Business Objects Linked Universe

Linked universes are universes that share common components such as parameters, classes, objects, or joins. When you link two universes, one universe has the role of a core universe, the other a derived universe. When changes are made in the core universe, they are automatically propagated to the derived universes. You can dynamically link one…

SAP BO Universe and Reports Utilities

All these utilities are available in Forumtopics website and I have just collected some of the major utilities and given reference to the original website and I am not storing any of the utilities in this blog. Document a universe using Excel and the Designer SDK This utility uses Excel and the Designer SDK to…

Deski 3.1 to Webi 3.1 conversion – Part I

Desktop Intelligence 3.1 is the last commercial version and SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence 4.0 NOT included Desktop Intelligence. Desktop Intelligence will continue to be supported on XI 3.x for Mainstream maintenance: Until 2015 and Priority-One support: Until 2017. End of 2015 there won’t be any update / maintenance (other than priority) for Desktop intelligence…

BO XI 3.1 Architecture

SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 is five tier architecture platforms and server based product that comprises many number of logical servers.  All those servers run as services based on Windows. Below is the XI 3.1 five tiers: •    The Client Tier •    The Application Tier •    The Intelligence Tier •    The Processing Tier •    The…

BI 4.0 Architecture

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence (SAP BO BI) 4.0 platforms is the Business Intelligence platform that supports the entire range of performance management, reporting, querying and analysis applications. It has proven architecture and platform support for semantic layers, Data integration, and security. SAP BO BI platform 4.0 provides full web-based administration and configuration of the…

Scope of Analysis – Overview

Scope of Analysis in Query Panel can retrieve extra data from the database to give more details on the results for each object in the Query. This extra data will remains available in the Data cube. I heard people having different understanding about Scope of Analysis function in SAP Business Objects report and let’s see…

Working on Trap Issue – Fan Trap

When a “one to many” join linked by another “one to many” join in a serious of tables called as Fan Trap. Like the below example, Customer is having multiple Loan account and each Loan having Multiple Collateral which is “one to Many” & “One to Many” join in a series of tables. Let see…

Working on Trap Issue – Chasm Trap

Trap issues are common problem in relational database schemas in which a join path returns more data than expected. There is no specific option to find trap issues in universe designer and it can be identified only by looking the join relation between tables visually. There are 2 different types of trap issues can occur…