Diversified Semantic Layer

While at SAPPHIRE we had a great opportunity to sit down with Kurt Bilafer and Alex Andrenacci, who are both in town from Singapore, to sit down and discuss the BI4 roadmap in general and how it is going in APJ.

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	Kurt Bilafer
	Alex Andrenacci
	Jamie Oswald
	Greg Myers
	Eric Vallo
	Clint Vosloo

SAP has put together a licensing strategy to help attract new customers as well as to help existing customers migrate to more robust bundles of SAP products in the analytics space. We are joined by Jayne Landry, the Global something of something really long that needs an acronym that is the keeper of all this bundling goodness.

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	Jayne Landry
	Jamie Oswald
	Greg Myers
	Eric Vallo

2012 was a big year in our world.  The whole group comes together to talk about what we loved about 2012.

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	Jamie Oswald
	Greg Myers
	Eric Vallo
	Dallas Marks
	Joshua Fletcher
	Clint Vosloo

We are kicking off Season 3 with some geeky stuff.  We are joined this episode by Mr. Andrew Fox to dive into SAP Visual Intelligence. Is it hype?  Or the next Desktop Intelligence?  And, thanks to Andrew, we are coining a new hashtag...#ExcelHero.

And, for your mockery, our #DataGeek challenge submissions:

• Andrew tried to find what was making us all fat
• Jamie dreams of being taller
• Greg does a great job of finding new places for Jamie and Eric to get into trouble
• Eric realizes he never wants to live on the west coast ever ever

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	Andrew Fox
	Jamie Oswald
	Greg Myers
	Josh Fletcher
	Eric Vallo

SAP BusinessObjects customers spend a career focused on relational sources.  It is what they know. We talk to fellow SAP Mentors John Appleby and Ethan Jewett about where SAP BW could fit into the family.  And, with Steve Lucas FTW!

Steve joins us at the 9:30-ish mark, so stick with us.

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	Ethan Jewett
	John Appleby
	Steve Lucas
	Greg Myers
	Jamie Oswald
	Eric Vallo

Ian Mayor, Solution Manager of the upcoming SAP Zen, joins us to talk more about the distinction between SAP Dashboards and what is coming in SAP Zen.  Ian shares more on how SAP Zen will fit into the SAP BusinessObjeccts landscape.  Thanks for not calling it SAP Analysis Edition for Application Design something something.

In related news: we clearly need a community news correspondent.  Now accepting applications.

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Greg is here! Jamie and Eric suckered him into coming into St. Louis.  While sitting at Eric's kitchen table talking about BI4 (because really...we have nothing better to talk about), we decided to just record it.

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Jamie and Eric are at SAP Insider BI2012 this week.  We honored to have been joined by Dallas Marks, Dave Rathbun, and Michael Welter.  While we did our best to stay on track to talk about BI2012, we couldn't help but drift into the pervasive themes of the conference.  Oh, and we name drop everybody we could think of without shame.  Enjoy.

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Jamie, Greg, Josh, and Eric got together with Ina Felscheim and Werner Daehn (of no clear, social media connection) to talk about, for the very first time on our show....EIM.  It's a good chat to help our classic BOBJ audience get more info on Data Services and the other EIM components that make EIM4 a strong platform.

Update: There is some weirdness at the 43:30-ish mark from an old podcast.  No idea there.  It only lasts for a second.  Hopefully Werner didn't have anythimg important to add in there.

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Jamie, Greg, and Eric were joined by Tim Rodine (TCR Solutions) from Chi-town.  This week, we take a journey back in time to our first episode, "The Good, the Bad, the Deski", where we revisit the impending doom for Deski.  Love us or hate us, we didn't tell SAP to bag Deski.  It was all BusinessObjects' fault.

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Tonight we spend some time talking about migrating content between SAP BusinessObjects platforms.  With that, we discuss how we do it today, vs. what we need to consider in moving to BI4 down the road.  Jay Riddle joins us.

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We are really happy to have had BOTH Ryan Goodman of Centigon Solutions and Scott Leaver of SAP.  Tonight, we are going through more BI4 goodness to figure out what we can all expect to see with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards as a part of BI4.

Listen in and hear all about it.

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Greg, Jamie, and Eric welcome back Dallas Marks for a podcast to get some creative thinking around how we might start planning a migration to BI4.

In the agenda:

• Migration paths 6.5/XIR2/XI31 -> BI4
• Upgrade vs. staged migration
• Risks
• Test plans
• 32 or 64-bit today
• How to make a go/no-go decision
• Hang out with us at Sapphire

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In celebration of the Virtual Launch of BI4 today, the Diversified Semantic Layer crew is releasing our most recent episode, recorded with Michael Welter.

In this episode, we give the new common semantic layer and Information Design Tool a good shake down.

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We had a great group to chat with today with Jamie Oswald and Greg Myers, with special guests Jay Riddle and Joshua Fletcher. Today, we spent a good chunk of time talking about BI4 as a platform (our fav).

In the news:

• ASUG Annual Conference presentation topics are going out
• asugnews.com is live

Show Notes:

• BI4 Learning Materials are already online
• Be sure to register for the BI4 Virtual Launch event
• BI4 has audit events for Xcelsius confirmed!
• Sorry for the heavy breather (Greg...OK probably Eric)
• Also sorry for the audio overlays. We are having technical difficulties at some point where we really aren't talking over each other.

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