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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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, […]
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 […]
Monitoring Windows FreeSpace with Slackbot: The Code
In part one of Monitoring Windows Freespace with Slackbot, we got everything set up to use a Slackbot url for posting messages to your Slack team. Now, we are going to take that url and use it in a batch file to send notifications about freespace on your servers hard disks. The end result will […]
Monitoring Windows Freespace with Slackbot: Getting Started
We have been using Slack at EVT for several months now. It has become an integral part of our internal communication. But Slack is not only good at helping you chat with the rest of your team, it also integrates with many of your favorite web services, such as google hangouts. Another thing Slack does […]
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! […]
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 […]