Report Requirements, a Mystery

Sitting down to develop a report and realizing not all the requirements are there can be irritating. Gathering all the requirements when developing a report is crucial. When conversing with users about a new report request, they will often explain the requirements in simple business terms. First, it is important to understand the business need […]

BI Zen Part #2

I know this blog is a long time coming.  Part 1 was in March and the reason for the delay is I’ve had an internal conflict going on between saying what I think is happening with BICC vs what I want to see happen. Let’s see if I can explain.   Recently Eric Vallo & […]

BI Zen – It Could Happen Part 1

Every day in the BI world you are fighting against opposing goals. Users who want a super flexible reporting system that can answer any question they can dream up without interaction with IT in real time and policies that require security, formal approvals, processes and system stability. Basically how can you let users do whatever […]

Building a Successful Business Objects Team

First off, thanks for tuning in to the first of hopefully a long list of meaningful and helpful blogs published by EV Technologies. Each week we are going to strive to publish a new article aimed at the use of some facet of the suite of Business Objects tools.

So…here we go!

A few years ago I responded to a forum post on BOB, which asked how to estimate the size of a Business Objects support team. That was over three years ago. I was actually asked this question again here recently and I thought it’d be a good idea to revisit this topic.