An early notification would provide enough time for senior management to ensure the right team and support was in place to win the deal. There was only one caveat…
Read More »Flash May be Going Away but Xcelsius HTML5 Shines On
A couple of years back, I wrote a blog about Xcelsius (aka SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards) to explain why it remained the BI dashboard tool of choice for thousands of organizations. At that time, there was a lot of hype being generated about how Flash is dead and, by association, so ...
Read More »InfoSol Brings Superheroes and Let’s Speak BO to BI + Analytics Conference (Booth #14)
Reinvigorated and charged with even more super powers from an awesome IBIS event, some of the BusinessObjects superheroes will be heading to Nashville for the BI + Analytics Conference. You will be able to find us at Booth #14. This year’s event promises to be more focused on the classic ...
Read More »InfoSol Dashboard Awards Wow Superheroes at IBIS 2017
The superhero theme was a huge hit at this year’s InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar (IBIS) with attendees showing off some pretty cool superhero poses and an abundance of super powers in the many hands-on training and seminar sessions. One of the top highlights was the InfoSol 2017 dashboard awards that ...
Read More »Using Guided Analysis to Stop Your Dashboards From Turning into a Wild Goose Chase
My running log’s message of the week was that 24,000 people a year end up in the emergency room as a result of incidents on treadmills so take care when you use one. I hate running on treadmills and try to avoid them . A few years ago I was ...
Read More »BusinessObjects and Tableau Hook Up
At the end of last year I did a quick improvised survey of our active BusinessObjects customers and was surprise to find that about 35% of them were also using Tableau. Most just had a few copies of Tableau desktop, but some had Tableau server too. In all cases they ...
Read More »Having trouble getting to our support site? Here’s what happened.
We moved Support.infosol.com to Help.infosol.com Here’s a link to our welcome message that explains a bit more on how to get started on the new site. But, despite all efforts, there are still days when you try and go to support.infosol.com which is supposed to redirect to help.infosol.com but somehow ...
Read More »Let’s Speak BO in New Orleans at ASUG BI+ Analytics Conference Oct. 17-20
There has been a lot of confusion about this year’s ASUG BI Conference taking place October 17-20 in New Orleans, LA. Previously known as the SAP Analytics and BusinessObjects Conference (SABOC), this year it was renamed the ASUG Business Intelligence + Analytics Conference (ASUGBIA). This was a very unfortunate renaming ...
Read More »The SAP BI Strategy: Convergence or Conservancy?
I have been confused about SAP’s BI roadmap and strategy for many years now and so are the vast majority of SAP BusinessObjects customers that I have talked with about this topic. About four or five years ago, SAP determined that there were too many products in it’s BI portfolio ...
Read More »Web Intelligence – SAP’s New Golden Child in BI 4.2
SAP just announced the release of the latest update of its BusinessObjects BI suite, namely BI 4.2 SP03, following the first release BI 4.2 SP02 back in March In both announcements, Web Intelligence really stood out in terms of new features and overall significance compared to all the other tools ...
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