When SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 was introduced several years ago, it introduced a radically redesigned Adaptive Processing Server. Oh sure, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 also had an Adaptive Processing Server, but it did not have the almost overwhelming array of services as its BI 4.0 counterpart. In the early days of BI 4.0 deployments, […]
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The BI Administrator’s Cockpit
The BI Administrators’ Cockpit should definitely be one of many reasons considered when determining “when” to upgrade to BI 4.2.
Struggling to Manage SAP BI4 Version Management
SAP BI4 version management is one of those things that some of us have been dreaming about for a very long time. I remember many moons ago spending several hours a week cutting .biar files and checking them into a version management system for development teams. Clunky but effective. BI4 Version management has the promise […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool We continue our series on BOBJ for BW with our second method to creating an OLAP BICS connection. This method utilizes the Information Design Tool (IDT). The IDT comes as part of the standard installation of the BI4.x client tools. Previously, we covered the OLAP […]