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I had the unfortunate experience of having a root canal performed last week and it was not pleasant, but during the procedure I was totally fascinated by the way the Endodontist  spoke to his assistant.  He used terms and an entire language that I didn’t understand, but was second nature ...

Crystal Reports are very good for printable reports, but what if you don’t need every single field on the report? What If you had to dynamically change the report fields. This blog will help you in designing a crystal report with dynamic report fields. Consider a crystal report with the ...

On a recent visit to a metal manufacturing company in Oman, the I.T. Manager was discussing how he wants to use their InfoBurst and BusinessObjects applications for more operational reporting because of the huge success they have been seeing in this area recently. A few years ago they had built ...

The Ancient inhabitants of Lebanon, the Phoenicians, were known for their trade and commerce and the modern Lebanese continue to be very astute in business. Despite the country being ravished by wars in the last few decades, the Lebanese have rebuilt and recreated their economy. They take both an optimistic ...

This is a question I asked at the Town Hall session at the recent SAP Analytics and BusinessObjects Conference held in Ft. Worth, Texas. I qualified the question by stating that everything that SAP was promoting in their keynotes and on their booth were their Analytics tools namely Lumira, Predictive ...

The checkbox is one of the most common UI elements that allow its users to have binary choices and it is available out-of-the-box in Xcelsius/SAP Dashboards. However, the Xcelsius component is limited due to the inability to control the selection or reset to its default state in run-time programmatically. In ...

I was recently asked if I would write the foreword for the SAP Press book, Web Intelligence 3rd Edition BI 4.1 SP3.  It made me think about my experience with BusinessObjects and Web Intelligence and how far the product has come so I thought I would share it. I definitely ...

I went to see Lady Gaga in concert last week and it was quite a show. Non-stop energy, entertainment, excitement and some pretty amazing costumes. Gaga also likes to talk between songs and she spoke a lot about community. She shared how her community had helped her through some hard ...

Having antivirus software is great to maintain the immunity of a system, but in certain cases these AV softwares can start to over work themselves and it can really take a toll on the machine and can also affect the overall performance of Business Objects. I have seen clients face issues ...

The BusinessObjects family is fruitful and multiplying. With the number of BusinessObjects user meetings dramatically increasing and additional cities requesting new local user meetings to be started, the family is going to continue to grow. We feel the reason for this increase is due to the content being delivered at ...

The 2014 Dashboard Award winners at IBIS 2014 showcased three awesome dashboard solutions that have been a key factor in driving change that has had a positive impact within their respective businesses.

In my previous blog, I talked about “5 Easy Steps for Designing a Dynamic Y-Axis Web Intelligence Report Leveraging Derived Tables in IDT”. In this post I am going to show how the same derived tables concept designed in IDT can be utilized to create a performance optimized dashboard. Consider ...

The messaging from SAP at this year’s Sapphire and ASUG Annual Conference was remarkable, radical and actually quite refreshing. If we are to take Bill McDermott (CEO) at his word, organizations (including SAP) need to eliminate layers of management, stop attending meetings and simplify business processes. The mantra of the ...

MeLLmo, creators of the widely recognized, gamification-style, mobile BI application, recently announced support for Android devices. The San Diego, California-based company originally conceived their fantastic data visualizer, Roambi Analytics, for the iPhone. Offering both data visualization and content publishing tools, Roambi Anayltics became widely used once the iPad was released ...

Update: I will be hosting a webinar on September 4, 2014 to help you explore Yellowfin and its latest feature enhancements that will come with version 7.1, secure your spot today! Occasionally, a release comes along that can almost be too exciting to wait and share. Yellowfin 7.1 is bringing about ...