The associated press just announced that the SAP $6.8 billion purchase of Business Objects has cleared their review. They said that the deal, “would not significantly impede effective competition” in the 27-nation EU… this is on top of the top given by the US which I wrote about earlier. Click here to read the full […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Deploying BusinessObjects with wdeploy
Deploying BusinessObjects XI on remote web servers just go a whole lot easier! BusinessObjects has always been easy to install when you take the default settings and do a single server installation, but what about when you are trying to install BusinessObjects across a number of different web servers. As Murphy’s law dictates, the documentation […]
Treat Your BI Vendors as a Strategic Partner
I just read a great article that I agree with wholeheartedly. John Myers writes a regular blog on BEYE website. Unfortunately he doesn’t provide a trackback, so I can’t easily reference his original posting, but here’s what he says: The next time that I hear about how IT departments want to drive to a standard, […]
Getting the most out of BusinessObjects
I often get asked about getting the most out of BusinessObjects, so I thought I would take a few moments to mention an often overlooked factor is being successful with BusinessObjects. What do companies need to do to make their investment in BusinessObjects pay off? There are the obvious things such as creating a Center […]
Embedding Web Controls into Crystal Reports
Bringing Together HTML Controls and Crystal Reports Every once in a while I get a chance to present in a forum or user group and show some new amazing capabilities in the product suite. Last year I had the chance to demonstrate WebElements. WebElements is a collection of Crystal functions which generate HTML. An easy […]