You and your colleagues are invited to join us at the next information packed Arizona Business Objects User Group (AZBOCUG) meeting. This user group is tentatively scheduled 1:00pm to 3:30pm AZ time on Thursday, November 7th.

We are excited to announce that we plan on running this user group in-person. Attending is free, but please register for count purposes when the registration is open.

Location:

Meritage Homes
18655 North Claret Drive Suite #400 (4th floor)
Scottsdale, AZ 85255

Full Agenda:

12:30-1:00 pm | Registration and Networking

1:00-1:30 pm | Introduction to Meritage homes and their current BI Strategy – Tracy Powers, Meritage Homes

1:30-2:00 pm | BusinessObjects Maintenance and Strategy Roadmap – Paul Grill, InfoSol Inc.

SAP recently released an updated BusinessObjects Maintenance strategy which lays out their new software version release cadence and approach from BI 2025 onwards as well as explain the strategy for.

2:00-2:30 pm | Networking Break

2:30-2:55 pm | Connecting BusinessObjects to Non-traditional Data Sources – Runali Ghosh, InfoSol Inc.

Web Intelligence has expanded it’s source of data beyond universe and many of these non-traditional sources have played important roles in various scenarios. Today I will discuss and show some of these possibilities to include data from cloud-based and local data that has not made in to the universe

2:55-3:20 pm | Merged Dimensions and Data Tab: When to use which – Roxanne Pittman

The traditional Webi way of joining data together has been merging common dimensions and the new Data Tab has given us new ways to join which we did not have before. When should you chose to use the Data Tab to join instead of traditional merging? Join us in this session where we discuss and show examples to support both ways of combining data sets.

3:20-3:30 pm | Wrap-up and Raffle