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So I’ve been a bit slack recently, with my blogging. I actually haven’t thought of anything interesting to blog about – the curse of the blogger I guess.

I stumbled across an IM client that pulls in MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, Facebook and others – Digsby (digsby.com). I’m now using it for all IM, it’s very nice being able to chat to people on Facebook and MSN all through the same client (plus the skins are nice).

Anyway, what have I been up to in BI? I’ve been doing some universe updates in 5.1.6 (old school!). And have begun doing the e-learning so I can go for the my BOCP-CR 2008 Update. The changes in Crystal Reports 2008 are very nice actually. Things like optional parameters, dynamic sorting and, of course, the ability to embed SWF files (read: Xcelsius 2008 SWF’s) and link them to data are fantastic. Now I just have to learn how to use it all! =)

I’ve been doing lots of troubleshooting recently as well, with Business Objects Enterprise XI R2 SP2. I’ve been deploying a three-tier system for a Tier 1 company and, to say the least, their security is a wee bit tight. Our administrator’s aren’t allowed to log in as administrators on the VMs, so you can’t run the CCM, see processes or do any kind of helpful troubleshooting. It now seems that even services running as ‘Local Service’ have limited rights – for instance, the Output File Repository Server is returning error messages about free disk space, even though it’s 70 GB or so free.

Ah, the joys of working with IT teams =)

I also got followed by a certain person who led me to this website: gooddata.com. Very interesting video about their product, but I’m not too sure how many larger companies would send their trusted data to another company. Still, it looks like a nice product.

- Josh