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 [...]
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 [...]
Domain Registry of America Renewal Notice – Watch out!
My wife grabbed the mail today and brought to my attention an important expiration notice from the Domain Registry of America. These guys are incredulous. Here they are trying to act like a reputable company and try and trick people into sending them money for no reason. People - you can renew or subscription to [...]
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 [...]
One Step Closer…
The associated press just announced that the SAP $6.8 billion purchase of Business Objects has cleared their review. They said that the deal, "would not significantly impede effective competition" in the 27-nation EU... this is on top of the top given by the US which I wrote about earlier. Click here to read the full [...]