I cannot believe I first wrote about BI4 in May of 2010. It was a mythical creature at the time…we were still calling it “XI4”. At the time, it was such a huge shift that it made customers re-evaluate the entirety of their investments in SAP BusinessObjects to date. It was the beginning of the […]
Tag: Landscape Planning
Mining operations benefit from SAP BI 4.1 Migration Framework
Townsville, Australia – 11th December 2015 Glencore’s Copper Assets in North Queensland and Zinc Assets in Australia have recently completed a successful migration from SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 to the SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 platform. Mining operations who participated in the migration include Mount Isa Mines, George Fisher Mine, Ernest Henry Mining, Lady Loretta, Townsville Copper […]
Budgeting for an SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade
Upgrading any enterprise software application that is used heavily in an organization can be a frightening undertaking. Not only do you have to acquire all of the hardware, licenses, time, and people to make the upgrade happen, you also have to ensure that nothing breaks in the process. When it comes to upgrading SAP BusinessObjects […]
Transaction Logs on Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
Dallas Marks recently posted a great primer for customers tinkering with SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 running on the default CMS and Audit database, SQL Anywhere (see related article, Getting Somewhere with Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1). He uncovered great information for getting acquainted with SQL Anywhere, querying it, scaling it for a multi-node cluster and more. […]
SAP Lumira Eats SAP BusinessObjects Logs for Lunch
A few weeks back, it occurred to me that one of the common debugging tools used for mass log munging here was Splunk, but I had something new in my bag of tricks…SAP Lumira. Why? If you’ve ever spent time analyzing SAP BusinessObjects server trace logs, you know this is not necessarily a “fun” activity. […]
SAP Support – Outside In
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Enforcing HTTPS for Secure SAP BusinessObjects BI4
Many organizations just deploy SAP BusinessObjects without a thought for securing HTTP traffic or intra-server communication. But what you probably didn’t realize is basic packet sniffing tools can allow nefarious individuals within your own walls to watch those little packets of bytes fly by with Windows AD, LDAP, or SAP Authentication tokens included within them. So what is the probability that other, mission critical applications within your organization use those same authentication tokens? High. Very high. So what is an administrator to do? Let’s dissect.
BI4 Launch Pad Default Preferences
BI4 has given administrators something they have been asking for for years: the ability to set the Default User Preferences.
Unfortunately its not the complete list of all the user preferences, but it is a good start including some of the major pain points administrators have to deal with:
- Start page customizations
- Columns displayed in Documents tab
- Document viewing location
- Maximum Number of rows to display (Yeah)
BI4 is a Big Baby
Anybody that has been in the BusinessObjects Admin area of expertise for a long time knows that with each upgrade, the platform requirements get bigger and more substantial. The new BI4 is no exception. While that is the underpinnings of this post, what I really want to hit on is the role that virtualization will or will not play in the future of BI4.
Reposcan – Mr. Clean for SAP BusinessObjects
The magic of the Repository Diagnostic Tool.