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Sybase IQ Overview

Josh sits down with a new friend, Clint Vosloo from BI In The Box, South Africa, to do a Sybase IQ Overview. In this episode, they install a base install of Sybase IQ, do some initial configuration, load in some BIG data and run a few queries.

Posted by: Josh Fletcher Created on: Mon 16 April 2012 03:00 pm
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with Sybase, Sybase IQ, Data warehouse
 

Deski Everywhere

You asked for it.  The team at the Diversified Semantic Layer as come through for you.  It is finally here (and will be available in 64 bit as soon as that goes GA).

This thing has legs.

Deski Everywhere Architecture

 

wink

Posted by: Eric Created on: Mon 02 April 2012 06:36 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, Diedeski
3 comments.

Christmas Episode 2011

The DSLayer crew shows some international (un)love for Deski and the Import Wizard to celebrate this holiday season.  We only did this to make up for the scrubbed 2010 episode.

 

Posted by: Eric Created on: Wed 21 December 2011 10:36 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer
3 comments.

SAP Quick Sizer

Greg goes into new territory here with a walkthrough of using the SAP Quick Sizer to design a new SAP BusinessObjects BI4 environment.

 

Posted by: Eric Created on: Thu 15 December 2011 03:39 pm
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, BI4
 

Information Design Tool Data Profiling Revisited

As a follow on to the last video on data profiling, Eric demonstrates a command line argument for the IDT that improves data profiling capabilities.

The exact argument to enable this capability in the IDT:

-debug idt.options

Results may vary, use at your own risk :-)

Posted by: Eric Created on: Tue 08 November 2011 04:36 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, Information Design Tool
 

SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Active Directory SSO Tutorial

Josh walks through a step-by-step process to configure SAP BusinessObjects BI4 to use Active Directory single sign-on. You can also view the step-by-step instructions at Josh's blog found at Geek2Live.net.

 

Posted by: Josh Fletcher Created on: Tue 25 October 2011 05:00 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, BI4, Active Directory, SSO, Single Sign-On
 

SAP BusinessObjects Mobility Demonstrated

Greg and Nic Smith sat down at SAP TechEd to show some great analytics delivered on an iPad via Explorer Mobile and HANA.  Now with over 200,000 downloads? Good stuff.  We like it.

 

Posted by: Eric Created on: Mon 26 September 2011 02:45 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, SAP HANA, Explorer Mobile, SAP TechEd
 

SAP BusinessObjects BI4 End-to-end Demo Part 1

In this video Josh walks through part 1 of a BI4 end-to-end demo that he recently presented at the Mastering Business Intelligence with SAP South Africa conference. He shows how to create a simple universe in the Information Design Tool, a simple Web Intelligence report, and finishes up with a simple Crystal Report.

 

Posted by: Josh Fletcher Created on: Fri 02 September 2011 10:30 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Universe Designer, Information Design Tool, BI4
 

Data Profiling in the Information Design Tool

In this video, Eric reviews the finer points of data profiling directly within the Information Design Tool as a part of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.

 

Posted by: Eric Created on: Fri 02 September 2011 05:30 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, Universe Designer, Information Design Tool, BI4
 

BI4 Full Platform Install

Josh revisits installing not only the BI4 platform (on Windows), but also dives into Data Services 4, part of the EIM 4 suite.

 

Posted by: Eric Created on: Tue 02 August 2011 12:32 pm
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, BI4, Data Services 4
 

Installing BI4 on CentOS 5.6

Josh and Eric start our latest podcast series to demonstrate how to create your very own, personalized, unsupported SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Linux box.

Feel free to stop by iTunes to subscribe, or go for a direct download.

Play it now:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Posted by: Eric Created on: Sun 05 June 2011 09:09 am
This article was posted in The Visible Layer and tagged with SAP BusinessObjects, BI4
 
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