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I have this weird perception in life to where everything I see I end up relating to Business Intelligence. This makes me sound like an extremely dull person, I know, but it does tend to create some good stories. As you can imagine, if you try and relate EVERYTHING to ...

Quick! Answer this question: Can you do the work of an accountant? Now, before I tell you why I ask and why you answered the way you did, humor me and ask yourself a few more questions: What made you think that you could or couldn’t handle that effort? Do ...

I have always found that a great way to prepare for a day of listening to sales presentations is to go for a run. So here I am in Las Vegas at SAP’s Sales Kickoff event and I start my first day, just as the sun rises, running through the ...

When I was 19 years-old, I decided I wanted to learn car mechanics. I could have gone to a training college but I wanted to “learn by doing” and from a real professional so I walked into a car service company that specialized in Rolls Royce’s and Bentley’s. I figured ...

Growing up, I used to watch the animated version of Superman on TV in black-and-white and I can still remember that introduction of : “Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, ...

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WooHoo!  and Thank you!  We met our goal of raising $5000 to help provide clean drinking water thanks to the generous donations of InfoSol staff, partners, customers and friends and family.  We could not have done it without you.  Our InfoSol Butterflies Campaign closed on Dec 31st, 2012.  If you ...

I used to make New Year’s resolutions but I usually forgot them within a week and never thought about them again until the next New Year. However, it is interesting to hear other people’s resolutions. My eldest daughter told me today that her 2013 resolution is to be less obsessive ...

This Friday, December 14, 2012 at approx 5:00 PM Eastern time, the infosol.com website may experience some problems loading due to scheduled maintenance. We don’t expect it to take long but we may experience outages for up to 24 hours. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. ...

There was an underlying mood at the recent ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference of confusion and even despondency amongst long-time BusinessObjects users. This is a conference organized by ASUG for BusinessObjects users yet many did not attend and made a conspicuous statement by their absence. So why the confusion and ...

I know that I shouldn’t be amused by these sorts of things, but I can’t help myself. Recently our good friends at HP announced that they are writing off $8.8 billion (yes, B, $8,800,000,000) worth of a company that they bought a year ago as the value of the company ...

Today’s goal is to find out who reads my blog posts.  So here it goes: Self-Service Business Intelligence is an outdated, over-stated and fundamentally flawed concept.  Those using this term should be mocked appropriately. Ok, now let’s see if I get any comments! I was going to end the blog ...

I was just visiting a healthcare organization in Michigan and talking to a person in their HR department who recently attended an InfoSol Xcelsius immersion boot camp. He was so excited about what he had learned but even more elated about Xcelsius itself. He said, “It’s so logical and yet ...