Russell Beech, Author at BI System Builders

Posted on April 16, 2010March 29, 2019 by Russell Beech

Tomcat & Windows XP Troubleshooting SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.0

This post is about Russell Beech in discussion on the SAP Forum. SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise was installed on a machine running Windows XP. It was being used for development, POC and sales demo purposes. Windows XP was a constraint imposed by the standard build of the organisation that he was working for. Russell identified that the issue was a clash between Java components and Windows XP. This issue was becoming very time consuming and the solution was looking more and more like it needed a Java customisation. Not wanting to pursue that route Russell finally got permission to install Windows Server 2003. The problems were instantly solved. The forum thread is reproduced below as it gives useful insights into troubleshooting or go to http://forums.sdn.sap.com/message.jspa?messageID=6076352 to view it on the forum.

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Russell Beech

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XI 3.0 Tomcat Service Will Not Start

Posted: Aug 26, 2008 4:23 PM

I have installed Enterprise XI 3.0 from the Business Objects ESD site. I took the option to install Tomcat. The Tomcat service installed but will not start from the CCM or the .bat file.

I expected that as in previous releases Tomcat would be configured through the install. All other Business Objects services are running.

Has anyone had the same experience? Does anyone have a fix?

Best regards

Russ

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Posted on April 2, 2010March 29, 2019 by Russell Beech — Leave a comment

SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise

SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1 is the industrial strength Business Intelligence Platform for large organisations. It is fully scalable using distributed architecture to enable Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, Dashboards and other documents to be shared throughout the organisation. The number of users that it can scale to is dependent upon the hardware made available to it and the license model purchased. Its server based architecture means that it can handle high volume report access. Earlier versions of XI 3.1 are known as SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI and SAP Business Objects Enterprise XI R2. You can read more about Business Intelligence Platform Scalability here.

Posted on March 23, 2010March 29, 2019 by Russell Beech — Leave a comment

Mapping Drilling Hierarchies

In dimensional modeling there are various types of hierarchy that range from simplistic to complex hierarchies with multiple level starting points. These complex hierarchies are often referred to as ragged hierarchies. Ragged hierarchies can occur because some of your source data systems may capture data at a very granular level whilst another system may capture or output data at summary levels.

You may also be using third party data and wish to combine it with your in house data. When the data is consolidated it may not be possible to populate all levels of the hierarchy with the same coverage if at all.

In these situations it can be useful to undertake a mapping exercise with an outcome similar to that shown in the diagram. This should occur before modelling the hierarchies in dimension tables and the ETL build.