Posts tagged "Xcelsius"
Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius 2008) Tips and Tricks ep1: Adding a Select All to your Selector
I build and design dashboards pretty much on a daily basis whether it be for a client, POC, or as demo material. One of the biggest things that I dread to hear, is my boss saying either one of these phrases: "How hard would it be...." or "You know what would be cool?" This usually means that I will have to put on my thinking cap and figure out how to pull something off in Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius). TANGENT: Before I go any further, I am going to say that the renaming of Xcelsius to Crystal Dashboard Design has not really sunk in with me, so I apologize for switching back and forth in advance. Anyways, as I was saying, I have to pull off some pretty interesting things relatively often so I thought why not share these Tips and Tricks with everyone who follows our blog. This will be the first entry in a line of many that will pick out a little pieces of functionality that I have built using standard components inside Crystal Dashboard Design and using QaaWS or Live Office. Topic number one is allowing your dashboard to select All of the entries in a selector.
Continue reading...Underwhelm Your Users with a Well-designed Dashboard
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Dashboard and visualizations are a hot topic right now. You can't go to an SAP BusinessObjects event or a user group meeting without seeing over half of the presentations focusing on dashboards and visualizations. And, like with any cutting-edge technology, it seems everyone is trying to get in on the action. While that's a good thing, sometimes people lack the basic knowledge and skills to utilize those tools to deliver effective analysis.
Continue reading...Xcelsius … Crystal Dashboard Design … Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.2 Now Available!
Friday, June 18, 2010
SAP BusinessObjects has released another fix pack for the newly named Crystal Dashboard Design (Xcelsius 2008). Fix Pack 3.2 is now available for download out on SAP's Service Marketplace and can be found under the Business Objects Download page through the following path: SAP BusinessObjects Support Software and Corrections > SBOP Dashboard Design Enterprise > BOBJ Xcelsius Enterprise 2008. The Release notes and Fixed Issues documentation can be found in the links below.
Continue reading...SCN Winter Olympic Challenge
Friday, April 16, 2010
A little over a month on my Google Reader, I got an RSS Feed from the Business Object SAP Developer Network about an Xcelsius Challenge. The blog was put out by Jason Cao of SAP BusinessObjects and the challenge was to use community poll results in Xcelsius 2008 to showcase a developer's skills. Not really interested, I marked it as read and moved along with my morning ritual of checking the happenings of the world. Later on in the day we had a company meeting to discuss upcoming projects and ideas for a new marketing campaign. One of the topics led us to chatting about creating some new demo dashboards for our website. This is when a light bulb went off in my head and I brought the challenge to the table. Long story short, the boss man thought it was a great idea and an easy way to get a demo dashboard done and put our name out on the SAP Community Network.
Continue reading...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.
Continue reading...Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1 Released/What’s Fixed in Xcelsius 2008 FP3.1
Thursday, March 18, 2010
SAP has released Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.1, and it is now available through the Service Marketplace.
Continue reading...Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 3 Test Drive
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The new service pack for Xcelsius has been out for some time now (since 12/15/2009 to be exact). This post is a quick review of what I've found useful from Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 3 now that I've had time to use it in real-world scenarios with some of our clients.
Continue reading...How to Implement the Xcelsius Publishing Plugin
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 2 is Now Available!
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Service Pack 2 for our beloved dashboard generator Xcelsius 2008 has been released today! The download is available out on SAP's Service Marketplace and can be found under the Business Objects Download page through the following path: SAP BusinessObjects packages and products > SBOP Xcelsius Enterprise > BOBJ Xcelsius Enterprise 2008. The download is a lot smaller then BOE 3.1 SP2 so you won't need to wait all day to get your hands on this. It should be 30 minutes to about a hour depending on your internet connection.
Continue reading...Using QaaWS to drive your Xcelsius Dashboards
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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.
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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, August 17, 2010
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