If you are one of the SAP customers who is still running BusinessObjects XI 3.1, I would urge you to add an upgrade to BusinessObjects 4.2 into your immediate plans for 2017. Although SAP has extended priority one support until Dec 2018, this should not mean upgrading your BI environment should be delayed. As the software that supports your […]
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Upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects 4.1
Don’t Miss Out! There is an excellent Technical Webinar Series happening right now: Upgrading to the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 These sessions started back in July and have been an excellent resource for understanding what’s required to upgrade, best practices, SSO, monitoring, strategy and roadmap, etc. For details on the schedule go here. […]
Virtualizing SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
Last year I wrote a quick article about Virtualization support for BusinessObjects. Since that time, SAP has been doing a lot of testing and refinement to guidelines regarding virtualizing your BI 4 environment. Originally only advertised to a handful of attendees at Sapphire the www.sap.com/bivirtualization link has had over 1,000 views per month. This is the official guidance […]
BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP6 full build available…
I was reviewing my SAP Support Portal Newsletter after returning from vacation and discovered that SAP has released SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 Service Pack 06 – Full Build. I really wasn’t expecting that — but I was happy to see it. It sure beats worrying about the correct ‘upgrade path’ to such as the complications associated […]
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 […]