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 [...]
BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP6 full build available…
I was reviewing my SAP Support Portal Newsletter after returning from vacation and discovered that SAP has released SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 Service Pack 06 - Full Build. I really wasn't expecting that -- but I was happy to see it. It sure beats worrying about the correct 'upgrade path' to such as the complications associated [...]
Using Explorer and Lumira with SAP BW
This is a quick post to let you know that there is an excellent whitepaper available which explains everything you need to know about leveraging Explorer and Visual Intelligence with SAP BW. Organizations must leverage some type of acceleration technology - either HANA or BWA. Here is the original article: http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-2943 Here is a link [...]
How to Get Your Picture to Appear in Google Search Results
One of the things I love about the BusinessObjects Analytics community is the camaraderie and fun we enjoy as we help organizations improve through the use of Analytics. Whenever I need an answer, I can quickly google search and between BOB, SCN, and my tweeps I can often find what I'm looking for. During a recent search [...]
Building a Predictive Model
Last year SAP launched a new predictive solution for the BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform. Prior to 2012, SAP had partnered with SPSS to provide predictive functionality; however once SPSS was acquired by IBM, it was time for SAP to develop their own solution. This gave birth to Predictive Analysis. In version 1.0, Predictive Analysis was [...]