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 […]

Merging SAP and non-SAP data: Overcoming Hierarchies

Even though SAP provides connectivity to both SAP BW and relational data, combining these data sets into a single report can be tricky.  There are lots of ways to do it: A Single, Federated Query combining an SAP DSO and Relational data at the universe tier. A Single, Federated Query combining an SAP Infocube Relational […]

BusinessObjects BI Decision Tree

UPDATE 10/5/2012:  Things have continued to evolve since May and therefore this post has been updated based on the latest roadmap information coming from SAP together with, as always, some of my own thoughts and opinions. The good news, bad news about the SAP BusinessObjects product suite is that although there is a lot of […]

Histograms in WebIntelligence

Every once and a while I run across a reporting technique that makes me say:  Wow – that was really clever. In going through the new charting in BusinessObjects v4.0, I noticed that there was no histogram available.  After doing a Google search I found a great article by Alastair Gulland. Alastair uses  a combination […]

Xcelsius for the iPad – Today!

If you’re like the other thousands of SAP BusinessObjects customers, you would love to move your Xcelsius dashboards to the iPad.  Right? The problem is flash.  Steve Jobs hates flash and steadfastly refuses to support flash on the iPad.  Even on tablet devices that do support flash such as the Samsung Galaxy, some people complain […]