You Can’t Put Your BI in the Freezer to Save it

This is a bit of a primer for a totally relevant post, so stick with me. This morning, I awoke to an email from a colleague that a few of our internal apps were down.  On first inspection, it appeared a drive in the server become unavailable.  On deeper inspection…the drive was dead.  Where was […]

State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2013

When I last wrote about the state of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 back in January (see related article), SAP analytics customers were trapped between the Scylla of Support Pack 4 with no mobile dashboard support and the Charybdis of critical missing patches in Support Pack 5. Today, the situation is markedly different.  On the […]

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Support Pack 6

Today, April 30, 2013, SAP released SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 Support Pack 6 (SP6) to the SAP Service Marketplace.  Support Pack 6 is not a groundbreaking release, but brings a long list of fixes and some additional platform support. Back in January when we reviewed the current state of the BI 4.0 upgrade (see […]

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Log Analysis – Useful Commands

Making log analysis easier with Unix commands A couple of weeks ago, I presented a webinar on the topic of analyzing logs for SAP BusinessObjects BI4. The objective for that webinar was to share my opinion of the skills and framework required for being successful at troubleshooting the BI platform with the assistance of logs. […]