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New 90-day free trial to SAP Visual Intelligence

It’s New! It’s Cool! It’s Wow! It’s like two aspirin for that DeskI hangover! … and it’s available FREE for 90 days! 11/12 UPDATE:  This was a limited time offer.  The free trial is now 30 days. SAP...

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Dynamic Data Provider within BusinessObjects v4.0

As customers migrate from the classic Business Views one feature missing from the new Information Design Tool is a straight-forward dynamic data connection option when defining connections.  In fact,...

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SAP Discusses Latest BI Roadmap

Yesterday, many SAP BusinessObjects customers, mentors, partners and even a few competitors listened in as Steve Lucas as he unveiled SAP’s bold, new analytics strategy.  The twittersphere as active...

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Sets Integrated into the Semantic Layer

On August 5, 2009, the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center announced a prototype for moving Sets Technology directly into the Semantic Layer. Potential Future of Sets Since the EOL announcement of...

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WebIntelligence Integration with SAP

After attempting to move my blog off wordpress.com on Friday, I decided it was going to be more involved and I had a bit more testing to do before I was willing to make the final switch… but that’s...

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Supercharge Your Universe with Time-Series Analysis – Part 1

To some degree or another, as we close out the year, we will all reflect on 2009 and what has been accomplished.  There are always things we might have done better, but looking at things over the time...

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Supercharge Your Universe with Time-Series Analysis – Part 2

Using time is one of the most important ways to analyze information.  Each day, week, month and year is unique and can best be understood within it’s specific context.  In my last post, we showed how...

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Supercharge Your Universe with Time-Series Analysis – Part 3

The Semantic Layer allows for powerful analysis of any relational database based on time.   The ability for administrators to create complex time-based measures and filters, means that business users...

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In The Airport

I was on my way home from a business trip earlier this year when I noticed something strange.  Something that make my BI antennae stick up. Single Version of the Truth? How much longer until the train...

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Date Conversion Made Easy…

Have you ever been using SAP BusinessObjects WebIntelligence and wanted to turn a prompt from a date time into a date? I do a lot of demos using Microsoft SQL Server and by default Microsoft SQL Server...

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