Part III: Live Dashboards using BO LiveOffice – Create an Xcelsius Dashboard bound to Live Office data

This is Part III of the “Live Dashboards using BO LiveOffice” Series. In Part I, Kalyan Verma Introduces LiveOffice and its connection with Xcelsius 2008. In Part II Muhammed Ismail, walks us through the steps on “How to Create a LiveOffice Document and connect it to BusinessObjects Universe data”. In this final Part of the series, Muhammed walks us through the steps on How to bind Xcelsius Components to LiveOffice data and create a live dashboard.

Note: Muhammed used Xcelsius 4.5 to achieve this. He will be posting an Xcelsius 2008 version of the same procedure soon.

This article discussed below shows countries in the Asian region that participated in a survey. The live data is fed from the Business Objects universe; when the number of Asian countries in the universe data increases or decrease the map chart color will change and the number of countries will get updated.

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Heat Maps: Part I – What Are They?

This is a three part series on Heat Maps. Part I is all about “What are Heat Maps?”, Part II: “Why Use Them” and Part III explains “How to Read One”

What is a Heat Map?

A heat map is a visualization of data which uses color to represent data values in a two-dimensional image. There are many different types of heat maps used in different disciplines, each referred to by the term “heat map”, even though they use different visualization techniques. Most heat maps use mapping techniques to represent their data rather than charting and graphing techniques, thus providing unique views of data not available in charts and graphs.

This article examines the most common types of heat maps and when each is used. The type of heat map used by Lab Escape’s Heat Map Explorer and Enterprise Tree Map SDK products is a tree map, which is the most common type of heat map in the business world.

1. Tree Maps

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Tree maps, or “treemaps”, are the most common type of heat map.

Used to represent large or complex data sets in applications ranging from stock market analysis, risk management, project portfolio analysis, market share analysis and network management, tree maps were invented by Ben Shneiderman at the University of Maryland in 1990.

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Part II: Live Dashboards using BO LiveOffice – Creating a LiveOffice Document and connect it to BusinessObjects Universe data

This is Part II of the “Live Dashboards using BO LiveOffice” Series. In Part I, Kalyan Verma Introduces LiveOffice and its connection with Xcelsius 2008. In this post Muhammed Ismail, walks us through the steps on “How to Create a LiveOffice Document and connect it to BusinessObjects Universe data”.

To create Live Office document first open the formatted Excel template. Set the BO Enterprise credentials by selecting Live Office, Options from MS Excel.

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Part I: Live Dashboards using BO LiveOffice – Introduction

In this Series, Muhammed Ismail, an Xcelsius Developer at a Fortune 500 company, walks us through the steps on “How to create live dashboards using BusinessObjects LiveOffice and Xcelsius 2008”.

This is a three part series. In Part I, Kalyan Verma, gives a brief introduction to LiveOffice and the connection between LiveOffice and Xcelsius. In Part II, Muhammed focuses on “How to Create a LiveOffice Document and connect it to BusinessObjects Universe data” and finally, in Part III, he will be focusing on “How to bind LiveOffice data to Xcelsius Components and create a live Dashboard”.

What is BusinessObjects LiveOffice?

LiveOffice is a Add-On provided by BusinessObjects that will enable the users to integrate BO Universe data with Microsoft Office, embedding up-to-the-minute corporate data in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents. LiveOffice is included as part of the BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium license and the Business Objects Edge Series. It is also available as an add-on to BusinessObjects Enterprise Professional.

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