Crystal Reports you say? What version? It’s embedded in your application? How is it embedded? What does it do? Do you know what Developer Libraries they used? SDK? What? Who? When? To be honest, the reason I joined Crystal Decisions all those many years ago was because of Crystal Reports. I’d used Crystal Reports may […]
Category Archives: BI Platform
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 […]
Deploying BusinessObjects with wdeploy
Deploying BusinessObjects XI on remote web servers just go a whole lot easier! BusinessObjects has always been easy to install when you take the default settings and do a single server installation, but what about when you are trying to install BusinessObjects across a number of different web servers. As Murphy’s law dictates, the documentation […]
Treat Your BI Vendors as a Strategic Partner
I just read a great article that I agree with wholeheartedly. John Myers writes a regular blog on BEYE website. Unfortunately he doesn’t provide a trackback, so I can’t easily reference his original posting, but here’s what he says: The next time that I hear about how IT departments want to drive to a standard, […]