Welcome and Anouncements

• Discuss Goals of the User Group
• Discuss interest in future Steering Committee Positions
• Discuss Future Meetings, Locations and Sponsors

SAP Business Objects: Explorer Solution

• Tom Urso, Sr. Business User Solutions Engineer

This session will review the important aspects of the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer solution and provide a deeper look into the reference architecture and how Explorer fits into the overall BI landscape.

Break

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.: From Business Data to Business Intelligence at Volkswagen: Leveraging data using Business Objects

• Tom Danieli , Allocation and Inventory Specialist, VW Sales Planning Group

EV Technologies: SAP Business Objects Inspection

• Eric Vallo, Business Objects Certified Professional
  Business Objects Administrators are forced to wear many hats. They must have at least some understanding of the operating systems in which Business Objects runs, an understanding of how the Business Objects architecture functions, and be able to support both the technology and the users that utilize it. Often times those Administrators are also responsible for providing utilization and capacity metrics to IT leadership, the business, or IT capacity planning groups. By itself this activity can be time consuming and in Business Objects XI, this information is not available in a reportable or repeatable fashion with out-of-the-box technology.

A few questions you SHOULD be able to ask of your Business Objects deployment in order to effectively manage it include:

• Who are the system's power users?
• Which users are using the system ineffectively?
• Which reports may be causing performance issues in Business Objects?
• What is the make-up of the corporate report inventory in Business Objects?
• What destinations are the users leveraging?
• What is the universe impact from table/column changes?

Break

Open Forum Q&A

• Share challenges or questions users in your organization face when utilizing BOBJ and give insight to other members as to how issues were overcome. 

Meeting Adjourns