Integra Solutions has again been recognized as Training Partner of the Year by Business Objects. The announcement was made on Tuesday at the partner conference in Las Vegas. A quote:
Authorized Education Services Partner of the Year: Recognizes the Business Objects partner that delivered the most onsite and public education services revenue, executed excellent class participation rates, and consistently achieved top customer satisfaction ratings. The winner of this year’s award is Integra Solutions, a Business Unit of Quorum Business Solution. Integra was recognized for being an exemplary Trusted Advisor through their commitment in educating their customers on Business Intelligence, and providing a solution that is best for the customer.
A link to the full article is in the Related Links section at the end of the post. This is not the first year Integra has been honored with this award. It’s nice to see the recognition continue after we merged with Quorum Business Solutions.
I don’t typically go to the partner conferences, since I get to go to the regular user conferences each year instead. We had several folks that did get to attend, and Amy (our sales director) got to stand up on stage and receive the education award. Very cool.
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At this point I am throwing in the towel and admitting that I won’t be betting any more blog posts out this year. Fortunately, this year is only a few more days. 🙂 I have a lot planned, and hope to have a bit more time to get back to writing regularly next year. There is the European Insight conference to prepare for, the Quorum user conference, the release of XIR3, the news about what SAP is really going to do with Business Objects, the America’s Insight conference in the fall….
In short, it should be an interesting year. 🙂
I have not had time to do much on my blog recently because my client project is about to go live in a few weeks. Yes, we’re going live right before the year-end holidays. 🙂 I have some articles partially written and will try to get some of them finishesd up and released soon, but it may be January before my activity level picks up again.
Hopefully it will be worth the wait. 8)
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I have been working on a “diff” tool for universes. I started with Dwayne’s fine work on his Universe Documentation Tool but have taken it in a different direction. I prompt for two universes (in sequence, not at the same time), import the structure into an Excel file, and then use some arrays and indexing strategies to compare one universe to another universe. I use this tool to generate a “diff” or change log report before migrating a universe from Development to Test and on to Production. Continue reading “Universe “diff” Tool”
A few weeks ago I spent a good bit of time trying to solve the wrong problem. Don’t you hate that when it happens?
It all started when we added another fact table to our database. I had to add the new fact table to my universe, create the new context, and repointed a bunch of existing objects from the old fact table to the new one. As we started testing the reports we started seeing an error:
WIS 00013 Error during SQL Generation
Naturally this was because of the switch from one fact table to another, right?
Continue reading “Peeling the Onion…”
How ironic. 😆 Right after I posted about the change in management (or lack thereof) at Integra Solutions, and Business Objects comes out with a very similar announcement. What does this all mean?
For the next year or so, probably nothing. Companies as large as Business Objects have long-term strategic plans that extend out for years and I don’t see SAP being interesting in trying to turn those around on a dime. Besides, they’re probably privy to those plans by now and must feel like Business Objects is going in the correct direction or they would not have completed the transaction.
It does mean that I lost out on a chance to buy Business Objects stock on the cheap. 😉 The arbitrage folks will be all over this one when the markets open today…
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I joined Integra Solutions in January of 1995 and have been working on Business Objects training or consulting projects ever since. Last month Integra Solutions was merged into Quorum Business Solutions. Other than the issuing bank on my paycheck, nearly everything has stayed the same. 🙂
Press Release: Integra to Operate as an Integrated Business Unit of Quorum
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Years ago I made some noises about writing a technical book on Business Objects. I think the first time I seriously considered it was in 1998 after my second successful “variables” presentation at the annual conference. Considered it, yes. Started to write it, no.
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You may have seen this already as it seems to be making the rounds. But if you haven’t, it’s hysterical. It might fall into the NSFW category only if laughing out loud while reading something off of your monitor will get you into trouble. Just make sure you’re not covering up with an email from your boss while you’re laughing and you will probably be fine.
What is it? It’s a very creative eBay listing from a mother of six. Here’s how it starts:
I’m selling a bunch of Pokemon cards. Why? Because my kids sneaked them into my shopping cart while at the grocery store and I ended up buying them because I didn’t notice they were there until we got home. How could I have possibly not noticed they were in my cart, you ask? Let me explain.
You haven’t lived until you’ve gone grocery shopping with six kids in tow. I would rather swim, covered in bait, through the English Channel, be a contestant on Fear Factor when they’re having pig brains for lunch, or do fourth grade math than to take my six kids to the grocery store.
Read the rest of the listing… (external link to eBay.com)
Help, My Code Is GONE!
This is not my first blog. However, it is my first blog where people are regularly trying to include code samples in their comments. After two or three comments have been lost due to WordPress ignoring everything after a < I finally figured out what was going on. This post contains a few tips on how to include code (variable formulas, SQL code, and so on) when leaving a comment. The information presented here may very well be appropriate for other blogs as well.
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