http://www.dagira.com ...you are in a twisty maze of passageways, all different... Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:26:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I missed the keynote on the first day, but I made sure I made it on day two. The four pillars of the conference were cloud, big data, mobility, and social. I get the first three; they're very similar to the Business Objects themes of cloud, mobility, and in-memory for ... http://www.dagira.com/2012/02/01/microstrategy-world-day-2-3/ I'm at my first MicroStrategy conference this week. It's interesting to see what is different and what's the same compared to the Business Objects conferences that I normally attend. For one thing, they don't hand out survey forms at the sessions. For a BI / data company, that seems surprising. ... http://www.dagira.com/2012/01/25/microstrategy-world-day-1/ There were certainly a number of interesting developments in 2011, including the release of BI 4.0 and the ever increasing hype about HANA. But more importantly my family ended the year healthy and happy and that's far more important. I certainly wish the same for you, your family, and your ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/12/22/happy-holidays-see-you-next-year-2/ One of the possible enhancements we have been requesting for years is the ability to validate prompts. (We've also been looking for the ever-so-popular ability to use a formula such as "Today()" as a default for a prompt but this is different.) If we had true cascading prompts in Web ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/12/21/why-cant-i-validate-prompts/ Most of my friends know that I'm their friend in real life, not on Facebook. :) I've never joined that service, initially through lack of interest and later on through genuine concerns over their privacy issues and how much data people are seemingly willing to give up for a web ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/12/13/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-facebook/ I was checking the weather this morning and noticed that weather.com now offers a social media component to their web site. It seems that if I am so inclined, I can see what other folks in my area are saying about the weather. Without doing much, well, any research I ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/12/08/why-context-matters-blizzard-is-more-than-weather/ Over on BOB we're having some fun with a few holiday logos in place of our standard green guy. Our regular board logo looks like this: For the next few weeks, board members will see the logo rotate between alternate versions such as these: And of course this: During the American ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/12/06/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like/ A few months ago I had the pleasure to talk to Courtney Bjorlin of ASUGNews.com about a Twitter exchange taking place between several folks. They were discussing the need for (and likelihood of) finding Business Objects experts (whether employees or consultants) that already have SAP skills. The main points of ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/11/14/sap-business-objects-skills-do-they-exist/ In Part I of this post I talked a little bit about what I think it takes to get started in the world of blogging. In this post I would like to talk more about some of the challenges related to running your own blog. To that end I would ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/10/25/blogging-for-dollars-or-something-else/ There have been a couple of issues discovered with my universe compare tool. One has been fixed in the code, and the other appears to be a universe issue which I have not been able to decide how to approach. An update to version 2.0.1 has been posted, so please ... http://www.dagira.com/2011/10/25/dagira-change-log-utility-2-0-1-released/