Mastering Business Objects 2009
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