The SAP BI product portfolio is big. We encounter reporting tools, dashboarding tools, and data discovery tools. Some support mechanization while some support on demand analysis of data. Given the sheer multitude of these tools and the complacency of developers in either a) being bound to the tools in the portfolio they are licensed for […]
Category: EV Technologies Archive
SAP Lumira 1.17 Now Available with Direct Access to BEx Queries
I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I clicked on SAP Lumira and saw the following message pop up; SAP Lumira 1.17 is now generally available for download directly from the tool without even having to go to the SAP Marketplace (this feature has been available for some time, Kudos to SAP!). I have been eagerly […]
Complex Calculations Made Simpler with Web Intelligence
There are many hidden talents within Web Intelligence that can assist with massaging your data and bringing out relationships within your numbers without ever having to export your data outside to another tool, such as Microsoft Excel. One of those underutilized functions is PREVIOUS(). It simply returns the previous value of an object. While Web […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2014
No big keynote announcements at SAPPHIRE Now, but still some clear messages for SAP analytics customers.
Is Xcelsius The New Deski? Die Xcelsius Die!
Xcelsius is the new Desktop Intelligence
The Day that Derby Died
Bye, bye Ms. American Pie… and all that jazz. Chalk one up in the win column! One of the smaller bullets in the “What’s New” document for SAP BI4.1 Support Pack 03’s release was the removal of the Apache Derby database usage by the Promotion Management app within the BI Platform. I railed about Derby […]
Analyze and Visualize Data with the Information Design Tool
Often I am asked by BusinessObjects customers whether it is worth the time to upgrade a universe from the traditional (UNV) Universe to the newer (UNX) universe. Since BI4 supports both the new and legacy universes, it does give you the option to stay with what you’ve known and with what you are most comfortable […]
Making Smarter BI User Adoption KPIs
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 […]
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.