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The BusinessObjects Mobile iPad app provides the ability to display normal Web Intelligence report tables as scorecards featuring microcharts or trend icons. The report developer can enable this scorecard functionality by adding a special formula to the report block. Let’s take a look at an example to see how this is done. Suppose you have [...]

With Mobile BI being the latest craze and most likely being the new norm, we will need to work to make sure that we continue to innovate and be creative in our report creation to keep end users happy. One quick tactic is to spice up your report by adding images into blank cells above or below your charts and tables or directly into table cells on your report.

Although you can view any Web Intelligence report using the BusinessObjects Mobile iPad app, for the best user experience there are some simple rules to follow when creating your report. To help understand these rules, it helps to know how reports are rendered on the iPad.   If the document has only one report part [...]

In the age of the smartphone, mobile reporting is the future of Business Intelligence. And in BusinessObjects 4.0, SAP is making a strong push to provide a more complete mobile experience. This experience starts with two apps available now for iPhones and iPads:  SAP BusinessObjects Mobile and SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. SAP BusinessObjects Mobile (iPad Only) [...]

Business Intelligence provides sales and marketing teams with information and insights they need on customers, prospects, markets and competitors. With powerful dashboards, analytical and reporting solutions sales and marketing teams are able to better and more accurately track, monitor and analyze every aspect of a sales cycle. BI makes it easier to identify cross-selling opportunities, locate profitable customers, tracking competitors, and to create strategies to successfully reach sales quotas and revenue goals. With the addition of RangeFinder, you can make it even easier to visualize how your company is doing compared to historical data as well as your competitors to make educated and informed decisions that may enhance your companies future.

BusinessObjects Xcelsius is a great tool for creating dashboards and data visualizations, but sometimes it can take some thinking to get it to do what you want it to do. Your data may not always be formatted the way that Xcelsius needs it to be formatted, and that means working some Excel magic. For example, [...]

Manufacturing includes all of the processes needed to convert raw materials or components into finished goods, especially with the use of industrial machines and on a larger scale. Manufacturing KPIs can reflect process efficiency, resources consumption and quality of the outputs. RangeFinder can be utilized in manufacturing just like it is utilized the Insurance Industry from episode 1 of this multi-part series.

Last week I got a frantic email from a client who was having trouble using InfoView. Every time he tried to view a WebIntelligence report, he would get the error “The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect (Invalid path /AnalyticalReporting/WebiView was requested).” He had just gotten a new Windows 7 PC with Internet [...]

With the release of our first Xcelsius/Dashboard Design Add-on component, we decided to put together a multiple part series of blog posts that could showcase how RangeFinder can be utilized within specific business sectors. The first edition of the series is taking aim at the insurance industry and which KPI’s can be visualized by RangeFinder to provide exceptional value to end users.

SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 introduces a new tool for importing content called the Upgrade Management Tool. This replaces the old Import Wizard from previous versions and takes a huge step forward in usability. Using this tool, you can do a Complete Upgrade to import all of the content from an existing BusinessObjects system, or an Incremental [...]