The Global BusinessObjects Network officially launched this week, a rebranding of the Business Objects Community Alliance. The GBN is fully independent and an offshoot of the America’s SAP Users Group (ASUG). GBN is organizating this October’s Business Objects User Conference on October 20-22, 2008 in Dallas, Texas at the Hilton Anatole. GBN will also be the umbrella organization for local user groups, which will no longer have direct oversight from SAP BusinessObjects.