Business Objects XI 3.1 SP2 out soon
Judging from the fact that the release notes (S-ID required) have been released, it cannot be long before it’ll be available from the SAP MarketPlace.
How to make your (SAP Business Objects) training budget last longer in times of crisis
In these times of economic turmoil it might prove difficult to get funding for training courses you’d like to attend. Your training budget, if you have one, might have been cut or altogether dissipated. Timo Elliott wrote a helpful blog post with links to 96 (to be exact) SAP BusinessObjects web seminars, which should give you plenty of opportunity to further hone your skills or perhaps give you an idea what to spend that budget on. I personally prefer attending an actual class for seriously delving into a subject. But then again, I did become Web Intelligence certified by sheer experience and preparing for the exams with the aid of online materials on SAP’s Partner Training Catalog.
Crystal Reports licensing headaches
I cannot remember where I picked up the link exactly. Since Ken Hamady has been drawing attention to the new licence terms, it is likely that I picked it up from his site. What am I talking about? The fact that SAP BusinessObjects is making it difficult for trainers and publishers (and the likes) to use screenshots of Crystal Reports. This article in ITWorld Canada explains the issue quite well.
An extra tool to improve SQL Server’s performance
Microsoft published a new white paper on Disk Partition Alignment Best Practices for SQL Server.
Tom Aikens
On the second day of my trip to London a while back we had dinner at Tom Aikens. The whole experience was quite enjoyable. I snagged the menu we had from their website at the time (I put the whole thing in a convenient definition list).
Updated to WordPress 2.8
I just updated to the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8, i.e. Baker. Here’s a nice overview of the latest additions. One of the new features I really like is the ability to load JavaScript in the footer of your theme.
Focus
It’s important to focus, but when you focus too much, you miss other important things. I’m sure we all recognise this. We tend to only mind our own work and not notice what happens around us. This video makes us aware of what happens when we do. Count the number of passes the white team makes.
So many rich text editors out there, but which one to choose?
There are loads of rich text editors out there. The question is which one to choose? This article might help make you decide.
Microsoft has finally decided what to do with PerformancePoint Planning
A while back Microsoft created quite a stir in the BI scene when they announced that they would stop further development of PerformancePoint Server 2007. At the time I was studying for the exam and, as you can imagine, was pretty pissed off (and stopped any further preparations for the exam immediately). The analytics part was swiftly moved to SharePoint and what was to become of the Planning part was unknown, until now.
Santiago de Compostela here I come!
A couple of years ago, in 2004 to be exact, we went on holiday to the North of Spain. We started in Bilbao and followed the coast until we arrived in Santiago de Compostela. While travelling towards Santiago we were surprised by the amount of people en route on foot. As we neared the city the number of pilgrims became more and more dense, because that what they were.
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