[...] and transforming BI; the launch of Wolfram Alpha and the inevitable problem of semantics, the launch of BusinessObjects Explorer and a not-for-profit analytics [...]

[...] SAP BusinessObjects Explorer was recently launched at SAPPHIRE. Here’s a long list of Explorer product, trial, customer, technical, and press links that I’m aware of so far. [...]

you can save & export the view to some other format once you found relevent data.you can do the same for FR and DE or simple thing is to run two diffrent web sessions working with 2 diffrent data inputs.

Had a quick look at the demo; really cool and slick. I especially like the part where you can drag your mouse around part of the bars in a chart and immediately zoom in. But then, the country comparison between France and Germany: you open up France, look at a pie chart, memorize the contribution of the product lines, then go to Germany, open the same pie chart and based on what you remember from the France pie chart assumptions can be made about who’s doing better? Is this really how SAP wants people to use Explorer? Aside from the cool flash stuff this looks like a big step backwards to me but that might be just the demo or my perception of it.

Best, Jos