Crystal Reports you say? What version? It’s embedded in your application? How is it embedded? What does it do? Do you know what Developer Libraries they used? SDK? What? Who? When? To be honest, the reason I joined Crystal Decisions all those many years ago was because of Crystal Reports. I’d used Crystal Reports may […]
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Why use a Semantic Layer?
Recently I had a customer ask me about using a semantic layer. They said: I am unaware of anyone using a metalayer (Universe) for Business Objects Enterprise XI. Most developers will build the report connecting directly to Teradata (or other sources; Oracle, SQL Server) and then schedule the report on XIR2. I will normally build […]
Deploying BusinessObjects with wdeploy
Deploying BusinessObjects XI on remote web servers just go a whole lot easier! BusinessObjects has always been easy to install when you take the default settings and do a single server installation, but what about when you are trying to install BusinessObjects across a number of different web servers. As Murphy’s law dictates, the documentation […]
SAP and Business Objects – The Two Shall Become One
Just moments ago regulators approved the merger between the two companies. Here is the release from the associated press posted to Forbes: U.S. antitrust regulators approved SAP AG’s $6.8 billion purchase of Paris-based software company Business Objects SA, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. Read More I psyched about the whole Business Objects/SAP merger. I […]