The whole world reduced to 100 people…

Here’s a different time on “the numbers” – some we look at all the time in the world of Business Intelligence. A good friend of mine send me an email that explains our world in numbers. It’s fascinating and I recommend you check it out. You’ll be grateful you did! The whole world reduced to […]

What You’ll Notice When Installing XI 3.0

Here are a few things I noticed when installing XI 3.0 that I thought I would pass along. #1 – Time Remaining The system no longer tells you the time remember. It was always fun to explain the end of the install when it was deploying the web applications and it would jump around from […]

Let Me Change My Installation Location!

It always been a pet peeve of mine that when software installation programs assumes that you want to install it on the C:Program Files directory. How hard is it to create one more screen to allow the users to change the installation location? Over that last two days I’ve been installing the new BusinessObjects XI […]

Can I Upgrade My Crystal Reports?

Crystal Reports you say? What version? It’s embedded in your application? How is it embedded? What does it do? Do you know what Developer Libraries they used? SDK? What? Who? When? To be honest, the reason I joined Crystal Decisions all those many years ago was because of Crystal Reports. I’d used Crystal Reports may […]

The Next Major Release of BusinessObjects Goes RTM!

Push, Push, Push We are close… oh, so close. The baby is coming. It should be any day now. No, my wife’s not pregnant. It’s the arrival of BusinessObjects XI 3.0. That’s “three dot-o”. Let me guess. You want to know why it’s not called, “BusinessObjects XIR3”. Search me. I guess marketing did some extensive […]