Steve Jobs is often given credit for killing Adobe Flash when he penned his essay Thoughts on Flash in April 2010. At the time, Apple received heavy criticism for not allowing Adobe Flash on its new iPhone. After a lot of effort to make Adobe Flash viable, seven years later Adobe would come to the […]
Tag: SAP Dashboards
Oracle Products Running Out of Support in 2020
SAP BusinessObjects customers using the Oracle database should plan on an upgrade in 2020.
Transforming Behavioral Health Care With Predictive Analytics
When contemplating data and analytics technologies – particularly highly technical systems like SAP – most people think in terms of supply chain management, sales, accounting, data governance and other enterprise business processes. Useful, valuable applications that, truthfully, may not be very exciting to the average individual. But more often than you might think, we get […]
A Prediction about Predictive Analytics for 2016
Since the start of the new year all I’ve heard are predictions. It may have something to do with it being an election year in the US, as well as an Olympic year. Elections and Gold Medals aside, if you’re reading this blog post, the most important thing about this year for you may indeed […]
Dynamic Visibility with SAP Design Studio
One of the features that made me fall in love with Xcelsius (Dashboards) back in the day was the ability to easily show and hide components based on selections made in other components. Later on Xcelsius introduced the ‘Tabs’ component in 2008 and made life even easier for showing multiple components dynamically. However, I still […]
Is Xcelsius The New Deski? Die Xcelsius Die!
Xcelsius is the new Desktop Intelligence
Migrating Dashboards to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
Expert tips for moving your existing Xcelsius dashboards to the BI 4.0 or 4.1 platform.
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 now in General Availability (GA)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1 (BI 4.1) is now Generally Available (GA).
Create Diagonal Lines with Sparkline Charts in SAP Dashboards
Glancing at the “Art and Backgrounds” category of components in Dashboards 4.0 or earlier versions of Xcelsius you may have noticed that there is a Rectangle, Ellipse, Horizontal, and Vertical Line components available to display on the canvas but no Diagonal Line. The first time I came across this omission was when a customer requested […]
Dashboard Tips & Tricks – Mouse Over Suffix
Have you ever needed to add a postfix to a number in a dashboard component? For example a user wants to add MT (Metric Tons) as a postfix to the numbers on a line graph Lets start with a basic line graph Mouse Over Values have a default number format of General There are several […]