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Best of 2011: Lucas Articulates Value of Analytics for Utilities

December 16th, 2011 2 comments

Back in September, Steve Lucas, Global Senior Executive for Business Analytics, stole the show with a hugely entertaining and well articulated discussion of innovation for Utilities.

REWIND

From beginning to end, Steve Lucas entertains as he communicates why better information is the key to creating real change.

If you are interested in:

  • Seeing Why BI is a Strategic Enabler for Utilities
  • Moving from a System of Record to a System of Engagement
  • Following a path to flawless information execution

This is a great 30 minute keynote for helping communicate what SAP is doing in the Utilities industry.

SAP helps utilities run better.

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End of Life Dates…

July 26th, 2010 4 comments

For end of life days about SAP BusinessObjects products go here:

https://service.sap.com/bosap-lifecycle

On the left had side you should see a tree menu with a link for “Product End of Life Dates”.  This will bring you to the page which displays the original GA (general availability) dates, patch support end-of-life dates and tech support end-of-life dates.

As of July 26th, 2010 here are the dates:

Product and Version GA Date Patch Support EOL Tech Support EOL
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 24-Nov-2005 23-Apr-2007 30-Jun-20111
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 SP1 30-Mar-2006a 31-Aug-2007 30-Jun-20112
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 SP2 23-Apr-2007 31-Mar-2008 30-Jun-20113
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 SP3 20-Nov-2007 30-Sep-2008 30-Jun-20114
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 SP4 31-May-2008 30-Nov-2009 30-Jun-20115
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 SP5 31-Dec-2008 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 SP6 16-Dec-2009 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
BusinessObjects Metify ABM 3.0 Various 30-April-2011 30-April-2011
BusinessObjects Planning 10.83 31-Jan-2007 31-Dec-2010 31-Dec-2010
BusinessObjects Planning XI 11.00 31-Jun-2006 31-Dec-2010 31-Dec-2010
BusinessObjects Planning XI 11.10 31-Dec-2006 31-Dec-2010 31-Dec-2010
BusinessObjects Planning XI R2 11.20 31-May-2007 31-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2013
BusinessObjects Planning XI R2 11.50 30-Sep-2007 31-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2013
BusinessObjects Planning XI R2 11.60 27-Jun-2008 31-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2013
BusinessObjects Planning Extended 5.0 30-Sep-2006 31-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2011b
BusinessObjects Planning Extended 5.3 30-Sep-2007 31-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2011b
BusinessObjects Planning Extended 5.4 30-Sep-2007 31-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2011b
Composer XI Release 2 (version 11.7) 13-Apr-2007 1-Jun-2009 1-Jun-2010
Crystal Decisions Professional 4-Jun-2007 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
Crystal Decisions Standard 2-Feb-2007 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
Crystal Decisions Standard (SP2) 4-Jun-2007 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
Crystal Reports for Eclipse 31-July-2006 31-Dec-2009 31-Dec-2010
Crystal Reports XI R2 24-Nov-2005 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
Crystal Reports for VS .NET 9.1 NA NA 31-Dec-2012
Crystal Reports for VS .NET 2005 NA NA 31-Dec-2015
