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Category Archives: BI At Large
Voice Controlled Tableau Dashboard
The way we interact with computer is changing and in the very near future we can expect our computers and electronic devices to become much better at understanding what we tell them to do, literally. In this example, I used … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Tableau
Tagged tableau; voice controlled dashboard, voice activated tableau dashboard
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Mine News Websites – Tableau Live Dashboard
Two years ago I wrote about setting up a process to scrape leading news websites home pages and storing them in HANA for text analysis. I hypothesized about the various analysis one could derive from parsing multiple news websites over … Continue reading
Don’t let the software migration cycle cripple your BI project
Software developers have been taught for decades that they must follow the Development/Integration/Staging/Production practice. This practice was instituted to minimize the number of “bugs” in the software and allow for rigorous testing of code changes without “interfering with production”. This … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large
Tagged BI Software development; BI Content Development Process
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Using Webi 4.1 SDK to get Report SQL
When SAP introduced BusinessObjects 4.0, clients who were invested in the Webi REBEAN SDK got worried. The Webi SDK had been mostly deprecated and it was not clear what is going to be the direction for those seeking programmatic ways … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, BusinessObjects 4.0, Web Intelligence
Tagged webi 4.1 sdk, webi restful sdk, webi sdk
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Nulls are evil (or at the very least mischievous)
If you have been involved in hands on database development for a while, or in any kind of BI / reporting initiative, you probably already know this. Nulls are evil (or at the very least mischievous). A null value in … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data Warehousing, SAP HANA
Tagged database design, nulls in database
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Oscars dashboard
I LOVE movies. I am fascinated by the craft of creating movies. It’s a field that combines technology and imagination in very unique ways and where science and art interact to create an amazing product (well, not always, but … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data visualization, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Web Intelligence
Tagged oscars dashboard, sap webi 4.1
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Signal and Noise inspired dashboard
Reading Nate Silvers’ “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t” (amazon link to book) inspired me to create this dashboard to articulate the idea of searching for signal and meaningful insights in the noise … Continue reading
Posted in BI At Large, Data visualization, HTML5, SAP Mobile BI, Xcelsius
Tagged Nate Silver, Signal and noise dashboard, The Signal and the Noise
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Tableau On BO – Setting up live connection from SAP Webi report to Tableau
I recently received several questions about connecting Tableau to SAP BI (Business Objects) as a data source. Tableau already has direct connectivity to HANA, however many users out there are looking for ways to connect their existing webi (web intelligence) … Continue reading