Date: November, 2008

First look at Qlikview

In this post David Lai, does a brief review on Qlikview, a Visual analysis tool. Qlikview is a great dashboarding and analysis solution that allows analysts to easily and quickly display data in a meaningful way. I would like to give a technical introduction into some of the benefits I have come across while working [...]

Webinar Archives: Creating Adobe Air Applets from Xcelsius Dashboards

One of features added as a part of Xcelsius 2008 SP1 is the ability to export the XLF model as an Adobe Air application. In case you are wondering what is Adobe Air, please visit Adobe Air page on Adobe’s website. More about Xcelsius and Adobe Air in future posts. In this Webinar Clifford Alper [...]

Using Xcelsius 2008 to communicate with Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports

“Jim is Back”. In this post – Jim Brogden, a BI Consultant from Daugherty Business Solutions gives Step-by-Step Instructions on “How to use Xcelsius 2008 to communicate with Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports.” Utilize the new Interportlet Communication (IPC) feature in Dashboard Builder 3.1 (and within BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1) to pass data between Xcelsius [...]

Webinar Archives: Xtreme Makeover: Xcelsius Edition

In this Webinar Ryan Goodman of Centigon Solutions describes How to Build more effective dashboards through good design. Ryan is an Xcelsius Guru and the founder of Centigon Solutions Inc. He also writes on his own blog on Visual Data Analysis. Note: This is a direct Excerpt from the Business Objects Website. Learn dashboard design [...]

Straight from Xcelsius Best Practices: Flash Security

If you are encountering issues while opening a local SWF or a SWF hosted on a web server, make sure the Flash Player security settings are set accordingly. Below are the instructions on how to change the Flash Player security settings. Note: This information is from the White Paper “Xcelsius 2008 General Best Practices” written [...]