Crystal Reports for VS .NET 2008 NA NA 31-Dec-2018
Crystal Reports Server XI R2 31-Mar-2006 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-20111
Crystal Reports Server Embedded XI R2 NA NA 30-Jun-20111
Crystal Vision 30-Jun-2006 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-2011
Crystal Vision Server 30-Jun-2006 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-2011
Crystal Xcelsius 4.5 30-Jun-2006 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-2011
Data Federator XI R2 Accelerated 30-Jan-2007 1-Jan-2010 1-Jun-2010
Data Federator XI Release 2 2-May-2006 1-Jun-2009 1-Jan-2010
Data Insight XI 3.0 30-Sep-2008 31-Mar-2011 31-Dec-2011
Data Integrator XI R2 Accelerated (11.7.3) 8-Nov-2007 31-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2011
Data Integrator XI Release 2 30-Sep-2005 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-2010
Data Quality XI 11.7.0.0 30-Aug-2007 31-Mar-2008 31-Mar-2011
Data Quality XI 11.7.1.0 1-Oct-2007 1-Oct-2008 31-Mar-2011
Data Quality XI 11.7.2.0 20-Feb-2009 N/A 31-Mar-2011
Data Quality XI for Informatica 8.1, 11.7 26-Sep-2007 31-Dec-2009 31-Dec-2010
Data Quality XI for Informatica, 11.5 19-Sep-2006 19-Sep-2009 31-Dec-2010
Data Quality XI for Oracle E-Business Suite, 11.7 26-Sep-2007 31-Jan-2009 31-Dec-2010
Data Quality XI for Oracle E-Business Suite, 11.5 31-Jan-2007 31-Jan-2009 31-Dec-2010
Data Quality XI for Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 8.9, 11.5 26-Sep-2007 31-Dec-2008 30-Sep-2010
Data Quality XI for Oracle’s PeopleSoft CRM 8.9, 11.5 25-Oct-2006 31-Dec-2008 30-Jun-2010
Data Quality XI for Oracle’s Siebel CRM 7.7 & 7.8 Applications, 11.7 26-Sep-2007 31-Aug-2008 31-Dec-2010
Data Quality XI for SAP Solutions, 11.6.x 25-Jun-2007 31-Jul-2009 31-Mar-2010
Data Quality XI for SAP Solutions, 11.7.x 28-Mar-2008 31-Jul-2009 31-Mar-2011
Desktop Intelligence XI R2 24-Nov-2005 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-20111
Edge Professional 4-Jun-2007 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
Edge Standard 2-Feb-2007 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
Edge Standard SP2 4-Jun-2007 30-Jun-2010 30-Jun-2011
Edge 3.0 Professional 16-June-2008 30-June-2011 30-June-2012
Edge 3.0 Standard 16-July-2008 30-June-2011 30-June-2012
FUZZY! Analyzer 5.0 30-Jun-2005 30-July-2011 30-July-2011
FUZZY! BoykottCheck 5.4 02-Aug-2007 30-July-2011 30-July-2011
FUZZY! DIME 1.5 30-July-2007 30-July-2011 30-July-2011
Global Data Quality Connector for SAP, 3.x 1-Sep-2006 30-Sep-2008 31-Mar-2010
Integration Kit for Baan XI R2 6-Dec-2005 6-Dec-2008 30-Jun-20116
Integration Kit for PeopleSoft XI R2 5-Dec-2005 5-Dec-2008 30-Jun-20117
Integration Kit for SAP XI R2 9-Dec-2005 9-Dec-2008 30-Jun-20118
Integration Kit for Siebel XI R2 1-Dec-2005 1-Dec-2008 30-Jun-20119
Intelligent Question XI R2 21-Nov-2005 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-2010
Live Office XI R2 24-Nov-2005 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-20111
Live Office XI R2 Productivity Pack 23-Apr-2007 23-Apr-2010 30-Jun-201110
Metadata Management XI R2 (version 11.7) 4-Feb-2007 1-Jun-2009 30-Jun-201111
OLAP Intelligence XI Release 2 24-Nov-2005 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-20111
Performance Manager XI R2 24-Nov-2005 1-Jun-2009 30-Jun-201111
Performance Manager XI 3.0 31-Mar-2008 31-Mar-2011 31-Mar-2012
Predictive Analysis XI R2 24-Nov-2005 1-Jun-2009 30-Jun-201111
Predictive Analysis XI 3.0 31-Mar-2008 31 Mar-2011 31-Mar-2012
Watchlist Security Various 30-Jun-2009 31-Mar-2011
Web Intelligence XI Release 2 24-Nov-2005 30-Jun-2009 30-Jun-20111

