My Life With BusinessObjects

For whatever reason, SAP doesn’t put obvious information like “Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 2″ on its About screen.  Instead, you need a secret decoder ring to determine the version.  Fortunately, the Xcelsius folks at SAP have placed this information in the Release Notes documentation, which is available on the SAP Help Portal. I’ve recreated it [...]

Just in time for Christmas, Xcelsius 2008 SP3 arrived this week. Timo Elliot has an excellent summary of its new features and Ryan Goodman lists his favorite top 10 enhancements.  Service Pack 3 is intended to keep everyone sated until the next major release of Xcelsius arrives next year, presumably with the rest of the [...]

Well, it’s finally here. SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP2 has been released. And today is also the day that Xcelsius 2008 SP2 is supposed to be released. I’m currently downloading the 1.36 GB patch from the SAP Service Marketplace and trying to find the updated documentation on the SAP Help Portal. SAP puts the documentation [...]

One of the advantages of having a personal blog like this one is that it gives you a space to write down stuff worth remembering that you might forget later. I have discovered that I’m usually not the only person having a problem getting something to work, and even a modest tip or trick is [...]

Xcelsius 2008 Dashboard Best PracticesLoren AbdulezerCopyright © 2009 by Pearson Education, Inc. I’ve spent a lot of time in 2008 and 2009 creating Xcelsius dashboards for various clients. A book that I have found very helpful is Loren Abdulezer’s Xcelsius 2008 Dashboard Best Practices. According to the bio on the back of the book, Loren [...]

One of the primary topics in the SA210 Administration and Security course (formerly known in its XI R2 incarnation as Administering Users and Content) is the chapter on managing content. There are four basic methods for adding content to BusinessObjects Enterprise: InfoView, Central Management Console (CMC), Publishing Wizard, and the Save As command in various [...]