Business Intelligence – Now More Than Ever! I was at Sapphire 2009 last week and enjoyed getting a chance to talk with customers about their priorities in the new economic climate. Everyone is hoping that things will turn around soon but in the meantime, there was a lot of interest around Business Intelligence and the […]
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Real World Guide to Setting up Kerberos
[UPDATED 10/1/2010 – See Below] I was recently involved with the configuration of Kerberos with a customer and as I was reading about it in the documentation, I realized that there were a number of areas that lacked the clarity I needed to understand what information SAP BusinessObjects needed to know about my environment. The […]
Embedding Web Controls into your Crystal Reports
Bringing Together HTML Controls and Crystal Reports Every once in a while I get a chance to present in a forum or user group and show some new amazing capabilities in the product suite. Last year I had the chance to demonstrate WebElements. WebElements is a collection of Crystal functions which generate HTML. An easy […]
Universe Measures – Divide and Conquer
I was recently working with a universe and attempting to calculate a ratio between two numbers and coming up with some strange results. I wanted to share this with you so you didn’t waste as much time as I did trying to solve the problem. Always Returning Zero In my example, I had two measures […]
BusinessObjects XI 3.1 Features
I haven’t seen a lot of information available that talks about what’s new in the release of the latest version, BusinessObjects XI 3.1, so I thought I would point out some of the highlights I’ve come across. You may also want read the complete What’s New in BusinessObjects XI 3.1 guide from the website. Release […]