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 Intelligence
BI Zen Part #2
I know this blog is a long time coming. Part 1 was in March and the reason for the delay is I’ve had an internal conflict going on between saying what I think is happening with BICC vs what I want to see happen. Let’s see if I can explain. Recently Eric Vallo & […]
A dashboard is …
A dashboard is … A dashboard is well hard to define. When you hear the word dashboard what do you think of? Could it be something similar to the instrument panel in your car? Do you think of gauges and slides? Or maybe for you any report is a dashboard. So what is a […]
An Exploration of BOBJ On BW – Part 2: To BICS Or Not To BICS?
Welcome to the second blog in a series documenting what I learned while dealing with my evil twin, BW, and how we learned to get along. You can check out the first entry in the series here. When dealing with BOBJ on BW, you’ve probably asked yourself how you even connect the two. One way to […]
Advice for the BI ‘Noob’
You may be asking yourself: What is a universe? What is the difference between a measure and a dimension? How do I write a query in SQL? How do I create a report in Webi? How do I develop visualizations in Lumira? What have I gotten myself into? BREATHE!… In… and out… In, two, three, […]
Enhancing Universes With Super Charged Aggregate Aware
Every once in a while, you run into an issue that upon resolving you feel like you’ve leveled up as a user. Like a tech version of the Grinch your brain grows 3 sizes. I don’t know why I had this saved as TypicalConsultant.jpg The issue I encountered revolved around Aggregate Aware and resulted in […]
BI Zen – It Could Happen Part 1
Every day in the BI world you are fighting against opposing goals. Users who want a super flexible reporting system that can answer any question they can dream up without interaction with IT in real time and policies that require security, formal approvals, processes and system stability. Basically how can you let users do whatever […]
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 […]
BICC – Requirements Gathering Woes
Fluid requirements usually leads to a project never being finished because you can’t complete a project without a set success criteria or requirements.
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! […]