There has been a lot of confusion about this year’s ASUG BI Conference taking place October 17-20 in New Orleans, LA. Previously known as the SAP Analytics and BusinessObjects Conference (SABOC), this year it was renamed the ASUG Business Intelligence + Analytics Conference (ASUGBIA). This was a very unfortunate renaming …
Read More »What’s in a Name? Everything, if it’s BusinessObjects!
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 …
Read More »J Lo Rocks , SAP Rolls and BI takes a Back Seat
I had only seen Jennifer Lopez in movies before her rock concert at Sapphire this week. She put on a good show and certainly generated a lot more energy on stage than the keynote speakers at this year’s combined SAP Sapphire and ASUG Annual Conference. SAP rolled with their “Run …
Read More »Xcelsius Tech Tip: Overcoming Checkbox Shortcomings
The checkbox is one of the most common UI elements that allow its users to have binary choices and it is available out-of-the-box in Xcelsius/SAP Dashboards. However, the Xcelsius component is limited due to the inability to control the selection or reset to its default state in run-time programmatically. In …
Read More »Puffing and Blowing the Cloud in New Orleans
It’s 5:45 am in the morning (on Jan 17th) and I’m jogging on the spot with hundreds of other crazy people down by the riverside in central New Orleans. It’s still dark and we are about to start a 2 mile “fun” run . While there was nothing fun about …
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