Others say...

"Book Useful and Author Helpful - exactly what we need!"
We've have been buying the Creating Documents with Business Objects books for years. Whenever we hire a new employee, we order the Web Intelligence book, and if they are to make universes, they also get the Designer book. This combination has worked very well for our employees. Recently, we ordered the CBT versions of these books and were surprised to see that we still got the same book. We quickly put the CD in to check the CBT and were happy to see that the CBT is actually quite good. We were also surprised that we got both at the same price as the previous versions of the books. The Designer book comes with a presentation that allows us to teach a class on Universes. The Web Intelligence book did not come with the presentation. We contacted Schmidt Ink, and were informed the non-CBT version of the book has the presentation. The person we spoke with also said that the presentation will be on the next print of the CBT. By the way, Schmidt Ink sent us a free copy of the previous edition, since we bought so many CBT's. We are very happy that these CBT's are available. They are high quality, easy to use, and inexpensive. One other note, so far the author has been very helpful. We have contacted him several times and he has discussed several matters with us, which is one of the reasons for this review. I just want to thank the author for great books and for helping us so many times.

Business Objects XI - CBT: Designer XI (2nd Edition)

"`A picture is worthy a thousand words' but the Rob's Video is EVEN better"
The author is very intelligent in using VIDEO to show us how to create report in this CD. Besides being the most efficient training resource on the market, I found it very convenient 1- you choose a specific topic and get your question answered. 2. you can always review as many time you need since it is yours unlike online course with a expiration date. Also another reason I like this book is it has instructor's sound now !

Thanks Rob for making our job much easier by providing this book.

I just hope to see more and more books by the same author, now with SAP
And BO merger, is Rob writing more books in the same format?


"BO WI XI CBT: A Wise Investment for All Users"
As an up-to-date, detailed, & practical knowledge builder, the course has been a tremendous success to enhance skills in BO document creation. Slides reiterate relevant points cleverly. I am naturally inclined to delve deeper into various segments to strive towards Robert's goal to achieve powerful reports. The feedback from the author is friendly, professional, & timely. Course website resources support the customer. Mr. Schmidt is currently working to release a CBT for creating universes with Designer XI. I also anticipate his team's expertise applied to BO modules such as Data Integrator & Dashboard Manager / Builder XI.

"Webi XI CBT is Excellent"
Web Intelligence XI CBT is really good and it covers all the topics and the CBT CD contains list of lessons and explains step by step procedure to create WebI documents, working with formulas and variables, Report structures, Query Filters etc. Its really helpful and I am enjoying the course.


"Enjoying The Course"
My department purchased this CBT to train our employees on Web Intelligence document creation. I have already read Mr. Schmidt's older books on Web Intelligence and I thought that this would be about the same. I was right and wrong. I was right, because the book that ships with the CBT is very similar to the yellow book. The difference is in the CD. The CBT CD is an application that allows me to access the lessons from a list of topics. This appears to be very useful. Although, sometimes I have to click several times to get through one lesson. The lessons are very information and appear to be very helpful. The lessons also have audio, which was missing from the other course. The employees have told me that they are enjoying the course.