Documenting my adventures, daring and mundane, with analytics and cloud computing
Articles about the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform
I’ll give SAP a hat tip for some of the innovations in BI 2027. But it’s hard to ignore that one of those choices is Apache Derby, a database named after a hat style that feels stuck in another era.
Live Office was a plug-in for Microsoft Office created by Business Objects as part of the XI R2 platform released…
Submit ideas to improve the SAP BusinessObjects platform and its Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence tools.
It’s been over four years since the last State of the BusinessObjects Upgrade…
According to the most recent Supported Platforms document for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP8, last updated April 16, 2020, the…
There are some familiar customization options for the new yet unfamiliar Fiori-inspired BI Launch Pad and BI Administration Console.
Commentary is a useful new feature in SAP BI 4.2 but needs configuration beyond the default setup to work optimally.
The roadmap of the SAP BusinessObjects platform makes me scared. But I won’t stop and falter. Here’s what Howard Jones taught me about SAP analytics strategy. And growing older.
SAP, if you love your BI platform users, it’s time to set them free.
SAP BusinessObjects 4.1, SAP Lumira 1.x and SAP Design Studio 1.x maintenance all come to an end in 2018. Here’s how to plan for the future.
