You Can’t Put Your BI in the Freezer to Save it

This is a bit of a primer for a totally relevant post, so stick with me. This morning, I awoke to an email from a colleague that a few of our internal apps were down.  On first inspection, it appeared a drive in the server become unavailable.  On deeper inspection…the drive was dead.  Where was […]

State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2013

When I last wrote about the state of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 back in January (see related article), SAP analytics customers were trapped between the Scylla of Support Pack 4 with no mobile dashboard support and the Charybdis of critical missing patches in Support Pack 5. Today, the situation is markedly different.  On the […]

Dashboard Tips & Tricks – Mouse Over Suffix

Have you ever needed to add a postfix to a number in a dashboard component? For example a user wants to add MT (Metric Tons) as a postfix to the numbers on a line graph Lets start with a basic line graph Mouse Over Values have a default number format of General There are several […]

Sherlock® 2.4.0 – WebI for BI4, UNX, and Efficiency

With this release, we focus on Web Intelligence content from BI4, UNX, Performance, and Efficiency. For the past few weeks, the team at EVTechnologies has been working on several new features which we have just finished packaging into Sherlock® 2.4.0. The overall focus for these new features is to tell you more about your SAP […]

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Support Pack 6

Today, April 30, 2013, SAP released SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 Support Pack 6 (SP6) to the SAP Service Marketplace.  Support Pack 6 is not a groundbreaking release, but brings a long list of fixes and some additional platform support. Back in January when we reviewed the current state of the BI 4.0 upgrade (see […]

Sorting through the Ranks

When BI4 came out back in 2011, one of the tools that saw an overhaul from the ground up was Web Intelligence.  If you are not familiar with Web Intelligence, it truly is the ‘jack of all trades’ or ‘swiss army knife’ of the suite. And if you are familiar with the tool then you […]

The Mystery of the Missing Monitoring Metrics

On a melancholy Monday morning, I meandered onto my Monitoring application in SAP BI4. Much to my mortification, my monitoring metrics were missing! Mon Dieu! Alright, that’s about all of the alliteration I can stand for one blog post. But seriously, this happened, and I’m going to share with you how to fix it. I […]