]

Oracle Products Running Out of Support in 2020

Posted on November 5, 2019 by EV Technologies

SAP BusinessObjects customers using the Oracle database should plan on an upgrade in 2020.

Tomcat 404 Error While Listening on Port 80

Posted on June 13, 2019 by EV Technologies

Windows Updates have their upsides. They keep us safe from bad stuff on our servers. Conversely, automated Windows Updates that go untested can surprise us with unexpected outages. Such is the case today when Tomcat running in an SAP BusinessObjects cluster started throwing a 404 error that oddly…didn’t actually look like a normal Tomcat error […]