Today is the day. McCain and Obama are fighting for votes across the country. Prediction is that Voters are going to storm the Polling booths. I hope everything goes well and a deserving candidate emerges as a winner. Since many of you like me want to be up to the minute with the election results, [...]
Dashboards
Refresh, Open, and Pass variables to Web Intelligence from Xcelsius
In this post – Jim Brogden, a BI Consultant from Daugherty Business Solutions explains how to Refresh, Open and Pass variables to Web Intelligence from Xcelsius in a BusinessObjects 3.x environment. The “OpenDocument” syntax has changed in XI 3.0 and 3.1 for linking to BOE report objects. The architecture in XI R2 had previously required [...]
The future of Interactive Dashboards!
WOW! I want one! Just tell me where to buy? Is this the future of Interactive Dashboards? These were the questions that popped up in my mind when I saw CNN correspondent John King picking and poking at a giant LCD touchscreen with the CNN electoral map on it. The interaction was so smooth that [...]
If the World Could Vote: Electoral Map of the World
In an Earlier post “Interactive Electoral Maps: 12 ways to Pick your new President” I wrote about different electoral maps that you can use to pick the next president of the United States. They were some of the best flash based graphics that a user can interact by clicking, sliding etc and changing the vote [...]
Real Time Fuel Gauge Dashboard using Excel Web Query
In one of the earlier posts about “Historical stock quote Price using Web Query and MS Excel 2003″ I wrote about the use of Excel Web Queries to create Live Excel utilities. There was a great response to the post. So, I decided to explore Web Queries and built some more with the same methods. [...]
