Oracle is changing how it supports Java in January 2019. Web Intelligence users should stop using Java long before that date.
Tag: Web Intelligence
Transforming Behavioral Health Care With Predictive Analytics
When contemplating data and analytics technologies – particularly highly technical systems like SAP – most people think in terms of supply chain management, sales, accounting, data governance and other enterprise business processes. Useful, valuable applications that, truthfully, may not be very exciting to the average individual. But more often than you might think, we get […]
When You Still Have Desktop Intelligence
Recently, the Wall Street Journal published an article by personal technology columnist Joanna Stern entitled “How to Send a Fax When You Don’t Have a Fax Machine”. In reviewing “a decades-old technology [that] refuses to die” she writes. This is not a reprint of an article from 1992. (And no, next week I will not be reviewing […]
SAP Continues to Show Love to Live Office
Give Live Office a fresh look whether you’re a long-time Live Office user or simply wondering what benefits it can bring to the Microsoft Excel fans in your organization.
Don’t You (Forget About Java)
Although the road map is changing, the road still leads to a bright, Java-free future for Web Intelligence.
Report Requirements, a Mystery
Sitting down to develop a report and realizing not all the requirements are there can be irritating. Gathering all the requirements when developing a report is crucial. When conversing with users about a new report request, they will often explain the requirements in simple business terms. First, it is important to understand the business need […]
A dashboard is …
A dashboard is … A dashboard is well hard to define. When you hear the word dashboard what do you think of? Could it be something similar to the instrument panel in your car? Do you think of gauges and slides? Or maybe for you any report is a dashboard. So what is a […]
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 […]
State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2015
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 Support Pack 6 is now available.
Are you ready for Java 9?
With any luck, we won’t have to care about Java 9 by the time it arrives next year.