Allan Williams Business Intelligence Blog

IBIS 2019

by Allan Williams

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Tableau SAP BusinessObjects

Hi Folks, I'm happy to announce that I will once again be presenting a number of sessions at IBIS 2019 in Carlsbad, CA, from June 16-21, 2019. LEARN MORE ABOUT IBIS 2019 Prior to being a presenter, I attended this conference to learn more...

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Tableau SAP Business Objects

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Tableau 10 : Vol 5 : Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects

by Allan Williams

Friday, 23 June 2017

SAP BusinessObjects Tableau

This video shows how companies with an investment in SAP BusinessObjects and Tableau can leverage the work performed in creating Universes and Web Intelligence reports by using a product called InfoBurst from InfoSol .

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Tableau SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Report Bursting with Dynamic Recipients

by Allan Williams

Saturday, 05 October 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Part 2 of a 2 part series on Report Bursting and Distribution in Business Objects 4x. This video focuses on Dynamic Recipients - functionality that allows you to distribute reports outside of your Business Objects infrastructure.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Free-hand SQL with Web Intelligence

by Allan Williams

Saturday, 22 August 2015

SAP BusinessObjects

Learn how to use free-hand SQL and execute Stored Procedures with Web Intelligence instead of using a Universe as your report data source.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4.1 - Web Intelligence Tables and Sections

by Allan Williams

Sunday, 02 August 2015

SAP BusinessObjects

Learn about Tables and Sections in Web Intelligence.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - InfoBurst Enterprise Review and Tutorial

by Allan Williams

Friday, 30 May 2014

SAP BusinessObjects

In this video, I review a product called InfoBurst Enterprise from Infosol: http://www.infosol.com/solutions/infoburst/ InfoBurst offers report bursting, distribution and scheduling functionality above and beyond the core functionality offered ...

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Report Bursting and Distribution

by Allan Williams

Friday, 27 September 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Part 1 of a 2 part series on Report Bursting and Distribution with Business Objects 4x. This tutorial illustrating techniques for Report Bursting and Distribution using Business Objects 4x. This video shows how to configure Profiles and Publications ...

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Web Intelligence Document Linking

by Allan Williams

Monday, 01 July 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Learn how to link documents in Business Objects 4 with Web Intelligence... Create a summary report and link to one or more detail reports. This tutorial links to two detail reports containing data and charts.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Web Intelligence Calculation Contexts

by Allan Williams

Monday, 10 June 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Explanation of Calculation Contexts in Web Intelligence including descriptions of context operators and keywords. This video tutorial includes an example of using calculation contexts and report formatting in Web Intelligence to achieve functionality...

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - CMC - Custom Access Levels

by Allan Williams

Monday, 20 May 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Business Objects 4x Custom Access Levels video tutorial. Illustrating the application of Custom Access Levels to restrict certain functionality within the application.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Auditing Universes and Reporting

by Allan Williams

Saturday, 09 March 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Video tutorial to configure Auditing in Business Objects 4x.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - BI Launch Pad - Scheduling Reports

by Allan Williams

Sunday, 17 February 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Scheduling Reports in Business Objects 4x in BI Launch Pad

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Dynamic Default Date Prompts

by Allan Williams

Saturday, 12 January 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Create a Web Intelligence report containing a Dynamic Default Date Prompt for scheduling purposes to automatically populate the 'YYYYMM' date prompt with the value from the previous month. For example, a report scheduled to run January 1. 2013 using ...

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Information Design Tool - Data Security Profiles

by Allan Williams

Sunday, 28 October 2012

SAP BusinessObjects

Use Data Security Profiles available in Information Design tool to create data access profiles for Business Objects 4x.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x Information Design Tool - Business Security Profiles

by Allan Williams

Sunday, 21 October 2012

SAP BusinessObjects

Restrict access to objects and data in Business Objects 4x using Business Security Profiles created in Information Design Tool.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x Information Design Tool - Row Level Restrictions using Data Security Profiles

by Allan Williams

Monday, 01 October 2012

SAP BusinessObjects

Create one Business Objects report that will display different results to different users based on Data Security Profiles created at the Universe Level in Business Objects 4x.

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SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x Information Design Tool - Cascading Prompts Part 2

by Allan Williams

Sunday, 23 September 2012

SAP BusinessObjects

Create Cascading Prompts in Business Objects 4x by associating Parameters with List(s) of Values.

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Tableau SAP Business Objects

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Business Objects 4x - Dynamic Default Date Prompts - Part 2

by Allan Williams

Sunday, 15 September 2013

SAP BusinessObjects

Create Web Intelligence reports that contain Dynamic Default Date Prompts for scheduling purposes. This is a follow-up to a previous video that showed how this could work in a single-source Universe. This video shows how to achieve the same functiona...

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SAP Business Objects