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 […]
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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, […]
Mining operations benefit from SAP BI 4.1 Migration Framework
Townsville, Australia – 11th December 2015 Glencore’s Copper Assets in North Queensland and Zinc Assets in Australia have recently completed a successful migration from SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 to the SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 platform. Mining operations who participated in the migration include Mount Isa Mines, George Fisher Mine, Ernest Henry Mining, Lady Loretta, Townsville Copper […]
Predicting Peyton Manning’s 2015 season with SAP Predictive Analytics 2.0
Peyton Manning is an amazing commercial actor, but did you know that he also moonlights as quarterback on the weekends? All kidding aside, Peyton Manning will go down as a Top 5 quarterback in NFL history. In November 2015 he broke the all-time passing yards record held by Brett Favre. It was also during that […]
Three Reasons to Start Thinking About SAP Analytics in the Cloud
Technology is ever evolving. Think about what your business was running on in the first decade of the 2000s. Since then you have probably gone through iterations of upgrades to hardware, software, data centers, PCs, laptops and smartphones. These types of upgrades and projects can have a significant impact on your business and, specifically, your IT […]