Archive for the ‘web intelligence’ category

OpenDoc vs. CallReport

May 5th, 2010

We get a lot of question on how Open Document compares to Report Launch. In a conversation with our sales team I tried to summarize the vast differences. Opendoc is a single URL that can only call a single report at a time ….and for Webi can only return to the viewer or PDF

Report Launch’s “call report” is an application that will provide a consistent ways of calling both Crystal and Web Intelligence reports using single sign on.

  • On- demand refresh
  • On demand scheduling
  • Report List
  • Last Scheduled Instance
  • Last Bursted Instance
  • List of Historical Scheduled Instances
  • List of Historical Bursted Instances

    • It can also support the following formats

  • PDF
  • XLS
  • PPT
  • CSV
  • TXT
  • HTML
  • XML

    • These are the basics. There are also more complex features for complex solutions.

  • Cached Results
  • Report Parts by Name
  • On the fly Dimensional Slicing

    • - Challenge us with something you need and I can tell you if CallReport already handles that.

    Kevin McManus

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    Posted in Business Objects, Business Objects SDK, Crystal Reports, Report Launch, XI 3.1, web intelligence

    Java or .NET

    January 1st, 2010

    Recent Question: Do you have any recommendations on installing the .NET (IIS) vs Java (Tomcat) versions? I liked the ease with which we implemented the SSO hack in IIS on our XI R2 server but I’m not if we can do the same on the 3.1 version. Also I remember that on sometime the .Net versions sometimes did not have all the functionality as the Java version is that still true?

    Answer:I usually lean towards whatever web platform that IT has optimization expertise in. If they don’t have optimization expertise in either then for several reasons, I usually do the Java.

    However for SSO the IIS setup is less steps than the Java version. The IIS pass through can still be done but is not a great solution if you are doing things like scheduling out reports with email links back to the system and still wanting SSO.

    If you do go with Java,Normally I work with people to setup the Vintella Kerberos SSO so that there is only one web platform running on the server rather than the pass through.

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    Posted in Business Objects, Business Objects SDK, XI 3.0, XI 3.1, web intelligence

    GBN/BOUG Conference 2009 Dallas

    October 20th, 2009

    Best Business Objects conference I have been to. What as missing in free entertainment was replaced with better content. More in depth training on Xcelsius, Universe Design , web intelligence and Crystal Reports.

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    Posted in Crystal Reports, Universe Design, Xcelsius, web intelligence