Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Building Custom BI Dashboards

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September 1st, 2020 at 10AM PT/1PM ET

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For small to large companies, the BI market offers a great number of tools that are available both as embedded versions and cloud-based (Software-as-a-Service) technologies. Although It’s possible to find solutions that cover nearly any kind of industry-specific data analysis with flexible possibilities, there are great advantages to developing a custom web based dashboard. Based on the requirements, your industry type, the size, and needs of your business, you will be able to understand whether you are ready to or should invest in a custom BI tool.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Improving the user experience with copy in your BI projects

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July 7th, 2020 at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Getting your copy/text right for your dashboards and reports is more important than you might think! choosing an effective visual is only half the battle. You need clear, concise communications to support your data and help convey your message/tell a story. In this session we take a look at tips and tricks for clear communications, we show you when and where incorporating a tone of voice is important, and we call-out the key information you should include in your chart annotations. You will come away from this session with a better understanding of the level of control you have over how your information is consumed.

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New York Area BusinessObjects Users Group – Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 POSTPONED

The May New York Area BusinessObjects User Group has been postponed until further notice. We will send out an update when we are able to reschedule in the future.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Xcelsius to Squirrel: A Smooth Transition

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Tuesday, November 26th at 10AM PT/11AM AZ/ 1PM ET.

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Don’t worry if you’ve missed the news on Squirrel—the most intuitive dashboarding tool to hit the market. This webinar will quickly get you up to speed

Delivered by one of Squirrel’s creators from InfoSol UK, you will get an overview of the project so far, the next steps to MVP and beyond (Minimal Viable Product) and a demo of Squirrel. Also learn about:

  • Why Squirrel?
  • What is Squirrel?
  • Project roadmap
  • Key features
  • Migrating your Xcelsius dashboards.

We will also be sharing details on how you can participate in the beta before it’s formal release.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Designing Dashboards Using Infographics

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Tuesday, May 1st at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Join us in a visually appealing and exciting presentation on how to develop Dashboards using infographics. This webinar, hosted by Dashboard design and developing expert Mel Sheppard, will demonstrate and discuss ways to utilize infographics in order to create custom-looking, interactive, and visually astounding Dashboards.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Creating Interactive Dashboards in Web Intelligence

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Tuesday, April 18th at 10AM PST/1PM EST

Join us in a fantastic presentation where you will learn how to use the functionality in Web Intelligence to create dynamic and interactive reports/dashboards. Jared Hansen will demonstrate how the City of Mesa used dashboard developing techniques in Web Intelligence to create a more cohesive and guided analytical solution.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Dashboards and OpenDoc

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Tuesday, January 10th at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Join us and expert Dashboard developer, Roxanne Pittman as we explore connecting BusinessObjects Dashboards to BusinessObjects reporting. One great option we have in our BusinessObjects tool belt is the use of the OpenDocument call to open a Webi or Crystal report from a URL link. We can use this tool in Xcelsius/SAP BO Dashboards as well to further expand the usability and drive action by adding a link from the dashboard to a Webi or Crystal report. In this session, Roxanne will demonstrate and discuss how to create a link from Dashboards to reports while also demonstrating the capability to pass parameters from the dashboard as prompts to the report, so that the detail report opens at just the right level of detail needed for complete analysis.

Presenter: Roxanne Pittman, InfoSol

Roxanne is a Senior BI Consultant and has been with InfoSol for 9 years now. In addition to being a multi-certified instructor in reporting, universe and dashboard design, Roxanne has experience working with Fortune 500 companies as a consultant in the deployment of business intelligence solutions across the United States as well as in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Roxanne’s passion for exciting data visualizations earned her the title of D-Va: Dashboard Visualization Artist, working with Xcelsius since 2006, Dashboards 4.x and most recently HTML5 dashboards using InfoBurst Apps.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Going Mobile – Design and Deployment Using Web Intelligence 4.2

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Tuesday, August 23rd at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Due to the proliferation of mobile devices in business today, report designers are increasingly being asked to provide reporting solutions for distribution on a mobile platform. More often than not, users would like to consume their Web Intelligence content on their mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. This hands-on immersion boot camp will explore design considerations to enhance the display of both existing and new documents on mobile devices using the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Client application.

Major Topics Include:

  • Exploring mobile platform design challenges
    Mobile report design best practices
    Configuring and using the SAP BusinessObjects Mobile Client application

Steve Thatcher, InfoSol Inc.

Steve is a Technical Consultant for InfoSol. He is a Certified Web Intelligence Application Associate and, in addition to teaching the SAP Web Intelligence report design courses offered at InfoSol, provides Web Intelligence services to customers. In addition to Web Intelligence, Steve is also a Certified SAP Dashboards/Xcelsius Application Associate, and continuously stays abreast of the many offerings of the SAP business intelligence solutions suite. Steve’s business intelligence background is complemented by his over 13 years in Corporate Finance gaining experience in financial modeling, reporting, and information system development.

Let’s Speak BO Webinar: Innovative Dashboard Navigation Techniques

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Tuesday, March 22nd at 10AM PT/1PM ET

Navigating around a dashboard must be able to ‘flex’ when it comes to the needs of the data. Sometimes in the development process, logical groupings of the data are more apparent whereas other times we need to get creative in how we navigate to the data with a user-friendly and logical workflow in mind. Join us in a fantastic session with expert Dashboard Developer & Designer, Roxanne Pittman, as we explore dashboard navigation techniques that will guide developers in discovering innovative approaches to navigation in a dashboard project.

Presenter: Roxanne Pittman, InfoSol Inc.

Roxanne is a Senior BI Consultant and has been with InfoSol for 9 years now. In addition to being a multi-certified instructor in reporting, universe and dashboard design, Roxanne has experience working with Fortune 500 companies as a consultant in the deployment of business intelligence solutions across the United States as well as in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. Roxanne’s passion for exciting data visualizations earned her the title of D-Va: Dashboard Visualization Artist, working with Xcelsius since 2006, Dashboards 4.x and most recently HTML5 dashboards using InfoBurst Apps. Roxanne shares Tech-Tips at http://infosolblog.com/