Okay – so the auditing and query management that comes with SAP BusinessObjects doesn’t do it for you? Need more umph? Do you want more real-time information about your BusinessObjects system? Are you experiencing query and database performance problems? Need to identify long running queries and kill them? Every once and a while you hear […]
Category Archives: Administrators
What You’ll Notice When Installing XI 3.0
Here are a few things I noticed when installing XI 3.0 that I thought I would pass along. #1 – Time Remaining The system no longer tells you the time remember. It was always fun to explain the end of the install when it was deploying the web applications and it would jump around from […]
Let Me Change My Installation Location!
It always been a pet peeve of mine that when software installation programs assumes that you want to install it on the C:Program Files directory. How hard is it to create one more screen to allow the users to change the installation location? Over that last two days I’ve been installing the new BusinessObjects XI […]
The Next Major Release of BusinessObjects Goes RTM!
Push, Push, Push We are close… oh, so close. The baby is coming. It should be any day now. No, my wife’s not pregnant. It’s the arrival of BusinessObjects XI 3.0. That’s “three dot-o”. Let me guess. You want to know why it’s not called, “BusinessObjects XIR3”. Search me. I guess marketing did some extensive […]
Why use a Semantic Layer?
Recently I had a customer ask me about using a semantic layer. They said: I am unaware of anyone using a metalayer (Universe) for Business Objects Enterprise XI. Most developers will build the report connecting directly to Teradata (or other sources; Oracle, SQL Server) and then schedule the report on XIR2. I will normally build […]