My Life With BusinessObjects

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 [...]

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 [...]

2009 has been another interesting year as a business intelligence consultant. The year was fairly balanced between XI R2 and XI 3.0/3.1. Definitely more XI R2 than I would prefer, but I also got to work on a really interesting Xcelsius 2008 dashboard project. I was also able to help several customers with installation, configuration, [...]

December has been a busy month, but I’ll be getting some much-needed downtime plus working from home before heading out to clients again in January. Christmas came early this year in the form of my Business Objects Certified Professional (BOCP) certificate for Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.0. I’m looking forward to framing it and hanging [...]

Keeping up with Business Objects products can make a person feel like they’re on an eternal treadmill of learning. Yesterday, I passed the BusinessObjects Certified Professional – Enterprise (BOCP-BOE) upgrade exam, which brought my BusinessObjects XI R2 certification up to XI 3.x. For those of you who have never certified, it requires passage of 3 [...]

A reminder from CareerBuilder.com (from their 2008 Super Bowl ad) that life is short and to find something that you can pursue with great passion. For the past five and one half years, my passion has been helping individuals and organizations harness the power of business intelligence to create and share intelligent information, primarily with [...]