I’m back! My pals here at EV Technologies have been kind enough to take the reigns over the past few steps to get to BI4. I have the honor of wrapping up our list and I’ll kick that off today with an effort to Know Your Universe. Know Your Universe For the first time in many […]
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10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Training Your Users for BI4
EV Technologies has experience helping organizations of all sizes and training budgets develop and execute training plans for business intelligence.
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 […]
Shared SAP EIM and SAP BusinessObjects Servers – Good, Bad, or Ugly?
Combining BI and EIM into a single landscape is not recommended.
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Defining Your Migration Path
Let’s Get Moving We’ve made it through the first 5 steps on the journey to BI4 and are now over halfway there. By this point, you hopefully have your new BI4 server in place and you’re ready to start moving content. Fortunately SAP has provided us with the handy Upgrade Management Tool (UMT) to facilitate […]
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Retiring Desktop Intelligence
Retiring Desktop Intelligence with the Report Conversion Tool.
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. […]