Registration is now open for the next Pittsburgh BusinessObjects Users Group meeting. The fall meeting will be held on Friday November 1st at the new SAP Building on the North Shore, Pittsburgh, PA.
A special thanks to our sponsors:
SAP Ariba
InfoSol
360 Suite
Attendance: Free - Advanced Registration Required
Parking: Free
Registration: If you plan to attend, please reply and let me know your name and the names of anyone else who will be attending from your company.
Agenda:
08:30 - 08:50 Registration and Breakfast
08:50 - 09:00 Welcome & Announcements, Tammy Datri
09:00 - 09:50 BusinessObjects BI 4.3 Platform Update (WebEx)- Maheshwar Singh (Product Manager), SAP
09:50 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 10:50 Fire up your FIORI LaunchPad -Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol
10:50 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:50 BulletProof Disaster Recovery for SAP BusinessObjects @ SAP, Nathan Crook, 360Suite
11:50 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 01:20 BusinessObjects BI 4.2 - 45 Features in 45 Minutes - Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol
01:20 - 01:30 Break
01:30 - 02:20 BusinessObjects with Next Generation Viz Tools - Tableau & Power BI Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol
02:20 - 02:30 Wrap-up and Giveaways - PGHBOUG Steering Committee
Fire up your FIORI LaunchPad- Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol
Attend this session if you want to explore the sensational new features and navigation capabilities of the new FIORI BI Launchpad. This session will cover BI 4.2 SP06 & SP07 FIORI features such as Web Intelligence interactive viewer, filters and report navigation, new charts and chart properties, custom elements and formulas. This will be a perfect session for end users and report designers who are excited to learn the new features and functions specific to FIORI.
BusinessObjects BI 4.2 - 45 Features in 45 Minutes - Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol
Get to know the detail level product overview of what is new in BI 4.2 and the reasons to upgrade your current BI systems to 4.2. This session covers 45 latest features in BI 4.2 which will be helpful for your entire organization, including, but not limited to, BO administrators, Universe designers, Report developers and Business users. If we have time, we will aim for 60
BulletProof Disaster Recovery for SAP BusinessObjects @ SAP - Nathan Crook, 360Suite
- Set up & maintaining an on-going strategy for meeting requirements for Disaster Recovery (DR).
- Improved abilities for report migration & promotion.
- Greater visibility to compare between CMS’ to know exactly what changed, if anything between source and target.
- Flexible backup for the entire landscape to bring back any single object.
BusinessObjects BI 4.3 Platform Update- Maheshwar Singh (Platform Product Manager), SAP
This session will be done as a WebEx
Tableau with BusinessObjects - Bring out the best of both the worlds - Rajesh Ponnurangam, InfoSol
Learn why and how, Tableau with Business Objects is the best combination for enterprise BI. The use cases for Tableau dashboards with BO content will be discussed. Tips and tricks designing BO content for Tableau will be discussed. Deployment and scheduling of BO content to Tableau desktop and Tableau server will be demonstrated. And if we have time we may look at bursting out Tableau workbooks as well.
Chris Pohl 
(BOB member since 2002-06-18)