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09 Dec 2010

Migrating from development to production in BOE (Lifecycle manager)

One of the cool new features in BOE XI 3.1 is the new lifecycle manage...

03 Dec 2010
OBIEE 12c | 4 min read

Creating Scorecards in OBIEE 11G

Last week I had created a post for creating KPIs here. This week I wan...

30 Nov 2010
OBIEE 12c | 3 min read

Creating KPIs in OBIEE 11g

One of the unique features being offered in BI 11G is the scorecarding...

27 Nov 2010

Drill down and Drill across in WEBI

While BusinessObjects provides a fairly simple way to drill down using...

19 Nov 2010
Business Intelligence | 2 min read

BOE Universe: Generating list of values based on data

Let us take a simple scenario. Let us say we have a countries dimensio...

16 Nov 2010
Data Modeling OBIEE 12c | 2 min read

OBIEE 11g : Master Detail Linking

With the release of OBIEE 11g, a number of new features and functional...

16 Nov 2010

Outer Joins in Universe (BusinessObjects)

Lets take a simple scenario. I want to generate a report that shows th...

11 Nov 2010

Is it my time yet ?

Over the last couple of weeks I came across several posts in the BOB B...

10 Nov 2010

Managing performance by using Aggregate tables in the universe

In most large data warehouses one of the common strategies employed by...

08 Nov 2010
Business Intelligence | 2 min read

WEBI - How to display Others in country field based on Rank

One of the frequent questions I come across is I want to view the top ...

05 Nov 2010

How to perform YTD (or any Period to date) design in the Universe

Yet another post inspired by the BOBJ board. The idea is how to design...

04 Nov 2010
Business Intelligence | 2 min read

Auditing III: How to enable auditing for Crystal Reports and WEBI viewing

A couple of weeks back I had written an article on enabling auditing i...

03 Nov 2010

How to do Year Ago or Prior period type comparison in WEBI

Again a post inspired by the BOBJ board which talks about a generic re...

02 Nov 2010
OBIEE 12c | 1 min read

Duplicate values in Dashboard Prompts (OBIEE)

I have been working with OBIEE for several years now, and the one thin...

02 Nov 2010
Business Intelligence | 1 min read

How to create start and end date prompt in WEBI report

Ran into this question on the BOBJ board asking how to create a WEBI r...

29 Oct 2010

How to setup report scheduling and report distribution for BusinessObjects

I came across this posting on the BOBJ board asking how to setup repor...

29 Oct 2010

How to configure IIS Tomcat connector (ISAPI connector) for BusinessObjects

One of the frequent questions I run into on the BOBJ board is around s...

28 Oct 2010

How to configure NTLM for Crystal Reports Server/BusinessObjects Enterprise/Edge

To simplify administration, BOE supports user and group accounts that ...

22 Oct 2010

How to configure LDAP for Crystal Reports Server/BusinessObjects Enterprise/Edge

To simplify administration, BOE supports user and group accounts that ...

21 Oct 2010

How to perform silent installation of BusinessObjects Enterprise/Edge

A silent installation is the type of installation that you run from th...