I recently received an urgent email from a customer who was days from going live with their new SAP BusinessObjects environment. After checking the supported platforms guide, they suddenly realized that their combination of products wasn’t listed in the document. They said: According to the BO website Product 5.x will not be certified until BusinessObjects XI […]
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Data Quality: You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
SAP BusinessObjects delivers great Business Intelligence solutions so that organizations can report off their existing data sources. But what is the point of reporting of data that isn’t accurate anyway? Although it is true that accurate data is pretty useless if you can get access to it, the converse is also true. What is the […]
BusinessObjects Installation Best Practice
When installing any SAP BusinessObjects software, I find that it’s always best to have WinRAR nearby. Just as a spoonful of sugar, it helps the medicine go down, WinRAR give you the control you need when disk resources are tight. I was reminded of this again when I downloaded the new version of Xcelsius 2008 […]
Where Are You Coming From?
Have you ever been confused by directions or road signs? Sometimes information doesn’t bring clarity. Hopefully this blog will bring some clarify to potential issues you might encounter in your upgrade to SP2. I can’t believe this is my 4th post about the subject. Issues When Moving From Fix Pack 1.6+ to SP2 I made […]
XI3.1 SP2 Installation Issues Addressed in Re-Release
Over the last several months, we’ve worked to make customers aware of one of the major issues with the latest upgrade within the XI 3.1 product stack. The main issue has been that the upgrade is simply too slow. Way too slow. I knew that the SAP BusinessObjects product development team has been working on […]