Category Archives: BusinessObjects 4.0

BusinessObjects 4.0 RESTful web service proxy

SAP introduced RESTful web services in its BI platform (BusinessObjects 4.0) for the first time in the latest service pack SP4. This is a first step in a good direction. The rest web services available in the platform are a … Continue reading

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Gmap webi mashup – live example

Recently, i received quite a few questions from folks who were trying to deploy my gmap webi mashup example on 4.0. To make the implementation more transparent, i created a LIVE WORKING version, leveraging a BI 4.0 server and some … Continue reading

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BusinessObjects 4.0 Oracle Audit Universe woes

In BI 4.0, the Activity Universe, which was used for years as the source for auditing users and system activities in business objects, was discontinued. And while initially 4.0 shipped with no auditing reporting solution, SAP developers stepped up and … Continue reading

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Our HTML 5 Dashboards are here

Our HTML 5 Dashboard solution (BOGOBoards) is here. Checkout the vid below or click here for the live demo. Feel free to contact me for more info, or go to www.cleartelligence.com for additional info and corporate contact info.

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Custom Logoff page for SAP BI Launchpad

I recently posted about a way to create a custom logon mechanism for SAP BI Launchpad with relatively low effort (some configuration to get an sdk app going, and very little code). Today, i also wanted to share how to … Continue reading

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Custom logon page for (SAP BI) BusinessObjects 4.x

If you are looking to customize the way your users login to your BO 4.0 system, a good place to start is the WEB-INF\internal directory in the new BOE webapp structure. It lists the different applications equinox plugin references, and … Continue reading

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Animated layered charts

Over the last few weeks i have been working with my colleagues at Cleartelligence on our html5 businessobjects dashboarding offering, and boy, does it look good! I managed to surface up and get some air this evening, and thought i’d … Continue reading

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Control the dashboard size in SAP BI Launchpad 4.0

Xcelsius dashboards developers who leverage the BI 4.0 BI Launchpad as the content portal for delivering their work, have long suffered from the sloppy interface between Xcelsius and the portal. First (and foremost), when you publish an Xcelsius or dashboard … Continue reading

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Integrate BusinessObjects BI Services 4.0 with PHP

BusinessObjects 4.0 web services provide a access to BI content for any application that can invoke and consume web services. Xcelsius is probably the best known example of this notion in the BO applications space. Xcelsius (SAP Dashboards) leverages the … Continue reading

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Google maps in webi 4.0 mashup

I recently received several questions about a google maps in webi mashup post i published some time ago. So, i decided to redo the example, using SAP Business Intelligence Platform 4.0 and the latest version of webi.  In the original … Continue reading

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