IBM Cognos 10.2 Architecture Overview

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is designed to address the challenges of enterprise level reporting, analysis, scorecard and event notification. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence has a multitiered architecture and was designed for scalability, availability, openness and platform independent. Cognos servers are uses industry proven technology, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP),…

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Overview

IBM Business Analytics has many products and in which IBM Cognos BI provides a unified workspace for business intelligence and analytics that the entire organization can use to answer key business questions and outperform the competition and below are the IBM Business Analytics products: • IBM Cognos BI • IBM Financial Performance and Strategy Management…

In-Memory vs In-Chip BI Analytics

In-memory analytics In-memory analytics refers to business intelligence tool that utilizes an in-memory (RAM) for data processing. In-memory analytics is used to solve complex and time-sensitive business scenarios in BI and it increases the speed, performance and reliability when querying data. In-memory analytics helps to improve the overall speed of a BI system and provides…

SAP BO BI 4.2 SP6 Future Roadmap

SAP is planning to release SAP BO BI 4.2 SP6 in Agust 2018 and there will be many more new functions and futures involved in that release. below are some highlights from that release. Quickly build ad-hoc queries and interactive reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data structure Access to heterogeneous data…

@DerivedTable Function in IDT

@DerivedTable is a new function in IDT and its used within the derived Table and also called as “’derived table on a derived table”. @DerivedTable function in the definition of nested derived tables and is a table that is derived from at least one existing derived table. The syntax of the @DerivedTable function is: @DerivedTable(<Derived…

Oracle 11g to Oracle 12c Upgrade – BO Webi Report issue (ORA-04030: out of process memory & ORA-00920: Invalid Relational Operator)

Business Objects Webi reports with huge number of objects (huge SQL) which was refreshed successfully when the report runs on Oracle 11g database. As part of the organization upgrade program, all the Oracle databases have been upgraded to Oracle 12c. Post upgrade, some of BO reports with huge SQL are not refreshed and throws “ORA-04030:…

@Execute Function in IDT

@Execute is a new function in IDT and can be used to filter the report data based on pre-defined condition and also it can be used to filter the report data based on the user using ‘BOUSER’ function. @execution function uses to execute the list of values and it can work only in WHERE clause…

SAP Business Objects BI 4.2 SP5 What’s New

This post summarizes the SAP BO BI 4.2 SP5 features. Many enhancements were introduced in SAP BI 4.2 SP4 and its support packages. SAP continued their enhancements and innovation efforts in SAP BI platform, Web Intelligence, Semantic Layer, Report Conversion tool, BI Launch Pad, etc., and the enhancements are released in SAP BO BI 4.2…