Understanding 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...
View ArticleBI4.1 Experience: Share Knowledge to Gain Knowledge
This has to be my favorite tweet of this week from Angad Singh : @c821311 @paulhawking we have learnt one good thing that we never gonna forget "Share Knowledge To Gain Knowledge"— Angad Singh...
View ArticleTutorial: How to customize BI launch pad home page
With SAP BI 4.0 one can customize the landing page of BI launch pad by creating a custom BI workspace, this can be done by a user himself or an administrator can customize the homepage for a...
View ArticleTutorial: Customizing BI launch pad name
Partners and customers often have the desire to band and theme the BI launch pad to make it better fit into their landscape. In this tutorial learn how to change the name and URL of BI launch pad. Also...
View ArticleTutorial: Branding and Theming of BI launch pad
In my previous tutorial I already talked about how to change the name and URL of BI launch pad. Often this is not enough and partners as well as customers would like to change the logo or even color...
View ArticleBusinessObjects Auditing - Considerations & Enabling
Dear Folks, This is the continuation of my previous blog on BusinessObjects Audit Universe and reports deployment here SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Auditor Configuration & Deployment End to End and is...
View ArticleMultitenancy Management tool setup, new features in BI 4.1
Introduction:Multitenancy management tool is built to use a single instance of BI 4.x runs on a server, serving multiple client organizations (tenants). BI 4.x can be designed to virtually partition...
View ArticleWhat administrators need to know about SAP BI 4.1. and SAP Jam integration
New to SAP BI 4.1 is the integration with SAP Jam. The integration allows to bring business context to reports and dashboards, while providing collaboration that is supported by data which exists...
View ArticleBusinessObjects Administration - Planning for System Management
Dear All, This is the continuation of my previous blogs on BusinessObjects content management and Auditing considerations. The topic of discussion is going to be System management procedure for...
View ArticleNew document released for the Upgrade to BI
Dear all, I'm happy to inform you that we just realesed a new article in the BI4.x How To series. The new document covers the upgrade of existing Auditing and Monitoring databases for use within...
View ArticleSAP Insider 2013
Will be heading to Amsterdam tomorrow to join the BI team @ SAP Insider.If you would like to have a chat with me, please look me up at the BI site of SAP Insider where I most probably will be. I will...
View ArticleBusinessObjects Query builder queries - Part IV
Dear Folks, Again this is the continuation of my previous blogs on Query builder. BusinessObjects Query builder queriesBusinessObjects Query builder queries - Part IIBusinessObjects Query builder...
View ArticleDelegated administration in SAP BI 4.0 SP4
The responsibilities of a Business Intelligence Platform system administrator include managing a large number of documents, folders, users, servers, and other objects. However, administration effort...
View ArticleBusinessObjects Query builder – Best practices & Usability
After series of blogs on Query builder, in this blog I would like to share best practices with the typical usability in Query builder. Here we goUseful Functions in Query Builder...
View ArticleBI Unplugged - Virtual Webinar Series
BI Unplugged: Your Requests, our Replies Thinking about upgrading to BI4? In process of upgrading? Already there and just want to learn more? If you answered YES to any of those questions then this...
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