It’s been a summer of exciting and surprising wins in the international sports world. The Women’s World Cup saw some amazing upsets and results and then the World Track and Field Championships in Budapest had many surprise wins. Sha’Carri Richardson’s 100-meter gold medal was all the more fantastic because the …
Read More »BusinessObjects and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I have owned a motorbike most of my life and used it both for work and pleasure. When I was at university in the UK, I earned extra cash by being a motorcycle dispatch rider doing deliveries in Central London. We were often referred to as “suicide jockeys” due to …
Read More »2023 Looking to be a Busy Year for the BusinessObjects Community
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 »BusinessObjects in the Cloud – No Big Rush and No Big Deal
While we have definitely seen an acceleration in organizations using or moving operational applications to the cloud, Business Intelligence has lagged behind. Today, the majority of BusinessObjects customers use the product on premise and that will not change for a while. Why? Well firstly, if the main data warehouses, repositories, …
Read More »2021 Dashboard Awards highlight trend to BI “Dash Apps”
One of my favorite parts of the annual IBIS event is the Dashboard Awards as every year I love to see the amazing dashboard solutions organizations have created with BI tools. This year was no exception with 3 winners that again blew my socks off with both their business use …
Read More »A Very Important IBIS 2020 Update
To Our BusinessObjects Community, In these unprecedented times, the one lesson we have learned is to stay flexible and go with the flow. Due to the Social Distancing Guidelines and the ban on large gatherings in effect throughout the world, we will not be able to hold our annual IBIS …
Read More »Why Replacing BusinessObjects is Bad for Business
I have learned many valuable life lessons coaching kids’ soccer. Like the time my team of 10-year-old boys lost a game 12-0 and I tried to give one of my inspirational after-game pep talks. The players felt down, I felt down and as I tried to tell them the score …
Read More »Using Guided Analysis to Stop Your Dashboards From Turning into a Wild Goose Chase
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 …
Read More »Let’s Speak BO
I had the unfortunate experience of having a root canal performed last week and it was not pleasant, but during the procedure I was totally fascinated by the way the Endodontist spoke to his assistant. He used terms and an entire language that I didn’t understand, but was second nature …
Read More »InfoSol News: Keeping You in the Loop – Volume 1, Issue 7
Go Forth and Webify the World Ever wonder how SAP’s BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software got to where it is today? Paul Grill shares his experience with BusiessObjects and Web Intelligence and talks about how far the product has come since the early 1990’s. LEARN MORE SABOC Is Around the …
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