When contemplating data and analytics technologies – particularly highly technical systems like SAP – most people think in terms of supply chain management, sales, accounting, data governance and other enterprise business processes. Useful, valuable applications that, truthfully, may not be very exciting to the average individual. But more often than you might think, we get […]
Tag: Business Analytics
Retrieving Accidentally Deleted Objects in SAP BI 4.2 Using the Recycle Bin
SAP has implemented a new Application in the Central Management Console (CMC) called the Recycle Bin Application. The purpose of the Recycle bin is as expected. It allows an administrator to recovery deleted documents as needed. SAP has a detailed Note by Onkar Velhal on how to use the new recycle bin feature: https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-70107 This […]
End of Support does not equal End of the World
Welcome to 4th Quarter, 2015! Now that we’re closing out the last three months of the year, it’s time to get serious about the End of Support for SAP BusinessObjects XI3.1 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0. Hopefully this isn’t news to you at this point in the year. If it is news, Don’t Panic! […]
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 […]
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 […]
#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 […]
Dynamic Visibility with SAP Design Studio
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 […]
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 […]
Analyze and Visualize Data with the Information Design Tool
Often I am asked by BusinessObjects customers whether it is worth the time to upgrade a universe from the traditional (UNV) Universe to the newer (UNX) universe. Since BI4 supports both the new and legacy universes, it does give you the option to stay with what you’ve known and with what you are most comfortable […]