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. […]

Video: Create Drill-Down Mobile SAP Dashboards

As of SAP Dashboards 4.1 SP1,  developers have the added ability connect to data from a QaaWS connection for Mobile Dashboards.  Previously, only the internal query browser within Dashboards was Mobile compatible.  Now you can pull in BI Services published from Web Intelligence into Mobile Dashboards. This added functionality brings a new level to Mobile […]