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Never has it been easier for business users to visualize and navigate information thanks to tools like SAP Dashboards, Visual Intelligence. An emerging area in analytics is location intelligence. While maps have traditionally been an afterthought for reporting and dashboard technologies, cloud based mapping services like Google Maps, Bing, and now Apple Maps have commoditized [...]
Using Spatial Relationships to Illustrate 1 Trillion Dollars
09/29/2012 by
My friend Peter posted this on his FB page over the weekend and I had to share this.. When I hear “billion” and “100 billion” roll of the tongues of politician, it is scary to imagine where this money actually goes.. Increasingly I hear the “trillion” dollar figure, which is an amount I can’t wrap my mind around. [...]
The Xcelsius Learning Curve Illustrated
09/27/2012 by
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, formerly Xcelsius, is a great product because it provides a free-form design approach to dashboards. Like any technology, there is a learning curve for going from a novice to a guru, and time and practice is what it takes. For new dashboard developers, here is the natural process that you will go [...]
Are there over 800 dashboard developers who are better than you?
09/27/2012 by
Recently, I was asked by SAP to provide them with a couple example dashboards so they can test it with the upcoming SP05. The catch is that they could not include add-on components. At that point I realized that I had not built a legitimate dashboard in over 4 years without Essentials Bundle. When I sent [...]
Warning for those who are upgrading to BI4 SP04
09/10/2012 by
If you are using the BI4 SP02 enterprise connectivity for SAP Dashboards and upgrade your system to BI4 SP04, your dashboards will not work unless your system administrator specifically defines somewhere in the upgrade path to install RESTful web services. Why? Because between SP02 and SP04, Xcelsius now uses the RESTful services. How this was [...]
