One of the features that made me fall in love with Xcelsius (Dashboards) back in the day was the ability to easily show and hide components based on selections made in other components. Later on Xcelsius introduced the ‘Tabs’ component in 2008 and made life even easier for showing multiple components dynamically. However, I still […]
Tag: BI4.1
Complex Calculations Made Simpler with Web Intelligence
There are many hidden talents within Web Intelligence that can assist with massaging your data and bringing out relationships within your numbers without ever having to export your data outside to another tool, such as Microsoft Excel. One of those underutilized functions is PREVIOUS(). It simply returns the previous value of an object. While Web […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2014
No big keynote announcements at SAPPHIRE Now, but still some clear messages for SAP analytics customers.
The Day that Derby Died
Bye, bye Ms. American Pie… and all that jazz. Chalk one up in the win column! One of the smaller bullets in the “What’s New” document for SAP BI4.1 Support Pack 03’s release was the removal of the Apache Derby database usage by the Promotion Management app within the BI Platform. I railed about Derby […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, April 2014
A look at the latest service packs for SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1, 4.0, and 4.1.
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Support Pack 3
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 SP3 offers some compelling features beyond the usual bug fixes.
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 […]
Migrating Dashboards to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
Expert tips for moving your existing Xcelsius dashboards to the BI 4.0 or 4.1 platform.
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. […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2014
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 is dead! Long live SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1!