Independent Data Consultancy
Good NewsNew release arriving in mid-March 2025. There’ll be another in 2027, then another in 2029 (may slip a bit TBC).This is all great news. 4.2 was supposed to be the last version, then we were told it would be 4.3. It looks like SAP’s cloud-only strategy hasn’t worked out quite so well as they’d […]
More and more Crystal Server users are now finding that their maintenance has expired even though they haven’t cancelled anything. That’s becoming more of a problem now that Crystal 2016 and earlier are no longer supported. Before we look at your options, why has this happened? First, a bit of history (a little simplified). Crystal […]
SAP BI 4.3/Crystal Server 2020 comes with the new Fiori launch pad. It’s the one that looks like this: The old 4.2 looks more like this: Admittedly, the new one is much more ‘modern’, but once you’ve got loads of users working from home right now and don’t have the time to retrain them for […]
Mischievous update 5 years later! I get to mark my own homework. Like most people, when I heard that SAP Anywhere was being ‘sunset’ in March, my first though was ‘What’s SAP Anywhere?’. Yes, I thought it was something to do with Sybase SQL Anywhere, but it turned out to be the world’s most obscure […]
UPDATE This has now been fixed: SP4 from patch 000009 onwards SP5 from patch 000400 onwards SP6 For Crystal Server Users, you’ll need to go to SP6. For SAP BI, install the patches or SP6. It looks like there’s a definite problem.I’ve had an odd reply from SAP that talks about moving files from DEV […]
UPDATE This has now been fixed: SP4 from patch 000009 onwards SP5 from patch 000400 onwards SP6 For Crystal Server Users, you’ll need to go to SP6. For SAP BI, install the patches or SP6. First, if you’re just doing a fresh install with no old content to migrate then go ahead. 4.2 SP5 […]
Unless you’ve been on an extended Christmas break with no TV or Internet, you’ll have heard of Intel’s recent troubles. While it’s true that most computers will not be noticeably affected, servers that read and write large amounts of data to disk will be impacted. In my world, that affects two things – databases and […]
Had a strange problem with File Events after migrating reports from an existing Crystal Server 2011 (SAP BI 4.1) to Crystal Server 2013 (SAP BI 4.2). The customer was making extensive use of File Events to trigger reports. It was nice to see the feature being used well, but for some strange reason the events […]
A customer had been using Gmail for their SAP BI SMTP server for the last 6 months. All worked fine and setup was simple. Early in February, they started to have intermittent problems sending reports by email. Probably once a week, the schedules would just fail. The fix was to simply rerun the failed instance. […]
Short and sweet! If you have current maintenance for SAP BI4.2 or Edge 4.2, you will now be able to download the new release. You’ll need a new licence key, request through the normal SAP site. Our test server should be available within the next few days and we’ll be seeing how smoothly in-place upgrades […]
