Strategy & Execution
Creating Scorecards in BusinessObjects Mobile
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 [...]
Continue reading...Advanced BusinessObjects Mobile Reporting Tactics: Embedding Images
Thursday, April 12, 2012
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.
Continue reading...Formatting Reports for BusinessObjects Mobile
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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 [...]
Continue reading...Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Mobile
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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) [...]
Continue reading...RangeFinder in the Workplace: Sales and Marketing Edition
Friday, March 23, 2012
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.
Continue reading...RangeFinder in the Workplace: Manufacturing Edition
Friday, March 16, 2012
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.
Continue reading...RangeFinder in the Workplace: Insurance Edition
Friday, March 9, 2012
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.
Continue reading...What’s New in Data Services 4.0
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Data Services 4.0 is currently in ramp-up with SAP. Just like in the new BusinessObjects version, there are a lot of changes to be seen here. Overall it is much more tightly integrated with the BusinessObjects platform, providing a much more streamlined and consistent user experience. Here’s a taste of what’s new.
Continue reading...Now Hiring: Senior SAP BusinessObjects Consultants
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Altek Solutions is a leading provider of end-to-end business intelligence and data management solutions. We are currently looking for experienced, full-time SAP BusinessObjects developers to add to our consulting staff. Your initial project would involve the analysis, design, development and maintenance of SAP BusinessObjects universes and reports for an ongoing effort we have with an existing client.
Continue reading...What’s in a Name? Your guide to SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 Product Names.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Throughout the lifecycle of a popular product or organization, you can expect names to evolve and change. Since the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, however, this has become a much bigger problem. SAP likes to use “descriptive names” for their products, so they pick names that generically describe what the product does. It seems like they went down that path for some products (i.e. Xcelsius) but reverted back to the original product names for others (i.e. Web Intelligence). What we’re left with is a collection of names that may or may not mean something to us.
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- Release of a new SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards/Xcelsius add-on component
- SAP BusinessObjects universe and report development for a financial services company
- Creation of a custom SAP BusinessObjects CBT program to provide training to end users
- Student and faculty performance analysis and benchmarking for a K-12 school district
- Development of a custom SAP BusinessObjects extranet, data warehouse, universes, reports and dashboards for a statewide Poison Center
- Claims analysis and reporting for a professional liability insurance company
- Migration from SAP BusinessObjects XIR3 to SAP BI4 for an insurance company
- Inventory and sell-through analysis for a consumers goods manufacturing company
- Sales data mart, reports and dashboards for a mid-market manufacturing company
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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