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InfoSol Delivers through Riots and Earthquakes

By
Paul
Published: October 30, 2011Posted in: InfoSol, Paul Blogs on BITags:

Portland, Oregon is definitely a rainy place as I discovered this weekend while attending the Net Impact conference but it is also known for its bookstores, micro breweries, bicycles and weirdness.  These last two items come together when Portland holds its annual naked bike race every summer.

I went to dinner with two of my colleagues from InfoSol, Amy and Teresa, who live and work out of Portland. Teresa was halfway through a two week engagement delivering Xcelsius design consulting services at a client in Oakland, California. She loves her weird home town of Portland so much that she flew back for the weekend.

So I asked her how the project was going and she casually answered, “Fine but it has been difficult to eat out some nights and get some sleep”.  Teresa then explained that the hotel she was staying at is less than a block from City Hall, downtown Oakland where the local Occupy Wall Street movement has been camping out and where things got a little out of control this week.

So the night the trouble started, she was walking down the street heading  for a restaurant when she ran into a solid wall of Oakland police officers decked out in full riot gear. She turned back and stopped in at a Subway to get a take-out sandwich to bring back to the hotel.  She tried to hurry the guy making the sandwich but those “sandwich artists” take their work seriously. As she was paying she saw streams of protesters heading past the Subway in the direction of the riot police and then all hell broke loose as she heard explosions (probably flash bang grenades). By the time she got outside, it looked like a war zone and she scurried back to the hotel.

There was little peace there due to the three police helicopters hovering outside her hotel room on the 26thfloor making sleep almost impossible.  Then, just as she thought she might doze off, there was an earthquake causing the building to both shake and sway.

I sat there, hardly believing what I was hearing. Most people would have just packed up and gone home at that point but Teresa delivered her first week of services and will be back again this week to deliver the rest.

Last month another InfoSol consultant, Simon, was delivering Data Integrator services in Washington DC when an earthquake caused the ventilator in the middle of the room to come crashing down. Fortunately nobody was hurt and he finished the services in another location after the building was evacuated.

Wow – this kind of dedication is nothing short of inspirational. Teresa and Simon – you rock!

Venn Diagrams in Xcelsius – Follow Up – Pros and Cons

By
Adam
Published: October 10, 2011Posted in: Business Intelligence, Tech Tips, XcelsiusTags: , ,
Venn Diagrams in Xcelsius – Follow Up – Pros and Cons

In my last post, I demonstrated two methods of constructing a Venn diagram in Xcelsius. The first method used a manipulation of the Bubble Chart object and the second method used the free Google Charts API. In this post, I will discuss the pros and cons of both methods.

Let’s begin with the Bubble Chart method. Recall that the Bubble Chart is identical to the XY Chart, except it allows for a third variable to define the size of each point. When I first began investigating Venn diagrams in Xcelsius, the Bubble Chart seemed like a natural starting point since it already does half the work for you. That is, it automatically resizes the “bubbles” to reflect the proportional difference between the two groups. The only thing I had to do was build Excel formulas to shift the bubbles together in order to show the correct amount of overlap. Unfortunately, that second part is very complex and makes for a big disadvantage compared to the Google Charts API.

It turns out the Bubble Chart object is not exactly consistent or easy to predict. Its movement and behavior varies depending on the overall size of the object and the size of the individual bubbles. Therefore, it takes some work to force the chart to display the correct overlap. What I did was arrange a series of experiments where I changed the parameters of the Venn diagram and then measured how much shift I had to apply in order to achieve the right overlap. I then took that data and used it to build a regression model. Then I plugged the model equation into my Excel spreadsheet and used it to calculate the amount of horizontal shift I needed in order to see the correct “bubble” overlap. Sure, it works, but it’s a lot more effort compared to calling up a simple Google Chart URL. Also, this only produces a Venn diagram with 2 sets, while Google Charts can easily produce a 3-set Venn diagram.

However, the Bubble Chart approach does have some advantages over Google Charts. Perhaps the most significant advantage is that Bubble Charts do not require an internet connection and can be used in a fully offline mode. When using Google Charts, your user must be connected to the internet and have the ability to access http://chart.apis.google.com

There’s also a potential security advantage to using Bubble Charts. If your organization has strict security protocols, it may not be permissible for you to pass information to an external party (i.e. Google). However, you might be able to get around that by opting not to pass data labels through the Google Charts URL and instead handling the labels from within Xcelsius. This means that you would only be passing simple aggregate numbers to Google without a corresponding label to indicate what that data is or where it came from.

