Additional to your IBIS Main Conference registration, the Post-Seminar All-inclusive Boot Camps include:
IBIS is InfoSol’s premier BusinessObjects education and knowledge exchange event. It offers a wide variety of valuable learning experiences with many Business Intelligence oriented tracks, as well as hands-on sessions. All of this makes it the only “must attend” BusinessObjects conference in the universe.
The track sessions and hands-on boot camps go beyond traditional training and information exchange. Led by top experts and experienced users, they will provide a unique opportunity to learn new techniques and best practices in using the most popular BI solution in the world – BusinessObjects.
Additional to your IBIS Main Conference registration, the Pre-Seminar All-inclusive Workshops include:
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Tuesday, Apil 30th at 10AM PT/11AM AZ/1PM ET
Join us in a very informative webinar of a recent upgrade done by a large company. BI Expert, Minith Patel, will share how this organization upgraded from XIR2 to BI 4.2 SP5. Learn about the process that was undertaken, how a plan was formulated, challenges encountered, and the steps taken to achieve a successful upgrade of BusinessObjects. This session is intended to equip our audience important lessons learned and solutions applied for any upgrades and migrations.
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Tuesday, Apil 16th at 10AM PT/11AM AZ/1PM ET
Join us and Web Intelligence Expert, Michael Ward with Creative Technology Training & Solutions, as he hosts a dedicated session on building fantastic and interactive visualizations in Web Intelligence. This webinar will showcase the latest features and enhancements to data visualizations in Webi and how users can take their reporting deliverable’s to a new and approved level of eye-catching designs. From input-controls to intra-document linking, our Speak BO audience will learn how to utilize native Web Intelligence visualizations to explore new ideas with their report development.
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Tuesday, April 2nd at 10AM PT/1PM ET
Join us in a webinar not to miss with Samuel Polichouk, Product Expert for SAP France, as our audience get’s to ask live questions on anything SAP BusinessObjects, hosted by Paul Grill and Bree-Anna Mustad. This open format webinar will allow the Speak BO Community to gain insight and get answers to questions relevant to their work within the core BusinessObjects toolset.
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Tuesday, March 19th at 10AM PT/11AM AZ/1PM ET
Join us and BusinessObjects Administration Expert and Senior Consultant, Amy O’Neel, in a fantastic webinar session dedicated to customization options when branding your organizations BusinessObjects environment to meet company standards. This session will demonstrate and discuss how to apply global color schemes, embedded logos and more, in order to customize the look and feel of the BI Launchpad and Web Intelligence reports.
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Tuesday, March 5th at 10AM PT/11AM AZ/1PM ET
Join us and BusinessObjects Senior Consultant, Allan Williams, as he takes us through using Data and Business Security Profiles that can be administered with the Information Design Tool. In this live demonstration webinar, we will be creating Data and Business Security profiles on the fly and describe the specific functionality of these two options for securing data and access to data. Allan will demonstrate and discuss how to access specific Folders, Universes and Connections that can be modified in the Central Management Console for administration security application.
You and your colleagues are personally invited to join us at the South Eastern Michigan BusinessObjects User Group meeting Tuesday April 2nd, 2019 from 8:30am – 4:00pm
Attendance is FREE, however, we do ask that you register for count purposes.
Location:
Oakland County
2100 Pontiac Lake Rd
Building 41W.
Waterford, MI 48328
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Meeting will be held in the East Conference Room in the Executive office Building.
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Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 am Registration (Free Breakfast Provided)
8:45 – 9:00 am Introduction
9:00 – 10:00 am A BusinessObjects Love Affair – Paul Grill, InfoSol Inc.
While other BI Solutions seem to come and go, BusinessObjects remains as beautiful and desirable as ever. So why does this love affair continue to burn in our hearts as passionately as the first time we met this amazingly gorgeous Business Intelligence solution? InfoSol CEO, Paul Grill, will share his thoughts on why we love BusinessObjects so much and why this love affair continues to thrive as well as show how organizations around the world are harnessing its power to create solutions that see beyond their everyday challenges.
10:00 – 10:15am Break
10:15 – 11:30am Excelling It In WebIntelligence v4.2 – Michael Ward, CTTS
This presentation will provide the user with a variety of ways Excel files can be used in reporting. It will include using Excel as a data provider, using Excel for a bridge file when encountering incompatible format types, as a dynamic filer file, and other uses. It will include an in-depth look at how to properly import an Excel files, where to store the Excel file, and how to update an Excel file without breaking the Webi Document. It will also include some nice tips and techniques when using Excel files. It will open your eyes to the real power of an Excel file.
11:30– 12:30 pm Lunch: On Your Own
12:30 – 1:15 pm The Future of BusinessObjects Dashboards – Paul Grill, InfoSol Inc.
Business Intelligence Dashboards remain the dominant way we deliver Business Intelligence applications. While a picture speaks a thousand words, a dashboard delivers a thousand visual insights. For the longest time, BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius) dominated and is still prevalent with its HTML5 runtime. Web Intelligence is improving its dashboard capabilities with each new service pack and SAP is looking to develop new dashboard solutions in the cloud while many BusinessObjects customers have turned to Tableau, PowerBI and other BI data visualizations. BusinessObjects customers have a lot of choices and this session will discuss the pros and cons of each to help you both better understand and see the possibilities.
1:15 – 2:00 pm Advanced Formatting II – Michael Ward, CTTS
This presentation will provide an in-depth look at how to convert reports into other report types, with an emphasis on creating Master Detail Reports. It will include many of the new features of v4.2, including how to hide columns, blocks and sections. The user will learn how to apply conditional formatting to a Master Detail Blocks at different levels to give reports a more dashboard like look. An example of inserting a Stop light as part of conditional formatting will be included. The user will also learn how to apply the many reporting functions from the Analysis toolbar to Master Detail reports. Topics will include how to place both a report and a chart in a Master Detail Report, and link those blocks together. Navigating a Master Detail Report utilizing the map tab will also be covered. The presentation will cover exporting a Master Detail Report to PDF and Excel. All topics covered will be through live demonstrations of the product, as well as interactive sessions with the users.
02:00 – 2:15 pm Break
02:15 – 3:00 pm BusinessObjects Co-Existence: The New Reality – Paul Grill, InfoSol Inc.
More than 50% of existing BusinessObjects customers use at least one other BI tool in addition to the tools in BusinessObjects. Using the best tool for the job makes a lot of sense in today’s competitive and fast-changing business landscape and so this co-existence of different BI tools has become a reality. The most popular BI tool used with BusinessObjects is Tableau followed by Microsoft’s PowerBI. This session will talk about different use cases for using these tools with BusinessObjects as well as options for integrating them in order to leverage your BusinessObjects investment.
03:00 – 3:45 pm Building Visualizations in Web Intelligence: New and Improved – Michael Ward, CTTS
See how you can create awesome visualizations, including a variety of charts and reports and utilized such features as Input Controls and Intra Document Linking. You will get a chance to see some of the new features rolled out in recent releases, making Webi even more powerful!
03:45- 4:00 pm Wrap-up
Note: This event is not sponsored by SAP or ASUG. Presentations subject to change
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Tuesday, February 19th at 10AM PT/11AM AZ/1PM ET
Join us and BusinessObjects Administrative expert, Amy O’Neel, as she demonstrates the in’s and out’s of using HTML for Web Intelligence report creation and publishing. This webinar will take the audience through the features, perks and limitations, as well as differences when choosing HTML as the driver to Webi development and sharing.
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