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, […]
Tag: Auditor
No Excuses. Turn on Auditor.
Looking across the playing field today, many customers have already made the transition to SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x. Many more have begun to evaluate the process to upgrade from prior versions of SAP BusinessObjects due to the end of life of the XI 3.1 code base happening in less than…GASP…90 days. As we work with customers […]
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. […]
Getting Somewhere with Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
Some pointers for getting started with SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere.
Auditing SAP Dashboards in BI4
If you have been following me in the community enough you know I’m a system statistics nerd. I love Auditor. I wrote Sherlock with my buddies because I love system statistics. And, with the release of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 (BI4), we have new stuff to audit!
Working with a customer rolling out SAP BusinessObjects for the first time, we (shockingly) were experiencing performance nightmares with SAP Dashboards. You don’t want dashboards that load in more than a handful of seconds. Many of you may scoff that this is impossible, but I’ll argue any day that a dashboard shouldn’t take 30 seconds to load. Yet, this is not the purpose of this post. Let’s talk about auditing dashboards.