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 »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 »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 …
Read More »BusinessObjects Solid for the Next Decade and Beyond
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 …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 4
So, for Part 4 of this blog series, I would like to review how you can leverage BusinessObjects to enable and accelerate tools like PowerBI. There appears to be a general misunderstanding that organizations can save money by converting from BusinessObjects to PowerBI. Nothing could be further from the truth. …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 3
Well, this was supposed to only be a 2-part blog (Part 1 and Part 2 ) but there has been such an overwhelming interest and fantastic feedback on the first two parts, that I feel compelled to keep going since the topic is obviously of great interest to many. One of …
Read More »InfoSol and BusinessObjects Community Excited about New SAP Roadmap for BusinessObjects into the 2030’s
SAP released a new Statement of Direction for its SAP Analytics offering focused on its BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform that clearly shows that the world’s most popular BI suite is here to stay for the next decade and beyond. InfoSol, a 25-year partner of BusinessObjects and SAP and a leading …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, we reviewed the top 5 main differentiators between BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and PowerBI, as determined by 2 different independent BI consultants who have worked and continue to work extensively with both tools. In part 2, I asked the same two consultants to list their …
Read More »BusinessObjects Web Intelligence vs. PowerBI – The Truth from the Trenches Part 1
One of the most frequent questions I have been asked lately is what do I think about PowerBI and can it really replace BusinessObjects? My stock answer has been along the lines of “PowerBI is a Business Intelligence solution from Microsoft oriented towards I.T. and, no, it cannot properly replace …
Read More »BusinessObjects Looking Bright and Solid for 2022
Well, here we are almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and what have we learned from a Business Intelligence standpoint? One thing for sure is that we cannot rely on incomplete or inaccurate data for creating predictive models that make any sense. Also, most organizations had no way to …
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