SAP Insider: Reporting and Business Intelligence conference - Day 2
Posted on July 24, 2008
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This blog entry is a continuation of my summary of the Reporting & Business Intelligence seminar for Day 2. The first day of the seminar is covered here: http://blog.crystalreportsbook.com/sap-insider-reporting-and-business-intelligence-conference-day-1
I’ve had a chance to talk with some of the other attendees here and the feedback I’m getting is consistent: frustration. It appears that many people came […]
SAP Insider: Reporting and Business Intelligence conference - Day 1
Posted on July 23, 2008
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This week I’m attending the conference “Reporting & Business Intelligence with SAP and Business Objects” conference. It is hosted by SAP Insider and being held in Oak Brook, IL from July 21-July 23. This blog entry gives a review of the seminar and provides you with some tips that you should find useful for planning your […]
Read more...SAP Developer Challenge - Day 5
Posted on June 10, 2008
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The day of the competition is here! The team is pretty excited and we just have a few bugs to clean up. For some reason, the BlackBerry keeps acting erratically and there are a couple bugs in the FaceBook app. Other than that, we are ready to go.
We spent some time planning the demo. Afterwards, […]
SAP Developers Challenge - Day 4
Posted on June 10, 2008
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It’s the last day of coding before we have to be ready to present tomorrow (they won’t tell us our time slot till right beforehand so that it stays fair). There is a lot to do today, but we are getting close to having a functioning prototype.
Work Harder or Smarter?
I got on the 7:30 shuttle […]
SAP Developer Challenge - Day 3
Posted on June 10, 2008
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Today is the second day of true development and by late afternoon we had our share of successes and frustrations. Overall, things are going well b/c we are all making progress on the different aspects of our project and checking off items from our to-do list. However, it’s not so rosy because it seems that […]
Read more...SAP Developer Challenge - Day 2
Posted on June 10, 2008
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Started out the morning with the usual complications of setting up our laptops and getting access to the SAP servers. Got this cleared up pretty quickly and started discussing whether we should stick with our original plan of building a car pool application or not. Our ‘Plan B’ is to build a corporate community around […]
Read more...SAP Developer Challenge 2008 - Day 1
Posted on June 6, 2008
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The SAP Developer Challenge is an initiative by SAP to bring in their top developers in North America and give them three days to create a unique and creative application that leverages emerging technologies such as green I.T., social computing, and mobile technology. To use SAP to create anything within three days is a challenge […]
Read more...Sapphire Update for Crystal Reports
Posted on May 14, 2008
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I just got back from Sapphire 2008 Orlando and learned a lot about the plans for how Crystal Reports will be used within SAP. The pre-conference session specifically related to this was “SAP and Business Objects: Understanding the New Business Intelligence Platform in Detail”, hosted by Dan Kearnan, Ingo Brenckmann and Robert Coates.
The seminar was […]
Crystal Reports Version Numbers by Product and Service Pack
Posted on April 25, 2008
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I recently had a post on my forum about how to figure out which version number correlates to which service pack in Crystal Reports. I thought that this was a pretty good question, so I installed all service packs and wrote down the exact version numbers that relate to each one.
Here is the list of […]
Crystal Xcelsius Adds Power To Your Reports
Posted on February 19, 2008
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Integrating Crystal Xcelsius with Crystal Reports lets your users view your data in new ways to make important business decisions. This video shows you how Crystal Xcelsius makes it easy to add flexibility and creativity to your existing reports.
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