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The BI4 Elite Enablement Nov 5-9, 2012 for our BI customers and partners is in the books, I moved into Product Management for the SAP Mobile Platform, but yet, I still get a lot of questions about BI4 Elite. So, here is my report from the event.

Scores and Results

I think it's fair to say we had an AMAZING event. The participants gave us a score of

4.85 out of 5

Check out the BI4 Elite video for some sound-bites from our participatns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05hVmvW7qr4

We set out with 1 goal for the BI4 Elite Enablement:

Create BI black-belts to enable our BI4 customers to go-live

97.6% stated that BI4 Elite equipped them better to achieve their go-live:

with a dramatic shift in “belt color” towards “BI black-belt”:

Participants' Quotes

Here are some more quotes from our participants:

• The BEST SAP training ever (Content, instructors, systems, logistics...) must happen in other locations.
• What an event!
• Experience felt like driving a Nascar, ride of a lifetime through advanced BI tools and the energy in the room was amazing
• A unique way to learn, network and have some fun.
• Excellent.. surpassed my high expectations on the training. Best training experience ever!
• Earn your BI black belt in one week.
• Awesome!!!!
• Elite Trainning, from an Elite company, for Elite Business Solution
• BI Elite Enablement Rocks!
• BI4 Elite Enablement was simultaneously the best training and the best conference I have ever attended in over 10 years of BI events.
• Empowerment gleemed from SAP BO experts
• Hard-core SAP BusinessObjects knowledge and interaction.
• I was able to acquire very rich and practical content delivered in well thought pace
• Very professional deep dive training
• enlightening!!!!!

The BI4 Elite Stats

• 44 participants from 8 countries (Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Hong Kong, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, USA, Canada)

• representing 16 customers

• and 7 partners and SAP internals

• 87 registrations
• 5018 blog views
• Over 500 tweets for #BI4Elite
• 11 SAP BI black-belt trainers
• 10 BI software developers participated
• 3 customer presentations (Department of Interior, HP, MolsonCoors)
• 2 networking events: evening reception in the Executive Briefing Center on Tuescday and a full dinner and open bar at Glowbal in the Afterglow launch on Thrusday

BI4 Elite Hands-on Content

We had our 44 participants hands-on with:

• BI4 SP4 across all tools (including Webi, Explorer, Analysis for OLAP and Office, Dashboards, Crystal Reports, Visual Intelligence)
• Mobile BI
• SAP HANA
• SAP BW
• Non-SAP back-ends 

BI4 Elite Blogs

• BI4 Elite Enablement - Vancouver - Nov 5-9, 2012
• BI4 Elite: Featuring the Customer Stories #BI4Elite
• Attending SAP BI4Elite Enablement - Day 1
• Attending SAP BI4Elite Enablement - Day 2
• Attending SAP BI4Elite Enablement - Day 3
• Attending SAP BI4Elite Enablement - Day 4
• Attending SAP BI4Elite Enablement - Day 5
• BI4 Elite Enablement Day 5 – Seeing what is “Under the Hood” #BI4Elite
• Getting Familiar with Web Intelligence on the iPad Mobile BI 4.4 (iPhone too)
• BI4 Elite Enablement Training - It's a Wrap!

Special thanks to

all the trainers

• Vishal Dhir – Customer Solution Adoption
• Patrice Le Bihan – BI Solution Management
• Ingo Hilgefort – BI Solution Management
• Ty Miller – BI Solution Management
• Toby Johnston – Active Global Support (AGS)
• James Rapp – Customer Solution Adoption
• John Mrozek – Customer Solution Adoption
• Sathish Rajagopal – BI Solution Management
• Donnie McMillan – BI Solution Engineering
• Harjeet Judge – Customer Solution Adoption
• Saroj Parmar – Install Maintenance Support (IMS)

And of course a special thanks to the support staff:                                                                                                                              

• Victoria Harrison – KCI, Logistics
• Bruno Ranchy – SAP, Infrastructure and Cloud
• Rachel Floyd – SAP, Executive Briefing Center
• Salina Siu – SAP Marketing shooting the customer videos
• Brett Philpott - Exercise content management

Lastly, thanks to our great guest speakers:

• Kirsten Sutton - Vice President and Managing Director of SAP Labs Canada
• Don Wakefield - Vice President of SAP Technology and Business Intelligence

And finally, a very, very special thanks to Tammy Powlas from Fairfax Water for her blogs, tweets, postive attitude and mentorship! What a great customer to have!