SAP Visual Intelligence Virtual Launch Event
This afternoon SAP is hosting a virtual launch event for Visual Intelligence. You can read about it and register here. BAM! That’s what you’ll be saying when you revolutionize the way you make business...
View ArticleGuest Blog Post Coming Up!
I've been asked to provide some blog material for another site called The Decision Factor. I'm get to be a guest blogger! My first post for that site will be published soon, and it's titled "Business...
View ArticleGuest Blog Post at The Decision Factor Goes Live
My first guest blog post was published last week, complete with an error on my part that was immediately called out in the comments. :oops: I was writing about Captain James T. Kirk and the Star Trek...
View ArticleHappy Birthday BOB
As a community, BOB started out in the middle of the 1990's, known then as the BUSOB-L mailing list. We converted over to a web-based bulletin board format in 2002. If you do the math, that would mean...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence Lessons From Star Trek Part II
My second guest post at The Decision Factor has been published so you can catch up on more Business Intelligence lessons from Captain Kirk: Business Intelligence Lessons from Star Trek — Part Two
View ArticleWho Won The Olympics? It Depends How You Ask The Question…
A while back I published a blog post that claimed that Mount Everest was not the highest or even the biggest mountain on the Earth. Today I am going to make another startling claim: the recently closed...
View ArticleBI 4 Web Intelligence Satisfaction Poll on BOB
There is a "satisfaction" poll running right now on BOB that asks folks how they feel about the Web Intelligence experience in BI 4.x. If you're currently using BI 4, please consider logging in to...
View ArticleSAP Business Objects User Conference – Day 1 + 2
Wow, lots going on. It's the end of day two and I'm only now sitting down to write my first blog. Then again, much of what I am going to cover has probably been mentioned in a tweet or two. ;) We...
View Article2012 SAP Business Objects Presentation Posted Soon
My virtual machine that I used at the conference seemingly crashed, or at least it would not come up in any way that I could interact with it. I fixed that this morning, and created the PDF file that I...
View ArticleGuest Blog Post: Be Careful What You Wish For
It has been a busy couple of weeks (months!) and my production here has suffered. My most recent post is not here but a guest blog at The Decision Factor: Be Careful What You Wish For. I was inspired...
View ArticleBack After A Nice Break…
Hello folks, I'm back after a nice break with a quick comment from our favorite curly tie engineer: I needed a break from various things, but I should be back and blogging soon. Conference season is...
View ArticleDagira Universe Compare Tool Bug Fix
A user recently commented that outer join settings were not being properly captured by my universe compare tool. It turns out there is a very simple fix. If you have previously downloaded a copy of the...
View ArticleReally Cool Stock Market Visualization
I was looking over some financial sites the other day and ran across this visualization that is based on the stock market. The overall presentation is divided into blocks of companies grouped by...
View ArticleUpdated Strategy Renders Schema Change SDK Tool Obsolete
Many years ago when I first started working with Teradata we had a challenge. The DBA team had defined a standard where each table was tagged to indicate the purpose of the table. Specifically, and...
View ArticlePivot UserResponse() Values Into Rows
Several years ago I wrote a post that has generated a fair number of follow-up questions and comments. The post was related to splitting user response values onto separate rows and it used some basic...
View ArticleIs External Data Always Good?
Note to readers: I started this post back in 2011. After taking a break from blogging I am going back and looking through some of my old drafts and seeing what might still be current, and what has...
View ArticleMastering Business Analytics with SAP
I have said this before: if you ever get invited to speak at a conference hosted by The Eventful Group, don't wait, don't think, just do it! They treat speakers fantastic, and their events are well put...
View ArticleI’m Walking! 2013 Heart Walk Details
Earlier this year I put up a "Donating to Dagira" page where I asked folks to send me non-US coins to add to my collection. So far I have received three different packages of coins and currency from...
View ArticleBI4 UNV Versus UNX … Which Do You Choose?
When SAP released BI4 several years ago it featured a major upgrade to one of the core technologies used by Business Objects since the beginning of the company: the universe. What does this mean for...
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