Diversified Semantic Layer

Late in October, Josh was in Melbourne to host a Q&A panel of various SAP customers and employees.  Joining the panel were three SAP BusinessObjects employees from Canada, namely Jayne Landry (@jaynelandry), Saskia Battersby (@saskia_sap) and Blair Wheadon (@blairtwheadon).  Even though they were all terribly jet-lagged, especially Saskia, Josh prevailed upon their love of the BOBJ community to record a brief UGeeks.

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This is really it.  The last of the post-SBOUC mess up episodes.  Donald MacCormick was a great sport about messing up his episode at the conference, but came through for a 2nd go at it with a great discussion.

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One of two failed recordings from SBOUC included Timo Elliott.  He was kind enough to join us for a second episode of UGeeks to freshen the discussion on the state of BI.

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Greg got the chance to run into an old buddy that had no shame in trying to throw us off course during our panel discussion.  :)  Oh, hi Keith.  Anyway, these two have a chance to reconnect and reminisce.

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We have been chasing an opportunity to sit down with Neil Greathead for quite some time and are glad it finally happened at SBOUC.  We talk about Neil, SAP Support, and awesome cars.

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But wait!  There is more!  Chris Vozella, the man with the title that we just cannot keep straight, but is REALLY important in the SAP BusinessObjects support world, and a  great friend of ours, joins us for a one on one in the DSLayer/EVT Booth at SBOUC.

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Cindi Howson of BIScorecard joins us in the DSLayer booth at SBOUC. We will just chalk that up to the better late than never column.  Cindi was an awesome guest and *might* have brought the quality of the booth up a notch.

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Our first (successful) live recording from the show floor of SBOUC is with Mark Richardson.  Jamie, of course, charms him with The Jamie Oswald Experience.

Oh, and Mark shared this in all its glory:

Update: with a shot of Mark and Jamie in action or something.

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In preparation for letting folks meet Becca Oswald (aka #realwife) in Australia at next month's Mastering BusinessObjects event (and because she introduced Jamie to his very first taste of BI), Jamie asked his better half some super professional questions about her career, the power of the cloud, and why community is so important to technology ecosystems.

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Josh Fletcher took the opportunity to have a chat with new SAP Mentor Clint Vosloo, fresh from SAPPHIRE 2012.

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Jamie finally had a chance to catch up with Mico to continue our Unstructured Geek Analytics interview series. Because we caught her right after ASUG Annual Conference/SAPPHIRENOW 2012, we also got a pretty healthy conference recap. Listen in to find out a little more about Mico, her community, her company, and how she feels SAP is going. 

Some highlights include the new Analytics Management team, the new tools in the set, the state of mobile BI, and why you should maybe mix some Caribbean rum with your SAP Kool-Aid.

To catch Mico on video, check out JD-OD.com's videos with her (Part 1, Part 2).

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Josh seized the chance to sit down with one of our SAP favourites, Adam Binnie (GM & Global VP Business Intelligence Solutions at SAP) whilst Adam was in Perth, Australia.

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Eric had another chance to sit down with an SAP Mentor, Dan Grew, to talk about his role in the SAP BusinessObjects community.

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Eric kicks off a new series in which we are chatting with the SAP Mentor community team members that focus on SAP BusinessObjects, with Ken Hartman.

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While still at ASUG SBOUC, Greg got an chance to sit down to talk to George Peck.

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If you missed it, the whole gang was at ASUG SBOUC.  It was awesome.  Jamie gave us a great recap as well.  While at conference, Greg got an chance to sit down to talk to Jason Rose.

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Josh grabbed a few minutes at the recent Mastering BI with SAP conference in Melbourne, Australia, to interview two customer superstar presenters - Craig Nicholls and Gary Hooker.

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Eric takes Michael down memory lane to see how he stacks up against Dave!  Seriously though, Michael is another long time expert in the community and we are happy he is a friend of our show.  We don't even fault him for still carrying a Treo.  We'll keep him.

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Jamie and Nic sit down at SAP TechEd to explore the future of mobility, Nic and his love for gadgets, and bad beer.  Oh, and Greg crashes the party late.

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Deep in the underbelly of SAP TechEd, Greg actually found a quiet corner to talk to Jason Cao.

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