{"id":11932,"date":"2008-02-04T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.220.58.236\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-02-04T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T12:30:33","slug":"business_objects_memory_lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/business_objects_memory_lane.html","title":{"rendered":"Business Objects Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Business Objects is now part of SAP, a few old photos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"323\" alt=\"First ever Business Objects event\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/BusinessObjectsMemoryLane_CAAB\/First%20ever%20Business%20Objects%20event.jpg?resize=480%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p>First ever Business Objects trade show booth: Gartner Symposium, Cannes, 1991. Founders Bernard Liautaud and Denis Payre (now CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiala.com\">Kiala<\/a>) fold together dozens plastic cubes representing &#8220;Business Objects&#8221; that can be recombined to create queries (see below). After hours of patient work, we returned the next morning to find they had all popped open again (blame the marketing guy)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"317\" alt=\"First ever Business Objects event2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/BusinessObjectsMemoryLane_CAAB\/First%20ever%20Business%20Objects%20event2_124f34c4-137a-425e-94ad-10a369e4bb33.jpg?resize=480%2C317&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p>Alexandre Dayon, first employee of Business Objects (now CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instranet.com\">Instranet<\/a>), in the booth, ready to do demos. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"315\" alt=\"First ever Business Objects employee event\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/BusinessObjectsMemoryLane_CAAB\/First%20ever%20Business%20Objects%20employee%20event.jpg?resize=480%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p>First organized employee trip, Les Arcs. Don&#8217;t ask. It was fun&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"327\" alt=\"First ever Business Objects quota club\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/WindowsLiveWriter\/BusinessObjectsMemoryLane_CAAB\/First%20ever%20Business%20Objects%20quota%20club.jpg?resize=480%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\"> <\/p>\n<p>First quota club trip, Val d&#8217;Isere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few photos from the early days of Business Objects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,204,213],"class_list":["post-11932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bi","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/First-ever-Business-Objects-event-1.jpg?fit=480%2C323&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-36s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}