This has been a fun blog series, and one that I can gleefully say we actually followed through and finished. Let’s recap: 10. Get all the key IT players to the table 9. Get business buy-in 8. For SAP BW shops – Update SAP BW in a world before BW 7.01 SPS 08 7. Clean […]
Tag: SAP Analytics
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 […]
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Know Your Universe
I’m back! My pals here at EV Technologies have been kind enough to take the reigns over the past few steps to get to BI4. I have the honor of wrapping up our list and I’ll kick that off today with an effort to Know Your Universe. Know Your Universe For the first time in many […]
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Training Your Users for BI4
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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 […]