Do you need to virtualize your BI deployment? Join the crowd. Some say that by 2015, 80% of Business Intelligence deployments will be on virtualized in one way or another... and there are a lot of reasons to virtualize. In fact, I've been doing BusinessObjects demos using VMWare for over 10 years. So what about [...]
U-verse and Ooma – What I’ve been waiting for…
I know that most of you come to my blog to read about Business Intelligence, but I just had to share the fantastic experience that I just had signing up for new TV, Internet and telephone service. Background For the last 12 months I've been trying to figure out what to do about my Internet [...]
Preview of Dashboards on the iPad
Here is a quick preview video of dashboards running on the iPad using HTML5. We should see this functionality available by end of 2012. I think it looks pretty good so far. Xcelsius on iPad Preview This is a preview of the new product changes based on SAP's statement of direction for Xcelsius. For all [...]
Merging SAP and non-SAP data: Overcoming Hierarchies
Even though SAP provides connectivity to both SAP BW and relational data, combining these data sets into a single report can be tricky. There are lots of ways to do it: A Single, Federated Query combining an SAP DSO and Relational data at the universe tier. A Single, Federated Query combining an SAP Infocube Relational [...]
BusinessObjects BI Decision Tree
UPDATE 10/5/2012: Things have continued to evolve since May and therefore this post has been updated based on the latest roadmap information coming from SAP together with, as always, some of my own thoughts and opinions. The good news, bad news about the SAP BusinessObjects product suite is that although there is a lot of [...]