ASUG Reporting SIG Updates – August 2016

Upcoming Webcasts

Join us for the following upcoming webcasts:

• Aug. 9: What’s New with SAP® BusinessObjects™ BI 4.2 SDK’s and the Road Map Ahead
• Aug. 10: How TE Leveraged SAP HANA® to Integrate ERP and Salesforce for Advanced Analytics
• Aug. 23: Case Study: British American Tobacco’s Journey to BI Self-Sufficiency with SAP BW, SAP HANA, and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1
• Sept. 1: SAP Analytics Extensions Directory (AED)
• Sept. 7: SAP Enterprise Analytics Strategy and the Enterprise Analytics Store
• Sept. 29: Exciting New Features in New SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and Semantic Layer Release
• Oct. 27: Everything You Want to Know in Visualization Extensions – SAP® BusinessObjects™ Lumira, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
• Nov. 16: Deep Dive into SAP BI Mobile SDK – For Designers, Developers, and Administrators

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

Join ASUG at SAP TechEd Las Vegas, SAP’s premier technical education conference and experience hands-on workshops, lectures, and expert networking sessions, taking place September 19–23.

ASUG has over 100 sessions of customer-driven content and real-world stories, including Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola, Medtronic, Intel, and more.

Join the newly launched ASUG Influence Council: SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to learn how to take advantage of your ASUG membership by influencing SAP future products. 

See ASUG Web Intelligence Influence Council Launch

Also learn from ASUG member McKesson session: Case Study: Implementation at McKesson Using Analytic Tools from SAP.

• Customer EP Energy shares Ghost Barrels: Using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to Find $0 Oil
• Customer University of Utah Healthcare shares Pushing SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence to Its Limits: Practical Real-World Implementation
• Customer South Carolina Enterprise Information Systems shares Report: Build It and They Will Come, But Do They Know Where and What It Means?
• Customer Benjamin Moore presents Reporting in Color at Benjamin Moore

See why speaker Trang Nguyen shares why you should attend her session A Graphic Designer’s Simple Tricks for a Professional-Looking Report:

“Effective Visual Communication shouldn’t be just a graphic designer’s job. I believe everyone is capable of building beautiful and effective dashboard with a few critical visual design tips, attention to details, and a focus on clear communication.” —Trang Nguyen, Visual BI

Free BI 4.2 platform tutorials – click here

Submit a Crystal Reports Review and get a reward – see this SCN blog

SAP asks that we share BI4.2 documentations for SP3 which is planned to be released in August 2016:

• What’s New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
• What’s New in Semantic Layer
• What’s New in SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and Semantic Layer

Updated ASUG Website

If you have not been on the ASUG website lately, you should log in and check it out. Not all the changes are completed, but you will see gradual changes in functionality and look. You have been used to accessing the calendar and the event registration functionality on the website. But did you know that you can also access ASUG Conference material on the website? For example, presentations from 2016 ASUG Annual Conference can be found here.

We hope you have enjoyed this newsletter. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

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