A few years ago, I had encouraged a BI Director to create a BI dashboard showing the key financial metrics of their company and to show it to the CEO. The day after he showed it, he called me to say that he was never doing that again. Apparently, …
Read More »IBIS 2025 Call for Presentations – Your Chance to Shine!
Do you have an exciting project or a compelling case study involving BusinessObjects? Now’s your chance to shine at the premier BusinessObjects event of the year—IBIS 2025! We’re seeking presentations in the following categories: Excelling with BusinessObjects: Share your BusinessObjects tips, advice and best practices. Creative BusinessObjects Case Studies: Showcase …
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 »Test Drive BI 2025 and Enter the Squirrel Hackathon at IBIS
Your Chance to Test Drive BI 2025 Do not miss a unique opportunity to test drive an early version of the next exciting BusinessObjects release, BI 2025. This new release promises to be revolutionary in terms of its advanced visualizations and new functionality. There will be 5 sessions at IBIS …
Read More »IBIS 2024 Call for Presentations
Your Chance to Share and Shine 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 …
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 »IBIS 2023: The ‘Everything BusinessObjects’ Event – AGENDA is LIVE
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 26-28, 2023. Once again, we will focus on Business Intelligence Strategy for BusinessObjects Users whether you are using it standalone or with PowerBl, Tableau …
Read More »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 »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 …
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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