As I look back on 2018 and all the amazing BI solutions I saw created, there was one that really stood out in terms of its impact on the world that left me both awestruck and humbled. It was a solution created for the International Humanitarian City (IHC) based in ...
Read More »A deep dive into the InfoBurst Connectors
Here is a sneak-peek of the InfoBurst® Dashboard Connectors In-Depth talk to be presented in the Dashboard Data Management, Dashboard Delivery & HTML5 Apps with InfoBurst talk at the InfoBurst User Conference – IBIS 2013. Back when we were taking another look at InfoBurst, we also wanted to take another look at how InfoBurst ...
Read More »Integrate your applications with InfoBurst
Here is a sneak-peak of the InfoBurst® API to be presented in the Report Bursting, Scheduling, Delivery & Administration talk at the InfoBurst User Conference – IBIS 2013. Over 5 years ago we started to think about a new InfoBurst. One that would take the years of experience that we’ve gathered since InfoBurst launched, and ...
Read More »The Secret to BI Sustainability – Reuse
I was recently in San Francisco over a weekend and got to be a tourist for a day. I was fascinated by the remarkable collection of old trams and streetcars that I both rode and saw throughout the city. They were original restored trams from different cities like New York, ...
Read More »Looking for Inspired Business Intelligence Solutions
Last week I was visiting a customer in the transportation business. They were showing me a new safety business intelligence dashboard they were working on to analyze accidents and crashes. The first phase of the project focused on all accidents and crashes over a three year period. With more than ...
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 »Bursting Xcelsius Dashboards
A company recently approached us with an interesting requirement concerning how to more efficiently distribute information about mobile phone usage to each of their hundreds of customers. The method they were currently using was manual and labor intensive as they were pulling information into Excel spreadsheets, creating graphs and then ...
Read More »Comparing Xcelsius Connectivity Choices
As more people deploy Xcelsius dashboard solutions, Xcelsius connectivity options has become a hot topic and I am often asked to compare the most popular methods used by BusinessObjects customers which are Query as a Web Service (QaaWS), Live Office and InfoBurst-XDS (or XDM for non-BOE deployments).
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