In my opinion, you’ll always want to lean towards using the Google Charts API. It’s more flexible, easier to use, and it has more features than you could produce using a hacked Bubble Chart. However, if you need your dashboard to run offline or you have a security rule which prevents the transmission of any data whatsoever to a 3rd party, then you’ll need to use a Bubble Chart.

InfoSol Team is heading to ASUG – Booth #405

By
Paul
Published: October 7, 2011Posted in: EventsTags:
InfoSol Team is heading to ASUG – Booth #405

While there appears to be more SAP and ASUG conferences and road shows than you shake a stick at these days, there is one event that is the largest gathering of SAP BusinessObjects customers that happens every October – namely the ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference.

This is the event that attracts both BusinessObjects users and solution providers outside of the world of SAP ERP as well as those that use SAP.

InfoSol has sponsored this conference consistently over the years and this year will again be a Diamond Sponsor as it brings its unique brand of Inspired Business Intelligence to Orlando, Florida October 9 – 12.

The InfoSol booth (#405) will be buzzing for two full days discussing and demonstrating many truly inspired business intelligence solutions using both the BusinessObjects product suite and add-on solutions like InfoBurst in creative and compelling ways. This includes distributing both connected and unconnected Xcelsius dashboards to iPads, iPhones and Android mobile devices, integration with SharePoint and further write back features allowing Xcelsius input content to be written back to databases or saved to Excel.

Several Inspired InfoSol partners will also be at the InfoSol booth including GB&Smith showing their 360Plus solution for dynamic BusinessObjects security management and logical backup and restore. They will also highlight the new 360Eyes addition for auditing and impact analysis.  Inovista will also be at the booth showing their really cool Xcelsius add-on components including new components designed with touch gestures for mobile devices.

Other InfoSol partners will have their own booths in the Exhibit area so be sure to check out Exxova with their new MyBI Mobile solution for using all your BO tools on iOS and Android devices, Mellmo with their stunning mobile Business Intelligence solution – RoamBI, and Centigon Solutions with their location intelligence Google maps plug-in for Xcelsius and other nifty components.

InfoSol will be participating in several of the rich array of Business Intelligence and BusinessObjects sessions being presented. These include :

Business Intelligence Mobility or Nobility  | Paul Grill | 10/10/11 | 9:30AM-10:30AM

Delve into the options and considerations for deploying SAP BusinessObjects-based BI on mobile devices. If you have made significant investments in SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, and Xcelsius®, how do you best leverage these on mobile devices? http://boucschedule.asug.com/Agenda/Details.aspx?SID=187

Inspired Business Intelligence | Paul Grill | 10/11/11 | 9:30AM-10:30AM

This presentation will showcase applications where SAP BusinessObjects products have been uniquely woven together to produce solutions which have resulted in significant benefits and identified valuable, previously unknown information to decision makers. http://boucschedule.asug.com/Agenda/Details.aspx?SID=184

Extraordinary Tales of Business Intelligence Dashboard and Report Delivery | Heather Sinkwitz & Bryan Baca | 10/11/11 | 2:45PM-3:45PM

Learn about a remarkable collection of case studies from SAP BusinessObjects customers needing to deliver critical business intelligence content to users which was simply not possible with the standard-delivered BusinessObjects software.  These extraordinary tales of business intelligence dashboard and report delivery will clearly demonstrate how the seemingly impossible can be made possible. http://boucschedule.asug.com/Agenda/Details.aspx?SID=761

In this last presentation, Heather Sinkwitz from Rural Metro Corporation will be discussing and demonstrating a really cool Business Intelligence solution using BusinessObjects products like Data Integrator and Web Intelligence with InfoBurst and Xcelsius to provide a combination dashboard and mobile delivery of daily key performance data.

All in all, this promises to be a great event and if you stop by to see us you are sure to be inspired to create many inspired business intelligence solutions of your own.

Have to rush to catch the plane to Orlando – hope to see you there!