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 [...]
BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP2 Upgrade Update
I wanted to write a quick follow-up post to the one I posted earlier about the BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP2 install. Now that I've done several I wanted to give you some additional heads up on some things. This is what I've learned: Be Careful of Language Packs The install can take a long time [...]
Walking Through SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
Today I attended the GABOUG quarterly meeting and saw a really nice presentation of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer by Rob Fiorillo of RFP Consulting. He showed multiple demos. During the first demo, he wanted to show how to use Explorer with data from Excel, so he used Live Office to take the data out of the [...]
SAP BusinessObjects Demos on YouTube…
I'm amazed at how easy it is to find information these days. Today I decided to do a follow-up post based on my most recent WebIntelligence demo post. After a little searching around and I found a number of demos that had been posted by David Collins Dixon onto Youtube. David has written a number [...]