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Antivia Desktop Brings Awesome New Collaboration Features for BusinessObjects Users
BusinessObjects and WebIntelligence Books Clearance Sale
Help Choose the Venue of IBIS 2008
Ask the Expert - Your Business Intelligence Questions Answered
Special Up to 50% Off Education Offerings for Q4
Up and Coming Events
October 15 - 18:
Business Objects Insight Americas 2007
October 28 - 30:
Business Objects Insight Asia Pacific & Japan 2007
November 8:
Arizona Business Objects and Crystal User Group (AZBOCUG)
Indianapolis Business Objects User Group (INDIBOUG)
November 15:
FREE Lunchtime Seminar in Phoenix: BusinessObjects Crystal Decisions (BOCD)
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Antivia Desktop Brings Awesome New Collaboration
Features for BusinessObjects Users
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One of the great promises of Business Intelligence 2.0 – the name coined for the next generation of BI tools – is the capability to allow users to more easily collaborate around reports and information in those reports.
Now, you may say, “Isn’t that what Business Intelligence is supposed to be doing for us now?” Well, yes, sort of, but not really.
The fact is that most users simply look at the reports that are delivered to them, rarely interact with them and are often not really sure what they are supposed to be looking for outside of some summary totals or specific individual items. Companies are often drowning their users in reports and, in turn, the users are rarely gleaning much business intelligence out of them.
If we truly want to provide Business Intelligence for the masses and make it pervasive, we need to first make it easy, interesting and, yes, exciting for users to use. Look at Amazon.com. If it was just a web site where you could order books and music, it would not be anywhere near as successful as it is today. But when you look at a book, you see reviews that other people have written, you can write your own review, you see what books other people bought who recently purchased that book, you see recommended lists from people that include that book. It’s a fascinating and fun experience to research and buy things on Amazon. It’s also quite addictive! So, why can’t we make looking at our business reports more like Amazon.com?
Great news - we can and we do not have to wait for BI 2.0 because it is here today with Antivia Desktop.
Antivia Desktop delivers a bundle of really neat features that bring a whole new meaning and purpose to Business Intelligence collaboration. It provides a framework around your individual BI environment that allows you to share your views, observations, reports, information and more with others who would benefit or those you wish to collaborate with. You can create your own communities of like-minded users or join other communities. In addition to these community forums, Antivia Desktop allows users to rate the content of the reports and information delivered to them. The rating can be by usability, relevance or any other criteria you use providing excellent feedback to the report creators, other users and I.T.
Antivia Desktop also provides a feature to show you “what’s hot and what’s not,” so users can see what is the most and least popular content and reports being viewed by others. It also includes Community Polls, so that you can pose survey questions to your users to get their feedback on any number of topics and issues pertaining to your Business Intelligence environment.
Antivia Desktop is available for the BusinessObjects XI platform today with the promise of other platforms coming soon. If you want to unlock the intelligence locked away in your BI deployment and put smiles back on the faces of your overwhelmed users, check out Antivia Desktop today.
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Community forums allow you to share,
collaborate and provide insight with
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Instantly see how reports have been
rated by other users and quickly access
other reports they rate highly |
For more information on Antivia Desktop click here.
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BusinessObjects and WebIntelligence Books Clearance Sale
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InfoSol is offering its popular End User Beginner books, with accompanying CD, for an amazing price in order to reduce its current inventory. Both the Web Intelligence 6.5 Beginning End User and BusinessObjects 6 Beginning End User books provide excellent introductions to these very widely used Business Intelligence Reporting and Ad-hoc Query tools, along with excellent hands-on examples that you can work through on the CD.
The topics included in each book / CD are listed below. The amazing price for each book with CD is just $25 plus shipping and handling which is 50% off the regular price. In addition, there is a further 10% discount for orders of 10 or more.
To order your copies today click here.
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InfoSol's BusinessObjects 6 and Web Intelligence 6.5
Beginning End User Books
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BusinessObjects 6 Beginning
End User Book with CD
Topics Include
- Introduction to Queries, Reporting and Analysis
- BusinessObjects Architecture
- Document Formatting
- Report Manager
- Tables, Crosstabs and Charts
- Sorting, Filters, Ranking, Alerters
- Simple Calculations
- Slice and Dice Tools
- Query Conditions
- Sharing Reports
- Based on BusinessObjects 6 Full Client
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WebIntelligence 6.5 Beginning
End User Book with CD
Topics Include
- Introduction to Queries, Reporting and Analysis
- Getting Started with Web Intelligence
- Report Panel
- Document Formatting
- Blocks, Crosstabs and Charts
- Sorting, Filters, Alerters
- Simple Calculations and Formulas
- Slice and Dice Tools
- Query Conditions
- Sharing Reports
- Based on WebIntelligence 6.5
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Help Choose the Venue of IBIS 2008
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Next year, will be the 10th anniversary of InfoSol’s annual conference, known as IBIS (InfoSol’s Business Intelligence Seminar). The conference has seen many transformations over the last decade and continues to evolve, as both Business Intelligence itself, as well as users needs, continue to change.
