Blogs tagged james rapp

You may already be aware that Java 7 has been released and has a number of improvements over Java 6.  If not, you can get the full story here or a couple of the biggest highlights from a BI Platform perspective on Idea Place.  We’ll... Read More »

Deploying BI platform in the real world. Using SAP BI Platform 4.0 you can deploy entirely on one machine using the bundled database, Enterprise authentication mechanism,and application server. This allows you to quickly set up an environment to... Read More »

Some of you may already be familiar with the new licensing model available for SAP BusinessObjects BI, but for those who aren’t, let me take a couple of minutes to explain Concurrent Sessions (CS) licensing and how it works. Historically... Read More »

In my last Integration of Server Resource Monitoring with JMeter Plugins I mentioned adding a Tomcat Monitor Test Plan to an existing performance test, as a supplement to the Server Resource Monitoring plugins.  The intent is to provide... Read More »

Based on some feedback I received from past blog posts, I thought it would be helpful to demonstrate a simple logon/logoff sequence in Apache JMeter using SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1.  The learning curve with JMeter can be a bit steep at... Read More »

JMeter Plugins In my recent article on executing a JMeter performance test with Web Intelligence I was unsuccessful in achieving the target average response time I set in my objective.  In order to identify potential bottlenecks in the test... Read More »

As any SAP BusinessObjects administrator can tell you, sizing an environment can be a challenging task.   Sure there is a fair amount of guidance out there in terms of documentation on how to calculate the amount of CPU and Memory needed to... Read More »