by Soo Tang Yuk 
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Hi Everyone,
With all the anticipation and ramp up surrounding the release of the new SAP BI 4.0 Suite, I would like to report on several new and exciting events and resources that you should not miss. I will also mention some exciting Xcelsius 2008 news that we announced yesterday on twitter!
Let’s begin with SAP BI 4.0:
SAP BI 4.0
Webinar Alert: BI 4.0: Did you think about your upgrade?
Please join David Francois Gonzalez with the SAP Technology RIG Americas as he hosts the webinar titled BI 4.0 Did you think about your upgrade?
DATE: Wednesday, 15 December 2010
START TIME: 8:00 a.m. PT, 10:00 a.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. ET, 5:00 p.m. CET
PRESENTER: David Francois Gonzalez
For more information and to register for this webinar, please click here.
Resources: SAP BI Suite ELearning Catalog
SAP is now offering official product tutorials to assist in learning the new SAP BusinessObjects suite of products. Below is the list of products with available interactive and animated tutorials online. For more information on what’s available, please click here.
- SAP Crystal Reports 2011
- SAP Crystal Reports for Enterprise
- SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
- SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
- SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
- SAP BusinessObjects Information Design Tool
- SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform
- SAP BusinessObjects Analysis (coming in Q1)
Xcelsius 2008
Today Matt Lloyd announced the release of the Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.4 (FP3.4) with support for Windows 7 on the SCN Forum.
The Fix Pack must be applied to Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) SP3 (version: 5.3.0.0), FP3.1, FP3.2, or FP3.3. If you don’t already have it installed, please click here. To proceed with your FP3.4 download, please click here.
Please be aware…there are two different versions available to download:
- The Xcelsius Present 2008 Fix Pack 3.4 patch is for Xcelsius 2008 SP3 Present only
- The Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 Fix Pack 3.4 patch is both for Xcelsius 2008 SP3 Engage and Enterprise.
After FP3.4 is applied, the version number should change to version: 5.3.4.0
The following official documentation is now available on the SAP help portal for your reference:
For more information and the official announcement, please click here.
Our goal is always to provide you with all the latest news and events on SAP BusinessObjects, so please stay tuned for more. You can also follow us on one of our other profiles:
Soo Tang Yuk is the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” community manager and evangelist. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page.
With all the new BI trends and themes evolving today, how do you keep your career on track?
We are excited to announce a free webinar, hosted by Xcelsius Guru and SAP Mentor, Mico Yuk and a surprise guest, that will provide a first hand look at key trends and themes within the BI industry and insight on how to take your career to the next level.
During the webinar the following important topics will discussed:
1. The future of the BI Industry and how dashboards will play an integral part
2. How to navigate your career in 2011 and take it to the next level
3. How to monopolize the emerging mobile technologies
Your Next Steps:
- Click here to Register!
- Mark the date on your calenders: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, at 1pm EST, 10am PST
- Attend the webinar with your questions
We encourage anyone looking to get their BI career on track and to the next level to register today, as seats are limited. We look forward to this very exciting webinar!
Soo Tang Yuk fosters and evangelizes the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” and its communities. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page.
More and more, dashboards are playing an increasingly pivotal role in organizations with a growing demand for new ways of delivering and consuming these dashboards. Users are no longer content with having dashboards delivered via a corporate portal or BusinessObjects InfoView. In fact, to use a rather overused BI cliché, users are demanding dashboards that deliver “the right information, at the right time, in the right place”.
This means, that organizations are now looking at ways to make dashboards available offline, delivered by email, or accessible on their users’ mobile devices. They also want to focus the information within the dashboards so that it can be personalized and distributed to users in a simple file format. However, many organizations have concerns about data security, encryption and scalability, and also the work required to customize dashboards. These concerns have prevented them from pursuing what could be a very effective way to extend the use of business intelligence to new users.
Antivia will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, November 18 at 2:00pm EST, demonstrating how you can utilize the power of XWIS and the BusinessObjects Enterprise platform to distribute personalized, offline Xcelsius dashboards, in a secure and scalable way to new users and new devices.
You can register for the webinar here. Space is limited so register today.
For those of you who missed the previous webinar: “Accelerate your Xcelsius Dashboards”, the recording is now available here.
Soo Tang Yuk fosters and evangelizes the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” and its communities. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page. (posted on behalf of Andrew Smith, VP of Antivia, North America)
At the recent ASUG conference in Orlando, it was clear to everyone that the majority of the excitement and buzz at the conference was centered on the Business Intelligence side of SAP’s business- and most of that excitement was focused on Xcelsius, which is mainly due to its devoted community.
