Keeping Up
Do you ever have problems keeping up with the flow of data? Not just in general, RSS feeds and emails and Facebook – I find myself part of a more specialised IT sector, Business Intelligence, and so you would think it would be easier it keep up.
But no, more and more, there are always new products being released, service packs to test, other toolsets to try out and compare, and training to do to keep up. It’s a good thing I enjoy it so much, otherwise I think I’d drown in it all.
Right now, I’m trying to find time to install XI 3.0 on an domain-controlled VM, and then get SSO working through Tomcat. I’ve always found SSO through IIS very easy, but Tomcat is a little harder and so I’d like to getting it working end-to-end myself to make sure I’m familiar with the process.
Today I also found out that BO are running a beta for XI 3.1 and their new LifeCycle Manager tool. This is something that I as a BO consultant have been waiting for – the Import Wizard is useful for specific tasks, but as a LCM tool, doesn’t really live up to expectations.
I’ve requested to join the beta so I can try out the new tool and give BO some feedback on it. I’ll hopefully try to post some comments about it.
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Agreed, Josh. Still digesting XI 3.0 docs and now there are XI 3.1 beta docs…
July 29th, 2008 at 1:46 AM
Thanks for giving me the heads up. It’s always hard to keep up, especially when it comes to BO. Anyway, I got accepted, so now it’s time to play around with the LCM.