UMT Revisited: 2015 is the Year for BI 4.1 Migrations

For those who may be unaware, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 are going out of patch support as of 12/31/2015. This means that 2015 needs to be the year for that migration you’ve been putting off (see related article, State of the SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade, December 2014). Before reading, you may […]

Clear the Decks

If you were a fly on the wall in my house this time of year, you’d hear my wife say “Time to clear the decks!”. Every time. It is sort of a tradition. We both have home office space, and both of them get cluttered and piled up with stuff over the course of the […]

SAP HANA Viewed with OLAP inside of BI Launchpad

Inside of the SAP BI 4.x Platform there is now the ability to view analytic and calculated views from SAP HANA directly with OLAP connection.  In turn, these OLAP connections can be consumed with Analysis inside of the BI launch pad.  These are not your parents OLAP Connections.  They are not just reserved for BW […]

Budgeting for an SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade

Upgrading any enterprise software application that is used heavily in an organization can be a frightening undertaking. Not only do you have to acquire all of the hardware, licenses, time, and people to make the upgrade happen, you also have to ensure that nothing breaks in the process. When it comes to upgrading SAP BusinessObjects […]