Antivia’s founder, Mark Hudson, gave a presentation during the ASUG conference to a packed room, about why Xcelsius is so popular and how it’s becoming the business intelligence primary interface for many BusinessObjects users.
Some of the reasons he cited were:
- Flash format means Xcelsius dashboards can be viewed almost anywhere on almost any device
- Easy intuitive interface requires almost no training. Users are often expected to just figure it out
- Xcelsius is a natural evolution of BI within an organization, as mature BI customers move from operational reporting through ad-hoc querying to visualizations
I speak with Xcelsius customers every day (they are the only people I speak to all day!) and the consistent feedback I get is that they all want to do more with the product. They want to make more dashboards, populate them with increasing amounts of data and distribute to a growing number of users.
They want to build on the strengths of Xcelsius (the ease of use, the interactivity, the visualizations), and add features which enhance all of these strengths and provide the dashboard user with an greatly enhanced user experience. Features like drill-down, offline access, ad-hoc interactive analysis, and pivot tables. They want to use Xcelsius to extend the reach of business intelligence, along with its associated benefits, across their organizations.
Antivia will be hosting a webinar this Thursday, October 28, at 2pm EST, to show how organizations can use Xcelsius to extend BI to new users and can build upon the strengths that Xcelsius brings to their dashboard projects. If you are interested in how you can make Xcelsius dashboards more quicker, scale them to a greater number of users, and provide advanced interactive features, then this webinar will be a good starting point to build your dashboard blueprint.
Please click here to register for the webinar. We look forward to seeing to you there!
Soo Tang Yuk fosters and evangelizes the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” and its communities. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page. (posted on behalf of Andrew Smith, VP of Antivia, North America)
We are following up to our post earlier this week with documentation for Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008 with support for Windows 7) Fix Pack 3.3 (FP3.3). There are two different documents available:
- SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.3 (FP3.3) What’s Fixed
- SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.3 (FP3.3) Release Notes
We look forward to receiving feedback on this new Fix Pack. Have a great weekend!
Soo Tang Yuk is the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” community manager and evangelist. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page.
Hi Everyone,
Last week we announced the release of Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) Fix Pack 3.3 (FP3.3) on twitter and wanted to follow up with an official post. (See the official post by Matt Lloyd here on the SCN Forums) The Fix Pack must be applied to Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) SP3 (version: 5.3.0.0), FP3.1 or FP3.2. If you don’t already have it installed, please click here.
To download FP3.3 now, click here. Please be aware…there are two different versions available to download:
- The Xcelsius Present 2008 Fix Pack 3.3 patch is for Xcelsius 2008 SP3 Present only
- The Xcelsius Enterprise 2008 Fix Pack 3.3 patch is both for Xcelsius 2008 SP3 Engage and Enterprise.
After FP3.3 is applied, the version number should change to version: 5.3.3.0
The documentation is delayed, but will be available shortly from the SAP help portal. All your Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius) guides can be found by visiting the SAP BusinessObjects Solution Portfolio Knowledge Center. As soon as the documentation is available, we will know, so YOU will know as well! STAY TUNED!!
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Soo Tang Yuk is the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” community manager and evangelist. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page.
Hi Everyone,
We are excited to formally announce the SAP Xcelsius Community Party, hosted by the Xcelsius Gurus, at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference in Orlando, FL, on October 5th at 7pm in the Oceanic 3, Lobby Level.
This invitation-only event promises to be much bigger and better than last year, with a chance to network with Xcelsius users, experts, and other folks from the BusinessObjects community. To RSVP, please send an email with ‘RSVP’ in the subject line, to aundrea.lacy@sap.com by October 1st.
This year we also want to encourage you to submit your best stories and examples of Xcelsius, to be judged by your colleagues and peers within the community. All submissions should be sent to emily.mui@sap, no later than October 3rd.
For more details about the party and to view the full invite, please click here: SBOUC 2010 Xcelsius Party Invite.
We are super excited about this event and hope to see everyone there.
Soo Tang Yuk is the ‘Xcelsius Gurus Network” community manager and evangelist. To find out more about her, please visit the About Us page.
As promised, we are letting you know first that the Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) Documentation is available to explore. There are two different documents available:
- SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) What’s Fixed
- SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 (FP3.2) Release Notes2
We will follow up with another post, once we finalize our evaluation!! Have a great weekend!
As promised, we are letting you know first that the Xcelsius Fix Pack 3.1 (FP3.1) Documentation is available to explore. There are two different documents available:
- SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 FP3.1 What’s Fixed
- SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1 Release Notes
We will follow up with another post, once we finalize our evaluation!! Have a great weekend!
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