Virtualizing SAP BusinessObjects BI 4

Last year I wrote a quick article about Virtualization support for BusinessObjects. Since that time, SAP has been doing a lot of testing and refinement to guidelines regarding virtualizing your BI 4 environment. Originally only advertised to a handful of attendees at Sapphire the www.sap.com/bivirtualization link has had over 1,000 views per month. This is the official guidance […]

Antivia Adds Xcelsius on the iPad

Are you ready to move your Xcelsius (SAP Dashboards) to the iPad yet? There’s nothing stopping you! No, not even the fact that iOS doesn’t support flash. Antivia’s new XWIS Anywhere bring a new product to their already popular suite of BusinessObjects extensions. Antivia XWIS Anywhere Antivia’s XWIS Anywhere is going to overcome a technology […]

Xcelsius for the iPad – Today!

If you’re like the other thousands of SAP BusinessObjects customers, you would love to move your Xcelsius dashboards to the iPad.  Right? The problem is flash.  Steve Jobs hates flash and steadfastly refuses to support flash on the iPad.  Even on tablet devices that do support flash such as the Samsung Galaxy, some people complain […]

Cool Dashboards from ProMorphics

Although I’ve worked in a number of different industry verticals, I’m currently focused on the Utilities vertical.  I’m always on the look out for great dashboards and I found some!  I want dashboards that combine the best features of Xcelsius together with amazing usability and depth of function.  My latest discovery is from ProMorphics.  ProMorphics […]

SapphireNOW: Mobile Computing

With the acquisition of Sybase, SAP moved strongly into the mobile applications market and is now positioned in the leadership quadrant according to Gartner.  As a result, SAP has a number of mobile applications that have robust functionality and integration with SAP CRM,  SAP Business Suite and more.  That said, I couldn’t help but be […]