Remember the Mouse revolution? I'll never forget the first time I saw a Macintosh and used the mouse to move a pointer across the screen. I could start programs, paint pictures and do all kinds of cool things without learning a new interface. Well, Jeff Han recently introduced the world to an entirely new generation [...]
Set Analysis Part 5b: Custom Groups in WebIntelligence
So how we do do this exactly? How can I use BusinessObjects to create custom groups on-the-fly? How can I get beyond my requirements for multi-pass SQL and speed up my reports? The answer is Sets. Set Data All the information regarding sets is located is the tables called sets_*. The most important tables are: [...]
Set Analysis Part 5a: Custom Groups in WebIntelligence
I recently had a customer who was in the process of migrating from a legacy version of Microstrategy to BusinessObjects. They had been able to migrate over most of their core reports, but there were several reports that required a number of custom groups. Microstrategy's approach was to allow the customer to define any number [...]
Now that’s what I call a vacation!
Since the merger with SAP, we've begun to adopt most of the SAP policies. One policy is related to vacation. SAP strongly encourages employees to take their vacation each year and not allow it to pile up. In fact, the maximum amount of vacation you are allowed to roll over each year in 5 days. [...]
Set Analysis Part 4b: Creating FreeHand SQL or Importing
A less common way to create sets is to create sets is through free-hand SQL. Normally you will want to leverage to power of the set engine to design the SQL for you to return the correct results, but in rare cases you might find it helpful to create your own SQL Statements. Free Hand [...]