Administration & Security

Averting Disaster

How to properly back up your SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence cluster.

BusinessObjects XI R1 was first shipped in early 2005. The real action didn’t begin until XI R2 shipped in November…

Here’s what I’ve accomplished so far. Disable Unnecessary Windows Services I noticed that a process called cidaemon.exe was consuming a…

I normally try to post useful information on my blog, but on this post, I need your help. Please feel…

In the spirit of Orange County Choppers, I began this week with a need to customize Business Objects InfoView in…

SAP’s BI offering for SMB customers.

I’m teaching BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0/3.1: Administration and Security (course number SA210V3.1) this week. It’s the first of three classes…

I recently helped a customer upgrade from the original BusinessObjects Edge Series (XI R2 vintage) to BusinessObjects Edge Series 3.0…

My first impressions of LifeCycle Manager for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1

For those of you who didn’t make it to Dallas, Texas for the first Global BusinessObjects Network (GBN) conference, my…