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January 29, 2017
Design Studio 1.x and hierarchies: Not Assigned node filtering
In BW hierarchies, the values that are not assigned to a hierarchy node are gathered under the Not Assigned node. The query output shows this node in the hierarchy on the same level as the top node of the hierarchy. This … Continue reading →
January 12, 2017
Relative OpenDocument links
In the BI Platform each document and folder has its own directDocument Link. Via this OpenDocument concept the specific object can be opened instantly, without having to browse through the BI Launchpad. You can find the Document Link by right-clicking … Continue reading
December 4, 2016
Reading SAP Community blogs via RSS
I’m not too happy with the new SAP Community, so I’ll try to avoid it as much as possible. Luckily we can still track the blogs via RSS via the tags… 1. Find the tag. You can go to blogs.sap.com, … Continue reading
OMG they killed SCN
The new SAP Community (formerly SCN – SAP Community Network) must beone of the biggest cluster fucks of 2016. It seems to meet all the conditions of the definition: clusterfuck(pluralclusterfucks) (slang,vulgar)Achaoticsituationwhere everything seems to go wrong. It is often caused … Continue reading
November 28, 2016
De Nederlandse BI Podcast – Episode 25
SAP TechEd Barcelona and sitNL 8recap in this edition of De Nederlandse BI Podcast! Topics: TechEd Recap BW/4HANA Roadmap/implementation BusinessObjects Cloud, what’s new? Predictive Analytics IBCS en BusinessObjects, amatch made in heaven? BusinessObjects admin met GB&Smith As always, you can … Continue reading
November 27, 2016
sitNL 2016
Yesterday was the 8th edition of the yearly SAP Inside Track The Netherlands (sitNL). The event was sold-out and even had a waiting list! Wauw!Luckily the new location at the Ciber office in Eindhoven was very spaceyand I’d say large … Continue reading
October 8, 2016
Migrating Analysis for Office workbooks from BW to BI Platform
We are in process of moving a lot of Analysis for Office (AfO) workbooks from a SAP BW environment to theSAP BusinessObjects BI Platform. Besides storing the workbooks on BI Platform, we of course want to use the OLAP connection … Continue reading
September 29, 2016
De Nederlandse BI Podcast – Episode 24
Tonight we recordededition 24 ofDe Nederlandse BIPodcast!We talked about TechEd Las Vegas 2016, Lumira 2.0, HANA Express and BW/4HANA. As always, you can findthe show iniTunes, onour websiteor just use the Podcast player below to listen instantly.Warning: Dutch content only!
September 18, 2016
SAP Lumira 2.0 – Some new insights
SAP Lumira 2.0was announced earlier this year as thesuccessor to SAP Lumira 1.x andSAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.6. But, apart from a few screenshots and roadmap slides I hadn’t seen much of this new version yet. Luckily there was a … Continue reading
August 25, 2016
De Nederlandse BI Podcast – Episode 23: We are back!
After a long break we are back with a newedition ofDe Nederlandse BI Podcast!This timewe discuss Steve Lucas leaving SAP, a possible new BW version, SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2, BI2016, TechEd 2016 and sitNL 2016. As always, you can … Continue reading
