Solutions to Optimise the Performance in SAP BusinessObjects Reports and...
Solutions to speed up and optimise the performance in SAP BusinessObjects reports and dashboardThe insiders guide from SAPinsider Las Vegas 2016“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding...
View ArticleComing soon: BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Online Technical Upgrade Workshop
Dear Community,Part of our global BI Adoption and Enablement Program, this new initiative aims at simplifying the learning of technical BusinessObjects BI 4.2 upgrade topics through online form of...
View ArticleCreating Time filters in IDT and UD
Hi fellers, In this blog entry I'm going to share with you some examples of Time filters that can be created in IDT and Universe Designer (BO4.1SP7).Probably you have faced most of them but it's good...
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Creating a Session Count Watch in CMC Monitoring BO 41
The idea is to create a session count (specially for concurrent users) to check the numbers of session in the system and notify by email. First go to monitoring in the CMC Go to watchlist and create...
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Business Intelligence Now - The 2016 Survey
Business Intelligence Now - The 2016 Survey Once again we have industry experts and insiders Miko Yuk, David Dadoun and Tom Venables, and the Xoomworks BI team offering insight and questions in their...
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Open Beta - Unleash the power of Predictive Support Alerts for BI
Greetings BI Platform community, I want to introduce the Open Beta phase of our exciting new Predictive Support Alerts offering from SAP Product Support. For those of you that don't know me, I have...
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State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade - May 2016 (SAPPHIRE Edition)
Last Wednesday at the North American iteration of its annual SAPPHIRE event, SAP's Bernd Leukert made some big news about SAP analytics during his keynote. Let's review the announcements then dive into...
View ArticleRestarting the unresponsive Adaptive Job Service using a script
We recently came across an issue where our scheduled jobs on BI 4.1 platform wouldn't run as expected; they would just not start. We have a clustered server setup and the job servers are running on...
View ArticleHow to make a large deployment a success & not be the weakest link
Large, Global SAP BI4.x new deployment“Humans and data quality errors are inseparable” MIT SymposiumBig data and Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence software and systems created a level of...
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Analysis Office SSO issue since BI 4.2 and Tomcat 8
Since upgrading to BI 4.2 and Tomcat 8 we observed in Analysis Office (Version 2.2) a Single Sign On problem when would like to connect to BI platform via Windows AD and Kerberos (Vintela). In prior...
View ArticleQuick & dirty security: the short-cut can become the longest cut
SAP BO BI 4 Security – Quick & dirty security: the short-cut can become the longest cut“Your security model is a living breathing entity.” Xoomworks BI 2015“Oil and Gas organisations must move...
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The fear of SMEs to upgrade from BusinessObjects to SAP BI4
It is a fact; many SME’s continue to postpone their BusinessObjects upgrades despite the platform being unsupported.Many old BusinessObjects customers continue to use BO 6.5 or BOXlr2, again despite...
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SAP BusinessObjects New Licensing Model - Part 1
This is the start of what should be a four-part blog series around the new BusinessObjects (BOBJ) licensing offering. As a technologist and nerd at heart, I do my best to stay away from the licensing...
View ArticleTuning BI-Launchpad 4.x
I got real problems with performance in BI Launch Pad. For instance, my reports were opening very long time, navigation in BI Launch Pad was awful. 1. Let's modify the Tomcat setting, because by...
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Integrating SAP Fiori and SAP BusinessObjects BI
SAP Design Studio apps, Crystal Reports, Webi reports etc. can now be integrated with the SAP Fiori Launchpad. In this blog we’ll look at how these reports/dashboards from the SAP BusinessObjects BI...
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SAP BusinessObjects New Licensing Model - Part 1
This is the start of what should be a four-part blog series around the new BusinessObjects (BOBJ) licensing offering. As a technologist and nerd at heart, I do my best to stay away from the licensing...
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New complete tutorial for setting up Introscope 9.5 Stand-alone Monitoring...
This article is a continuation of: New complete tutorial for setting up Introscope 9.5 Stand-alone Monitoring for SAP BI Platform 4.x (Part 1) Step 4: Configure each BI node and Application Server...
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New complete tutorial for setting up Introscope 9.5 Stand-alone Monitoring...
Previously, I posted on the SCN an article on how to setup Introscope Monitoring for the BI Platform. This article is a replacement to the previous article posted here: A complete guide to setup CA...
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Enterprise Support Value Map – Analytics
WHAT IS THE ANALYTICS VALUE MAP?– The Value Map for Analytics helps you quickly identify the relevant SAP Enterprise Support services, tools, and expertise for a particular objective relating to your...
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SAP BI Platform – Geek Tweaks
Hi Folks! Following my initial series of Geek Tweaks on SAP Lumira today we will be seeing some Geek tweaks on our famous BI Platform. BI Platform at this form of writing is in version 4.2 currently on...
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