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The Challenge: ASUG2013 Developer Wars At this time, one week ago, we were nearing the end of the development cycle of the ASUG2013 Dashboard Developer Wars;  a 24 hour challenge (which turned out to be 27 hours of development time followed by 24 hours of getting ready for the presentation).  ...

Education on BusinessObjects Education Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Business Intelligence is being used every day to change the world, so education on the most popular business intelligence tool suite in the world, namely BusinessObjects, is doubly ...

There is constant evolution in technology, and how things look and feel is part of that evolution.  What looked new and exciting last year is now the norm, and something else is wowing people. The first time I saw an Xcelsius model (now called SAP Dashboards) I was very impressed ...

If you haven’t already, you will want to read Part 1 of this series, where I listed some of my best practices that should be done before customizing InfoView and then covered how to add a custom logo and custom title and greeting to the log on page.  In part 2, I ...

The topic of mobile business intelligence is still a very popular topic. In hosting many user groups across the country, I received a lot of requests to share a video tutorial that I had embedded into a presentation. I thought this would fit nicely with two parts of a mobile ...

Software systems almost never deliver the look and functionality needed to meet 100% of an organization’s needs. Each organization has a unique set of requirements which often makes it necessary to implement customizations on top of the delivered product. This principle certainly holds true with SAP BusinessObjects and especially for ...

When I first started presenting Xcelsius dashboards back in 2006, I said that it should carry a warning sign stating “May Cause Xtreme Xcitement”! Despite all the advances in technology and tools over the last decade that statement not only remains true today, but maybe should be changed to “Will ...

I love improv comedy. It makes me laugh a lot more than rehearsed comedy and I find myself much more engaged because neither the comedian nor the audience knows what’s coming next. It’s real and it’s raw. Having sat through more Business Intelligence presentations than is probably healthy, it is ...

I want to revisit here part of the “D list” that I prepared for the hands-on Dashboard Design Iron Chef Bootcamp which Roxanne and I co-taught at IBIS 2013. In a D is for Dashboards blog post published prior to IBIS, I revealed five of them (Data, Design, Device, Delivery, ...

Have you ever read one of those stories that you just can’t forget about, even if you want to?  In case you missed this story back in January, a truck carrying cheese was traveling through a mountain tunnel in Sweden and it caught fire.  Not news you say?  Well, to ...

I have been spending a lot of time traveling around, discussing and discovering trends within the BI market space. One trend that typically gets over looked is BI for the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME)… thus, BI for the Little Guy. The reason this tends to get overlooked is because ...

There was an abundance of superheroes at this year’s InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar (IBIS 2013) where the theme of Limitless BI resonated throughout the action-packed agenda...

When I use a multi-series line chart in my Xcelsius dashboards, there is more than one way to identify each series: 1) display legends 2) display data labels with “Series Name” enabled 3) Mouse-over each data point to see the series name. But often I like to display...

On behalf of the InfoBurst team I want to thank the attendees of this year’s InfoBurst User Conference in San Diego. Over six days iB users participated in certification courses, hands-on workshops and a variety of topical seminars. Users came together during the user influence meeting and shared their ideas ...

Our sincerest congratulations to this year's winners of the IBIS 2013 Dashboard Awards: ARI, McKesson, Bosch, and Palo Alto Medical Foundation.