When Education Geographics found that its existing reporting solution was approaching end-of-life, the organization needed a modern, reliable platform that could support its future reporting needs. With InfoBurst Squirrel, they successfully transformed their dashboard experience with a refreshed design, improved stability, and a solution that exceeded expectations. “InfoBurst Squirrel has …
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Why InfoBurst PBI? — Empower decisions with trusted data InfoBurst PBI seamlessly connects BusinessObjects and PowerBI, enabling automatic scheduling, bursting, and direct access to BO Universes. It provides a single, trusted data source for accurate insights, helping businesses make more informed decisions with ease.
Read More »2024 – Another Great Year for BusinessObjects
BusinessObjects had another great year in 2024. Many organizations who planned to replace BusinessObjects decided to keep it and, in some cases, added licenses or re-purchased it again! While Microsoft PowerBI continued to eat into the Tableau base, BusinessObjects beat them both hands-down for operational and BI reporting. That was …
Read More »New BusinessObjects Feature Can Save You a Boat Load of Money
I travel a lot and so I belong to a lot of frequent traveler programs . Through flights, hotels, car rentals, trains, restaurants and Starbucks, I collect a lot of miles, points and stars that save my company money and provide extra perks like upgrades and priority status. Best of …
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I got an amazing birthday gift from my wife this year. She bought tickets for the Annual World Championship Hoop Dancing competition in Phoenix. It was something I always wanted to see and I was not disappointed. I watched the entire 2 days live and enjoyed every minute of it. …
Read More »BusinessObjects is about to make another Quantum Leap – Don’t Miss Out!
The latest version of BusinessObjects, BI 4.3 SP4 has some awesome new features including the ability to profile, merge and even transform data sources in Web Intelligence in ways never before possible. The next release of BusinessObjects, BI 2025, will have even more amazing new functionality as the most used …
Read More »A New Xcelsius that Integrates with BusinessObjects
While cleaning out the storage area at the InfoSol office recently, we came across a box of unopened Xcelsius Engage 2008 software packages. Yes, back in 2008, it was normal to deliver PC based software this way, putting it on CD’s and packaged in a nice-looking box with installation instructions and, …
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Squirrel365 and Archaeological Data
I am a settlement archaeologist who works with pottery from Elephantine Island (project of the German Archaeological Institute), and at Kom el-Hisn, where I direct excavations. Settlement excavations help us understand how the Egyptians lived – in part by enabling us to look at what they threw away. The routine …
Read More »Ancient Egypt and BusinessObjects – Both Light Years Ahead
One of the reasons I am so fascinated by the Ancient Egyptian culture is that it was so far ahead of its time. Not only did it thrive for almost three millennia, but the Ancient Egyptians were advanced in mathematics, architecture, construction, agriculture, astronomy, medicine, legal systems, writing, art and …
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