State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2013

When I last wrote about the state of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 back in January (see related article), SAP analytics customers were trapped between the Scylla of Support Pack 4 with no mobile dashboard support and the Charybdis of critical missing patches in Support Pack 5. Today, the situation is markedly different.  On the […]

Sherlock® 2.4.0 – WebI for BI4, UNX, and Efficiency

With this release, we focus on Web Intelligence content from BI4, UNX, Performance, and Efficiency. For the past few weeks, the team at EVTechnologies has been working on several new features which we have just finished packaging into Sherlock® 2.4.0. The overall focus for these new features is to tell you more about your SAP […]

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Support Pack 6

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 […]

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 […]

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Log Analysis – Useful Commands

Making log analysis easier with Unix commands A couple of weeks ago, I presented a webinar on the topic of analyzing logs for SAP BusinessObjects BI4. The objective for that webinar was to share my opinion of the skills and framework required for being successful at troubleshooting the BI platform with the assistance of logs. […]