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Making Your Measures Behave

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Defining measures gets interesting because while they are tied to a high-level corporate goal, they also touch nearly every other aspect of the organization, making it a challenge sometimes to balance all of the competing interests. Plus, as soon as you start converting their behavior into numbers, people will simple adapt their behavior to have good numbers and may not deliver the overall results you had hoped.

How to Alienate 12% of your Audience Without Even Trying

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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How to Alienate 12% of your Audience Without Even Trying

I'm color-blind. I can see colors, just not the same way the majority of you do. I didn't write this post to complain about my color-blindness. Rather, now that dashboards and data visualization continue to become more wide-spread, we've got a few issues to talk about.

In Search of Clarity

Friday, March 12, 2010

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Our customers typically have mountains of data, spanning all areas of the organization. Some of their data spans decades. They look to us to help them make sense of it all, and utilize that information to drive better decision-making. It's often a challenge not so much from a technology aspect, but from a human one. Sometimes when we ask an executive which metrics are most important to them, we get the reply "all of them".

How to Implement the Xcelsius Publishing Plugin

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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How to Implement the Xcelsius Publishing Plugin

After viewing multiple posts on BOB about the subject and having a couple of questions directed towards me about this, I decided it would be an excellent blog topic for everyone that has a need for this solution. Check out the steps below to implement the Xcelsius Publishing Plugin.

Using QaaWS to drive your Xcelsius Dashboards

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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Using QaaWS to drive your Xcelsius Dashboards

Keeping right in line with the other blogs that I have written about QaaWS (What is a QaaWS and Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating a QaaWS) I decided to put together a quick one and a dashboard to show how to leverage your Business Objects Universe to fuel your Xcelsius Dashboards.