Yesterday, many SAP BusinessObjects customers, mentors, partners and even a few competitors listened in as Steve Lucas as he unveiled SAP’s bold, new analytics strategy. The twittersphere as active as tweets were tracked using #allaccessanalytics, we had a lot of fun. Zimkhita Buwa quipped: Steve emphasized that SAP isn’t delivering a ‘mission accomplished’ banner. It’s just […]
Category Archives: Semantic Layer
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 […]
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 […]
Date Conversion Made Easy…
Have you ever been using SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence and wanted to turn a prompt from a date time into a date? I do a lot of demos using Microsoft SQL Server and by default Microsoft SQL Server saves everything as a date & time. So what if I don’t want the time? Simply convert the […]
In The Airport
I was on my way home from a business trip earlier this year when I noticed something strange. Something that make my BI antennae stick up. Single Version of the Truth? How much longer until the train arrives? That a simple question, right? I can see on the monitor above the entrance to the Airport […]