Alan brings with him over 10 years of business intelligence expertise, as well as transformative leadership experience. He started out as an SAP BI Consultant in the mining industry and has recently served as BI Manager and Data Automation Engineer at McKesson, as well as Principal Consultant and Founder of Maven BI Group. He has a reputation of transforming companies from manual processes to automation with insights! Alan lives and breathes data. His motto is “Life is a DREAM (Data Rules Everything Around Me)”. And when you combine the power of your company’s data, BusinessObjects, and InfoBurst, you’ll never have another nightmare again!
Federal regulations require that all pharmaceutical sample shipments be acknowledged by the Health Care Provider receiving them. Up until recently this was a very time and resource intensive manual task for McKesson that involved validating data in 3 different systems and then following up with a manual email. This session will show how they were […]
With the deprecation of Xcelsius, SAP has not provided a true replacement BI dashboarding solution. Initially they encouraged customers to move to Lumira but that is also being deprecated and then they proposed SAP Analytics Cloud was the replacement solution for Xcelsius but it is not. Instead most BusinessObjects customers have adopted Tableau, PowerBI or […]
Web Intelligence dashboards are not just transforming the way organizations use BusinessObjects, they are also providing invaluable solutions to key business challenges. This session will highlight and demonstrate several Web Intelligence dashboard solutions and discuss the impact they are having for these organizations.
Last year McKesson launched a very successful solution for tracking drug deliveries using a BusinessObjects Web Intelligence dashboard. They have continued to add new features and capabilities to this solution including overlaying weather information to determine if that may impact the time of delivery. This session will show how they were able to achieve this […]
Web Intelligence 4.2 and, now, 4.3 has a wealth of features for building effective and compelling Business Intelligence dashboards. When you add third party visual components into the mix ( some now free with BI 4.3 SP02) you have a recipe for taking your dashboards to a whole new level. But is it that simple […]