SAP Lumira Extension – Population Pyramid

I will be perfectly honest when I say I was not the biggest fan of SAP Lumira (previously Visual Intelligence) when it was first released.  I found it to be an imitation of a rather good product already available in the market and several cycles behind in terms of functionality.  Still within the last 18 […]

Enterprise BI is for Curmudgeons

This post is my final thought of my prior post on SAP Lumira from a few weeks back.  I really hope you’ll find us talking about this over on dslayer.net soon.  In my career I’ve been a Business Objects guy for going on 15 years and an IT guy for even longer.  That gives me some longevity here in […]

An SAP Lumira Server Wish List

Last week, I explained why I believed something so subtle as a release note on SAP Lumira Server connectivity within SAP Lumira v1.15 was a big deal. I also teased with a post on Enterprise BI Curmudgeons. That last part is going to have to wait because today, I want to talk about my wish list for SAP Lumira Server and anything set to follow.

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. […]

SAP Lumira 1.12 Initial Impressions

I’ve enjoyed the pace at which SAP Lumira has come along over the last year.  Like most, I’ve been chomping the bit for v1.12 to release since we got a glimpse of it at ASUG SBOUC in September.  I caught a tweet today that it was out on the SAP Market Place (not yet available […]