Author Archives: Ron Keler

Xcelsius Count Down Clock

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Ron Keler

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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Integrate Linkedin search in webi reports

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Ron Keler

In an older post i wrote about integrating linkedin searches with Xcelsius dashboards. The example i created used an EIC (external interface connection) to pass a value to a search section at the bottom of an html page, whereas the … Continue reading →

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BIHAPPY Blog moved

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Ron Keler

After almost three days of down time from my prior service provider, blog.com, i moved my blog to godaddy hosting service. I don’t expect to have this kind of down time ever again.

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If you build it – people will come?

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Ron Keler

In the 1989 phenomenal hit Field Of Dreams, Kevin Costner’s character, Ray Kinsella, hears a voice instructing him to build a baseball field. Later on in the movie, James Earl Jones, who plays Terence Mann, tells Ray Kinsella “If you … Continue reading →

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Tough choices for BusinessObjects XIR2 clients

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Ron Keler

With SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 going GA, SAP will now have two full version number to support 3.x and 4. This spells the end of any support options for those who are still running BusinessObjects XI R2. XI R2 has been … Continue reading →

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Google swiffy can’t save Xcelsius… Yet

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Ron Keler

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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Migrating BusinessObjects Query as a Web Service

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Ron Keler

BusinessObjects Query as a Web Service started a few years ago as a lab project. It quickly gained traction and with the release of XI 3.x was integrated into the main product tree. This feature offers BusinessObjects metadata (universe) and … Continue reading →

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Can Cognos fraud detection software detect Cognos fraud?

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Ron Keler

I’ve been following the media coverage of the Cognos bribery case with the Massachusetts speaker of the house, Sal DiMasi, with great curiosity. Dimasi was recently convicted. But, what strike me as being very interesting is how IBM was able … 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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