Visual Intelligence – Resolving Start Up Issues

Enjoying Visual Intelligence?  I am.  Unfortunately however every once in a while something will go wrong.  Most of the time stopping and restarting Visual Intelligence will fix the problem but sometimes not. One error I received recently was:  Open document failed / The engine failed to start before timeout.  Restart the application.  (HDB 10005) Here […]

Dynamic Data Provider within BusinessObjects v4.0

As customers migrate from the classic Business Views one feature missing from the new Information Design Tool is a straight-forward dynamic data connection option when defining connections.  In fact, it’s already been mentioned in  Ideas Place along with a great use case. Dynamic Data Connections Dynamic Data Connections allow a database connection to be determined by […]

Visual Intelligence Goes Predictive….

It was only a few short months ago when Visual Intelligence was released.  We were promised a rapid development and release cycle, but I never expected this many changes is such a sort time. Here is a quick summary: 1.0.1 – Visual data analysis and data discovery for the Desktop 1.0.2 – Freehand SQL, Publish […]

New 90-day free trial to SAP Visual Intelligence

It’s New! It’s Cool! It’s Wow! It’s like two aspirin for that DeskI hangover! … and it’s available FREE for 90 days! 11/12 UPDATE:  This was a limited time offer.  The free trial is now 30 days. SAP Visual Intelligence is now available for download.  It provides the ability to connect to data sources such […]

Preview of Dashboards on the iPad

Here is a quick preview video of dashboards running on the iPad using HTML5.  We should see this functionality available by end of 2012.  I think it looks pretty good so far. Xcelsius on iPad Preview This is a preview of the new product changes based on SAP’s statement of direction for Xcelsius.  For all […]