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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 ...

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 ...

In 1979 (yes— I realize many of you weren’t even born), Swedish super group ABBA released the song “Does Your Mother Know?”. Like most ABBA songs, the hooks are catchy. Take it easy (take it easy)Better slow down, girlThat’s no way to goDoes your mother know? In 2026, amid our ...

As I present and demo BusinessObjects to customers and at BO User Group Meetings around the world, I am always surprised that so many people have never used, and sometimes never even heard, of some of its best features. So, here is my quick list of the top 3 under-utilized ...

Lumira, a Short History In March 1966, Twentieth Century Fox released The Sound of Music, a film adaptation of a popular Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The film became the highest grossing film of 1965 and in 1966 became the highest grossing film in history. This year, we celebrate the film’s ...

So a couple of months ago, I find myself standing waist-deep in the Mediterranean sea on the Costa Brava in Spain. The water is a little cold and I am hesitant to dive in. It’s not just because of the shock of the cold water, it’s also because I have ...

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 ...

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 ...

The big news last month was the release of the next version of BusinessObjects, known as BI 2025. In addition, it marks the beginning of a new cadence of future BO software releases coming every two years and named after the year that it will be release in – BI ...