a For the Russian and Polish language editions of BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2 SP1 the GA date is 4-Oct-2006.
b For selected customers extended maintenance is available for calendar years 2012 and 2013. The extended maintenance is offered for an additional 5.0% for each year.
1 30-Jun-10 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
2 31-Aug-07 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
3 31-Mar-08 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
4 30-Sep-08 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
5 30-Nov-09 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
6 06-Dec-06 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
7 05-Dec-06 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
8 09-Dec-06 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
9 01-Dec-06 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
10 23-Apr-11 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.
11 01-Jun-10 – Original EOL date before extended support. For more information about extended support click here.

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Need to Feel Good about BusinessObjects?

December 17th, 2009 2 comments

Looking Forward to 2010

Over and over again I get questions from customers wondering what the future for the BusinessObjects product suite holds now that it has been acquired by software giant SAP.  Much of what we have heard over the last twelve months has been about product roadmaps and integration centered clearly around SAP Customers.  But what about those of us who aren’t SAP customers?  What should we do?

The Future of SAP BusinessObjects

SAP has the challenge of providing deeper, native integration with the SAP BusinessObjects tool set to meet the needs of their ERP Customers.  This cannot however be done at the exclusion of the rest of classic BusinessObjects large ecosystem which includes significant numbers of OEM partners and integrators who need the type of openness that has made BusinessObjects a trusted platform for Business Intelligence.  I don’t have a crystal ball, but based on what I have seen, SAP understands that there is a large customer base of BusinessObjects customers who neither currently have or will ever have classic SAP as part of their environments.

The preliminary indications are positive.  The buzz from the GBN conference in October was positive.  SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 introduced more features for non-SAP platforms that for SAP platforms.  SAP BusinessObjects continues to enhance WebIntelligence providing all but a few of the remaining features from DesktopIntelligence.  SAP BusinessObjects Explorer will allow for accelerated non-SAP data in early 2010.  I believe this will continue to be the case for the next major release of SAP BusinessObjects due out next year.  Time will tell.

Feeling Not So Special

I like many customers have been disappointed with the consolidation of SAP’s ASUG and BusinessObjects’s GBN.  During the recent GABOUG meeting, I was invited to visit Atlanta’s ASUG user group meeting in January.  I glanced at the current agenda and had to smile.  Of the 15+ topics that would discussed during the all day event, only one topic sounded BI related, Emerging Urgencies within SAP’s Business User Solutions.  I hope the lack of non-SAP related content is only a part of the initial growing pains and not an indication of things to come.

To ASUG’s credit, they have since added one additional BI session in the afternoon lead by Gabriel Orthous from McKesson.

Need to Feel Good about BusinessObjects?

I learned something more about SAP BusinessObjects from this video… the end might catch you by surprise.  [UPDATE: Oh Man!  No sense of humor?  It would appear that for reasons of either "inappropriateness" or "excessive political correctness", depending on your point of view, somebody at SAP told YouTube to pull the video...  Shame.  It was really funny]

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The Next Major Release of BusinessObjects Goes RTM!

February 29th, 2008 No comments

BusinessObjects XI 3.0 box shotPush, Push, Push

We are close… oh, so close. The baby is coming. It should be any day now. No, my wife’s not pregnant. It’s the arrival of BusinessObjects XI 3.0. That’s “three dot-o”. Let me guess. You want to know why it’s not called, “BusinessObjects XIR3″. Search me. I guess marketing did some extensive research which showed the customers were more likely to find software labeled at 3.0 to be superior in quality, performance and usability of a “third revision”. I suppose the “R” in revision probably doesn’t do a release like this justice either. It deserves a new introduction.

Being involved in the beta testing process was a real treat. It’s so hard not to be able to talk about all the cool stuff in the next release. Now that it’s finally going RTM, I’ll tell you what I think about it – and I promise it won’t just be the marketing fluff.

I have to say. Now that BusinessObjects is an SAP company, I decided it was time to reorganized my 1542 powerpoints. Since I’ve been with BusinessObjects so long, I’m managed to accumulate a few and it was time for some housecleaning. I promise that I will begin to write a lot more information more frequently. A colleague of mine reminded me of the blogs associated with the BusinessObjects Diamond Developer Site, so I might begin crossposting.

Get Your SAP Roadmaps

Although everything is business as usual with regards to BusinessObjects, an SAP Company… (they make us say that now) … we are all curious to see what the roadmaps will look like. My biggest surprise was that some of the roadmaps were published out on the SAP Developer site before I had even seen them internally. Wow. Now that’s what I call hot off the presses. Although not all the roadmaps are complete (e.g. what about where BusinessObjects Performance Manager and SAP’s Strategy Management overlap? How exactly are all the Performance Manager engines going to evolve in the next version? There’s SPC, Predictive and Sets.

SAP RoadmapIt’s interesting to learn more about the SAP product offering and find that not everything from SAP requires the “Netweaver Stack”. SAP’s MDM and Strategy Management(Pilot) and Financial Performance Management (Outlooksoft) are three examples. All recently acquired and not necessarily SAP-only.

If you have some SAP BI technology and want to see the SAP BI Roadmap, I recommend you download it here. It’s a great read and pretty clearly explains how the products will move forward. The only downside is there is no mention of WebIntelligence and Visual Composer on the Integration Roadmap slide. The upside is that it is pretty clear that BusinessObjects is the face of BI for SAP moving forward. Netweaver will continue to have some core BI components, but all premium capabilities will be handled by BusinessObjects (or should I say BusinessObjects, an SAP company).

Let me know your thoughts.

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