My Life With BusinessObjects

Today is June 30, 2010, a day that will live in infamy.  It is the last day of patch support for SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2.  Limited tech support will continue for an additional year, until June 30, 2011.  But it means that XI R2 Service Pack 6 (XI R2 SP6 and a few fix [...]

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 [...]

Henri Theuwissen has written Convincing Reasons to Move to Web Intelligence, a thoughtful and detailed review of how organizations can move from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence.  Henri makes the case that The conversion from Desktop Intelligence to Web Intelligence: – Reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO). – Increases the ease of deployment and [...]

Missed the recent ASUG/GBN SAP BusinessObjects User Conference in Dallas, TX?  You can now access my presentations online. Deploying BI to the Masses using SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Getting Personal with Publications and Profiles Universe Design: Evolution, Intelligent Design, Or Just A Big Mess? If it’s helpful, I would be delighted to give these presentations in-person [...]

I received a tweet today indicating that SAP has extended the support period for BusinessObjects XI R2 until June 30, 2011.  You can read the scoop on the  SAP Support Portal (S-ID required): SAP will provide limited support for most BusinessObjects XI R2 products for a further year following the end of mainstream maintenance until [...]

Today is the second day of the 2009 SAP BusinessObjects User Conference in Dallas, Texas.  This afternoon, I’ll be presenting my second of three breakouts, “Getting Personal with Publications and Profiles.”  This breakout was a bit of a challenge.  On one hand, it’s a remix of my very first user conference presentation that I gave [...]