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 […]

Transaction Logs on Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

Dallas Marks recently posted a great primer for customers tinkering with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 running on the default CMS and Audit database, SQL Anywhere (see related article, Getting Somewhere with Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1). He uncovered great information for getting acquainted with SQL Anywhere, querying it, scaling it for a multi-node cluster and more. […]

SAP Lumira Eats SAP BusinessObjects Logs for Lunch

A few weeks back, it occurred to me that one of the common debugging tools used for mass log munging here was Splunk, but I had something new in my bag of tricks…SAP Lumira.  Why?  If you’ve ever spent time analyzing SAP BusinessObjects server trace logs, you know this is not necessarily a “fun” activity. […]