Message from the ASUG BI Year-Round Community

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Survey - What's Hot?

In your BI world, what's HOT? What's not? What types of issues keep you awake at night? How can the ASUG BI SIG Communities help you?

Help us focus on the hottest topics and issues of our Community. Please take a couple of minutes and complete the ASUG BI annual survey. The survey is an important component of our year-round educational offerings. Your feedback is important to ensure that the list is current.

ASUG Development Tools Day

Register today for ASUG Development Tools Day, scheduled for Friday, December 4th, at the Radisson Cincinnati Riverfront. This event has a two track focus: BI/Analytics and Developer Tools. Thomas Jung, Storm Archer, Sathish Rajagopal, of SAP are slated to present.

The ASUG Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana Chapters are working together to execute this Visit the event details page on asug.com for the agenda, abstracts, and directions.  This is a FREE event! Educational sessions, following two tracks, will occur throughout the entire day.  This is the ninth year in a row this event has been held.

Annual Conference Call for Speakers – Coming to an E-mail Inbox Near You!

The Call for Speakers for the 2016 ASUG Annual Conference is now open! If you have a success story to share, lessons learned from a recent project, or a lively debate that could expand into presentation, please consider submitting an abstract.

Speaking at the 2016 ASUG Annual Conference is a great way to showcase your organization, as well as earn a complimentary registration to the event. Prior to the Annual Conference, training on presentation skills, writing the document, and public speaking will be offered, so don't let a lack of public speaking experience hold you back. The 2016 Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida, May 17-19. The Call for Speakers will close at the end of December - so don't delay, think about presentation topics today!  Watch this webcast recording to see more tips to submit.

Upcoming December Webcasts – Earn a Chance to Win a Free Book

If you attend one of our webcasts live in December, you will win a chance for a free book, David McCandless’ Knowledge is Beautiful – and learn things too

• 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
• Dec. 15: What's New in 1.29 and Update on Roadmap for Lumira Server for BI Platform

Several webcasts have already been scheduled for 2016 – see our complete webcast listing here.

SAP BI Customer Collaboration Program

SAP runs a testing lab out of India where they take the latest developments in the Business Intelligence (BO) area and want to validate these with customers on a regular basis. This is either done via a copy of the customer’s landscape or in the testing landscape of the customer.  For more information and contact information see the PDF attached here.