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 […]

Merging SAP and non-SAP data: Overcoming Hierarchies

Even though SAP provides connectivity to both SAP BW and relational data, combining these data sets into a single report can be tricky.  There are lots of ways to do it: A Single, Federated Query combining an SAP DSO and Relational data at the universe tier. A Single, Federated Query combining an SAP Infocube Relational […]

FREE SAP BusinessObjects Tutorials and Training

New to the SAP BI Product Suite?  Looking for free training?  You’ve come to the right place.  SAP provides a large number of free videos and tutorials for all aspects of the BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Suite. Here is a link for you to commit to memory… http://www.sap.com/LearnBI Here you will find several getting started tutorials […]

SAP Runs Crystal Reports

Say it loud, Say it proud With the latest development of SAP Business Suite Enhancement Pak 5, SAP users can now enjoy the rich, flexible formatting functionality right from within the application. ALVs Get An Upgrade For many years, users have been limited in their ability to provide formatted reporting from an SAP ALV (ABAP […]

Histograms in WebIntelligence

Every once and a while I run across a reporting technique that makes me say:  Wow – that was really clever. In going through the new charting in BusinessObjects v4.0, I noticed that there was no histogram available.  After doing a Google search I found a great article by Alastair Gulland. Alastair uses  a combination […]