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You Want to Do What? A Strategy for Saying No
You Want to Do What? As everyone in the BI field knows, managing end user expectations or requirements can be a challenge.Ok challenge may not be the right word, sometimes is a downright battle between awesome yet unrealistic expectations for a particular tool or timeline and well reality. As a good partner internal or external, […]
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 […]
Clear the Decks
If you were a fly on the wall in my house this time of year, you’d hear my wife say “Time to clear the decks!”. Every time. It is sort of a tradition. We both have home office space, and both of them get cluttered and piled up with stuff over the course of the […]
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 […]
SAP BusinessObjects BI System Administration – 2nd Edition!
We are so pleased to announce the release of SAP BusinessObjects BI System Administration 2nd Edition! The book will be available starting October 29th, 2014 on SAP-PRESS in both hardcover and ebook versions. Eric Vallo and I spent our summer months sprucing up our original book to bring it up to date with BI4.1 and all of […]
#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 […]