Lumira | Predictive Analysis Troubleshooting: Hangs on the splash screen when starting…

I recently discovered an issue when leveraging both Lumira and Predictive Analysis 1.18 and it took me a while to debug the issue and so I wanted to share those results with you. The version of Lumira/Predictive Analysis I had installed on my desktop had a permanent key with a timeout and I didn’t realize […]

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 […]