Object Level Security Based on User Recently I had an interesting request come up and I thought I would share the solution with my fellow universe development nerds. Hope you enjoy and questions\comments are always welcome! Just like in the Universe Designer, Information Design Tool (IDT) in BI4 gives you options to create security profiles […]
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State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, May 2015 (SAPPHIRE Edition)
Analytics news from 2015 SAPPHIRENOW and ASUG Annual Conference.
Are you ready for Java 9?
With any luck, we won’t have to care about Java 9 by the time it arrives next year.
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 […]
SAP BusinessObjects BI System Administration – 2nd Edition!
We are so pleased to announce the release of SAP BusinessObjects BI System Administration 2nd Edition! The book will be available starting October 29th, 2014 on SAP-PRESS in both hardcover and ebook versions. Eric Vallo and I spent our summer months sprucing up our original book to bring it up to date with BI4.1 and all of […]
Restricting access to Views in SAP HANA for SAP Lumira
I recently got asked this by a customer of ours and it sparked the idea to put it into a blog post for those who are looking for a similar solution The blog posts and guides that I found when researching this would grant SAP Lumira access to all the views on your HANA server […]
#askSAP BI Strategy & Roadmap Announcement – Times They are a Changin’
Earlier today, SAP made a public statement of direction for the Analytics portfolio. To some, this news might seem Earth-shattering. To others who have been following the industry for a while, today’s announcement should come as no surprise. It wasn’t lost on me that SAP chose today, September 9th, 2014 to make this announcement, when […]
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 […]