I have a had a lot of conversations about data strategy this year. With both the rise in organizations looking to move their data to the cloud and the increasing awareness of the power of BI and generative AI, data strategy has become a top priority. If the data is …
Read More »Join us at the Virtual Speak BO Experience: September 25th-27th
Registering for the Speak BO Experience will give you live access to 3 full live access to 3 days of sessions. You will also get access to the recordings of the available sessions for 120 days after the conference. You will also be able to get BusinesObjects Certified in up …
Read More »Webinar: Upgrading from BI 4.2 to 4.3 – Tales from the Trenches on August 10, 2023
There are a lot of upgrades from BI 4.2 to 4.3 happening this year as BI 4.2 has moved to priority one support only. Just how difficult or tricky is this upgrade? Amy O’Neel, the BO Administration Guru, has done a lot of these upgrades of all shapes and sizes …
Read More »Webinar: Recent Upgrades from BusinessObjects BI 4.2 to BI 4.3 on September 5, 2023
The majority of BusinessObjects customers are upgrading to BI 4.3 this year. Some have already upgraded to SP02 and many are now upgrading to SP03. This session from the great BusinessObjects Administration Guru, Amy O’Neel, will discuss first-hand experiences as well as the best approach to executing an upgrade to …
Read More »BusinessObjects Community Gets a Boost
One of my favorite organizations is the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. I love the work they do because they have figured out that the best way to help gorillas in the wild is to partner with both the local people who live closest to them and the gorilla lovers all …
Read More »The Best Is Not Always the Biggest
I just got back from a recent trip to Egypt (my favorite place to visit) and although I was there to work on an excavation, I had 2 free days in Cairo. While I have visited the pyramids at Giza, Saqqara, Dashur many times, I had recently seen a YouTube …
Read More »InfoBurst Squirrel Case Study: How Education Geographics upgraded and transformed their dashboard using InfoBurst Squirrel
Saving the Planet with Squirrel365
I was recently in London, UK, at an international Biomass conference. It was attended by organizations both creating and supplying biomass fuels and those consuming them. The main biomass fuel used is compressed wood pellets made from parts of the tree that cannot be used for lumber. The wood comes …
Read More »Lessons on Co-Existence from the Philadelphia Zoo
I just got back from presenting at two in-person BusinessObjects User Group Meetings in Trenton, NJ and Philadelphia, PA. The Philadelphia meeting was held at the Philadelphia Zoo and included a free pass to the Zoo afterwards. I really enjoyed this Zoo because they really have gone all out to …
Read More »Are You a Master of Your Universe or a Slave to it?
Moving from the old Universe Design Tool (UDT) to the new Information Design Tool (IDT) is a bit like upgrading your washing machine. The new washing machines have lots of additional features and can be set to do dozens of different cycles, washes, rinses, spins – you can even change …
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