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SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Suite 4.1 SP05 (SP5) Released
AnnouncementWhat's New?Supported Platform (Product Availability Matrix)DocumentationForward Fit PlanMaintenance ScheduleInstalling UpdatesUpdatesEnvironmentDurationPast ArticlesConclusion Announcement...
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Understanding the "Health State" in the BI Platform Monitoring application...
One of the key concepts to understand in the BI Platform Monitoring Application is the Health State metric. A number of different aspects of the monitoring application rely on the Health State metric...
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How to Create a Program File in BI4
I've written a bit of jsp, vbscript, and java based applications in the past and lately I've really enjoyed writing simple java apps that can be run as a Program File (.jar) within the BI 4.x...
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How to Auto-Disable Inactive Users in BI4
Over the past few years, I've been asked to create or assist in creating various scripts to automate a task in SAP Business Intelligence 4.x (BI4). Most of these scripts were loose files in the form...
View ArticleInstallation BO 4.1 SP5
Hello, if you try to install BO 4.1 SP5 as update on existing installation of BO 4.1 SP4 on Windows 2012 Server R2 you get an error after the restart of the system. The BO System can not connect to...
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Manual Entry in prompts for BW variables in Crystal Reports Enterprise and...
Crystal Reports Enterprise 4.1 SP 05 release is supporting the feature, manual entry in prompts for BW variables. Here I will be mentioning information on supported and not-supported variables and...
View ArticleHow to speed up connection between Translation Manager, Universe Designer and...
At a recent customer project my teammate and I were facing an issue with importing Webi documents and universes into Translation Manager (all on BO4.1 SP4) getting the following error message:...
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New Maintenance Dates for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1
The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP Friday, December 5 2014New Maintenance Dates for SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1To enable our customer base adopting SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1, SAP is pleased to announce the...
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Behind the Scenes with Platform Search in Business Intelligence Platform 4.x
Most of people have noticed that Platform Search application works differently in Business Intelligence Platform (BI) 4.x comparing to previous release. The architecture of Platform Search has been...
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How to Loadbalance 2 Tomcat instances using Apache Web Server
Hello All, In this blog, we will go through the steps necessary in order to configure Apache Web Server as load balancer for Tomcat Application server. This document is helpful for BI 4.0/4.1 as it has...
View ArticleBI 4 Platform Innovation and Implementation - openSAP Repeat Course
Are you an experienced BI System Administrator? Would you like to learn how to prepare for a successful and smooth BI deployment by implementing SAP BusinessObjects BI 4? Did you miss the first openSAP...
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Secure Your BI Platform Part 1
In this new blog series, I will outline some of the best practices of securing your BI platform.We will take the approach of outlining what assets we need to protect, and based on a threat model...
View ArticleSimplified BI Pricing and Licensing FAQ Available
Back in Q3, we released a new, simpler pricing and licensing model. In Q4, we just release a FAQ document that publicly describes this simplified model. This can be found on the BusinessObjects BI...
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Secure Your BI Platform Part 2 - Web Tier
In my previous blog, I covered securing of the communication of your authentication providers.In this posting, we will cover the configuration of the web tier. It is your war file deployment, and...
View ArticleHow to get some additional traces from the BI Platform Web Apps
Have you ever seen a log file in your Application Server directory called TraceLog_<pid>_<date_timestamp>.glf? Ever wondered what that was? This log file is generated from a number of the...
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Deep dive into the BI 4.x Audit data model
Overview:Auditing is an important out of the box solution, to keep a track on the usage pattern of the SAP BOE platform. Audit data is relevant both from an administration perspective, as well as from...
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Securing your BI Platform part 3 - Servers
Communication to Identity providers like Active Directory, LDAP and SAP was covered in part 1, and securing the web tier was covered in part 2.Now let's look at the actually BI servers, like the...
View ArticleSAP BI 4.1 SP5 IDT Business Security & Data Security Profile Filter...
SAP BI 4.1 IDT SP5 Business Security & Data Security Profile Filter Implementation Environment: SAP BO 4.1 SP5IDT - Single Source UNXWindows 2008 Server Implementation Scenario: My project has a...
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SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Implementation Report NOW Available
Dear SCN Community Members, We are please to announce the availability of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Custom Implementation Report. With this report, we will help you understanding the best option to...
View ArticleOpenSAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Training
A fantastic opportunity for you to learn more about BusinessObjects BI 4 is currently being offered by SAP via OpenSAP. Enroll now: https://open.sap.com/courses/bifour1-1 Here is the course summary:...
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