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 »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 »SAP Security Patch Day – April 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 April 14, 2026, and contains 19 new security notes and 1 update to a previously released security note. Three (3) of these ...
Read More »The Powerful Owl and the Link Between AI, BI and Data
Just before participating in the SAP TechEd on Tour event in Sydney, Australia, I visited Featherdale Widlife Park which takes care of over 2,000 native Aussie animals representing more than 260 different species. While, for my colleagues, petting the koalas and kangaroos was the highlight, for me, it was coming ...
Read More »When to Jump in to BI 2025 and Avoid the Jellyfish
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 ...
Read More »Business Intelligence for the Living
Day of the Dead- or Dia de los Muertos- will be celebrated in just a few days on November 1st. I was reminded about this holiday when doing some product research using Copilot, the AI panel built into Microsoft’s Edge browser. Despite the current popularity of AI, Microsoft (rightly) feels the need to ...
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