BI Upgrade & Integration Options: Q&A with SAP on BusinessObjects BI 4.1...
Today SAP Insider hosted this online chat with SAP's Sathish RajagopalHarjeet JudgeMaheshwar SinghGowda Timma Ramu For the full Q&A check the replay here. Also check out the BI 2015 event in...
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Naming Convention in Business Objects
When you start to Business Objects Design from the origin, nobody usually is thinking of that the standard naming for reports , connections, universes , folders etc... But if you have thousands of...
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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...
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Deep dive into the BI 4.x Monitoring Database data model
Overview:Monitoring is an out of the box solution in BI 4.x, to display the live server metrics exposed via BOE SDK on CMC. ‘Monitoring Service’ (part of APS container) captures the monitoring data and...
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BI4.1 Using End to End Trace with Scheduling Workflows
Hello everyone,I'm new to blogging on SCN but I have been a Support Engineer for many years supporting several components in the BI Platform. Currently I am part of the WebI team.Some of the hardest...
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Publication - failed instance retry option
Though the option to retry failed instances of a publication has been around for sometime now, there are still some confusions around this option. If you right click on any of the failed instances of a...
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BO 4.1 AD authentication in Unix/AIX environment
Hi, On this blog, I’ll explain the step by step of how to configure the Windows AD authentication when BO is installed on a Unix server. This how-to was done with this environment:SO: AIX version 6.1,...
View ArticlePatch 3 for SBOP BI Platform 4.1 SP05 - need document showing fixes.
Hi All, Can someone point me to the above patch doc? I see patch 3 was release on 2/27/2015 but cannot find the document listing the fixes included: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2136486...
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SAP Lumira Server for Teams Roadmap ASUG Webcast
This was an ASUG webcast this past week given by SAP's Thomas Kuruvilla The usual disclaimer applies that things in the future are subject to change.Figure 1 – Source: SAP Figure 1 provides in...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects 4.x Vulnerabilities via Corba and XSS in HANA XS
On February 25, 2015, Onapsis released advisories for five SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise/Edge and SAP HANA vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilitieswere responsibly disclosed, allowing SAP to correct...
View ArticleHTTP 404 Error(s) while accessing BOE Web Applications? What we need to check?
The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with a given server, however the server could not find what was requested? It is...
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SAP Lumira, Server for BI Platform Deep Dive & Roadmap ASUG Webcast Recap
SAP's Thomas B Kuruvilla provided this webcast on US Tax Day, assisted by Gowda Timma Ramu I thank them both for taking the time to support ASUG. The usual legal disclaimer applies, that things in the...
View ArticleBI and big exploit headlines
It seems like every time I open up my RSS feed lately, I'm greeted with a large number of blog posts on yet another exploit being discovered. Off the top of my head, the big ones that come to mind are...
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A Hadoop data lab project on Raspberry Pi - Part 1/4
Carsten Mönning and Waldemar SchillerHadoop has developed into a key enabling technology for all kinds of Big Data analytics scenarios. Although Big Data applications have started to move beyond the...
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A Hadoop data lab project on Raspberry Pi - Part 2/4
Carsten Mönning and Waldemar SchillerPart 1 - Single node Hadoop on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (~120 mins),...
View ArticleState of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade - May 2015 (SAPPHIRE Edition)
SAP SAPPHIRE and the ASUG Annual Conference were held last week at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. While most of the keynote action centered on S4/HANA and Hasso Plattner's...
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Updates on BI4.1 SP06 and Plans for BI4.2
This was a SAP user group webcast today. I was late but towards the end the SAP speaker said SAP Safe Harbor statement applies: "This blog, or any related presentation and SAP's strategy and possible...
View ArticleShare your insights for the future of BI; Complete the BARC BI Survey 2015
Share your insights for the future of BI; Complete the BARC BI Survey 2015 Until the end of the month the BI Survey 2015 of BARC Research is op en for everyone willing to share his/her insights in the...
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Keep up on vulnerabilities with security notes
Continuing with the security topics, I will cover the topic of staying up to date with security patches for BI.While SAP practices a complete security development lifecycle, the security landscape...
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A Hadoop data lab project on Raspberry Pi - Part 3/4
Carsten Mönning and Waldemar SchillerPart 1 - Single node Hadoop on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (~120 mins), http://bit.ly/1dqm8yOPart 2 - Hive on Hadoop (~40 mins), http://bit.ly/1Biq7TaPart 3 - Hive...
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