Planned SAP name changes for Business Objects 4.0
Below is a great article on planned SAP named changes for the Business Objects 4.0 release. It looks like Xcelsius Enterprise will be changed to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. In my opinion it’s...
View ArticleUsing Charles to help you debug!
In this article I would like to state the importance of how useful it is to use a traffic monitoring tool such as Charles or Fiddler when debugging connection type errors. In this example, we’ll go...
View ArticleBI Web Services presentation from SAP Inside Track 2011 now available for...
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on BI Web Services at SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2011! A replay of the presentation can be found at the following link => http://bit.ly/rkBU1p I’ve...
View ArticleStep by Step guide on bursting reports in Business Objects
The ability to publish and schedule reports according to one’s profile is an important feature that we have in Business Objects. For example, if I am a plant manager for a the West Region and want to...
View ArticleBursting Reports in Business Objects to Dynamic Recipients
This post is a continuation of my previous post on Bursting Reports in Business Objects The difference here is that instead of distributing the reports to Business Objects users, we’ll be able to...
View ArticleHidden feature WSDL Generator
Recently with one of my client BI4 implementations I’ve been doing a lot of patch upgrades and external application installations (ie: explorer). Apparently it seems whenever some sort of upgrade is...
View ArticleHow to bypass the Central Management Console (CMC) logon screen
I’ve seen many posts in forums asking how to bypass the CMC (Central Management Console) logon screen ie: (how to logon infoview bypass the logon screen) , and unfortunately there has not been one...
View ArticleHow to bypass the BI Launchpad logon screen
For those of you who need a quick reference on how to bypass the BI Launchpad logon screen, here it is. There are many reasons why you may want to bypass the BI Launchpad logon screen. For example, you...
View ArticleDemystifying LCM Overrides
The LCM Overrides tool is very powerful as it allows administrators to manage the migration of server host settings from environment to environment very easily. For example if Dev used a different...
View ArticleSetting the correct CMS name for BI Launchpad and CMC login page
In SAP Business Objects 4.0+, a properly distributed environment will have the Web application server and the Server Intelligence Agent (SIA) sitting in separate servers. By default, when you install...
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