Entries in the ‘Book Review’ Category:
filed in Book Review, SAP Press on Jun.15, 2010
SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is a brand new 2010 title from SAP Press, who kindly sent me a review copy. According to its back cover, the book will “provide you with a comprehensive functional overview of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, as well as actionable, step-by-step content to help you quickly begin creating, analyzing, an sharing [...]
Tags: Book Review, designer, universe, Web Intelligence, XI3.0, XI3.1
filed in Book Review on May.25, 2010
I recently relocated my blog from Google Blogger to WordPress hosted on my own domain. As an IT consultant, I’m used to getting under the hood and mastering new concepts. However, when it comes to blogging, I really just want to focus on writing content, not endless tweaking and maintenance. I was intrigued by [...]
Tags: Book Review, Career
filed in Book Review, Explorer, SAP Press on May.18, 2010
Greetings from ASUG2010/SAPPHIRENOW in Orlando, Florida. I am writing this post from a quiet spot just off of the main exhibit hall. Having presented Deploying BI to the Masses with BusinessObjects Explorer at the fall 2009 GBN conference, I was thrilled when the FedEx truck recently brought me a review copy of Ingo Hilgefort‘s new [...]
Tags: Book Review, casual business user, Explorer
filed in Book Review on Jan.08, 2010
My father-in-law gave me a great Christmas gift- a copy of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience. I spend about half of my career using presentation skills, either as a business intelligence instructor, conference speaker, or technical sales consultant. So I was really pumped that [...]
Tags: apple, Book Review, Career, presentation skills
filed in Book Review, SQL on Aug.23, 2009
I have a soft spot in my heart for O’Reilly Media. I was first introduced to O’Reilly, aka “the animal books” many years ago in college. I believe my first O’Reilly book was Unix in a Nutshell. It still occupies a space on my bookshelf. Next to it is Learning the Korn Shell. Later, O’Reilly [...]
Tags: books, review, SQL
filed in Book Review on Aug.16, 2009
I’ve been blogging about SAP BusinessObjects on Blogger for almost two years. Over time, I’ve started using other social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. And just this month, I became the proud owner of an Apple iPhone 3GS. So this week during a vacation, it made perfect sense for me to read [...]
Tags: Book Review, iPhone, Social Media