Blogs posted July 25, 2011

Continuing from my last blog Caboodle – Part 7 – BOBJ4 Live Office Install This blog focuses on Analysis for Office (AO) 1.1 SP3 32bit, and 64 bit. On both 32bit 1.0 and 1.1 versions, I had great difficulty getting this to  work on... Read More »

Duet Enterprise 1.0 has been launched in February and we can already see a lot of tracktion. We had several very successfull Dev Jams where partners from accross the globe developed — within one week — amazing applications on top of... Read More »

The mere topic of innovation seems to have a watered down meaning in today’s economy. When asked, everyone says it’s important but then most businesses’ funding priorities don’t reflect that thought. Companies want... Read More »

Look, I know that *** sells, so in the hope of getting more people to read my blog  I’ve even mentioned it in the title. However, in this case it isn’t just for blatent self promotion it’s because I’ve... Read More »

(originally published at www.sybase.com in July 2011; moved to SCN in November 2012) Earlier this year, I blogged that things were looking great for Sybase ASE, among other databases. About half a year later, this looks ever more true. Now, I may... Read More »

Here I install the BOBJ4 on a SAP Max DB database, and not the packaged MS SQL. I will download the database software, install it, create a database, then begin the BOBJ4 installation. Here’s a summary of what’s... Read More »

Update (March 2017) If you decided to use SAP Enterprise Portal, then SAP NetWeaver 7.5 is the recommended go-to-release for on-premise customers. Not only does this version have the longest maintenance period, it also includes some exciting new... Read More »

The recent webinar with presentations by the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Carbon Reporting Initiative, and SAP (recording available here) was not as content-rich as it might have been, but there was some useful information. The three presenters... Read More »

Here’s a short video of a SAP partner solution for displaying Xcelsius Dashboards on the Apple iPad. This video also shows vieww for Webi and Crystal Reports:   Learn more about this iPad app and SAP’s strategy for mobile... Read More »

Enhanced feature and new feature in the data flows of BI 7.3 In the Modeling functional area of the Data Warehousing Workbench, you can use a graphic to display the data flow of objects in BW. This illustrates the connections and dependencies... Read More »