Building a Predictive Model

Last year SAP launched a new predictive solution for the BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform.  Prior to 2012, SAP had partnered with SPSS to provide predictive functionality; however once SPSS was acquired by IBM, it was time for SAP to develop their own solution.  This gave birth to Predictive Analysis. In version 1.0, Predictive Analysis was […]

Visual Intelligence – Resolving Start Up Issues

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 […]