ASUG BI SIG October Updates Featuring BI Platform

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Welcome to the October edition of the BI Platform SIG Newsletter.  The ASUG BI Platform SIG “brings together SAP customers to share best practices and real-world experiences implementing, supporting, and troubleshooting the SAP BusinessObjects solution portfolio”.   The BI Platform SIG is part of the ASUG Business Intelligence Community.  Join today.

Inside this issue:

• Upcoming Webcasts – We’re Listening
• Past Webcasts
• Call for Speakers for ASUG Annual Conference
• SAP Analytics & BusinessObjects Conference
• News you Can Use

Upcoming Webcasts – We’re Listening

Join us for these upcoming BI platform webcasts:

• Oct. 27: Sizing SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise - How a Sizing Exercise at Cardinal Health Made Drastic Perfor... (Customer Story)
• Dec. 2: BI4.2: Improved Collaboration Capabilities and Mobile Push Notifications
• Dec. 3: BI4.2: Improved Upgrade Process
• Dec. 7: BI4.2: Improved Migration Process
• Dec. 8: Deploying BI in the Cloud
• Dec. 9: BI4.2: Improvements in Managing the BI Platform

We heard you on our 2014 survey  - BI platform was a top priority.  On the survey you said you wanted more webcasts in this area.  The ASUG standard is 4 webcasts per year per SIG.

This year the BI Platform SIG has already held 5 webcasts this year with 6 more on the way:

For a complete list of upcoming ASUG BI webcasts click here.

Past Webcasts

Last month SAP provided an update on BI4.2 – to listen to the webcast, review the materials and question and answer click here.

Call for Speakers for ASUG Annual Conference

ASUG is planning to open the Call for Speakers for ASUG Annual Conference towards the end of November. If you have a story you want to share or a customer experience with BI products, please consider submitting your interest in speaking. If selected, you will get complimentary registration, but more importantly, you will be able to share your knowledge with the ASUG BI and BI Platform Community. Stay tuned for announcements about Call for Speakers and be ready to submit your abstract.

SAP Analytics BusinessObjects Conference

If you missed the ASUG SAP Analytics BusinessObjects Conference, materials and presentations can be located here.  Save the date for next year’s conference October 18-20, 2016 in New Orleans

News You Can Use

SAP is offering BI Chat Support – for more information click here.

Free SAP BI Tutorials by SAP – click here

We hope you have enjoyed this newsletter. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. Be sure to join the BI Community here and the BI Platform SIG here.