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Author Archives: Ron Keler
Recalls dashboard
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (http://www.cpsc.gov/) collects and publishes information about product recalls. The department made its database of recalls information available to the public as a web service, which means we can have fun with this data… Leveraging our … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data visualization, HTML5
Tagged Consumer Product Safety Commission, cpsc dashboard html5, visualize product recall data
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Play the pie chart Dreidel
This Saturday is the first night of Chanukah, the Jewish “festival of lights” holiday. One of the games kids play during this holiday is called Dreidel. The Dreidel is essentially a top that has four Hebrew letters marked on four … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Xcelsius
Tagged A BI spin on a Chanukah favorite! Play the pie chart dreidel
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Infographic style webi
Web Intelligence reports are often thought of as boxy, ad-hoc’ish, somewhat sloppy collections of tables and charts. Of course, when creating quick ad-hoc analysis queries, that is completely appropriate, but when designing corporate reports for disseminating information in a way … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0, Web Intelligence
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BusinessObjects 4.0 RESTful web service proxy
SAP introduced RESTful web services in its BI platform (BusinessObjects 4.0) for the first time in the latest service pack SP4. This is a first step in a good direction. The rest web services available in the platform are a … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0
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Gmap webi mashup – live example
Recently, i received quite a few questions from folks who were trying to deploy my gmap webi mashup example on 4.0. To make the implementation more transparent, i created a LIVE WORKING version, leveraging a BI 4.0 server and some … Continue reading
Posted in BusinessObjects 4.0
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Group by on the fly
One of the great features about the google visualization api we use in our html5 dashboards, is the ability to perform client side, run time group by operations. Unlike Xcelsius, which does not provide this functionality, this ability allows us … Continue reading
Integrate real time stock info using Crystal Reports
Crystal Reports was created almost two decades ago. In Software age terms, it’s a dinosaur. There are certainly sexier, slicker and faster tools to develop with, in the BI space today. But when it comes to integration, crystal reports is … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Reports
Tagged Crystal Reports Integration, Crystal Reports Real Time Stocks, Crystal Reports SDK, Crystal Reports Stock Info, Crystal Reports Web Services
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Get Xcelsius EIC connection to work properly in IE9
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
Visualization for Unstructured Data
One of the most interesting data visualization and BI concepts these days is unstructured data analysis. To demonstrate one use case for visualization analysis of un-structured data, and digesting large amounts of information into a more palatable dish, i created … Continue reading
Posted in Data visualization, HTML5
Tagged Visualization Unstructured Data, webpage scraping, webpage word counting
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BusinessObjects 4.0 Oracle Audit Universe woes
In BI 4.0, the Activity Universe, which was used for years as the source for auditing users and system activities in business objects, was discontinued. And while initially 4.0 shipped with no auditing reporting solution, SAP developers stepped up and … Continue reading