BusinessObjects Administration - Extending capabilities of BI 4.x Audit...
As we all already aware, In BI 4.x the capabilities provided by as-is sample of Audit reporting suite is limited and we can see there are so many requirements flowing in SCN around this for quite some...
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Add HANA Live View in UDT
We can add the HANA Live views in UDT by adding HANA connection. Normally views will be stored in_SYS_BIC schema.Step 1: Create a HANA Connection with JDBC driver Step 2: Choose JDBC drive and Add the...
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BusinessObjects Administration - Setting up security model – An easy way to...
Designing security model is one among the important phase in BusinessObjects implementation/migration projects. Well-organized security model not only provides easier Administration but also ensures...
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BI4.1 Update -> The document's serialization version is too recent (Error:...
The Issue I recently deployed SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 across several environments at a client site and ran into the following error message when saving a Web Intelligence report to the platform from...
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BusinessObjects Administration - Setting up security model – Part II
Continuing with my earlier blog BusinessObjects Administration - Setting up security model – An easy way to configure and manage. In this blog we are going to see the different security model designs...
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Making Windows AD Configuration & SSO easy on SAP BI 4.1
I would like to share my recent experience on configuring Windows AD and SSO on a new SAP BI 4.1 BOBJ server. I used to follow the traditional way of using Kerberos Key tab file; this time went for the...
View ArticleNew openSAP course: BI Clients and Applications on SAP HANA
Hi everyone, Just a quick hello to let you know that a new BI-related course has just opened for registration. This free openSAP course is called "BI Clients and Applications on SAP HANA" and is...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects BI4.2 Announced by Steve Lucas
Dear BI users around the globe.. For all those that feared BI4.1 being the end station of the well know and beloved SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite, some interesting news have been shared by Steve Lucas...
View ArticleNew SAP BI4.1 "Pattern Books" - for both 'Upgrade' AND 'Update' workflows!
Hey! Great news from Sathish Rajagopal - he's just announced on his blog http://scn.sap.com/blogs/sathishrajagopal that we've just release 'Phase 3' of our SAP BI Pattern Books project! These now...
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BusinessObjects Administration - Setting up security model – Part III
In our previous blogs we have analyzed various components required for Designing security model such as List of available rights, possible user categories and finally the Security models. Before taking...
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How to add SSO authentication to BI 4.1 using Java filter
One of the frequent questions from our customers is how to create a SSO enterprise authentication for BI LaunchPad and for Open Document queries. One of the most easiest way is to use servlet filter in...
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Lessons Learned: Upgrading from BO 4.0 SP4 to BO 4.1 SP4
We recently upgraded from BO 4.0 SP4 to BO 4.1 SP4. This was my first upgrade and I would have loved to find something like this on SCN (maybe there is and I just didn’t search hard enough). We all...
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To upgrade or not to upgrade?
We currently have BI 4.1 SP01 Patch 6 and are considering upgrading, but to what version, support package and patch? I know that there are lots of "What's New" resources like this one for 4.1 SP04....
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How to migrate the Trending Database from Apache Derby to MS SQL Server 2008...
This blog is an implementation of the official SAP documentation : http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41sp4_bip_admin_en.pdf1. IntroductionThe Monitoring Application is a new...
View ArticlePromotion and Version Management Best Practices
If you’re not completely familiar Promotion and Version Management, or you’d like to improve your understanding of ‘Best Practices’ around this topic, then please join me for an hours webinar on...
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Monitoring Dashboard BO 4.0 with TRACES (custom developement)
Hello, I have recently built a new dashboard which monitor other Dashboards. It monitor SQL (Query browser) but also what I call TRACES inside all your corporate dashboard in BO 4.0. I will try to...
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How to configure IIS ARR (Application Request Routing) to redirect to Tomcat
Using IIS to redirect to Tomcat Having some experience with Tomcat's isapi_redirect plugin for IIS, I recently found a new way to enable redirection to Tomcat from IIS7.0+ using Application Request...
View ArticleKnown KBAs and Notes for DCP (Deski Compatibility Pack)
Hello everyone, With the large number of issues and various KBA's/Notes that cover DCP (Deski Compatibility Pack), I decided it would be best to try and consolidate all of this information into one...
View ArticleAnnouncement: SP05 for BI PLATFORM 4.1 is now Release To Customer (RTC)!
Dear Community, I'm happy to be able to announce that SP05 has been shipped today!It is available both as a "Full product installation", or as an "Update / patch" (for existing 4.x installations). The...
View ArticleCustom CSV delimiter in Web Intelligence
Have you ever wanted to use a CSV delimiter other than the standard comma, semi-colon or Tab? Maybe a pipe or tilde character? Me too. I didn't think it was possible, but a Google search of "web...
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