You and your colleagues are invited to join us at the next information packed Arizona Business Objects and Crystal User Group (AZBOCUG) meeting Thursday, May 7, 2015, 12:30-4:15 PM.

Attendance is free; however, we do ask that you register for count purposes.

Location:

Paradise Valley Community College, Room G138

18401 N 32nd St, Phoenix, AZ 85032

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Agenda:

12:30 – 1:00 pm | Registration, Welcome, Announcements 

1:00 – 1:10 pm | Welcome and Announcements – Carol Myers, Interim Director of IT and CIO, at PVCC

1:10- 1:55 pm | Breaking Free from the CMC:  The Next Generation of BI Platform Management –Dale Lim, Infolytik

BusinessObjects specialists wrestle each day with a stable of utilities—Promotion Manager, Version Manager, Upgrade Management Tool, CCM, CMC—hoping to tame the unwieldiness of SAP’s latest release of the BI platform.  Rather than answer the needs of the business and spend their time in higher-value initiatives delivering new capabilities around analytics, visualizations and Big Data, they spend nights and weekends verifying reports, performing upgrades and tracking performance problems.

In this session, attendees will learn of faster and more effective ways to manage their BI platform using both free and third-party solutions that will help them:

• Reduce risk and increase efficiency of managing platform security
• Identify bottlenecks/performance issues in their environment
• Visualize data and metadata changes across their universes/unx and reports and help accelerate upgrades, patches and object promotion

2:00- 2:45 pm | Authentication Options in BI 4.1 – Minith Patel, InfoSol Inc.

BI4 introduced more options for authentication.  We will discuss these options and talk about the most commonly used method of authentication, how it works and what settings are required for it.  This will include Single Sign On (SSO) and LDAP.

2:45- 3:00 pm | Break & Networking

3:00- 3:30 pm | Mobile Dashboards: Converting Your Old Dashboards To HTML5 Quickly And Easily – Taylor Packwood, InfoSol Inc.

Taylor Packwood will demonstrate how to take an already-built Dashboard, convert it and redeploy it as an HTML5 package. We will discuss and demonstrate how to prepare an existing dashboard to become mobile ready. Then, using the new Infosol plugin, we will go through the process of taking a dashboard, converting it and repackaging it in HTML5, which then can be used on mobile devices. We will also discuss the pros and cons of using this method, as well as the future outlook on deploying dashboards using this method..

3:30- 4:00pm | 360View:  Highlighted Features & New Versioning – Jake Tully, InfoSol Inc.

Jake Tully will demonstrate and discuss highlighted features of 360View, a powerful BusinessObjects security management and auditing tool.  This session will demonstrate password setup at the report level, bulk updating features, and the latest enhancements with new versioning.

4:00 – 4:15 pm | Raffle & Prizes