Miami BusinessObjects User Group Meeting (BOUG) – Thursday, September 21, 2017

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You are personally invited to join us at the Miami BusinessObjects Users Meeting on Friday, September 21st, 2017 from 8:30am – 4:00pm hosted by Creative Technology & Training Solutions and InfoSol Inc.  Attendance is free; however, we do ask that you register for count purposes.

LOCATION

 Amadeus North America, Inc.

Room: The Nile -10th Floor
3470 NW 82nd Ave #1000
Dorval, Florida 33122

The building is One Square Park, right by the New City Place at Doral

Complementary Valet Parking until 5 PM

Sign in with ID required at reception

AGENDA

8:30 – 9:00 am Registration (Free Breakfast Provided)

8:45 – 9:00 am Introduction / IBIS update

9:00 – 10:00 am Tableau with BusinessObjects – Bring out the best of both the worlds – Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol Inc.

Learn how Tableau can connect to Business Objects. Deployment and scheduling of BO content to Tableau desktop and Tableau server will be demonstrated. The use cases for Tableau dashboards with BO content will be discussed. And if we have time we may look at bursting out Tableau workbooks as well.

10:00 – 10:15am Break

10:15-11:00 am Now You See Me, Now You Don’t! – Micheal Ward, CTTS

In this live demo you will learn how to create multiple drill blocks and learn how to hide blocks dynamically based on drill bar selections. It includes using Advance Drilling Functionality in a way never envisioned. Watch as report blocks appear and disappear as you select various values from the drill bar drop down list. And all of this functionality using nothing more than WebIntelligence.

11:00 – 11:45 am Visualize This! – Micheal Ward, CTTS

Did you know that with nothing more than WebIntelligence v4.2 you can create more complex visualizations? In this presentation we will create a variety of chart and report blocks, then using nothing more than Input Controls and the new Linking Functionality, create some very slick interactive visualizations. And all of this utilizing nothing more than WebIntelligence.

11:45– 12:45 pm Lunch: On Your Own

12:45 – 1:30 pm Explore the latest features of BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol Inc.

Get to know the detail level product overview of what is new in BI 4.2 and the reasons to upgrade your current BI systems to 4.2. This session covers the latest features in BI 4.2 which will be helpful for your entire organization, including but not limited to, BO administrators, Universe designers, Report developers and Business users.

01:30 – 2:30 pm What’s New In V 4.2 SP 3/SP 4(And Some v4.1) – Micheal Ward, CTTS

This presentation will be a live demo highlighting the many new features v4.2. Topics to include:
Excel and Free Hand SQL as a data provider, Large numbers, grouping, Input Control enhancements,
Prompt Variants, Grouped Input Controls, Shared Elements, Referencing, Calculation enhancements,
Concurrent processing of queries and merging on local variables. Features will be from v4.2 SP 3/SP 4 & some v4.1

02:30 – 2:45 pm Break

02:45 – 3:30 pm Why should I move to IDT universes? – Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol Inc.

The Information Design Tools or IDT is a new semantic layer modeling tool from SAP. But the Universe Design Tool or UDT is still being supported and delivered as part of BI Client tools. What are the advantages of using IDT versus UDT? What are the new features and benefits in creating an IDT UNX Universe? What do I do with my old UNV universes? This session will address all of the above questions. The steps to create an IDT universe and its differences from UDT will be demonstrated

03:30 pm – Wrap up

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