Enjoying Visual Intelligence? I am. Unfortunately however every once in a while something will go wrong. Most of the time stopping and restarting Visual Intelligence will fix the problem but sometimes not. One error I received recently was: Open document failed / The engine failed to start before timeout. Restart the application. (HDB 10005) Here […]
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Dealing with Small Numbers in Explorer
Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time with Explorer and I’ve made a few interesting discoveries that I wanted to pass along. I’m not sure why some of my BI colleagues haven’t been giving Explorer any love (see the DSLayer Explorer Gets No Love podcast), but I think it’s a phenomenal product… but with any […]
SP5: Can’t Get There From Here
Administrators take note! In case you missed it, the straight-forward upgrade between Service Packs has a little wrinkle that you need to be aware of. Upgrading to XI 3.1 SP5 If it’s been a while since your last upgrade and you are still running BOE XI 3.1 SP2, you may be surprised to find out […]
Installing BusinessObjects v4.0 – CMS Database
I’ve installed BusinessObjects about a hundred times and there is very little that’s changed about the installation wizard from a user interface perspective since Crystal Enterprise 10. BusinessObjects has always included “in the box” all the components necessary to successfully install BusinessObjects for a single server configuration. That said, there is ONE change I make every […]
SAP Runs Crystal Reports
Say it loud, Say it proud With the latest development of SAP Business Suite Enhancement Pak 5, SAP users can now enjoy the rich, flexible formatting functionality right from within the application. ALVs Get An Upgrade For many years, users have been limited in their ability to provide formatted reporting from an SAP ALV (ABAP […]