Archive for the ‘SAP Business Objects’ Category
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
This article looks at how to use a local data source in a Web Intelligence report and then combine that data with data retrieved from a data warehouse.
Business Scenario
The worked example described here is to create a simple dashboard style report of sales data. We then highlight the sales figures ...
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
This article compares data analysis using Web Intelligence to the same workflow using Microsoft Excel and for the given scenario demonstrates why using Web Intelligence is quicker, easier and less error prone.
The objective here is not to show that in all cases Web Intelligence is better than Excel rather to ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Security Modelling is concerned with two areas: authentication - establishing who the user is, essentially the logon process and authorisation - controlling user access to different areas of the system. This article discusses four different design patterns for authorisation security models that can be used in SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise.
In SAP ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
This article looks at an approach to developing SAP BusinessObjects solutions where rather than just writing reports and universes we instead build a BI Application. The main benefit of this approach is a more efficient, streamlined and organised delivery process.
A BI Application is viewed as a complete project where the ...
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
When deploying an SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise system there are a lot of choices for where you can deploy all the services that make up the system. It is then necessary to make sure that you choose the right deployment in order to meet your requirements, for example, is it easily ...
Posted in Business Intelligence, Delivery Methodology, SAP Business Objects, SAP Business Objects Enterprise | 4 Comments »
