In this blog post, we discuss how to activate the SAP Build Workzone:Advanced edition. The SAP BTP Customer Onboarding Series includes this blog, and we strive to maintain the onboarding series of blogs current with any changes in the product setup procedures. We will discuss as below: 1.Log into the global account and assign the....

In this blog post, we will discuss, how to enable the drop down option in BI- Launchpad after upgrading BOBJ 4.3 SP03 PL 200 to 300. After upgrading BOBJ 4.3 SPS3 PL 200 to 300, we are facing BI-Launchpad authentication issue.   When logging in BI launch pad, there is no drop-down option available to....

  As we reach the mid-point in 2023, customers who are still on SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 release versions should be planning and finalizing the move to the latest BI 4.3 release. As stated in the SAP Analytics Business Intelligence Statement of Direction, version 4.2 will reach end of priority one support at the end of....

In BI 4.3 SP02, existing cryptographic libraries are replaced by SAPJCE libraries. To know more about these changes, please refer SAP Note 3218399. SAP Note 3112068 describes the steps to configure SAP JCE libraries for different application servers. The steps require to copy the SAP JCE binaries to the JRE lib/ext and bin folders of the application server. In case of WebSphere, its not....

When comes to SAP BW upgrade many companies may have many questions but the most asked  question is should we upgrade to BW4HANA or BW ON HANA. I would like to explain briefly the difference between both and what should be the approach and what  are the most important steps to take care after the....

First we will discuss about why analysis for office is useful for Business intelligence reporting and what are the advantages and the steps to create a report, scheduling it to specific users. SAP Analysis for Office is a plugin from Microsoft which can be used with excel and power point. When Excel plugin with SAP....

Update: Based on the comment from Ayman Salem the better solution is to create a  Destination_AllowList.txt file as described in KBA 2477817. We are on BusinessObjects BI 4.2 SP09 Patch 4 and are in the final stages of preparing to upgrade to BI 4.3 SP02 Patch 8. I realized I had not yet tested saving to the File....

Recently I came across a business requirements wherein Customer wanted to check if a WebI report can be scheduled every month at a frequency which is not consistent across months and also the days (of the month) when the report should run changes across months. For instance, Lets assume we are currently in the month of March. Customer....

In this blog post, I would like to share a business scenario ( primarily used for “Reconciliation Reports” ) and one of the solution to it. Business Scenario : For a WebI Report ( may be a Reconciliation report between two systems) which is scheduled to run on daily basis, users would like to –....

During SAP BO or any other product Installation which requires Apache Service, Tomcat get installed. Tomcat is a popular open-source Java Servlet Container that is widely used to deploy web applications. One common issue that users may encounter is that the Tomcat server may crash when the SMS Agent Host service is using the same....

After much demand I’m really pleased to announce an update to my BI Platform Auditing solution which is available now. Since I initially released it, over the last 7 years, my solution has become quite popular in the community that it still receives about 200 downloads a month! The solution is a Universe and a bunch of....

If you are looking forward to making yourself familiar with the latest capabilities and features of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3, SAP Cloud Appliance Library (SAP CAL) is allowing you to test SAP BI 4.3 Support Package 2 for free, through a 30-day trial license. SAP CAL provides pre-configured and ready-to-use SAP solutions that can run in....

If you are an SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Administrator and looking to find out Empty Groups, or List Sub Groups and Users inside groups, following are the queries which will help in that aspect.   To list the top level Groups, which are at the root level in Group Hierarchy: SELECT si_id, si_cuid, si_name, si_group_members,....

If you are SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform Administrator and looking to find Users who are part of multiple groups, this blog is for your reference.   Query to get the groups a user is belonging to: SELECT SI_ID, SI_NAME, SI_USERGROUPS FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_KIND='User' AND SI_ID = <id>   Here is the JAVA SDK sample....

This blog post will help you with issues installing SAP Business Objects SP9.  Crowdstrike antivirus doesn’t interfere with the install, this will discuss the VERSIONS of Crowdstrike that was interfering with the install When installing SAP Business Objects SP9 Patch 7 I had the error that the setup_engine could not be updated and the install....

I would like to share our learning experiences during the BOBJ Azure Cloud Migrations for the retail company. 1. SAML Authentication issues for SAP Users. Hope many of you aware the SAML Implementations processes in BOBJ System. Objective : Implement SAML OKTA for Tomcat systems and enable the SSO for SAP Users and Enterprise Users in....

With the announcement of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3 SP02 release, you might already aware about the new type of SSO mechanism introduced in BI Platform: End to End SSO with Authorization Server – OAuth SSO Let’s see what is it all about the new type of SSO. More about Authorization Server (OAuth) SSO Important Points to Note Steps to Configure Authorization....

In a recent webinar hosted by APOS, SAP’s Eric Fenollosa gave us an update on SAP BusinessObjects 4.3, the SAP BusinessObjects Private Cloud Edition (PCE), and the road ahead. You can watch this webinar in its entirety on demand. At the end of this webinar, APOS COO Allan Pym introduces the APOS PCE Adoption Kit, which can help you achieve....

With business analytics, individuals and organizations are in the best position to succeed when they gain value from data to drive improvements both internally and for their customers. It’s important for IT and non-IT employees and stakeholders to look holistically at the entire use case. Getting deeper on business analytics has been a long-time passion....

Remember to join SAP and Guy Kawasaki for next week’s Data to Outcome event.  It is open to all. Figure 1 Source: SAP   This was an ASUG webcast earlier this month given by Maheshwar Singh Special thanks to Ingo Hilgefort for setting up this webcast for ASUG. Figure 2 Source: SAP Need new license keys for BI4.3 Figure 3....