You are personally invited to join us at the next action packed North Carolina BusinessObjects Users Meeting on Friday November 13th, 2015 8:30am – 4:00pm hosted by Creative Technology & Training Solutions and InfoSol Inc. Attendance is free; however, we do ask that you register for count purposes.
Read More »September 2015 and October 2015 BOUG Meetings
InfoSol will be participating in a series of regional BusinessObjects User Group Meetings. All events are free to attend and are aimed to provide both education and knowledge exchange around current BusinessObjects topics. We have meetings scheduled in Portland, San Francisco, Denver, Cleveland, and Grand Rapids. Follow the link to …
Read More »HTML5 with XDC and dCode Gives Xcelsius a Bright Future
I have noticed an interesting trend amongst SAP folks in the last few months that they are starting to call SAP BO Dashboards by its original name of Xcelsius again. While the name Xcelsius never really went away, I wondered if this new trend is due to the fact that …
Read More »BI 4.1 Fast-Track Delta Training
A lot of things changed between BusinessObjects XI 3.1 and the current BI 4.1 release but depending on the type of user you are and which tools you use you may or may not need training. One thing is for sure that if you are experienced in the tools at …
Read More »5 Easy Steps in Designing a Dynamic Y-Axis Web Intelligence Report Leveraging Derived Tables in IDT
“Create a sales report by state, by city, by store, by year, by quarter, by month…” and the list goes on. This is a very common report requirement from a business. The usual procedure for designing this report in Web Intelligence is to create different reports for each dimension or …
Read More »Reflections on ASUG2013 Developer Wars to Benefit City Year
The Challenge: ASUG2013 Developer Wars At this time, one week ago, we were nearing the end of the development cycle of the ASUG2013 Dashboard Developer Wars; a 24 hour challenge (which turned out to be 27 hours of development time followed by 24 hours of getting ready for the presentation). …
Read More »Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte, Zettabyte, Yottabyte
When I started my career in I.T., one of the first computers I encountered was a Xerox Sigma mainframe that filled a room and played the “Stars and Stripes” tune when it was in idle mode. This large scale computer of its day had a massive 8K of memory. In …
Read More »BO XI 3.1: To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade?
As SAP announces the “ramp up” or controlled release for SAP BusinessObjects XI 4.0, some companies who are planning to upgrade to BO XI 3.1 are wondering if they should now wait. The simple answer is “no” and there are many good reasons to upgrade to XI 3.1 as soon …
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