Welcome to the second blog in a series documenting what I learned while dealing with my evil twin, BW, and how we learned to get along. You can check out the first entry in the series here. When dealing with BOBJ on BW, you’ve probably asked yourself how you even connect the two. One way to […]
Tag: SAP BW
An Exploration of BOBJ On BW – Part 1: A Tale of Two Lingos
If you’ve been in the Business Intelligence (BI) business long enough, you’ve had to deal with your evil twin. You’ve been working contently off a relational database and now you have to work with BEx queries; The query developers now have to cater to reporting tools like Web Intelligence (Webi). I hear they call it […]
SAP Lumira 1.17 Now Available with Direct Access to BEx Queries
I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I clicked on SAP Lumira and saw the following message pop up; SAP Lumira 1.17 is now generally available for download directly from the tool without even having to go to the SAP Marketplace (this feature has been available for some time, Kudos to SAP!). I have been eagerly […]
BOBJ for BW: [Video] Connect SAP Lumira to your BW Data
As of SAP Lumira SP12, users now have the added ability to connect their SAP Netweaver BW data to Lumira. However, a quick glance at the available connections for SAP Lumira and you will not find a connection called “Business Warehouse”. One way around that would be to get your BW data onto HANA. If […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the Information Design Tool We continue our series on BOBJ for BW with our second method to creating an OLAP BICS connection. This method utilizes the Information Design Tool (IDT). The IDT comes as part of the standard installation of the BI4.x client tools. Previously, we covered the OLAP […]
BOBJ for BW: Create a BICS OLAP Connection
Create a BICS OLAP Connection using the BusinessObjects Central Management Console (CMC) At evtechnologies.com, we are starting a new blog series on getting your SAP BusinessObjects and BW environments in sync and configured for optimal reporting and query design. Previously, with BusinessObjects XI 3.1, there were limited options to deliver BW data to BusinessObjects. […]
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 – Sizing
Proper sizing is the most important step to get to SAP BusinessObjects BI4
10 Steps to SAP BusinessObjects BI4 – Getting BW ready for BI4
Ethan Jewett explains how to get your SAP Business Warehouse ready for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.
The Rift between BW-types and BOBJ-types
There has been much discussion in the twitterverse, in blogs, on podcasts, and elsewhere I’m sure, about the place of SAP BW. Those discussions have really morphed over the last few months from the flurry of tweets over the perceived death of SAP BW at the hands of its little sister SAP HANA (now hopefully put to rest…or is it???), to the value for non-SAP ERP customers. In one of this year’s episodes of the Diversified Semantic Layer, one question we tried to tackle that and I’m just not sure we got to was: what is the value of SAP BW to SAP BusinessObjects customers? While we had a really great discussion, I think there is still more left there to uncover.