SAP recently announced a further extension of the BusinessObjects roadmap along with a new cadence of software releases. The next major release of BusinessObjects, BI 2025, will be the first of a new naming convention and release pattern going forward. Previous releases with BusinessObjects 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 have followed …
Read More »New BusinessObjects Feature Can Save You a Boat Load of Money
I travel a lot and so I belong to a lot of frequent traveler programs . Through flights, hotels, car rentals, trains, restaurants and Starbucks, I collect a lot of miles, points and stars that save my company money and provide extra perks like upgrades and priority status. Best of …
Read More »Hoop Dancing Lessons for Optimizing Your Business Intelligence Deployment
I got an amazing birthday gift from my wife this year. She bought tickets for the Annual World Championship Hoop Dancing competition in Phoenix. It was something I always wanted to see and I was not disappointed. I watched the entire 2 days live and enjoyed every minute of it. …
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 »Roller Derby and Testing New BusinessObjects Service Packs
Last night I went to watch a Roller Derby game live on a banked track which I have not done for a long time. I loved the game especially since my team, “The Runaway Brides”, soundly defeated the “Brutal Beauties” but it also reignited my love of the sport. Both …
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 Future of Business Intelligence Reporting
At the SpeakBO Experience Event last month, SAP presented some excellent sessions and demonstrations on both the current and future features of BusinessObjects and one thing was very evident. Namely, they are investing heavily in enhancing the functionality of Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports. This makes a lot of sense. …
Read More »Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Developing a Real WebI Report Requirement Using Creative Tips and Tricks on Tuesday, March 7th
Running on Tuesday, March 7th at 10am PT/11am AZ/1pm ET Synopsis coming soon…
Read More »Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Creating Graphs and Charts in Webi 4.3 on Tuesday, May 2nd
Tuesday, May 2nd at 10am PT/1pm ET Creating and formatting charts has become much easier in Web Intelligence 4.3. This session will cover turning tables into charts and quickly formatting the charts to have the number formatting desired, the color and spacing desired as well as dynamic titles and legends. …
Read More »2023 Looking to be a Busy Year for the BusinessObjects Community
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 …
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