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 […]
Tag Archives: Semantic Layer
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 […]
Date Conversion Made Easy…
Have you ever been using SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence and wanted to turn a prompt from a date time into a date? I do a lot of demos using Microsoft SQL Server and by default Microsoft SQL Server saves everything as a date & time. So what if I don’t want the time? Simply convert the […]
Supercharge Your Universe with Time-Series Analysis – Part 3
The Semantic Layer allows for powerful analysis of any relational database based on time. The ability for administrators to create complex time-based measures and filters, means that business users can access the data they need to answer any adhoc questions. We covered these topics in more detail in the previous two posts. In the past, […]