As we start our planning for IBIS 2008, we are seeking your input to make our 10th conference the biggest and best yet. Please take just 1 minute to answer the 5 survey questions below and provide your input to influence the venue, format and content of IBIS 2008.
Click here to take the survey.
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Ask the Expert - Your Business Intelligence Questions Answered
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BusinessObjects Q&A
QUESTION:
How do I add a logo to my Web Intelligence document?
ANSWER:
To enhance your Web Intelligence document you can add logos and images to the report. To ensure that these logos print properly when exported, it is important that the image files are in the proper file location and that the image in your document points to this location.
The first step in this process is to put the logo or image in the following files path of your Business Objects server (assuming the default installation file path):
C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\Images.
Click here to view full tech tip...
Crystal Reports Q&A
QUESTION:
In Xcelsius, how can I get my sliders to reset?
ANSWER:
Although currently the sliders do not come with an option for resetting, with a little trick, we can get the sliders to reset for us.
I have my sliders all pointing to cells that are in one row:
Click here to view full tech tip...
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Submit your questions to the InfoSol expert by e-mailing infosol@infosol.com. Also, check out our BusinessObjects and Crystal Reports technical tips by visiting our web site.
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Specials Up to 50% Off Education Offerings for Q4
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SPECIAL 1:
Sign up for the December 10-13 course DM370R2: BusinessObjects Data Integrator XI R1/R2: Extracting, Transforming and Loading Data by November 15, 2007 and receive $150 off your registration fee.
* This offer cannot be combined with other offers or discounts and applies to new enrollments only. Online registration will not reflect discounted pricing. Offer expires November 15, 2007.
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SPECIAL 3:
If you have attended the following two courses:
RD110: Crystal Reports XI R1/R2: Report Design I: Fundamentals of Report Design AND
RD210: Crystal Reports XI R1/R2: Report Design II: Business Reporting Solutions,
then you are eligible to attend RD310: Crystal Reports XI R1/R2: Report Processing Strategies for 50% off!
A $250 savings!
* This offer cannot be combined with other offers or discounts and applies to new enrollments only. You must attend of have previously attended RD110 and RD210 before receiving the 50% discount. Online registration will not reflect discounted pricing. Offer expires December 31, 2007.
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SPECIAL 2:
Receive $100 off the November 12-13
SA210R2: BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R1/R2: Administering Users and Content with the CMC
AND/OR
Receive $150 off the November 14-16
SA310R2: BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R1/R2: Administering Servers
* This offer cannot be combined with other offers or discounts and applies to new enrollments only. Online registration will not reflect discounted pricing. Offer expires October 31, 2007. |
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For a full course synopses or to register for any of these courses click here.
Please enter October Eye-Bulletin Special Discount in the Comments section.
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| Up and Coming Events |
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October 15 - 18, 2007
Business Objects Insight Americas 2007 User Conference
Orange County Convention Center - October 15-18, 2007
Orlando, Florida
Click here for full details or to register.
InfoSol will be participating as a Silver Sponsor.
October 28 - 30, 2007
Business Objects Insight Asia Pacific & Japan 2007 User Conference
Hilton Hotel Sydney, Australia - October 28-30, 2007
Click here for full details or to register.
InfoSol will be participating as a Silver Sponsor.
November 8, 2007
Arizona Business Objects and Crystal User Group (AZBOCUG)
Agenda and details will be provided when they become available.
Indianapolis Business Objects User Group (INDIBOUG)
Click here for details and Agenda.
November 15, 2007
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FREE Lunchtime Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona |
BI for the Little Guy!
To Register, click here.
Business Objects Crystal Decisions (BOCD) is a feature rich bundle of the best and most effective Business Intelligence (BI) tools packaged and priced to fit the needs and budgets of both small and medium businesses. BOCD brings BI to the masses by providing an affordable entry point into the world of analyzing your data to identify issues, trends and patterns to help you make better and more effective business decisions.
While most Fortune 1000 companies have been taking advantage of Business Intelligence solutions for years, smaller and medium businesses have often found it cost prohibitive to get started but with the new BOCD offering, the most powerful and advanced BI tools are packaged in a concurrent license model inclusive of the first year’s maintenance at an incredibly low price making it affordable to all.
Join InfoSol for a fascinating 1 hour presentation and see the Function Packed Offering of Business Intelligence for Small and Medium Businesses.
Lunch will be provided.
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Thursday, November 15 |
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11:45 am - 1:00 pm |
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InfoSol Seminar Center
1831 W. Rose Garden Lane, Suite 6
Phoenix, AZ 85027
623-707-7600
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