There has been a lot said lately across industry research blogs, and the twitter-verse about the future shape and direction of BI Almost two years ago, now, I suggested at the Mastering SAP Business Analytics conference in Melbourne that fundamentally, the way we measure BI user adoption is not so simple as calling tool usage a good […]
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State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, April 2014
A look at the latest service packs for SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1, 4.0, and 4.1.
World Backup Day
Today is World Backup Day. No kidding.
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Support Pack 3
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 SP3 offers some compelling features beyond the usual bug fixes.
Enterprise BI is for Curmudgeons
This post is my final thought of my prior post on SAP Lumira from a few weeks back. I really hope you’ll find us talking about this over on dslayer.net soon. In my career I’ve been a Business Objects guy for going on 15 years and an IT guy for even longer. That gives me some longevity here in […]
Are you ready for Java 8?
Oracle Java 8 is coming soon to a browser near you.
Simplify Contexts Inside of SAP BusinessObjects Universes with the IDT
Contexts are sometimes viewed as a necessary evil in the SAP BusinessObjects universe. If you are unfamiliar with a context, it is a universe feature identifying a specific path for a query when certain objects are used in a SQL SELECT statement. There may be multiple paths to get to a measure and depending on […]
The SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe Connector
I feel like I rubbed a magic bottle and got my first wish. Yes, perhaps I aimed too low, but in February, I wrote about my desire to see the SAP BusinessObjects Universe exposed as a service. To my surprise, that announcement about the SAP BusinessObjects BI Universe Connector was apparently around the corner. I […]
Struggling to Manage SAP BI4 Version Management
SAP BI4 version management is one of those things that some of us have been dreaming about for a very long time. I remember many moons ago spending several hours a week cutting .biar files and checking them into a version management system for development teams. Clunky but effective. BI4 Version management has the promise […]
An SAP Lumira Server Wish List
Last week, I explained why I believed something so subtle as a release note on SAP Lumira Server connectivity within SAP Lumira v1.15 was a big deal. I also teased with a post on Enterprise BI Curmudgeons. That last part is going to have to wait because today, I want to talk about my wish list for SAP Lumira Server and anything set to follow.
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