At the end of last year I did a quick improvised survey of our active BusinessObjects customers and was surprise to find that about 35% of them were also using Tableau. Most just had a few copies of Tableau desktop, but some had Tableau server too. In all cases they ...
Read More »Dashboards Helping Drive Healthcare data from Analysis to Action in the UAE
One of the most awe-inspiring presentations at this year’s IBIS conference was about how a government ministry is driving improved healthcare for its citizens by analyzing and visualizing data and then acting on the results. Isn’t this what Business Intelligence is all about? Analyzing and visualizing data and then taking ...
Read More »Overcoming Checkbox Shortcomings – Part 2
In a previous post, Overcoming Checkbox Shortcomings Part 1 , I wrote about a technique I devised to overcome the limitation of the Xcelsius checkbox where it will not programmatically switch to the value in the cell. I needed 10 yes-no checkboxes – one for each row of a tabular display ...
Read More »What’s in a Name? Everything, if it’s BusinessObjects!
Latest renaming of BI and Analytics tools by SAP, announced at Sapphire 2016 this week, is more of a complete re-branding and brings a refreshing breeze of reality to the true state of play.
Read More »Design and Development Best Practices for Mobile Dashboards
The relevance of BI on mobile devices is not under question any more – we all have figured out the answer. The important question is now: how do we create our BI solutions to be as useful as possible on a mobile device? There are several facets to consider – the ...
Read More »Will Roambi Save SAP Cloud Analytics?
So when I heard that SAP had acquired Mellmo and their Roambi solution a couple of weeks ago, it started to make
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Read More »2016 – Year of the BO Jedi – The Force Reawakens
So how does a phenomenon like this, created almost 40 years ago, still draw the masses? In a recent interview
Read More »BusinessObjects Ready for Another Banner Year in 2016
At the beginning of 2015, I wrote about the great BusinessObjects Resurgence as organizations re-strategized to either bring back BusinessObjects into their BI future plans or expand its usage. Not only has this resurgence continued but it has grown and 2016 is likely to be another banner year for the ...
Read More »Farewell to a True BI Visionary
Santiago Becerra, the founder of Infommersion (creators of Xcelsius) and co-founder of Mellmo (creators of Roambi), passed away last week. I had the honor of knowing this true data visualization visionary who helped revolutionize BI dashboards and inspired millions to interact with data in a whole new way. I first met ...
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