In This Issue:

InfoSol Makes Inc 5000 List

InfoSol Sponsoring Business Objects Insight Americas and Asia Pacific & Japan Conferences

Integrated Distributed BI Applications - The Next Wave?

Ask the Expert - Your Business Intelligence Questions Answered

Special Seminar Offering October 2, 2007 + Updated BusinessObjects Public Training Schedule Now Available

Up and Coming Events

September 20:

See the Forest: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Organizations

October 3:

Memphis Area Business Objects User Group (MABOUG)

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)

Indiana Business Objects User Group (INDIBOUG)

 

InfoSol Makes Inc 5000 List

InfoSol was recently recognized by Inc.com as one of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in America.  “These companies are the elite--a mere sliver of the seven million or so companies in the U.S. that have employees.” reported Inc.com

With 99% growth between the years 2003 and 2006, InfoSol also ranked 86th in the top 100 fastest growing companies in Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale, Arizona. 

“The last few years have been an exciting time for InfoSol, both in terms of growth and achievements” said InfoSol’s President and CEO Paul Grill.  “2007 marks the 10 year anniversary of InfoSol Inc. and this recognition by Inc.com is only the start of great things to come.”

Click here to view the Inc.com article

InfoSol Sponsoring Business Objects Insight Americas and Asia Pacific & Japan Conferences

Business Objects will be holding its major annual user conference for the Americas this year in Orlando, Florida from October 15-18 and a separate user conference for its Asia Pacific & Japan customers in Sydney, Australia from October 28-30. InfoSol will be sponsoring both conferences to showcase its latest solutions.

At the Insight Americas in Orlando, InfoSol will have two booths in the Exhibit area, one showcasing the latest in report and dashboard distribution with InfoBurst and InfoBurst-XDS and the other highlighting version control and usage auditing with Version Manager and Enterprise Manager.

At Insight in Australia, InfoSol will also be exhibiting and showcasing its BusinessObjects add-on solutions. Through its Australian solutions partner, eVolition, InfoSol saw its first sales of both InfoBurst and Version Manager in Australia earlier this year.

InfoSol’s newest solution partner, Antivia, will also be exhibiting at both conferences and showcasing its customizable hierarchal management solution, Scenario, available through InfoSol in North America.

If you are planning on attending either Insight conference, be sure to stop by the InfoSol booth and enter the drawing for an i-pod.

Integrated Distributed BI Applications - The Next Wave?

As business intelligence vendors scramble to define and develop the next generation of BI solutions – the so-called BI 2.0 – they are branching out in all directions in the hope of finding that golden nugget that leads them to that elusive gold mine. Will it be in delivering BI content to hand-held devices? Will it be in the ability to analyze unstructured data content? Will it be in creating community user-centric based BI solutions?

While these vendors brainstorm these options and attempt to evolve BI to the next level, most businesses and communities are still trying to understand how best to utilize and integrate BI in their environments. The business world has always been slow to adopt new technology. The COBOL language is 3 years away from celebrating its 50th anniversary and 70% of the world’s business applications still run on COBOL!
BI is a mere youngster in comparison.

If BI is to become pervasive in business and the world today, it will be through integration with what is already in place. The most popular usage of BI tools today is for standardized and ad-hoc reporting against production or extracted production (Data Warehouses or Data Marts) application databases. It has become the reporting solution for business applications.

Dashboards have become a new way to visualize key metrics and summary information along with providing the added functionality of “What if?” scenarios to extrapolate that data and predict trends. They will shortly become as popular as the BI reporting solutions.

Distribution and publishing of these reports and dashboards has become critical to the extensive usage and benefit, and therefore success, of BI today. By delivering these reports and dashboards in commodity formats (PDF, Excel, HTML) to commodity destinations (Web Server, Email, PDA, Network Share, Corporate Portal) securely and reliably, the BI solution becomes effective.

Now, if you could seamlessly integrate the standardized and ad-hoc reporting, the dashboarding and the distribution and publishing with your production applications, you may be getting close to making BI pervasive within your organization.

InfoSol recently did this with our own Call Management System. Account Managers now automatically receive an e-mail each week with an embedded icon that when they click on this it brings up a variety of dashboards and reports that show them all the calls generated and closed by just their individual clients. They can drill down to an individual client and even an individual call and then, by clicking on the call, they can be seamlessly linked to the Call Management System and see the details and history of that call real-time. This is an Integrated Distributed BI Application and it may just be the next wave of BI solutions to come.

For more information or a free demonstration of InfoSol’s Integrated Distributed BI Application click here.

Ask the Expert - Your Business Intelligence Questions Answered

BusinessObjects Q&A

QUESTION:
How can I apply a hidden sort in Web Intelligence?

ANSWER:
Use the formula bar in the Alerter options.

Although hidden sorts are not directly supported with Web Intelligence in XIR2, they are still possible using the alerter formula bar as a work-around. Although formatting can be used to create a sort on a table, it is not very elegant. Clever formatting is also not an option on a chart.

The elegant method is to exchange one object for another using an alerter.

Click here to view full tech tip...

Crystal Reports Q&A

QUESTION:
How can I change my grid size from measuring in inches to centimeters?

ANSWER:
Change your overall Regional and Language Options in the Control Panel.

When working on reports that contain many objects in one section, it is very helpful to turn on the grid in Crystal.

File>Options>Layout (tab)>Design View check the Grid checkbox.

Click here to view full tech tip...

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.

Special Seminar Offering October 2, 2007 + Updated BusinessObjects Public Training Schedule Now Available

Introduction to Business Intelligence - 3 for 2 and FREE Lunch

InfoSol will be offering its acclaimed "Introduction to Business Intelligence" seminar on October 2, 2007. The objective of this course is to provide a good high level understanding of Business Intelligence and how it can benefit your company and your job.

Better yet, simply register 2 people at the regular price of $250 and the third person attends for FREE! Additionally, a free lunch at a local restaurant will also be included.

In today's market place the success of any business is dependent on how fast you can get access to the facts about your business and make decisions based on what is happening. Managers at all levels are looking for ways to get information fast and accurately to make decisions. This dynamic and interactive seminar will explain Business Intelligence and why it is a critical and essential component in so many businesses today.

Intended Audience: Business Executives, Managers, Key Personnel

Major Topics Include:
What is Business Intelligence?
Data Warehousing
Keys to Success in Implementing Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence Tools and Functions
Business Intelligence Users
Integrating Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence Case Studies
Business Intelligence Workshop

Click here to view the newly updated InfoSol BusinessObjects Public Training Schedule, which includes courses scheduled through March 2008.

September 20, 2007

See the Forest: Business Intelligence for Mid-Sized Organizations

Join InfoSol for a Complimentary Breakfast at the InfoSol Seminar Center on September 20, 2007.
Click here for details or to register..

October 3, 2007

Memphis Area Business Objects User Group (MABOUG)
Click here for details and Agenda.

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.

Indiana Business Objects User Group (INDIBOUG)
Click here for details and Agenda.

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