SAP Inside Track Vancouver Sept 27, 2011-> Leveraging the power of BI Web Services to build better dashboards

I’ve been given the opportunity to share my experiences with BI Web Services and how to build more efficient dashboards using BI Web Services in the upcoming SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2011.  Please mark your calendars for September 27, 2011 2:30pm -> 3:20pm PST! In this presentation you’ll learn about BI Web Services and how it provides a hybrid of QaaWS and Live Office.  As well...

September 24th, 2011 by David Lai 

Congratulations to our tweetaway contest winners!

I’d like to give a big thanks for everyone who participated in the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook Tweetaway contest! I was very impressed with the huge amount of tweets so Thanks everyone! I’d like to congratulate the 2 lucky tweeters who have won an eBook copy of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook They are …….. rodri_m_d montoyainigo We’ll be contacting...

July 26th, 2011 by David Lai 

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook Giveaway Twitter Contest!

Hi everyone! Packt Publishing is having a promotion where we will be giving away 2 free eBook copies of our newly released SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook. On Monday July 25, 2011 we will be randomly drawing 2 winners and grant them access to their free eBooks! All you need to do to join the Tweetaway twitter contest is to send out a tweet with a link to the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook...

July 8th, 2011 by David Lai 

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook now available!

I’m very proud to announce that SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook is officially available.  For the past year, Xavier Hacking and I together with Packt Publishing have carefully compiled over 90 recipes on transforming your data into highly effective dashboards. We cover the ins and outs of using the Dashboard Design components, connecting to different data sources, as well as providing...

June 8th, 2011 by David Lai 

Thanks for attending the Toronto BusinessObjects Customer Exchange!

BOCX Speaker Deck I’d like to send out a special thank you to all of those who attended the Toronto BusinessObjects Customer Exchange yesterday.  The event wouldn’t have been a success without the support of all those who attended. I am hoping that everyone had a great learning experience! For those who attended my presentation on dashboard essentials, you can download a copy of the presentation...

April 14th, 2011 by David Lai 

Upgrading to an SSD with Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 2.0

I apologize if this is off topic but I felt that this was something was worth sharing with everyone. So this weekend I decided to buy a Solid State Drive (Corsair F115) as I was interested in speeding up my system. The only problem here was that Solid State Drives are much smaller than the traditional hard drive.  Thus the task was to migrate only the OS partition to the Solid State Drive.  My system...

April 6th, 2011 by David Lai 

SAP Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius) Cookbook Coming Soon!

I hope that everyone has had a great start to 2011! 2010 was a huge year but 2011 looks to be even bigger! I’m very pleased to announce that the Xcelsius Cookbook, which Xavier Hacking and I have been working very hard on, is scheduled to be released in it’s final format on May 2011. The book will be structured like a cookbook where we will go through step by step on accomplishing different...

February 7th, 2011 by David Lai 

SAP InsideTrack 2010 Vancouver Dashboard Essentials

I look forward to seeing everyone at Vancouver’s very first local SAP Inside Track Wednesday Sept 15, 2010! I’ve been given the great opportunity to represent Xcelsius Gurus Network and present on SAP Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius). I’ll be presenting the following topics and have a thorough Questions and Answer period. Why are dashboards used and what are the benefits? Dashboard...

August 20th, 2010 by David Lai 

New Look for 2010!

First of all, I’d like to wish all my readers a happy 2010 and Thank you for continuing to visit my blog. I’ve had some busy projects this year and I apologize for the lack of posts, however my new years resolution is to be more proactive this year on my posts 🙂 I’ve finally finished migrating my blog from b2evolution to WordPress, although there’s a few kinks I need to...

January 23rd, 2010 by David Lai