David Lai's Business Intelligence Blog

All you need to know about Open Document (opendoc) Part 2

I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately on how to setup opendocument (opendoc), so I’d like to post this tutorial on how to do so which works for Business Objects XI 3.1. Unfortunately my previous tutorial at http://davidlai101.com/blog/2008/11/04/all-you-need-to-know-about-opendoc/ only works with Business Objects XI R2 Please note that the tutorial was taken from SAP BusinessObjects...

SAP Inside Track Vancouver Sept 27, 2011-> Leveraging the power of BI Web Services to build better dashboards

I’ve been given the opportunity to share my experiences with BI Web Services and how to build more efficient dashboards using BI Web Services in the upcoming SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2011.  Please mark your calendars for September 27, 2011 2:30pm -> 3:20pm PST! In this presentation you’ll learn about BI Web Services and how it provides a hybrid of QaaWS and Live Office.  As well...

Congratulations to our tweetaway contest winners!

I’d like to give a big thanks for everyone who participated in the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook Tweetaway contest! I was very impressed with the huge amount of tweets so Thanks everyone! I’d like to congratulate the 2 lucky tweeters who have won an eBook copy of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook They are …….. rodri_m_d montoyainigo We’ll be contacting...

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook Giveaway Twitter Contest!

Hi everyone! Packt Publishing is having a promotion where we will be giving away 2 free eBook copies of our newly released SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook. On Monday July 25, 2011 we will be randomly drawing 2 winners and grant them access to their free eBooks! All you need to do to join the Tweetaway twitter contest is to send out a tweet with a link to the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook...

Thanks for attending the Toronto BusinessObjects Customer Exchange!

BOCX Speaker Deck I’d like to send out a special thank you to all of those who attended the Toronto BusinessObjects Customer Exchange yesterday.  The event wouldn’t have been a success without the support of all those who attended. I am hoping that everyone had a great learning experience! For those who attended my presentation on dashboard essentials, you can download a copy of the presentation...

Using Charles to help you debug!

In this article I would like to state the importance of how useful it is to use a traffic monitoring tool such as Charles or Fiddler when debugging connection type errors. In this example, we’ll go through a quick scenario on solving a crossdomain.xml related issue. You will need to Install Charles on your machine and install the Charles addon for Firefox. (more…)

Planned SAP name changes for Business Objects 4.0

Below is a great article on planned SAP named changes for the Business Objects 4.0 release. It looks like Xcelsius Enterprise will be changed to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards.   In my opinion it’s still better than SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, as that name is Soooo long! Bad thing is that the new change will add some more confusion.  Can’t we just keep the same name to make things...

SAP InsideTrack 2010 Vancouver Dashboard Essentials

I look forward to seeing everyone at Vancouver’s very first local SAP Inside Track Wednesday Sept 15, 2010! I’ve been given the great opportunity to represent Xcelsius Gurus Network and present on SAP Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius). I’ll be presenting the following topics and have a thorough Questions and Answer period. Why are dashboards used and what are the benefits? Dashboard...

Understanding Business Objects Inheritance

When setting up user and group rules, it is important to understand inheritance and how inheritance works.  Otherwise you may run into unexpected access rights for your groups and users. Global to object level hierarchy By default, groups and users will inherit rights from the highest level. The highest level starts at the Global Settings level.  The second level is the folder level; and finally...