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
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.
Is Xcelsius The New Deski? Die Xcelsius Die!
Xcelsius is the new Desktop Intelligence
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.
Simplify Contexts Inside of SAP BusinessObjects Universes with the IDT
Contexts are sometimes viewed as a necessary evil in the SAP BusinessObjects universe. If you are unfamiliar with a context, it is a universe feature identifying a specific path for a query when certain objects are used in a SQL SELECT statement. There may be multiple paths to get to a measure and depending on […]
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 […]
Web Intelligence Hack: Updating the color palette for a single report
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 allows you to define a custom corporate color palette for use with Web Intelligence charts. To begin, modify …\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\images\VisualizationConfig.template.xml then save it as VisualizationConfig.xml in the images folder and restart the web application server (Apache Tomcat, et. al.) so the changes take effect. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <CONFIG> <!– Rename this […]