As part of the BI Expert teams for the "Dear aBI" gives advice on Business Intelligence, here my third set of answers to some of the questions that have been put forward.
Abid from India is asking the following question:
Dear aBI,
How to improve the performance of Web Intelligence if you are running on SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 ? I am getting a lot of run time errors while executing the report in Web Intelligence on BW Universes.I am running on SAP NetWeaver BW 7.0 SP19 and SAP BusinessObjects XI release 3.1 Service Pack 02.
For implementing Web Intelligence in combination with SAP NetWeaver I would like to provide you with a set of valuable information:
In addition to all the Best Practices you should also consider applying Service Pack 03 to your landscape as with Service Pack 03 you have now the option to configure Web Intelligence asking for the data based on the actual report or based on the Web Intelligence Query Panel. In simple words think about this new option, that Web Intelligence has now the notion of Free Characteristics. Here is a recorded webinar of all new Service Pack 03 features:
I hope this material helps you understand and improve the performance of your Web Intelligence project on top of SAP NetWeaver BW and answers your question and others find the material useful as well.
For further details on how to submit your questions to the BI Experts take a look at the wiki pages.
