What is SAP Dashboards? SAP Business Objects Dashboards is the 4.x equivalent to what we’ve formerly called Xcelsius. SAP has made some improvements to this newer version, amongst other things there is now an integrated Query Builder option reducing the dependency on LiveOffice and/or Query as a Web Service. For more information about SAP BusinessObjects … Continued
IBM Cognos has a special name for a Framework Manager model that can absorb changes without affecting the reports already written and published to the Cognos Connection web portal. They are called “Durable Models” and by following a few best practices you can create (or update) FM models that empower your reporting authors to spend … Continued
“Big Data” is everywhere, and attempts at defining it yield as many questions as bad answers. The good news is that it represents a legitimate progression of analytics and computing. Unfortunately, like many new concepts the term/phrase has been misused, mangled, misconstrued, misperceived, and can easily lead to bad practices and a failed project. Many … Continued
MicroStrategy’s Mobile History MicroStrategy is a leader in the Mobile BI space. The first Apple iPad hit the marketplace in April 2010 and MicroStrategy unveiled their Mobile BI capabilities and application to iTunes by September 2010. It gave them a distinct advantage in the newly forming mobile marketplace. Many of the other big vendors struggled to … Continued
What is WEBI? WEBI, or Web Intelligence, is the SAP BusinessObjects tool most optimally suited for Ad-Hoc and Parameterized Reporting. It is a great reporting tool for Non-Technical users as it has a very intuitive and visual interface. If you can drag and drop objects, then you can build a WEBI report. However, it also … Continued
I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve been approached by a client who said, “I need a dashboard.” (I’d probably have enough for a nice round of golf. ) The impetus for his/her request is not really a need for a dashboard, rather it’s a plea for a more business friendly approach … Continued
I recently spun up a MicroStrategy VM to be used as a demo/training box. In doing so it seemed natural to throw it on a Windows Server 2012. MicroStrategy 9 is shiny and new, Windows Server 2012 is shiny and new, what could possibly go wrong? Well, I’m posting about it. There’s the first clue. 1st … Continued
“How do you get data organized and stored so that Business Intelligence tools can access and distribute valuable information to the right people at the right time?” I intend to summarize a technique that I have used for several years now and will do a deep dive on each topic in future posts. I adopted … Continued
