Complex Calculations Made Simpler with Web Intelligence

There are many hidden talents within Web Intelligence that can assist with massaging your data and bringing out relationships within your numbers without ever having to export your data outside to another tool, such as Microsoft Excel. One of those underutilized functions is PREVIOUS(). It simply returns the previous value of an object.   While Web […]

Web Intelligence Hack: Updating the color palette for a single report

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 allows you to define a custom corporate color palette for use with Web Intelligence charts. To begin, modify …\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\images\VisualizationConfig.template.xml then save it as VisualizationConfig.xml in the images folder and restart the web application server (Apache Tomcat, et. al.) so the changes take effect. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <CONFIG> <!– Rename this […]

Query Stripping in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.1

BI4.1 introduces query stripping options for Web Intelligence reports for relational UNX universes. Previously, query stripping was only available for OLAP data sources such as Bex queries. This is a worthy addition as it will allow for many queries that were previously built to run much more efficiently. Often times queries are built by users […]

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. […]