Filters, Filters and More Webi Filters

In Webi (Web Intelligence) there are multiple ways to do everything including ways to filter reports. Webi has 4 ways to filter data at the report level, but how do you know which report filter will work best for your reporting needs. Should I use the filter bar or an input control? Each choice has […]

I Love Lumira, a Developer’s View

Thank you to everyone who attended my I Love Lumira webinar, Lumira for the Business Analyst. As a follow up, I thought I would talk about the top 3 reasons why you should love Lumira if you are a BI developer. Before we get too far into my reasons you should love Lumira, I just […]

I Love Lumira (and You Should, Too)!

Bonnie Brown and I had great fun creating this month’s webinar series, I Love Lumira (and You Should, Too)! In three parts, we presented the business value of SAP Lumira for the BI Competency Center manager or executive sponsor, did a deep dive on the product for business analysts, and concluded by helping BI administrators understand how […]

I Love Lumira, But I Have Questions

Q&A from our I Love Lumira webcasts We’ve compiled the questions from our recent I Love Lumira webcast series with Bonnie Brown and Dallas Marks. If you still have questions about SAP Lumira and whether it fits into your BI strategy, please contact us. Q: Can we add Lumira Services to existing processing tier servers if we […]

No Excuses. Turn on Auditor.

Looking across the playing field today, many customers have already made the transition to SAP BusinessObjects BI4.x. Many more have begun to evaluate the process to upgrade from prior versions of SAP BusinessObjects due to the end of life of the XI 3.1 code base happening in less than…GASP…90 days. As we work with customers […]

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! […]