SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 brings many new capabilities to the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 platform. In addition to these new capabilities BI 4.0 also brings new identities for many products in the BO suite. Learning these new names will help you join the BI 4 conversation. However, even if you are using the […]
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New Version of the Query Builder Guide is Released!
In January I committed myself over on our Facebook page to completing the long-promised updates to the Business Objects Query Guide. Last night, technically just one day later than promised, I delivered on that promise. Many Improvements to Our Most Popular Guide 1) First of all, the hyperlinks within the document are fixed. There are […]
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Become a Facebook Fan of BusinessObjectsTips
Yes, BusinessObjectsTips.com has finally entered the realm of social media; we have a fan page on Facebook. Since the page was created just today there is nothing more than an announcement of our Facebook birth, but in the future fans can benefit by receiving updates about site news (including major Business Objects news), newly published […]
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Please Excuse Our Virtual Dust
Please don’t let the virtual dust bother you too much. Business Objects Tips’ infrastructure was overdue for some updates and one of those touches on the look and feel. We hope to complete the work soon and eliminate any noticeable disruptions in the mean time. Thank you for your understanding.
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BOT Was Down: Our Apologies, But It’s Your Fault!
I just wanted to apologize for the downtime our site experienced in the last 24 hours. I’m not sure how long it lasted, but I hope it was only for a few hours. You should know that the downtime was all your fault. Yes, the site exceeded its allocated bandwidth from the web hosting service, […]
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New Query Builder Guide Version Published – Includes XI 3.x Updates and Relationship Functions
I have finally completed my nearly 3-month long update to our Query Builder Guide. Like most things I do, the deeper I got into it the more I found that needed work. What kept me going, and delaying my previously promised delivery time, was the realization that aside from Ted Ueda‘s famous blog entries on […]
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Hardly Working? No, Hard at Work on the Query Builder Guide
I feel I owe a small explanation for the lull in the new article publishing on the site. I have remained active at responding to article comments, but I haven’t published a new article in nearly a month (although I just added some details to the latest article on BO XI 3.1 Fix Packs). Anyway, […]
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Newly Released Guide: Web Intelligence Quick Reference
It has been exactly one month since I published my last Business Objects XI article. I sincerely apologize for the delay, but I promise that I did not take a holiday. I spent the past month working on enabling a new “Subscribe to Comments” feature and lately on pulling together a brand new guide which […]
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New Feature: Subscribe to Article Comments
I have wanted to add the ability to subscribe to article comments to this web site since the first comment was left nearly 1.5 years ago. Unfortunately, this feature has not yet been built into our underlying Content Management System (WordPress). There was an outdated plug-in, but it was never approved for use with our […]
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We Are a Top 25 Site, Check Us Out on xmarks
You probably found this website using a search engine. We try to write our articles so that search engines will index them and rank them well enough for our readers to be able to locate them using search engines. Another smaller source of traffic are social bookmarking tools. I haven’t really spent much time with […]
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Want a Business Objects XI Guide? Please Let Me Know
For those of you who might have had the time to revisit this web site over the past year you might be wondering why we only have one single guide available. I ask myself this question almost everyday. I have been working on an administrator’s Life Cycle Management / Content Structuring guide for MANY months […]
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Hello!?!? It’s Called BO XI 3, not XI Release 3!
It is time to flog myself openly here. Not only to seek forgiveness, repentance, and even pity; but to avoid having to update every single mistaken reference made to Business Objects XI 3! Once and for all “Release 3” or “R3” Never Was and Never Has Been \ OK, maybe some BO folks referred to […]
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Windows 7 is not the Answer to BOXI R2’s Prayers
I am not one to spread rumors, but I thought I might pass this little one along to see if anyone has any experience that could confirm it. Anyway, my little rumor is… Initial tests running the Business Objects XI R2 (BOXI R2 or XIR2) web client through Internet Explorer 8 have failed miserably. Reports […]
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Have You Heard of Path Queries in Query Builder?
Did you know that there is a tweak that you can do to your Business Objects server’s Query Builder main page “query.jsp” so that it can handle “Path Queries”? Do you know what a “Path Query” is? Do you know why you should care about “Path Queries”? I was originally introduced to Path Queries by […]
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New Lower Price on Query Builder Guide
I just wanted to let visitors know that we have just lowered the price of the “BusinessObjectsTips.com Query Builder Guide” to $27.00. We have heard a lot of good things about the guide from its students since its release late last year. It truly is the “The Best Query Builder Guide Ever Written”! Just as […]
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SAP + Business Objects = SAP Business Objects… Brilliance!
It has been over a year since SAP announced its acquisition of Business Objects. During those long 14 months it seems that the branding experts at SAP have decided on a new name for BO. Yes, they brilliantly came up with the catchy and yet classic “SAP Business Objects”. Here is what their Business Partner […]
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Officially Released: The Best Business Objects XI Query Builder Guide Ever Written!
Perhaps a few visitors to BusinessObjectsTip.com have already noticed that we posted a new guide for BO XI Query Builder on the site last month. Due to some technical difficulties and lots of other lame excuses there was trouble finding and ordering the guide. These obstacles have been overcome now and I would invite you […]
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Back in the Saddle
Business Objects has not been kind to me for a while. I have been putting in way too many hours dealing with major product failures and trying to keep my customers up and running while BO scrambles to fix their code. I know that I am not alone in this and so I feel for […]
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My Topic Brainstorm
I have been swamped by my non-BusinessObjectsTips.com obligations, but in teh bak of my head I am working on the following new article topics: Report and Universe Binding: the strong bind between reports and universes that can easily be broken by accident, naivety, and dependence on past workflows OpenDocument: common uses, mistakes, and best practices […]
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