At SAP’s recent field sales kickoff meeting (FKOM), EV Technologies was recognized as SAP Analytics Outstanding Partner of the Year for 2015. During the award presentation, I didn’t get cut off (thanks Kanye!) and I didn’t swear (apologies to any Adele fans). But my mind did a flashback to seven years ago when I started EV […]
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Business Intelligence Year One
In January of 2015 I began my Business Intelligence (BI) journey as an intern for EV Technologies. At that time I was attending Grand Valley State University (GVSU) pursuing a BBA in MIS and Marketing. Prior to my internship, I had been introduced to a few BI tools and continued to learn during my year […]
Predicting Peyton Manning Part 2: Super Bowl 50 Edition
A couple of weeks back we took a look at predicting Peyton Manning’s 2015 season using SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0. It wasn’t a good time for Peyton Manning. He had just gotten pulled out of the worst statistical game of his career with a QB passer rating of 0 (which we accurately predicted would be […]
Retrieving Accidentally Deleted Objects in SAP BI 4.2 Using the Recycle Bin
SAP has implemented a new Application in the Central Management Console (CMC) called the Recycle Bin Application. The purpose of the Recycle bin is as expected. It allows an administrator to recovery deleted documents as needed. SAP has a detailed Note by Onkar Velhal on how to use the new recycle bin feature: https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-70107 This […]
A Prediction about Predictive Analytics for 2016
Since the start of the new year all I’ve heard are predictions. It may have something to do with it being an election year in the US, as well as an Olympic year. Elections and Gold Medals aside, if you’re reading this blog post, the most important thing about this year for you may indeed […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2016
It’s a brand new year and time for annual planning of your SAP BI landscape. With the recent end of mainstream support of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 on December 31, 2015, and Microsoft dropping support for all but it’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 11, all roads lead to SAP BusinessObjects Business […]
Monitoring Windows FreeSpace with Slackbot: The Code
In part one of Monitoring Windows Freespace with Slackbot, we got everything set up to use a Slackbot url for posting messages to your Slack team. Now, we are going to take that url and use it in a batch file to send notifications about freespace on your servers hard disks. The end result will […]
Monitoring Windows Freespace with Slackbot: Getting Started
We have been using Slack at EVT for several months now. It has become an integral part of our internal communication. But Slack is not only good at helping you chat with the rest of your team, it also integrates with many of your favorite web services, such as google hangouts. Another thing Slack does […]
Troubleshooting 101: When BI Installs Go Bad
So last month I ran into a case of a botched BI installation. It happens. The admin followed SAP’s best practices, but the Server Intelligence Agent (SIA) just wouldn’t get added into the Central Configuration Manager (CCM). He had tried to uninstall/reinstall, but still encountered the same issue on each attempt. And unfortunately he had uninstalled and didn’t have a good error or […]
Auditor and the Case of the Rogue User
We had an “incident” on Tuesday where a user deleted an entire folder. It’s been a TOTAL nightmare but we are back up and running. Any hints on how I can interrogate the audit database to figure out who deleted the folder? This was the first request I saw this morning. It’s a scenario I’ve encountered several times, […]
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