In This Issue:

InfoSol Further Expands BusinessObjects Education Offerings

InfoBurst Revitalizes BusinessObjects Deployment at Global Electronics Manufacturer - Case Study

BO XIR2 Migration Assessment Studies in Demand

Ask the Expert - Your Business Intelligence Questions Answered

Special Offers for August 2006

Up and Coming Events

 

InfoSol Further Expands BusinessObjects Education Offerings

As more companies look to utilize many of the new and enhanced products in the latest BusinessObjects product suite, demand for education on these new offerings is increasing.

InfoSol is responding to this demand by expanding its education offering in a variety of ways to meet the diverse needs of users looking for even more flexible and effective training. These include:

Public Training
Full range of courses scheduled through to December 2006 with new policy of minimal cancellations by running courses with 3 or more attendees. Click here to check training courses and schedule.

On-Site Training
Full range of courses offered at customer site anywhere in the world. Flexibility of offering tailored training to match specific training needs. Click here to request quote for on-site training.

Personal Trainer
A new offering from InfoSol to assist attendees of public and on-site training courses who need further help in re-enforcing and applying what they learned in class. Click here for more details.

Computer Based Training
In addition to offering the BusinessObjects Knowledge Accelerator computer based training for Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Desktop Intelligence, InfoView, and Crystal Xcelsius, InfoSol also offers services to customize the training to include your universes, reports, and specific requirements. Click here for more information.

E-Learning Training
InfoSol offers BusinessObjects e-Learning courses for those who prefer to teach themselves. Click here for more information.

InfoBurst Revitalizes BusinessObjects Deployment at Global Electronics Manufacturer - Case Study

Operating in a complex world wide environment, a major electronics manufacturer faced a critical blocking factor in the deployment of Business Objects to its regional organizations. InfoSol's InfoBurst allowed for the continued growth and value return on the manufacturer's Enterprise Data Warehouse.

The company's world wide data center, located in Europe, hosted the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Business Objects Web Intelligence and Full Client products were used as the principal access tools. Logon times exceeded 20 minutes for users in regional offices of North America with equally as long durations to schedule a single report refresh.

Utilizing InfoBurst, the company was able to grow its scheduling of regional reports from less than 50 to over 900. InfoBurst additionally allowed for the creation of parameterized documents that were re-used to generate the same report but with different filters. This furthered the return on investment in Business Objects. InfoBurst provided an independent local scheduling and distribution agent that integrated with the corporate secured Data Warehouse.

InfoBurst enabled multiple reports per burst with single refresh report bursting, so that each report could be logically split, and the different parts sent to different destinations in different formats.

The electronics manufacturer partnered early with InfoSol to ensure critical features were available such as multi-server refresh agents that allowed for load sharing as well as failover of services in case of a hardware failure. Additional productivity features that allowed for partial burst re-runs as well as distribution templates were also provided via this partnership.

The successful implementation of InfoBurst was later extended from the Americas region to Europe leveraging the existing Americas IT support staff. Through a cooperative arrangement, Europe provided the software licensing and America provided the hardware for a second server and administration of the full environment.

"InfoSol's InfoBurst has provided a robust reporting environment for Business Objects and the Enterprise Data Warehouse that will provide exceptional value to the corporation for years to come," commented the I.T. manager responsible for the InfoBurst deployment.

To download a PDF of this Case Study click here.

To request a free web cast of InfoBurst click here.

As more customers start to plan their migrations to BusinessObjects XIR2, many are not sure of what is involved or how much time, effort, and cost it will take.

Many customers are not aware of the full impact of moving to a completely new architecture and whether they should move or change their security model. In addition, they are unsure of which reports, if any, will need to be modified and if they should convert full client reports to Web Intelligence or leave them to run as Desktop Intelligence. New requirements for hardware resources and architecture, training needs, additional products and functionality are all concerns too.

In order to address these issues, InfoSol offers a tailored XIR2 Migration Assessment Study service, where we look at your existing BusinessObjects environment and your future requirements and identify both issues and choices along with making best practice recommendations on how to proceed. The service is tailored for each individual customer and can last from 2 to 15 days depending on the extent of your implementation and needs. Typically, most services are about 5 days in duration.

By performing a Migration Assessment Study, you are able to plan your migration better and have a better understanding of the time, effort, and cost involved.

In addition to XIR2 Migration Assessment Studies, InfoSol offers a complete set of migration services. InfoSol also provides BusinessObjects audit services, so that you can better understand which universes, objects, reports, and users are active and which are not.

For more information on InfoSol Migration Services click here.

For more information on BusinessObjects Audit Services click here.

Ask the Expert - Your Business Intelligence Questions Answered

QUESTION:
How can I Limit a Top 3 Ranking to only 3 Rows? Additionally, is it possible to Custom Sort a Top 3 Ranking?

ANSWER:
When applying a ranking, to a dimension in a block, for only the top/bottom x results of a measure for that dimension, you sometimes get more rows than your requested x value. This is because a ranking considers same values to be the same rank. When you have duplicate measure results, then, there are "extra" rows.

For example, when querying Invoice Date and Number of Guests in the Beach universe (Island Resorts Marketing), you have 12 guests on two different days (as well as 11 guests on two different days).

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Submit your questions to the InfoSol expert by e-mailing infosol@infosol.com. Also, check out our BusinessObjects technical tips by visiting our web site.

Special Offers for August 2006

PUBLIC TRAINING CLASS DISCOUNT

Book to attend any InfoSol BusinessObjects public training course in 2006, before August 31st, and receive a special $50 per day discount off the course price.

Just enter code EYEB5O in the comments box when you book the class on-line at www.infosol.com.

SAVE
$50 on a 1-day course
$100 on a 2-day course
$150 on a 3-day course
$200 on a 4-day course

For a complete calendar listing of all InfoSol public training courses click here.

* This offer does not apply to those who are already registered for classes, and cannot be combined with other offers or discounts and is only applicable to courses registered through the InfoSol web site. Offer expires August 31, 2006.

INFOBURST

• $1,000 off the list price of InfoBurst Enterprise for any order placed in the month of August.
  
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CRYSTAL XCELSIUS

• Free copy of "Crystal Xcelsius for Dummies" with any order of Crystal Xcelsius Professional in the month of August.
  
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Distributed Dashboard Webcast - Friday, September 1, 2006 (9:00am PST) (11:00am CST)

See the next generation of Business Intelligence in action with the amazing combination of animated, dynamic dashboards automatically distributed based on timed or other events.

Sign up online at www.infosol.com

Lunch Time Seminar - Thursday, September 7, 2006

Push vs. Pull - Business Intelligence Report Distribution with InfoBurst

As more companies see the need to deliver critical information, both within and outside of their companies, they are realizing that the "Pull" model of requesting reports has many limitations. The need to "Push" and deliver reports to people has never been greater and the tools for doing so have never been more powerful and flexible. See why more corporations are turning to InfoBurst for their Business Intelligence report distribution than ever before

FREE lunch is included!

Sign up online at www.infosol.com or call InfoSol at 623.707.7600 ext. 120.

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