Diversified Semantic Layer

Greg, Jamie and Eric circle up with our new friend in the community, Kristen Scheffler (also a part of SAP Support CE) to hear what the initiatives underway with SAP Support are to improve the customer experience both with incident management, as well as in navigating the SAP Support Portal.

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Greg, Jamie and Eric circle up with Dallas to discuss the webinar today, hosted by SAP and Everything Xcelsius, on the very future of Xcelsius SAP Dashboards.  

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Greg is here! Jamie and Eric suckered him into coming into St. Louis.  While sitting at Eric's kitchen table talking about BI4 (because really...we have nothing better to talk about), we decided to just record it.

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Jamie and Eric are at SAP Insider BI2012 this week.  We honored to have been joined by Dallas Marks, Dave Rathbun, and Michael Welter.  While we did our best to stay on track to talk about BI2012, we couldn't help but drift into the pervasive themes of the conference.  Oh, and we name drop everybody we could think of without shame.  Enjoy.

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Jamie, Greg, and Eric, are at it again with Josh, Coy, David, and Gabo.  In this second part of the two parter, we let the contestants fight it out until the end.  OK, we are probably still all pals at the end, so just use your imagination. 

We have voted and here are our thoughts on the match up.  How do you think they did?  Leave us your vote in the comments: Who best represented their technology, and which technology won?

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Jamie, Greg, and Eric, get together with Josh, Coy, David, and Gabo.  This is epic.  It's SAP Crystal Reports vs. Web Intelligence.  Feature for feature, requirement for requirement.  Listen in to Round 1 of this show and start tallying the score.  You will have a chance to vote.

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Jamie, Greg, Josh, and Eric got together with Ina Felscheim and Werner Daehn (of no clear, social media connection) to talk about, for the very first time on our show....EIM.  It's a good chat to help our classic BOBJ audience get more info on Data Services and the other EIM components that make EIM4 a strong platform.

Update: There is some weirdness at the 43:30-ish mark from an old podcast.  No idea there.  It only lasts for a second.  Hopefully Werner didn't have anythimg important to add in there.

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Jamie, Greg, and Eric were joined by Tim Rodine (TCR Solutions) from Chi-town.  This week, we take a journey back in time to our first episode, "The Good, the Bad, the Deski", where we revisit the impending doom for Deski.  Love us or hate us, we didn't tell SAP to bag Deski.  It was all BusinessObjects' fault.

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Jamie, Greg, and Eric got together with Ryan Goodman of Centigon Solutions and Donald MacCormick of Antivia for a stellar discussion on dashboards today, the influence of big data, mobility, and BI4.

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We had a great time at SBOUC this year.  We got a little excited and gathered a HUGE cast to join us to talk about the history of BOB and the impact that it has on the community at large today. Join Jamie, Greg, Eric, Dave, Susan, Amy, Michael, and Steve as we talk about where BOB got its start and how it has evolved over time.

Don't miss BOB's new twitter handle. 

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We have a great panel on deck to talk about conferences in Las Vegas, South Africa, and Australia, in the last three months and how they turned out.  Join Jamie, Greg, Eric, Josh, and our guest, Craig Nicholls.

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SAP TechEd is in full swing.  Jamie, Greg, Eric, Derek, and Thorsten take a few minutes to hang out in the networking lounge 5 area to kick around what's happening.

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In a great discussion, Sheila Ryan of RAD Innovation Partners, Dallas Marks (dallasmarks.org), and Jon Reed (jonerp.com), tackle today's state of SAP education and certification as it pertains to the SAP BusinessObjects world.

In this podcast, Jon really enlightens us on certifications, where they are heading, and how it relates to education today.  Dallas brings insights to the table from the perspective of a certified trainer and has lots of recent info on coming training materials.  Last but not least, Sheila hits home the points on why customers want and need training custom fit to their needs.

Editorial note: something went crazy with the audio in the end and Eric was not actually talking over everyone.  Live software recording fail.

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Tonight we spend some time talking about migrating content between SAP BusinessObjects platforms.  With that, we discuss how we do it today, vs. what we need to consider in moving to BI4 down the road.  Jay Riddle joins us.

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We are really happy to have had BOTH Ryan Goodman of Centigon Solutions and Scott Leaver of SAP.  Tonight, we are going through more BI4 goodness to figure out what we can all expect to see with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards as a part of BI4.

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Our evil plans are complete. If you are looking at this, you have found the new site.

Listen in and hear all about it.

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Greg, Jamie, and Eric welcome back Dallas Marks for a podcast to get some creative thinking around how we might start planning a migration to BI4.

In the agenda:

• Migration paths 6.5/XIR2/XI31 -> BI4
• Upgrade vs. staged migration
• Risks
• Test plans
• 32 or 64-bit today
• How to make a go/no-go decision
• Hang out with us at Sapphire

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Greg, Jamie, and Eric have a great technical chat about monitoring for SAP BusinessObjects. Warning: very nerdy content ahead. Proceed with caution.

For more info on the mentioned Remote Support Component, check out the video on Youtube.

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The BI4 topics just keep rolling. This week, SAP's very own Coy Yonce, Product Owner of Crystal Reports and Crystal Reports Server, joins us to talk in great detail about what's happening with Crystal Reports as a part of the BI4 release.

In this episode, we give the new common semantic layer and Information Design Tool a good shake down.

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In celebration of the Virtual Launch of BI4 today, the Diversified Semantic Layer crew is releasing our most recent episode, recorded with Michael Welter.

In this episode, we give the new common semantic layer and Information Design Tool a good shake down.

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