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LDAP roles not assigned to users after migration from 3.1 to 4.1
Issue: LDAP roles not assigned to users after migration from 3.1 to 4.1 Cause: Assumption: Groups might not added before migration. Detailed background of issue: Assume migrated 3.1 objects to 4.1 (New...
View ArticleState of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Upgrade - January 2016
Happy New Year! The end of 2015 meant the end of mainstream support for SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0. However, end of support does not mean end of the world, according to...
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SAP BI 4.2 - BI Platform New Features
Hello Everyone, Here I would like to highlight some of the new features available with BI 4.2 from the Platform perspective. Some of you would have already aware of these features, but here I want to...
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Exporting Results from CMC to Excel
Quite often, I had always wondered if there was an easy out to export the results from a CMC to excel. There is of course, the tool that can be found online, that runs against a macro and exports it to...
View ArticleSubmit your Crystal Reports review, get a reward!
Hi everyone,I wanted to make our Crystal Reports customers on the SCN community aware of some great promotions we’ve got running right now with a few listing/review sites. Basically, if you leave a...
View ArticleBusinessObjects BI Licensing Updates
It's a new year, and that means licensing updates! We have simplified our license model to make it easier to understand, while still keeping the core components. We have even provided a little bonus to...
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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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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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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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SSL and SAP Business Objects
1 LandscapeThe project architect requires all http communication must be configure to use encryption. By default, SAP Business Objects use http instead https, which implies in certificates, SSL...
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BETA Customers needed: Predictive Support Alerts for the BI Platform
What’s better than resolving an issue in your BI Platform? Preventing it in the first place! Predictive Support Alerts are a new support offering that will help you resolve issues before they become...
View ArticleDaylight Saving Time in BI Platform - 2016
As Daylight Saving Time is fast approaching, we wanted to make everyone aware of SAP BI Platform's readiness. Daylight Saving Time starts in the United States on March 13 at 2am. DST starts in most of...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 Release - Launching what’s new videos
Dear Community,We are very happy to share with you this update on What’s new in BI 4.2 videos produced by our BI User Assistance Team (formerly known as Knowledge Management Team). This is a new...
View ArticleAnnouncing the launch of BI Pattern Books on “Moving to SAP BusinessObjects...
Dear BI Community,It’s my pleasure to announce the release of Phase 5 of SAP BI Pattern Books project with two books on how to successfully move to the latest SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 release. The...
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BI 4.2 - My first look on Administrator Cockpit
Just got a chance to look at BI 4.2 post GA. Every new feature added in this release looks promising and it will definitely going to add advantage to Platform support teams also it will be a big...
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Enhancing the BIP Admin guide: A collaborative effort between the Product...
Another regular day at work. I log into the Customer Support System to see if there are any Customer Incidents assigned to me. I see one new Incident. One customer created the incident to clarify some...
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How to Upgrade to BI4.1 SP06 to BI4.2 Steps
Purpose:The purpose of this document is to up-grade SAP Business Objects Application from 4.1 SP6 to SAP Business Objects Application from 4.2 Overview: Environment Details:Operating system: Windows...
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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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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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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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