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. […]
Tag: BI4
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2014
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 is dead! Long live SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1!
VIDEO: How to Custom Group Objects in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2
I still remember the first time I found out I couldn’t group objects in Web Intelligence like I could with Desktop Intelligence (Deski). I was in a training session and another student asked the instructor where on the toolbar was the button to group dimensions. It was just assumed the functionality would be there. When […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool We continue our series on BOBJ for BW with our second method to creating an OLAP BICS connection. This method utilizes the Information Design Tool (IDT). The IDT comes as part of the standard installation of the BI4.x client tools. Previously, we covered the OLAP […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the BusinessObjects Central Management Console (CMC) At evtechnologies.com, we are starting a new blog series on getting your SAP BusinessObjects and BW environments in sync and configured for optimal reporting and query design. Previously, with BusinessObjects XI 3.1, there were limited options to deliver BW data to BusinessObjects. […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, September 2013
Are you ready for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1?
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 now in General Availability (GA)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 (BI 4.1) is now Generally Available (GA).
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Support Pack 7
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Support Pack 7 is here.
Create Diagonal Lines with Sparkline Charts in SAP Dashboards
Glancing at the “Art and Backgrounds” category of components in Dashboards 4.0 or earlier versions of Xcelsius you may have noticed that there is a Rectangle, Ellipse, Horizontal, and Vertical Line components available to display on the canvas but no Diagonal Line. The first time I came across this omission was when a customer requested […]
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Testing
This has been a fun blog series, and one that I can gleefully say we actually followed through and finished. Let’s recap: 10. Get all the key IT players to the table 9. Get business buy-in 8. For SAP BW shops – Update SAP BW in a world before BW 7.01 SPS 08 7. Clean […]