Archive for the ‘SAP Business Objects Enterprise’ Category

Building a SAP BI 4 Demo System

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

This article provides a summary of the high level steps involved with building a SAP BI 4 Demo System and provides guidance on hardware and software requirements and links to where software can be downloaded from. The Demo System will host SAP Business Objects 4.0 and SAP Data Services 4.0

SAP BI 4 Checking Database Connectivity

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013

A common issue found when starting SAP Business Objects BI4 is that the system cannot logon to the CMS database repository. Troubleshooting this can be tricky but the following command can be used on a Linux deployment to check connectivity to an Oracle database and capture error messages in a ...

Boest – the BOE Stress Testing Application

Friday, September 17th, 2010

For a while I have been saying to everyone I know that Crystal Reports is more efficient at processing reports than Web Intelligence but I have never had any concrete proof. So I decided to set myself a small project that compares Web Intelligence document to the same report created ...

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI3 Deployment Patterns

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 ...

Part 2. Developing BOE Java Web Applications using Eclipse

Monday, November 9th, 2009

In the previous article we looked at setting up Eclipse for developing Java web applications. In this article we'll look at the additional configuration required for the development of Java web applications that use the BusinessObjects SDK.