Don't Miss Out! There is an excellent Technical Webinar Series happening right now: Upgrading to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 These sessions started back in July and have been an excellent resource for understanding what's required to upgrade, best practices, SSO, monitoring, strategy and roadmap, etc. For details on the schedule go here. [...]
SAP Discusses Latest BI Roadmap
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 [...]
Migrating BEx-based Information Spaces to BusinessObjects 4.0
Sometimes in software it can feel that you take two steps forward and one step back. One example of this is with BEx-based Explorer Information Spaces when migrating from XI 3.1 to BO 4.0. In 4.0, SAP removed the ability to create information spaces against the legacy universe (unv) and instead required everyone to use [...]
HANA continues momentum in Utilities…
I believe HANA represents the most significant innovation in SAP's history. A year ago I wrote a quick summary of some of the key value points that HANA brings to an organization and I focused specifically on BW on HANA, one of the most common HANA use cases for existing SAP customers. Over the last [...]
ENTICE Users with Interactive Dashboards that work…
I was delighted to see yet another extremely informative webinar from Antivia. They partnered together with FedEx to deliver a compelling webinar that discusses how organizations can use dashboards to simplify the consumption of key corporate information. Donald MacCormick kicked off the webinar with a reminder that we don't always see what we think we [...]