Business Intelligence

The superhero theme was a huge hit at this year’s InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar (IBIS) with attendees showing off some pretty cool superhero poses and an abundance of super powers in the many hands-on training and seminar sessions. One of the top highlights was the InfoSol 2017 dashboard awards that really showcased …

I was recently talking to Paul about the IBIS conference and I asked him how they came up with the name.  He turned to me and that smile he is famous for slowly spread across his face.  He leaned in close to me and in a low almost conspirator like …

My running log’s message of the week was that 24,000 people a year end up in the emergency room as a result of incidents on treadmills so take care when you use one. I hate running on treadmills and try to avoid them . A few years ago I was …

I was recently at one of my favorite places, the British Museum in London, viewing the Egyptian galleries. It does not matter how often I go there, I always seem to see something I have never noticed before. This time it was a wooden statue of a goddess giving praise. …

At the end of last year I did a quick improvised survey of our active BusinessObjects customers and was surprise to find that about 35% of them were also using Tableau. Most just had a few copies of Tableau desktop, but some had Tableau server too. In all cases they …

SAP just announced the release of the latest update of its BusinessObjects BI suite, namely BI 4.2 SP03, following the first release BI 4.2 SP02 back in March In both announcements, Web Intelligence really stood out in terms of new features and overall significance compared to all the other tools …

I recently attempted to use the new Commentary Service available in Business Objects 4.2 to enter a comment in a Web Intelligence report. I received an error stating the “Commentary Service is unavailable”, and directing me to see my platform Administrator.  I saved the document, and tried the different ways …

SAP has always had a fondness for renaming products . This has often caused confusion particularly when the new name does not catch on and most people still refer to the product by its old name as in the case of Xcelsius renamed to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Then sometimes the new name …

The relevance of BI on mobile devices is not under question any more – we all have figured out the answer. The important question is now: how do we create our BI solutions to be as useful as possible on a mobile device? There are several facets to consider – the …

I think a lot of people were surprised by SAP’s early announcement of a new analytics platform – SAP Cloud for Analytics – at the end of last year. With BusinessObjects remaining the most widely used BI platform in the world and the incredible amount of investment made in the …