Do you need to virtualize your BI deployment? Join the crowd. Some say that by 2015, 80% of Business Intelligence deployments will be on virtualized in one way or another… and there are a lot of reasons to virtualize. In fact, I’ve been doing BusinessObjects demos using VMWare for over 10 years. So what about […]
Category Archives: Administrators
Fixing Permissions: Am I Allowed To Do That?
One of my least favorite topics is licensing. It seems like every year as corporate strategies change and as customers push for simplified licensing, SAP comes out with a new way to sell it’s products. If you’ve been around a while you’ll recognize some of these: BusinessObjects Enterprise BusinessObjects Enterprise with Interactive Viewing BusinessObjects Enteprise […]
SP5: Can’t Get There From Here
Administrators take note! In case you missed it, the straight-forward upgrade between Service Packs has a little wrinkle that you need to be aware of. Upgrading to XI 3.1 SP5 If it’s been a while since your last upgrade and you are still running BOE XI 3.1 SP2, you may be surprised to find out […]
Installing BusinessObjects v4.0 – CMS Database
I’ve installed BusinessObjects about a hundred times and there is very little that’s changed about the installation wizard from a user interface perspective since Crystal Enterprise 10. BusinessObjects has always included “in the box” all the components necessary to successfully install BusinessObjects for a single server configuration. That said, there is ONE change I make every […]
Managing Security Authorizations
A very common question when it comes to SAP BusinessObjects is: How should I manage my SAP BusinessObjects security authorizations? Although that is an extremely broad topic, today I want to discuss the issue of leveraging an external corporate directory to manage user authorizations. NOTE: It’s important to remember that only the user/group membership gets […]