My Life With BusinessObjects

For those who did not catch my earlier post or those who may be bitter, clinging to their guns and SAP BusinessObjects XI R2 CD’s, I found an interesting message on  the SAP Support Portal (S-ID required) while downloading XI 3.1 software this week: How to obtain SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XIR2 Patches and Full Builds [...]

Today is June 30, 2010, a day that will live in infamy.  It is the last day of patch support for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2.  Limited tech support will continue for an additional year, until June 30, 2011.  But it means that XI R2 Service Pack 6 (XI R2 SP6 and a few fix [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reviewing different aspects of SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise on Linux.  The writing has been slow, mostly because I’m using my “spare” time to finish the draft of my ASUG Annual Conference presentation that’s due on Monday. Today’s post provides some tips of what to look at on an unfamiliar [...]

In a earlier post, I explained how to perform some basic customizations of InfoView and Web Intelligence for BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 and XI 3.x on Microsoft Windows 2003 server. I’ve been doing a lot of Linux installs for BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2, so I thought I would take a minute to describe how to [...]

Henri Theuwissen has written Convincing Reasons to Move to Web Intelligence, a thoughtful and detailed review of how organizations can move from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence.  Henri makes the case that The conversion from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence: – Reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO). – Increases the ease of deployment and [...]

I received a tweet today indicating that SAP has extended the support period for BusinessObjects XI R2 until June 30, 2011.  You can read the scoop on the  SAP Support Portal (S-ID required): SAP will provide limited support for most BusinessObjects XI R2 products for a further year following the end of mainstream maintenance until [...]