I’ve finally made the switch… I’ve moved from www.trustedbi.com to trustedbi.com First of all I’d like to thank so many of you for following my blog over these last 4+ years. I’ve seen a lot of changes in the Business Intelligence space and we’ve continue to see BusinessObjects grow up… yet for me, at it’s […]
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Experience HANA
Want to find out what all the buzz is about? Want to take your education about HANA to the next level? SAP has put together an aggregated site which brings together all the current content available on HANA. The website is called: Experience SAP HANA http://www.experiencesaphana.com/ It does require you to register but I found […]
Managing Security Authorizations
A very common question when it comes to SAP BusinessObjects is: How should I manage my SAP BusinessObjects security authorizations? Although that is an extremely broad topic, today I want to discuss the issue of leveraging an external corporate directory to manage user authorizations. NOTE: It’s important to remember that only the user/group membership gets […]
View or View Lastest Instance
To View or View Latest Instance, that is the question. An Instance … is also known simply as a Scheduled Instance or Report Instance. If you are new to BusinessObjects, an instance is what we call a report which contains both a report template and data in a single file. In the case of a […]
Common Questions about Connectivity with SAP
Now that SAP has clearly and unambiguously stated that BusinessObjects is the new face of BI for SAP, we have many customers who want more information about connectivity with SAP and are surprised when we recommend that they connect to an existing BW Query instead of to the entire Infocube. Why is connecting to SAP […]