When contemplating data and analytics technologies – particularly highly technical systems like SAP – most people think in terms of supply chain management, sales, accounting,… Read More
Tag: Business Analytics
Retrieving Accidentally Deleted Objects in SAP BI 4.2 Using the Recycle Bin
SAP has implemented a new Application in the Central Management Console (CMC) called the Recycle Bin Application. The purpose of the Recycle bin is as… Read More
End of Support does not equal End of the World
Welcome to 4th Quarter, 2015! Now that we’re closing out the last three months of the year, it’s time to get serious about the End… Read More
UMT Revisited: 2015 is the Year for BI 4.1 Migrations
For those who may be unaware, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 are going out of patch support as of 12/31/2015. This… Read More
SAP HANA Viewed with OLAP inside of BI Launchpad
Inside of the SAP BI 4.x Platform there is now the ability to view analytic and calculated views from SAP HANA directly with OLAP connection…. Read More
#askSAP BI Strategy & Roadmap Announcement – Times They are a Changin’
Earlier today, SAP made a public statement of direction for the Analytics portfolio. To some, this news might seem Earth-shattering. To others who have been… Read More
Dynamic Visibility with SAP Design Studio
One of the features that made me fall in love with Xcelsius (Dashboards) back in the day was the ability to easily show and hide… Read More
Is Xcelsius The New Deski? Die Xcelsius Die!
Xcelsius is the new Desktop Intelligence Read More
The Day that Derby Died
Bye, bye Ms. American Pie… and all that jazz. Chalk one up in the win column! One of the smaller bullets in the “What’s New”… Read More
Analyze and Visualize Data with the Information Design Tool
Often I am asked by BusinessObjects customers whether it is worth the time to upgrade a universe from the traditional (UNV) Universe to the newer… Read More