Registration is Open - Wednesday April 12th 2017 - University of Pittsburgh
Registration is now open for the next Pittsburgh BusinessObjects Users Group meeting. The spring meeting will be held on Wednesday April 12st, 2017 at University of Pittsburgh. The meeting will include collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Center for Supply Chain Management as well as the Katz School of Business.
Very special thanks to all of our sponsors: University of Pittsburgh Center for Supply Chain Management, GB&Smith, Infosol and Consultancy by KingFisher
Location: University of Pittsburgh William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Pittsburgh BusinessObjects Users Group
University of Pittsburgh SAP University Alliance - Katz School of Business
University of Pittsburgh Center for Supply Chain Management
Attendance: Free - Advanced Registration Required
Parking: Suggested parking at the Soldiers and Sailors Parking Lot on Bigelow Boulevard
Registration: If you plan to attend, please reply to this email and let us know you are coming
PGHBOUG Tentative Agenda:
08:00 - 08:30 Registration and Breakfast
08:30 - 08:45 Welcome & Announcements - Darin Schultz (ASUG) & Tammy Datri (PGHBOUG)
08:45 - 09:00 Pitt Center for Supply Chain Management Overview - Eric Paljug, University of Pittsburgh SCM
09:00 - 09:10 Katz School of Business SAP Analytics Course Offerings - University of Pittsburgh
09:10 - 10:00 You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know - Kristen Scheffler, SAP
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00 Web Intelligence 4.2 Overview and Roadmap, Paul Grill, InfoSol
11:00 - 11:45 A Step-by-Step Guide to Modernizing Your Dashboarding Strategy - Worth its weight in ROI! - Kevin Hutto, Consultancy by Kingfisher
12:00 - 01:00 Lunch and Networking
01:00 - 01:45 Analytics Value Map - Kristen Scheffler, SAP
01:45 - 02:30 The Five People You Meet in Dashboard Heaven - Paul Grill, Infosol
02:30 - 02:45 Break
02:45 - 03:30 Creating and Publishing Batch Jobs as Web Services (Data Services) - Kevin Hutto, Consultancy by Kingfisher
03:30 - 04:15 Adding
04:15 - 04:30 Wrap-up and Giveaways - PGHBOUG Steering Committee & ASUG Chapter
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know - Understand and Get More Value from your SAP Support Investment - Kristen Scheffler, SAP
Upgrade projects. Go-lives. New implementations. Improving monitoring and alerting. Service Level Agreement for Mission Critical support incidents. What do these things have in common? SAP Enterprise Support. Learn how to leverage the services and tools available through your support investment to optimize your upcoming projects and enhance your current landscapes. We’ll show you how to tap into all of the Analytics resources available to you that are included in your SAP Support investment to assist you in advancing and improving business and technical enablement of your end-to-end operations.
Web Intelligence 4.2 Overview and Roadmap - Paul Grill, InfoSol
Web Intelligence just keeps getting better and with a slew of new functionality being released with each service pack in BI 4.2, it’s hard to keep track of all the great new features. This session will cover the key new enhancements to Web Intelligence 4.2 SP02 and SP03 and what’s planned in SP04.
The Five People You Meet in Dashboard Heaven - Paul Grill, InfoSol
Following the phenomenal success of “The Seven Deadly Sins of Dashboard Design”, BI Dashboard Evangelist, Paul Grill, shifts the focus to highlighting some remarkable BI dashboards focusing on how they came about, the impact they had and the people that made them happen. It is not just a dashboard developer needed to create a successful dashboard. The examples will range from an analysis of hospital patient flow to saving the world’s remaining tiger population. All the solutions used SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards in some way which is a good tool to have with you on the journey to Dashboard Heaven.
A Step-by-Step Guide to Modernizing Your Dashboarding Strategy - Worth its weight in ROI! - Kevin Huto, Consultancy by Kingfisher
This session provide you with a framework to assess and update your dashboarding strategy in light of new technologies becoming available in the SAP BusinessObjects suite. You’ll gain a toolkit not only to undertake a conversion effort, but also to guide you through the avoidable pitfalls with vetted best practices.
Creating and Publishing Batch Jobs as Web Services (Data Services) - Kevin Huto, Consultancy by Kingfisher
Learn how to create a batch job in the Data Services Designer. The presentation will demonstrate creating a WSDL by publishing a batch job as a web service in the Data Services Management Console. You will learn how to test the WSDL file using a SOAP User Interface (in place of a web application).
Adding Bar Codes to Web Intelligence for Automated Document Processing
See the steps that we used to add a Bar Code font to a Web Intelligence report and how it was used to automate document processing. Learn about our use case and what was involved to implement the solution.
Tammy - Coordinator
Pittsburgh BusinessObjects User Group
Chris Pohl 
(BOB member since 2002-06-18)