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Yesterday I presented at the SAP Australian User Group’s (SAUG) Business Objects Special Interest Group in Perth, on Summary and Highlights of the MBO 2009 Conference.  As quite a few SAP BO users in Perth weren’t able to make the conference, I wanted to highlight several key presentations I enjoyed.

Here is a PDF of my presentation to view.

Some other highlights of the conference were:

• Pioneer is due in 2010 (combining Voyager with Bex Analyzer)
• Support for 64bit environments coming soon
• New release of BOE due in 2010 as well (XI 4.0?)
• SAP BWA (in-memory datastore) will be updated to allow hardware acceleration of other data sources, not just SAP BW
• BO Text Analysis (as presented by Plaut) looks very interesting, turns unstructured data (blogs, emails) into structed relational data
• Timo Elliott’s recommendation – don’t just implement software, aim high and look to change the business
• Dave Rathbun presented on universe tips and Web Intelligence essentials, such as calculation contexts (often misunderstood), multiple data providers and sub-queries
• Data Services 3.2 due in Q3 2009, will support 64bit Linux, and next release of DS will support 64bit Windows
• Data Services 4.0 will potentially migrate to use the BOE architecture – fingers crossed on my part

It was a great conference with a variety of users and partners present, and I hope to be there at the MBO 2010 conference.

- Josh

Yesterday (Saturday the 26th) was the annual Triple J Hottest 100 countdown. Triple J is a youth radio station in Australia that plays all the good music you don’t hear on commercial radio stations. For the last few years, we’ve all got together, had a barbie and listened to the countdown of the best 100 songs of the year for the day.

My top vote (a bit wishful I think) was the ‘Salmon Dance’ song by The Chemical Brothers. I make no apologies as I really like the song. But, sadly, it didn’t come number 1. I suppose I should be grateful it at least made it into the list – I think it was around #50…

So, you ask, what was the top 10? Well, let’s have a look:

1. Muse – Knights of Cydonia
2. Silverchair – Straight Lines
3. Kings of Leon – On Call
4. John Butler Trio – Better Than
5. Faker – This Heart Attack
6. Foo Fighters – The Pretender
7. Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Live)
8. Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up To Dry
9. Soko – I’ll Kill Her
10. The Panics – Don’t Fight It

If you want to, listen to the top 10 countdown here or check out the Hottest 100 website.

I was happy Silverchair didn’t win (sorry guys, but wasn’t too fussed) but the Muse song was awesome. They only won it by 13 votes too! The Foo Fighters and Daft Punk songs were okay too, but *sigh*… No Salmon Dance!

It was also just good catching up, good music, and I finally got to crack my first ever home-brew beer – a lager, and it tasted great!

And don’t worry, I promise I’m gonna start posting stuff about work soon!

- Josh