An article on cloud to premise integration reminded me of one of my favorite features. See ZDnet article here
Its good to see SFDC and SAP playing nice. Last year we released a connection that links SalesForce to SAP BusinessObjects. This reportlaunch is
useful for those SAP BO customers that need enterprise reporting embedded into SalesForce. Hopefully this will be a good trend of cloud to premise connections
Kevin McManus
www.mcmanussoft.com
While the SOA model is good for BI ETL, there more areas that it can pertain to including reporting, dashboards, performance management that have a much greater inpact.
Every application needs one of the above areas of BI interfaces in addition to its own ETL or data input interfaces. We have been focusing on implementing the whole BI interface as a reusable framework at reportlaunch.com.
This creates a huge ROI when the same functionality is not build over and over again throughout an enterprises various applications. Not to mention that it would provide consistent information utilizing MDM, DW and ETL in the way described.
Last but not least by leveraging the whole BI stack in your SOBI architecture you actually leverage the investment you have already made in not just ETL but in your enterprise BI tools.
Cheers, Kevin McManus, mcmanussoft.com
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This lat week I was reading some of my favorite blogs and some new ones as well. I ran across some great posts that serve as reminders to those of us working in the BI world. This may be clear cut stuff, but it is always nice to get some reminders.
1. Why we report in the first place:
This is a nice post on the purpose of BI- In Business Intelligence is for making Business Decisions the folks over at Intelligence Matrix give us a great example and reminder.
2. A great post over at Beye Network about a new Journal and the definition of Business Intelligence. This is a great new resource and one fantastic post.
3. This is a wonderful post on the right way to look at BOE and publishing reports. Crystal Reports version control is interesting.
4. And this one is just funny. I guess SAP is restricting the porn access for Crystal Reports??? What, well read more here: Ken Hamady say no more porn
Until next time, enjoy these reads.
Check out this press release from SAP Business Objects and McManus Software + Consulting. Looks like they have released the Crystal Developer Advantage license to help ISV’s like McManus. They have a suite called Launch Applications and they are pretty cool. Everything from extending reporting to web applications to real time auditing of your BOBJ environment.
Here is the press release:
http://www.b-eye-network.com/channels/1543/view/9950
Oh, and about this blog. We will scour the blogosphere for anyhting and everything that is news int he Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence world.
Have fun!
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