My Life With BusinessObjects

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Intimidated by the plethora of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store? Josh Clark has compiled a list of over 200 “best” iPhone apps in a new book, Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. The book has a companion web site, Best iPhone Apps: The Site for Discriminating Downloaders. The apps are organized [...]

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 [...]