Quick Tutorial Service Oriented Architectures are amazing. Now more than ever companies are leveraging freely available web services to add value to their internal data. One of the most common ways on combining data today is via Google Maps. A great example of this is housingmaps.com. Housingmaps combines the power of Google Maps and CraigsList [...]
Business Intelligence – Now More Than Ever!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Quick but useful change to Tomcat
Although I usually like to focus on tips and tricks for BusinessObjects software, I occassionally run across something that I which I had known a long time ago. As a BusinessObjects administrator how often have you mistyped the URL that takes you to InfoView? Wouldn't it be nice if you just typed in the server [...]