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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 …

We are excited to announce the next “Everything BusinessObjects” Event of the year – IBIS 2023, at the breath-taking Ritz-Carlton resort, Dove Mountain, AZ from June 25-28, 2023. Once again, we will focus on Business Intelligence Strategy for BusinessObjects Users whether you are using it standalone or with PowerBl, Tableau …

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 …

This live demo will introduce you to my top 10 features of Webi v4.3 SP 2. Will provide some insight to using these features! This webinar will run on Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Did you miss our January 18th webinar Formatting Web Intelligence 4.3 Like a Pro? We have a quick summary of the webinar with the webinar presenters’ key takeaways from their session. Here is the webinar overview: First impressions matter – even for reports! This session will be covering how to …

Did you miss our January 4th webinar Solving Business Problems with BusinessObjects? We have a quick summary of the webinar with the webinar presenters’ key takeaways from their session. Here is the webinar overview: Using Business Objects for finance reporting has been around for decades, but have you considered using …

Systems and services that use the Java logging library, Apache Log4j between versions 2.0 and 2.14.1 are all affected, including many services and applications written in Java.(1) The problem lies in Log4j, a ubiquitous, open-source Apache logging framework that developers use to keep a record of activity within an application.(2) …

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, …

Have you ever had the need to display a full year of data on a chart … even when you don’t have actual data to display? This is what we want to display: But this is what our data displays:   We used to use complicated work arounds to handle …

The recent Dresner 2021 Wisdom of the Crowds survey for Self-Service Business Intelligence showed that self-service BI ranked 6th in importance out of 44 topics. Guess what Number 1 was? Yup, Reporting was #1 on the list! Ten years ago, the BI industry experts and vendors were trying to convince us …