In order to overcome scheduling difficulties during the July meeting, the BOUG board has decided to move the July meeting from Friday, July 16th to Thursday, July 15th from 1:00 pm 4:30 pm. This is a day and time changes.
The meeting will be at the Sense Corp headquarters – 2731 Sutton Ave, Maplewood, MO 63143.
There will be great door prizes.
The agenda for the next St. Louis Business Objects User Group meeting has been finalized. The line-up will include the following presentations:
SAP Explorer with In Memory Analytics (1:30 pm 2:30 pm) Jim Sinko, SAP
Healthcare and Xcelsius (2:30 pm 3:30 pm) Chris Greer, Centene
Enterprise Job Scheduling (3:30 pm 4:30 pm) Chris McCormick, Cisco & Chad Mayes, Sense Corp
For more details about each of these presentations visit the agenda page on the BOUG website: http://www.boug.com/current.htm
A happy hour will follow the meeting, featuring beer, wine and appetizers.
For more details on the meeting or the St. Louis user group visit www.boug.com.
SAP Explorer w/In Memory Analytics - Jim Sinko, SAP
All organizations can leverage SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, accelerated version. This version combines the high performance and scalability of in-memory analytics with the search and exploration capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer across all data sources, from anywhere in the organization. Your users can quickly navigate and understand complicated data to make fast, accurate business decisions while capitalizing on intuitive search and exploration capabilities.
Healthcare and Xcelsius - Chris Greer, Centene (Clayton, MO)
This presenation will provide a case study of two business applications, an executive dashboard and a claims drill down tool. Each leverages SAP Business Objects products, including Xcelsius, LiveOffice, and Web Intelligence to develop an integrated business solution. Chris will provide a high level overview of the applications and a detailed walkthrough of the technical aspects of combining these technologies together to form a cohesive business application. These particular applications are of interest as they were part of Centene’s entry which recently won the Regional Business Innovation Award for 2010 at the Gateway to Innovation Conference.
Enterprising Job Scheduling Chris McCormick, Cisco & Chad Mayes, Sense Corp
This presentation, co-sponsored by Sense Corp and Cisco, will present the needs and challenges addressed by enterprise scheduling, provide an overview of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler software and illustrate an implementation case study at Arch Coal.
Specific areas of focus include an overview of the native scheduling capabilities within Business Objects Data Services, reasons to consider a third party scheduler (such as Tidal Enterprise Scheduler), the design/management of the batch job schedule including load time/resource constraints, the scheduling features leveraged , and the importance of restartability. As part of the overview, attendees will understand how Ciscos Tidal Enterprise Scheduler helps businesses gain greater value from their BI investment by enabling faster and correct execution of ETL, because it offers broad coverage, and important features like the ability to handle dependencies, that can dramatically raise the reliability of BI and improve how BI systems teams use their time and resources. Sense Corp will outline the lessons learned and challenges faced during the design and implementation of the scheduler.
(BOB member since 2002-08-19)