Business Objects XI - CBT: Web Intelligence XI

List Price: $99.99 Discount Price: $62.99

Customer Reviews:

Webi XI CBT - a tremendous value!!! [Posted on 2008-01-11]
Our organization uses Business Objects quite substantially. We have some applications using a variety of older BO releases, as well as applications using XI R2 Webi. Our training needs are vast and varied. Using this CBT, I set up a pilot training program. I loaded up the universes & data into our training environment, in no time at all. I set up a series of lab sessions for individuals to have training away from work interruptions. The responses from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive. Novice users could work at their own pace, reviewing topics until they were mastered. Experienced users learned all kinds of new features and functions. With the current training prices, this CBT is undeniably an outstanding value, and is replacing expensive instructor-led Business Objects report writing training, for us. In addition, the support from the author has been wonderful. I have consulted with him many times over the past several months, and he is always helpful. I anticipate us doing lots of business with Schmidt Ink.

book = print of slides; CBT = reading the slides [Posted on 2008-02-20]
For $62, I was expecting a professionally-edited book, with an overview, some case studies and perhaps a running example. This guide to BO is a printed set of slides based on screen shots of BO, along with some presentation notes that go with the slides. The author doesn't even edit out the printing of empty slides between sections. The "computer-based training" (CBT) is the author reading the words on the slides, with the slides showing, or a screenshot showing; NOTHING interactive or useful unless you wish to have slides read to you.

A fair price would be less than $30. This is really a print of slides from an introductory course.

A tutorial that really teaches [Posted on 2008-05-11]
Schmidt has done an excellent job with the quality and effectiveness of this computer-based training offering. I hope he does more.

Perfect book for beginners [Posted on 2008-09-13]
This is a great book by Mr. Schmidt to start with WebI. It helped me a lot to understand many topics which are not even covered in official BO WebI class. Nicely written.
However I would encourage Mr. Schmidt to include exercise and more examples on advanced topics on formula, variables and context. I have already bought other 2 books of Mr. Schmidt for Universe design and Desktop Intelligence and hoping the same outcome.

Training and knowledge base in one book [Posted on 2008-10-22]
I used this book to update my skills. The course on CD and the book are even better than the official BO courses from SAP and costs only a fraction of the official course.

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