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 […]
Tag: BI4 SP5
The Mystery of the Missing Monitoring Metrics
On a melancholy Monday morning, I meandered onto my Monitoring application in SAP BI4. Much to my mortification, my monitoring metrics were missing! Mon Dieu! Alright, that’s about all of the alliteration I can stand for one blog post. But seriously, this happened, and I’m going to share with you how to fix it. I […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2013
Welcome to 2013! It’s a new year. Time for new IT budgets and project plans. Many organizations are planning their SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 upgrades (BI4). But which patch version of BI4 to use- Support Pack 4 (SP4) or Support Pack 5 (SP5)? Earlier this month, I tweeted the following: As it turns out, […]
SAP Updates Minimum Hardware Requirements for BI4
SAP has quietly updated the minimum hardware requirements for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 as part of the release of Support Pack 5 (SP5). Here are the minimum hardware requirements from the Support Pack 4 Product Availability Matrix (PAM): And here are the minimum hardware requirements from the Support Pack 5 Product Availability Matrix (PAM): […]