Some of the users here had a problem reffering to our BusinessObjects implementation as BO and were too lazy to say the full name. I had a meeting with our Controller today and she expressed this as a concern. We brainstormed for a few minutes and changed the name to Business Objects Support Systems. Internally, BusinessObjects will be reffered to as BOSS from now on.
I was curios if anyone else had encountered resistance to the acronym BO and what they had come up with instead.
Crikey, how awful. Well at my place its Bob or BO, or sometimes just ‘The Data Warehouse’ or more amusingly ‘The Data Whorehouse’. Or even, brought to you courtesy of that biting English wit ‘The Data Wherehouse’ if availability is a problem.
You could be radical and get away from acronymns altogether…try calling it 'BusinessObjects the market-leading e-Business Intelligence tool?
No resistance to the acronym that I remember, but I just can’t bring myself to say or write BO. BO always meant body odor to me. Implementations always have enough of their own problems without that kind of negative connotation. Some people don’t see it though, but then those are probably the same folks that abbreviate the word “analysis” in a filename to the first four letters :roll:
Our projects all have their own individual names, but when referring to the product I most often just say Business Objects, and abbreviate BusObj when writing.
We/I’ve always used BO. It’s a joke that it also means body odor, but it hasn’t been that big of an issue… I’m surprised it’s an issue since it really is the acronym… it’s not like you’re calling it what I’ve been calling it today… (!@#$)
She thought people would not take it seriously if it was equated to body odor.
We are implementing BusinessObjects as the reporting solution for an overhaul of our transaction system. The transaction system is already perceived as too little, too late, and too expensive. She did not want any other perception problems.
You know, I guess acronyms really can define a system… I worked on a datamart once that was called SMART (Sales & Marketing Analysis Reporting Tool)… if was far from intelligent, but people certainly liked the name!
I’ve heard it called a number of things at different clients… some of them less polite.
Bob-J is common, and easier to say that “Biz Obj” like Anita said. But I’ve run into that one quite a bit as well.
In speaking, I always say BusinessObjects. In writing, I often reduce it to BusObj. I even have an Auto-Correct entry in MS Word to change busobj to BusinessObjects so I don’t have to type so much.
In training classes, when I talk about the ability to send reports from one user to another, my standard joke is, “And we call this feature B-mail, because nobody wants to get mail from BO.”
Just to add: In my organisation when our management initially told “we need to show all our reports using business objects”, all techies started developing the COM/DCOM components, embedding the business rules into those COM objects, and they claimed it as “Business Objects”. Look at the people’ understanding and their perception. It differs, rather depends.
At my last job, our primary BO tool was Webi, so we just called it Webi. In fact, my Webi server had a DNS entry of Webi, and we had set the wi directory on the NT server as the default we page. So people could get to Webi just by typing http://domain.webi into their browser. It was cool.
I assume poles refer to the poles carrying the power lines/phone lines/cable TV lines, so you can run your air-conditioning while chatting with a friend and watching X-files, Anita 8)
Not likely! Because
1.) We don’t have air conditioning – most of the summer, the fog rolls in from the Pacific Ocean to cool the evening down.
2.) I’m not one of those folks who spends time on the telephone
3.) I don’t watch the X-files any more!
We started using “BusO” pronounced bizo because the name of the server is buso. It’s funny because sometimes new users see it written as BusO in the instructions and try to say bus-O rhyming it with Russ-O. My new Director did this -
Early adopters still use BO - always makes for a chuckle in training when we mention that - and we use all the chuckles we can in training.
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