Visual Intelligence Goes Predictive….

It was only a few short months ago when Visual Intelligence was released.  We were promised a rapid development and release cycle, but I never expected this many changes is such a sort time. Here is a quick summary: 1.0.1 – Visual data analysis and data discovery for the Desktop 1.0.2 – Freehand SQL, Publish […]

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 Visual Intelligence is now available for download.  It provides the ability to connect to data sources such […]

BusinessObjects BI Decision Tree

UPDATE 10/5/2012:  Things have continued to evolve since May and therefore this post has been updated based on the latest roadmap information coming from SAP together with, as always, some of my own thoughts and opinions. The good news, bad news about the SAP BusinessObjects product suite is that although there is a lot of […]

Walking Through SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Today I attended the GABOUG quarterly meeting and saw a really nice presentation of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer by Rob Fiorillo of RFP Consulting.  He showed multiple demos. During the first demo, he wanted to show how to use Explorer with data from Excel, so he used Live Office to take the data out of the […]