BI LIVE 2013 - Is In The Books!
BI LIVE 2013 Is In The Books! On behalf of myself, Kristen, our speakers, the ASUG Support & Maintenance Strategic SIG, & SAP - THANK YOU! This was our first event but thanks to your...
View ArticlePreview of BI Platform and BI Strategy ASUG Annual Conference Sessions -...
ASUG Annual Conference is almost two weeks away and there are several sessions to choose from. Why consider ASUG sessions? Well, as ASUG volunteers, as Dennis Howlett once blogged, "we're not...
View ArticleWhat’s new in SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SP5
What's new in BI4 platform ,SP5 ? Read here starting from page 81: http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir4/en/xi4_whats_new_en.pdf Regards,Atul Divekar.
View ArticleRelease notes 4.0 not displaying the text properly
Hi, Not sure everyone has noticed this yet, but the release notoes for XI 4.0 seems to give the wrong ADAPT description. I took a snapshot of this. As you can see the description section does not give...
View ArticleWhat's new in SAP BusinessObjects platform BI 4.0 SP06 - Windows 8 Support
Hi all, I've seen a lot of questions about the support of Windows 8 environment and until now, no clear answer was made about compatibility between SAP BI 4.0 Client Tools and the new Windows 8. Many...
View ArticleBI4.x Upgrade and Migration session @ WISPubs’ “BI 2013” event in Amsterdam...
Hi, You might be interested to know that SAP’s Customer Solution Adoption organization is taking part in WISPubs’ “BI 2013” event in Amsterdam, running 11th-13th June this year. I’ll be presenting...
View ArticleWhat’s different in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 ?
This blog post presents you what's really different in SAP BI 4.1. SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 What’s important about this release First point release of SAP’s leading BI suiteFocus on quality and...
View ArticleWhat's new in SAP BusinessObjects Platform 4.0 SP6 (5+)
Supported Plarform Mobile Server for AIXWindows 8Internet Explorer 10Microsoft Office 2013... For full details of the supported versions of SAP and related third-party software, see the SAP Product...
View ArticleA Simple Android App Using BIP RESTful Web Service API
Hello! Here I am posting a demo of a simple Android app that I quickly developed to illustrate the simple but powerful potential that is given by the marriage of mobile app development and the recent...
View ArticleCustomer Connection for the BI BusinessObjects Platform - See how you can...
Nadine Engler, SAP, presented this webcast to ASUG and other user groups last week on the Customer Connection for BI Platform. You can view the recording here Nadine is the preparation lead, joined by...
View ArticleASUG Hands-on Pre-Conference Session BI4.1 & More - Part 1
We're still in the middle of the ASUG hands-on pre-conference session today before SAPPHIRENOW/ASUG Annual Conference begins officially tomorrow. Several pre-conference sessions are going on today,...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects Release Notes; Where to find them?
Launch of the document SAP BusinessObjects Release Notes; Where to find them?The document will guide you in where to find the release notes of the SAP BusinessObjects Products.The Release Notes are...
View ArticleBusinessObjects Administration – What to monitor
This is a continuation of my blog BusinessObjects Monitoring and Housekeeping activities (http://scn.sap.com/community/bi-platform/blog/2012/10/22/businessobjects-monitoring-and-housekeeping-activities...
View ArticleNew methods of authentication available in the CMC of SAP BO BI 4.1
You can see below the four authentication modes possible in the version of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SP6 : In SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, we can see that the plateform supports single sign-on and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Publication bursting modes
The basics of SAP BusinessObject Intelligence Platform Publication in my earlier blog. One aspect that is often misunderstood is the different bursting modes that publication offer as part of the...
View ArticleTips and Tricks for SAP BusinessObject Intelligence Platform Publication
The basics of SAP BusinessObject Intelligence Platform Publication in my earlier blog. This post outlines a few useful tips to consider when working with publications. I will look at three different...
View ArticleFuture of BI, Announcement and Round-up of BI Platform Content at ASUG Annual...
One of the announcements at ASUG Annual Conference was the release Technical Whitepaper: Virtualizing SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 on VMware 5 by Ashish Morzaria of SAP. You can also go to...
View ArticleNow Available: SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Pattern Book for Windows
I am very happy to officially announce the release of Phase 2 of SAP’s BI Platform Pattern Books as delivered by my colleague In this second phase, the Pattern Book has focused on how to deploy SAP...
View ArticleLearn How SAP Addresses Quality in BI4
Pritesh Taylor of SAP provided this webcast to ASUG this week. He wrote about how SAP is taking proactive measures to deliver product quality software here. He explained that SAP creates a global...
View ArticleChanging Your CMS Database to SAP HANA
I was working on an interesting case where a customer was looking to switch the default CMS database (SQL Server for Windows) to an SAP database. The customer was using SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform...
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