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1. InfoSol has a New and Improved Blog!
   
   
2. SAP BusinessObjects User Conference - An Xcelsius Festival!
   
   
3. Save Up to $400 on Crystal Report Courses
   
   
4. Xcelsius Tip: See how to use the “Filtered Rows” functionality to move and filter data from one place to another
   Crystal Reports Tip: See how to distribute a Crystal Report to an e-mail address instead of InfoView
   
   
5. Events:
   - Final Session of the "Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series - A Tour of SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1," December 3, 2009
   - Attend the last AZBOCUG meeting of the year on December 10, 2009
   

The 2009 GBN Conference, held in Dallas last month, was more of an Xcelsius Festival than a Global BusinessObjects Network event. As Saskia Battersby, Product Manager for Xcelsius, mentioned in her Xcelsius Roadmap session…“four years ago, we had to fight to get one Xcelsius session accepted at the Annual BusinessObjects Conference. Today more than half the tracks and sessions are about Xcelsius.” Even more impressive was that her session was the last session of the conference, when most people were heading for the airport in a heavy rainstorm and yet, despite that, the room was packed.

The first ever “Xcelsius Gurus” social gathering organized by gurus Mico Yuk and Ryan Goodman, and sponsored by SAP, was held the evening before. It was easily the highlight of the entire conference with 150 happy, energized people in attendance experiencing the type of excitement and fun we have not seen since Business Objects was a young and exciting company – remember those days?

Xcelsius is definitely the hottest product at SAP right now, and it is spreading faster than the swine flu virus. It is being integrated into the front-end of SAP’s ERP modules while it is also being bundled into hundreds of OEM applications – just popping up everywhere. What makes it so different to other SAP BO products, with the exception of Crystal Reports, is that it can easily and inexpensively be deployed outside of the SAP and BO Enterprise platforms, as well as within them. This has also made it very challenging for SAP to control it, but that is one of the reasons why it is so popular; following in the footsteps of Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat Reader and Crystal Reports.

Hopefully this is intentional on the part of SAP, because Xcelsius is one of the best things going for them right now.

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3. Save Up to $400 on Crystal Report Courses

4. Tips and Tricks

Xcelsius Q&A

QUESTION:
In Xcelsius, can I use the “Filtered Rows” functionality to move and filter data from one place to another?

ANSWER:
Yes, however, if you use that functionality directly from an interactive selector, then only one set of data will be able to be moved. Click here to view full tech tip...

Crystal Reports Q&A

QUESTION:
I am trying to distribute a Crystal Report to an e-mail address instead of InfoView. How do I accomplish that?

ANSWER:
You will first need to ensure that your BusinessObjects Job Server is enabled and has e-mail distribution enabled. You can tell if this option is NOT enabled by logging into InfoView and selecting “e-mail” as a distribution for your Crystal report and schedule the report to run “Now”. 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, Crystal Reports and Xcelsius technical tips by visiting our web site.

Join us for the final session of a FREE series of lunch time seminars to educate and bring you up to date on the latest features and functionality in the current BusinessObjects XI 3.1 product suite.

A FREE lunch will be provided and this session will be held at the InfoSol Seminar Center from 12:00pm-1:00pm.
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Session 3: December 3, 2009
Mobile Business Intelligence - The Next Wave
Information is moving to mobile devices in a big way as iPhones and other PDA's become the platform delivery of choice for many businesses. For Business Intelligence, there are new challenges in delivering dashboards and visual data on these smaller devices in an effective manner. Do not miss this exciting presentation and demonstration of how Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence and Excel spreadsheets can be visually rendered with dynamic interaction on a PDA.

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