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 [...]
Dealing with Small Numbers in Explorer
Recently I've been spending a lot of time with Explorer and I've made a few interesting discoveries that I wanted to pass along. I'm not sure why some of my BI colleagues haven't been giving Explorer any love (see the DSLayer Explorer Gets No Love podcast), but I think it's a phenomenal product... but with any [...]
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 [...]