by sherlock | Feb 8, 2012 | Sherlock
While attempting to install, deploy, administer, maintain, improve, and be the general master of your business intelligence deployment with SAP Business Objects Enterprise, it often becomes difficult to determine what metrics you should use for determining the...
by sherlock | Dec 15, 2011 | Sherlock
Upon getting access to a BI system that has some means of self-service, users can become a little excited at the prospects of getting access to information that has long been hidden behind the wall of IT. They can now create their own reports. They can pull down data,...
by sherlock | Mar 2, 2011 | Sherlock
Continuing on with new things coming in Sherlock® 2.0, we’ve provided great enhancements around what we log within the inspection process. This was important to us because we want Sherlock® to be another trusted source of information. If Sherlock® is missing...
by sherlock | Jun 15, 2010 | Sherlock
If you’ve heard me present on Sherlock® lately, you’ve heard me talk about scheduled job failures and what they do within your environment. Wherever I go, I take some tools with me to monitor and help to tune the percentage of scheduled job failures within...
by sherlock | Mar 11, 2010 | BI Strategy, Sherlock
There comes a time when SAP Business Objects report instances/history is well…too much history. We really do get pretty effective controls in the form of limits (controlled via the CMS of course). However, retention requirements for SOX or other regulatory rules...