Looking forward to 2010

It has been an incredibly busy year for me as you can tell by the lack of recent posts which deeply upsets me. My goal for 2010 is to spend 5 hours a week on my blog since it is something I truly enjoy.
Professionally Centigon Solutions’ solid growth from 2008 came to a grinding halt with the economy early in the year.

I took on some challenging services projects over the year to ensure the sustainability and growth of the company and in the process stretched Xcelsius further than I could have ever imagined. Anything from a real-time GPS and GMaps Plugin powered dashboard, to Xcelsius-based rich internet applications, to sales forecasting tools with write-back capabilities were challenges that customers had for me to figure out. With an amazing team we knocked all of the projects out of the park while sparking new ideas for products. Now we have a full roadmap for 2010 and lots of innovative creations that should be in the marketplace early in early 2010.

Thankfully, I made it through the year relatively unscathed with lots of new ideas both inside and outside of the Xcelsius space that I look forward to sharing next year through the blog.

The other technology that I took on as a new personal project that should hopefully take shape in my professional life is Roambi. In spending some time early on with the product, I had created a small blog site (mobiledatavisualization.com) about my experiences which I intend to pick up again with bi-weekly posts. The smart-phones revolution has been incredible thus far, and there is tremendous opportunity there that I will also continue to explore.

For those of you who have followed my blog regularly, I truly appreciate your readership and comments and I look forward to an exciting 2010!

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Introducing the Xcelsius Push Button

Since Xcelsius version 3.0 I have tirelessly explained to customers how to manipulate a toggle button to achieve push button functionality. I am happy to say that those days have finally come to an end!

With Xcelsius 2008 SP3, they have introduced a push button component. For a new user who just needs a pushbutton or gurus who have long used icons for transparent hotspots, this is a long awaited addition. In addition to simplifying pushbutton capabilities, this component will allow you to push an entire data range into a destination with the click of a button.

If you ever used transparent icons as hotspots, this will be the new component for achieving the same functionality with less work. In the example below, I saved myself

As you can see in the example, I have shown all 3 examples. The first button pushes a single value into the yellow destination. The second button has a range as the source data and destination. Finally the third image has a transparent pushbutton overlaid. The other nice thing about this component is it will NOT insert on load, so if you have multiple push buttons that insert into the same destination, you no longer have to play with the order in the object browser to get the right result.

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I included the Xcelsius help SWF inside of the dashboard so you can see for yourself how this component is configured. This component should have gone into my top 10, since I have already used it several times with lots of success. Thank you Xcelsius development team for making my life easier and giving me new out of the box functionality to write about!

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Top 10 Xcelsius 2008 SP3 Enhancements!

BusinessObjects’ release of Xcelsius 2008 SP3 is a great step forward for customers to benefit from new charting, performance enhancements, and other capabilities that make dashboard development easier. For fellow Xcelsius customers and developers who have been patiently waiting for new functionality, this release is the one we have been waiting for.

View my review at EverythingXcelsius.com

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