Next meeting: Thursday, September 11th, 1:00pm

Location: Business Objects Portland office (Tigard area)
13190 SW 68th Parkway, Portland, OR 97223 

Agenda:

  1:00  Introductions
  1:15  Xcelsius including building interactive dashboards and:
                BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise
                Xcelsius 2008
                Xcelsius Engage
  2:15  SAP Integration/Product Roadmap
  2:30  Break
  2:45  Deployment Best Practices including:
                Architectures (Solution & Data)
                Change Management
                Governance
                Project Management
                Education
                Support
  3:45  Q&A
  4:00  Social/professional networking
  5:00  End
 

Last Meeting:
 
Special thanks to Blake Hughes, Senior Sales Consultant for SAP. Blake discussed and demonstrated:
    Business Objects XI 3.0
    Crystal Reports
    Live Office
   
Future Topics:
 
Data Integrator
Writing reports (Crystal, WebI, & DeskI)
Administration
Scheduler
CMC
Auditor
Crystal vs XI
Multiple attachments to email
Notes/Categories
Dashboards
Data Quality
Metadata Manager
Scorecards
Solaris/Unix perspective