Supporting Web Intelligence can be a challenge for organizations still chained to Java 6, but there are solutions.
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#askSAP BI Strategy & Roadmap Announcement – Times They are a Changin’
Earlier today, SAP made a public statement of direction for the Analytics portfolio. To some, this news might seem Earth-shattering. To others who have been following the industry for a while, today’s announcement should come as no surprise. It wasn’t lost on me that SAP chose today, September 9th, 2014 to make this announcement, when […]
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 […]
Is Xcelsius The New Deski? Die Xcelsius Die!
Xcelsius is the new Desktop Intelligence
Are you ready for Java 8?
Oracle Java 8 is coming soon to a browser near you.
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 […]
VIDEO: How to Custom Group Objects in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.1 SP2
I still remember the first time I found out I couldn’t group objects in Web Intelligence like I could with Desktop Intelligence (Deski). I was in a training session and another student asked the instructor where on the toolbar was the button to group dimensions. It was just assumed the functionality would be there. When […]
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 […]
Contending With BI Disruption
You can expire tools but you can’t expire content.
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. […]