Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we see in another new year, it’s that time to hear about all the new strategies from software and Business Intelligence( BI) vendors for 2024. Apart from having years of investment in the solution, it actually keeps the business running and gets the job done.

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 10, 2024

Need to create an operational or paginated report that you will often need to export to Excel? Tableau does not have a paginated report capability and PowerBI’s answer with Report Builder, which is a totally different tool to PowerBI and is a port of their old SSRS tool, is like taking a huge step backwards.

Business Intelligence 52

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Paul Blogs on BI

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Here it is : “BusinessObjects will continue to thrive and remain the most solid BI reporting tool for the next 10 years and beyond”. Yes, organizations still run on paginated reporting – like it or not – it is reality. Secondly, there is no simple and inexpensive way to replace Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports.

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Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 5, 2023

When I first started raving about BusinessObjects in 1992, I would never have thought that I would still be raving about it 30 years later, let alone writing a blog on it on New Year’s Eve! . 2022 turned out to be another massive year for the most popular Business Intelligence suite on the planet. SP4 and the BI 2024. .

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Paul Blogs on BI

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This leads to a lot of issues being reported with the first version. a test database) then try out different reports as well as ad-hoc queries. SP4 at IBIS 2024 so think about attending that as well. As with previous BI 4.3 service packs, there is a lot of new functionality and code in SP4 outside of just patches and fixes.

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 15, 2021

seems to come up in almost every conversation I have with customers these days so I thought I should blog about it. functionality now and some use Crystal Reports and not Webi, so these customers may choose to move to BI 4.3 The new and current SAP BusinessObjects release, BI 4.3, The last service pack of BI 4.2, SP01 this year.

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Paul Blogs on BI

MAY 13, 2024

allows you to create a master Webi document and then place a universe on top of this document to enable users to create child reports, dashboards and extracts from this one master document. SP04, we can now dynamically refresh both master and child reports making this feature even more versatile and desirable to use.

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