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Ron Keler – About Me
For the last six years I have been delivering impossible Business Intelligence solutions to companies large and small. From data warehousing and data integration to reports, dashboards and BI embedded applications, I continue to evolve my BI skills and deepen my knowledge of the leading BI tools. Prior to my current consulting work, I spent a year as an IT project manager for a major financial newspaper and three years as a data analyst for a supply chain/spend management company, mining data for global 1000 companies. I began my career with an educational software company, where over the nine years I spent there, I played a key role in growing and evolving the company into one of the largest educational content publisher in the world.
Contact me at: ron@bihappyblog.com
Visit my company at: www.cleartelligence.com
Hi Ron! Just found your blog this morning and it’s fantastic. I have spent over 20 years in the BI space and your blog is the first too truly push the boundaries of the technologies. Thanks!
One challenge we are currently faced with at First Solar is Webi integration with Sharepoint. All we need to do is render a Webi report without the toolbars. I have found some JavaScript to turn off the toolbars, but it doesn’t play nice in Sharepoint. Do you have any techniques for this?
Thank you Tim. Some initial thoughts about this:
Do you have to use webi, or is Crystal an option? You will have more control over the report viewer with the Crystal RAS SDK. The webi rebean SDK might also provide you good options, though i’m not sure you will be able to manipulate the viewer to the degree you need. Another idea is to try and use some divs to “hide” the portions of the viewer you don’t want to display (i have a post describing this technique). Finally, you might be better served with writing a custom sharepoint component that can source data from a webi powered web services. There are probably a few more options, but without knowing more about the specifics of your situation, it’s hard to tell… Is this an internal corporate website? External? What’s the purpose of the reporting, etc. Please feel free to reach out to me directly via email if you like to continue this conversation. Thanks – Ron
Of course, i neglected to mention the obvious: the SharePoint integration kit. I assume none of the components it offers were a fit for you, otherwise, you should definitely check it out first.
Really really interesting blog. I was looking for new features about SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 and PHP with BI Services and I found all I wanted. Just awesome, simply and clever.
Regards,
Mercy William
you’re welcome ! I wonder if you’ve more details about the tutorial “Integrate BusinessObjects BI Services 4.0 with PHP” because I’m really interested in and I still get an error…damn !
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How can i subscribe to your website so i get the notification of a new blog immedietely.
Best way would be to follow me on twitter, i send a note each time i post a new entry. Thank you.