Category Archives: Xcelsius

Extend SAP Dashboard visualizations and capabilities with google charts integration

Back in January, i wrote about Google Charts, and how they stand to shake the BI and data visualization world. Well, over the past months, not only the charts collection has grown substantially and now includes many nontraditional charting options, … Continue reading

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Centigon GMaps Plugin example – MA counties, towns and traffic stats

Maps are a very powerful way to visualize data and bring information to users in an attractive and usable manner. Maps help make data intuitive and fun and encourage usage of information. Xcelsius comes equipped with a variety of out-of-the-box … Continue reading

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Shana Tova

Today is the first day of the Jewish Year 5772 (תשע״ב). Last night, we celebrated Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New year. The Jewish calendar is lunar based, not solar based, which is why it is not “aligned” with the civil, … Continue reading

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Charting the future of gambling in Massachusetts

As someone who lives in Massachusetts, near Boston, i had mixed feelings today about the House approval for casino gambling. On the one hand, i am certainly hopeful about the introduction of a new industry into the area. The expected … Continue reading

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Crystal Reports versatility

Crystal Reports is perhaps the most versatile reporting application in the world. It’s popularity predates most modern business intelligence tools (and vendors..) and its users base is simply astounding. The functionality built into Crystal Reports can certainly be overwhelming for … Continue reading

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Search Filter in Xcelsius

Xcelsius popularity as a platform for building BI applications increases, and the demand for streamlined functionality, such as search, is growing as well. Unfortunately, there is still no “search” component or functionality built into Xcelsius yet. However, using your excel … Continue reading

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook review

I was recently asked by Packt Publishing to review Xavier Hacking and David Lai “SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook”. I just finished reading the book, and wanted to share some thoughts. This is a tremendous resource for Xcelsius developers. The … Continue reading

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Use Crystal Reports Data Consumer and subreports to burst complex Xcelsius dashboards

More often than not Xcelsius dashboard developers are being asked to come up with ways to burst the dashboard. It makes perfect sense. Dashboards are typically high level executive summaries, designed for management consumption, and managers typically prefer to have … Continue reading

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Xcelsius Count Down Clock

Not much to say about this one, just decided to do a count down clock in xcelsius. You can download the XLF HERE and modify the end date and text as you please…

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Google swiffy can’t save Xcelsius… Yet

Last week Google introduced a new inovation from its labs factory called swiffy. Swiffy is a web based utility that can convert some flash .swf files into html5. Marcel Gordon, swiffy product manager, says about swiffy in this blog post “Swiffy … Continue reading

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