I have noticed an interesting trend over the last 6 months as people and organizations play and try to find productive use cases for AI. While some companies went all out to encourage their staff to use AI and created leaderboards and rewards for people who burned through the most ...
Read More »BusinessObjects Holistic Healthcare
I recently had a stress fracture of the tibia (shin bone) in my left leg. I called the orthopedics department of a well-known healthcare organization to make an appointment. After collecting all my personal details, the representative asked where the problem was located and I told her on the left ...
Read More »The Mr. and Mrs. Smith Relationship of BusinessObjects and Power BI
About 20 years ago, there was a movie called Mr. and Mrs. Smith starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. It starts off with them visiting with a marriage counselor trying to sort out issues in their stagnant and boring marriage. What they don’t know at the time is that they ...
Read More »Customer Success Spotlight: Education Geographics Modernizes with InfoBurst Squirrel
When Education Geographics found that its existing reporting solution was approaching end-of-life, the organization needed a modern, reliable platform that could support its future reporting needs. With InfoBurst Squirrel, they successfully transformed their dashboard experience with a refreshed design, improved stability, and a solution that exceeded expectations. “InfoBurst Squirrel has ...
Read More »SAP Security Patch Day – July 2026
SAP issues monthly Security Patch Day Bulletins on the second Tuesday of every month- which has been synchronized with the Security Patch Day of other major software vendors. This month’s bulletin was issued on July 14, 2026, and contains 16 new security notes. Thankfully, NONE of these notes apply to ...
Read More »Great Takeaways from IBIS 2026
Well, IBIS 2026 really was the best IBIS ever with 3 days of immersion in the best of everything BusinessObjects and the future of Business Intelligence. The conference kicked off with the Monday keynote on BusinessObjects Enters the New Kingdom where I drew a parallel between Ancient Egypt’s Golden Age ...
Read More »Looking Forward to Birthday Parties and IBIS
When I was a kid, I always looked forward to my birthday because that was the one day of the year I was allowed to invite friends to my grandparents’ house where I lived and we could both play and interact outside of school. We immersed ourselves in games like ...
Read More »Staying Current with BusinessObjects on a Small Budget
I was at an archeological conference last week promoting the InfoBurst Squirrel no-code application development solution. This is the same solution that many BusinessObjects customers are using to provide write back, AI and what if scenarios in Web Intelligence. It is also an excellent solution for the archeology community because ...
Read More »Following the Leader May Take You to a Dead End
It’s easy to get lost coming out of Newark Airport with a rental car even when you are using Google Maps. So, on a recent trip there, I decided just to follow the two cars in front of me as they seemed to know where they were going. Unfortunately, they ...
Read More »Eating the Elephant of Data Strategy
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 ...
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