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 […]
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At Your Service – meet the four new services in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2
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, […]
Better Mobile BI by Using the Configuration Server
By taking a little extra time to configure the MOBIserver app, we can provide our mobile BI users with a friendlier configuration process.
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2013
Welcome to 2013! It’s a new year. Time for new IT budgets and project plans. Many organizations are planning their SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 upgrades (BI4). But which patch version of BI4 to use- Support Pack 4 (SP4) or Support Pack 5 (SP5)? Earlier this month, I tweeted the following: As it turns out, […]
How to Disable the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer iOS Password
Each time a user launches SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iOS, they are prompted for an application password, as shown in this screen shot from Explorer for iOS 4.1.5 running on an iPhone 5. Although a BI 4.0 administrator can disable the password requirement for SAP BusinessObjects Mobile BI for iOS from the business intelligence platform, […]
Upgrading SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Apps
Recent tweets have brought up a fun fact: Your mobile devices are in as much need of testing as anything. Over the years, I think it is easy to be snowed by the ease and simplicity of deploying the app. Apps just work. Thanks to Steve, we have a platform (or platforms if you want to count Android) whereby developers can easily deploy source code and our apps magically appears as updates and work. But in the enterprise world, despite the fact that they are just apps, I’m here to tell you not to just blindly install SAP BusinessObjects apps like SAP BusinessObjects Mobile (SAP BI), SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Mobile (SBO Explorer), or SAP BusinessObjects Experience (Experience).