How to Set up SAP Mobi in order to access CMS Content on your Mobile Devices (Both iPad and Android Device) in order to view and interact with Webi and Crystal documents
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Venn Diagrams in Xcelsius
Venn diagrams provide an elegant and powerful visual display of information. In essence, a Venn diagram compares the size of two or more groups while simultaneously presenting the level of overlap that exists among the groups. Just for the sake of review, let’s look at a simple business example. The ...
Read More »Upgrading to Office 2010 with Xcelsius 2008
The fun started when I decided to upgrade to Office 2010 with Xcelsius 2008… I tried to find service pack 4 for Xcelsius 2008 on SAP’s Business Objects support website, and got confused because following the links and unzipping what was labeled as Service Pack 4, turned out to be ...
Read More »Regional BO Crystal User Groups Alive and Thriving
In the last two months, I have attended three regional independent BusinessObjects and Crystal User Group Meetings that have simply been amazing both in terms of their content and user participation. One was in Pennsylvania, one in Michigan and one in Arizona. Each one had between 50 to 70 attendees, ...
Read More »Xcelsius on iPad and iPhone Wows Attendees at IBIS Welcome Reception
IBIS 2011 kicked off last night with its welcome reception and solutions showcase demonstrating some of the latest business intelligence solutions and one solution in particular created quite a buzz – MyBI Mobile. As I walked around the showcase showing Xcelsius dashboards running on an iPad, people stopped with looks ...
Read More »To Cache or not to Cache – Boosting performance in Xcelsius Tech Tip
I was recently asked this question on how best to handle a 13 month dataset when in the dashboard the goal is to only display monthly detail and summary data. This is a good question and in my opinion worth sharing here because it is dealing with boosting Xcelsius backend ...
Read More »Rod Stewart and Business Intelligence in Concert
I just saw Rod Stewart in concert last week and he was truly awesome. The musicians and singers supporting him were just fantastic and the whole set was so tight and so professional. It felt as though they had been playing together for years but they actually had only started ...
Read More »Leading Zeros in Xcelsius – Tech Tip
What can I do if Xcelsius is chopping off the leading zero’s in my order numbers? This question comes up often when I’m teaching an Xcelsius training class. Often enough that I’ve decided to discuss the solution here in a tech tip on our blog. This scenario can happen with different data ...
Read More »Two Advantages of a Manual Maximum Calculation in Xcelsius
Problem A: I have data that could be in the 1000s but sometimes could be 1 or 2. Users do not want to see a division of 1.5 (or any part of a whole) since the data is tracking incidents and there are never “half incidents.” How do I force ...
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