When I first started raving about BusinessObjects in 1992, I would never have thought that I would still be raving about it 30 years later, let alone writing a blog on it on New Year’s Eve! But why not? 2022 turned out to be another massive year for the most …
Read More »IBIS 2023 Dashboard Awards
Submissions for the renowned InfoSol Dashboard Awards are now being accepted. If you have created a Business Intelligence dashboard that solves a business issue or has made a positive difference to your organization or just blows your socks off, then we would love to see it and consider it for …
Read More »BusinessObjects Solid for the Next Decade and Beyond
This is usually the time of the year when people make predictions about the coming year. I have done this myself many times but, this year, I am going to make a prediction about the next 10 years. Here it is : “BusinessObjects will continue to thrive and remain the …
Read More »Let’s Speak BO Webinar: SAP BusinessObjects BI4.3 SP4 Roadmap with SAP France on Tuesday, February 7th
Attend this session to explore the roadmap and future directions of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, including: What’s coming in the next releases, as well as the timeline and priorities for 4.3 SP4 The enhancements to help you adopt the BI 4.3 How the BI 4.3 SP4 will prepare the next …
Read More »Training is Key to Smooth BI 4.3 Transition
Recently I was asked to coach a team of 9 year-old boys in a recreational soccer league. I had retired from soccer coaching several years ago after my youngest daughter went to college, but the league said they would have to cancel this age group if they could not find …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 4
So, for Part 4 of this blog series, I would like to review how you can leverage BusinessObjects to enable and accelerate tools like PowerBI. There appears to be a general misunderstanding that organizations can save money by converting from BusinessObjects to PowerBI. Nothing could be further from the truth. …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 3
Well, this was supposed to only be a 2-part blog (Part 1 and Part 2 ) but there has been such an overwhelming interest and fantastic feedback on the first two parts, that I feel compelled to keep going since the topic is obviously of great interest to many. One of …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, we reviewed the top 5 main differentiators between BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and PowerBI, as determined by 2 different independent BI consultants who have worked and continue to work extensively with both tools. In part 2, I asked the same two consultants to list their …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 1
One of the most frequent questions I have been asked lately is what do I think about PowerBI and can it really replace BusinessObjects? My stock answer has been along the lines of “PowerBI is a Business Intelligence solution from Microsoft oriented towards I.T. and, no, it cannot properly replace …
Read More »Is InfoBurst Squirrel the Best Thing since Sliced Bread?
While on a recent trip to Egypt, I noticed some wall paintings in several of the tombs I visited showing a person sitting in front of an offering table with what looked like a bunch of thin, vertical oblong objects, tapered at the top, and tightly packed together. I took …
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