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If you have done something interesting with BusinessObjects or have a really cool case study or story that you would like to share then, here is your chance to shine by submitting a presentation for the top BusinessObjects event of the year – IBIS 2026. We are looking for presentations …

What happens when an acquired business or a department of a larger organization is subject to operational changes, often introduced by their parent organizations.  These changes can be painful and uncoordinated at times, yet, the imperative is to deliver better actionable information than before, and quickly too.  The case study …

Day of the Dead- or Dia de los Muertos- will be celebrated in just a few days on November 1st. I was reminded about this holiday when doing some product research using Copilot, the AI panel built into Microsoft’s Edge browser. Despite the current popularity of AI, Microsoft (rightly) feels the need to …

About 5 years ago, I was interviewing Santi Becerra, creator of Xcelsius and then a development VP at Tableau working on AI, at an IBIS conference. I asked him the question, “Where do you see Business Intelligence 5 years from today?”.  His answer was something along the lines of people …

If a picture speaks a thousand words then an animated dashboard speaks a million Seeing is Believing – We Can Make Your Data Come to Life Visually You give us a subset of your data in Excel and the minimum metrics and Business Intelligence you would like to see from …

One of my favorite Business Intelligence stories is from a fleet vehicle management company who use BI extensively to help identify anomalies in fleet vehicle costs and behavior. In one of their analyses, they identified a driver who had 12 oil changes on his vehicle in 12 months – literally …

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.

There were so many highlights at the IBIS 2025 BusinessObjects Conference this year, it’s hard to know where to begin.  I saw a Gila Monster at the resort on the first day after we arrived, and I had not seen one of these rare beauties in over 30 years! That …

Many years ago, I had a customer who was a non-profit organization run by a religious order of monks. They prided themselves on being quite self-sufficient for their IT needs that were handled by some of the monks themselves. However, we supported the operating system and software that they used …

I recently attended a conference where there was a presentation about training methods, particularly for organizations.  The presenter put up a slide explaining that on-line training through self-instruction or watching videos was not really successful. They said one university had done a study looking at the brain patterns of people …