Dave's Adventures in Business Intelligence

Integra Solutions has again been recognized as Training Partner of the Year by Business Objects. The announcement was made on Tuesday at the partner conference in Las Vegas. A quote:

Authorized Education Services Partner of the Year: Recognizes the Business Objects partner that delivered the most onsite and public education services revenue, executed excellent class participation rates, and consistently achieved top customer satisfaction ratings. The winner of this year’s award is Integra Solutions, a Business Unit of Quorum Business Solution. Integra was recognized for being an exemplary Trusted Advisor through their commitment in educating their customers on Business Intelligence, and providing a solution that is best for the customer.

A link to the full article is in the Related Links section at the end of the post. This is not the first year Integra has been honored with this award. It’s nice to see the recognition continue after we merged with Quorum Business Solutions.

I don’t typically go to the partner conferences, since I get to go to the regular user conferences each year instead. We had several folks that did get to attend, and Amy (our sales director) got to stand up on stage and receive the education award. Very cool.

Related Links

• Business Objects Honors Partners for Exceptional Contributions to Business Intelligence Solutions

For the past several years I have included notes about the JOIN_BY_SQL parameter now available for universe designers. The short definition: instead of documents having multiple SQL passes with a join or synchronize option, this parameter asks the database to do the work instead. I have stated in more than one presentation that we saw major performance improvements by using this feature. Now I have to back-track on that just a bit. 🙂

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