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Custom tabbed navigation in tableau

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Ron Keler

This example illustrates how a combination of images used as tableau shapes, with some careful positioning and action filters, can be used to create custom navigation effects that will feel natural and intuitive to most users. Here is a description … Continue reading →

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Navigation and context in your BI implementation

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Ron Keler

I wrote about the importance of navigation in any BI application, whether it is a report or a complex dashboard, in various prior posts. Recently, i realized that discussing navigation without mention of context is incomplete. When talking about context … Continue reading →

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Navigate your BI product to success by considering… Navigation!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Ron Keler

Whether you are working on a simple report, several reports, a dashboard or a complex BI application, one of the first things you need to consider as part of your design is navigation. The navigation describes the usage pattern, or … Continue reading →

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Audit Tableau Filters Application With the JS API

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Ron Keler

While Tableau Server provides good auditing capabilities in terms of logins and dashboard views, in some cases, you need very detailed and granular auditing of certain dashboards. Like other websites, you may need to understand exactly which features of a … Continue reading →

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Crystal Reports on SAP Mobile BI

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Ron Keler

It seems like every month SAP is unleashing new functionality for its Mobile BI app. Explorer, Web Intelligence and recently Dashboards have all made their way into the BI app and seem to work better, look nicer and perform faster … Continue reading →

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Get Xcelsius EIC connection to work properly in IE9

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Ron Keler

The EIC (External Interface Connection), is a key feature of Xcelsius that allows the creation of sophisticated integrated dashboard. It’s a programmatic way to pass information through javascript to and from the html container that embeds the Xcelsius swf object. … Continue reading →

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Medicare Advantage Enrollment Dashboard

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Ron Keler

About a month ago, my colleague, Josh Tapley (http://data-ink.com/) and I set out to build an Xcelsius based BI application. Our goals were to demonstrate the capabilities of the technology, when combined with some fundamental data warehousing and BI techniques … Continue reading →

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Webi enhancements in 4.0: dynamic chart titles and formula wildcard name searching

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Ron Keler

Web Intelligence has a lot of new features and capabilities that make life a lot easier for report developers. A couple that i ran across and thought were very useful are the ability to use a formula as a chart … Continue reading →

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Mobile BI to replace reports push model

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Ron Keler

I first published this post on Technorati as Mobile BI to Replace Reports Push Model BI Content is typically distributed in either a push model or a pull model. In a traditional pull model, content is generated on the BI … Continue reading →

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BI applications – the evolution of dashboards and scorecards

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Ron Keler

There’s a lot of “chatter” about mobile BI, and BI in general these days. As the information age matures and explodes, BI is all the rage. Everybody seems to get the premise of delivering information, and the delivery medium that … Continue reading →

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