The gurus at EverythingXcelsius.com are gearing up for a 2 part Webinar series on Xcelsius Data Connectivity. Part 1 will cover the BO Enterprise connectivity and Part 2 the Non BO piece. Two of the best in Xcelsius, Ryan Goodman and Mico Yuk are going to present the Webinar. Part 1 was conducted today and it was extremely helpful. Especially if you are a BO Enterprise shop and searching for a best way to develop and deploy Live Dashboards using Xcelsius, Live Office and QaaWS (Query as a Web Service).
Excerpt from today’s Webinar:
Mico Started off with a brief intro and Ryan explained the Live Office connectivity option. Later Mico continued with the QaaWS data connection. Both the walk throughs had DOs and DONTs which were valuable Nuggets for anyone with a BOE shop. Mico also demonstrated the new 3.1 QaaWS interface and highlighted the differences between 3.1 and R2 versions of the tool.
If you are not a BOE shop and would like to know other data connectivity options available in Xcelsius for External Data Sources, then you don’t want to miss Part 2 of the series. Click here for more information.
There are 2 ways to install/uninstall the Add-On components in Xcelsius 2008. The first one and the most common is the GUI version, which you can access from the file menu within Xcelsius. The other method is to use the command-line version (Make sure Xcelsius 2008 is closed while installing Add-On components using Command Line version). Below are the instructions:
Open the command prompt and go to the directory where Xcelsius 2008 Component SDK SP1 is installed. For example: C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Xcelsius\SDK
For usage, type AddOnMgr_CL and press Enter
usage:
To list all installed packages:
>> AddOnMgr_CL -l
To install a package:
>> AddOnMgr_CL -i XLX_PATH
To install all packages in a directory:
>> AddOnMgr_CL -i -dir XLX_DIR_PATH
To remove a package:
>> AddOnMgr_CL -r XLX_GUID
Or
>> AddOnMgr_CL -r -l PACKAGE_LIST_INDEX
To remove all installed packages:
>> AddOnMgr_CL -r -all
Note: Paths need to be in quotes, if they contain spaces
Choose the appropriate option to install/uninstall the add-on components.
With the recent acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, the company is aligning its BI Roadmap with some of the impressive Business Objects products. The ability to access and display data from SAP BI 7.0 in a Rich User Interface (RUI) is available with the acquired Business Objects tools. SAP announced that several tools are available with a Premium Package for SAP BI 7.0. The Premium Package includes:
Crystal Reports — Formatted Reporting
Web Intelligence — Web Based Adhoc Reporting
Voyager — Interactive OLAP Analysis
Xcelsius — Data Visualization and Dashboarding
Xcelsius will ultimately replace the existing BEx Web Application Designer (BEx WAD) by 2016. Future versions of Xcelsius (code named Xcelsius+) will become the flagship product for Data Visualization and Dashboarding. An important comment from SAP is that the BEx WAD will no longer be enhanced beyond Release NW 7.0 EhP1 in 2008.
In order to work with Excel 2007 (xlsx) files on an Excel 2003 installed machine, you need to have the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Office 2007 installed on your machine. Click on the Download button at the end of this post to get the file.
Note: If you try to open any Excel 2007 file using Excel 2003, Excel prompts you to Download the compatibility pack. Please note that this prompt does not appear if you double click on the file to open, instead you have to open a session of Excel and then do a File>Open in order to get the Prompt.
