Category Archives: BI At Large

Navigate your BI product to success by considering… Navigation!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Ron Keler

Whether you are working on a simple report, several reports, a dashboard or a complex BI application, one of the first things you need to consider as part of your design is navigation. The navigation describes the usage pattern, or … Continue reading →

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Designing BusinessObjects reports for mobile devices

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Ron Keler

Mobile devices are moving very quickly to replace computers and laptops as the new productivity tools for execs and employees. We all use our iPhones and BlackBerrys constantly. We check email, play with apps, chat and talk, whether we’re in … Continue reading →

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Documentation – the difference between a great consultant, and a great consultant who cares…

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Ron Keler

A great consultant comes in, completes an impossible task with flying colors, wins the day for their sponsor, and leaves. A great consultant, who cares, also leaves behind documentation. Documentation is most definitely the step child of any IT project. … Continue reading →

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Some keys for a successful BI project

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Ron Keler

As you set to start working on a new BI project, you will need to address many technical issues sooner or later. Picking technologies and vendors, assembling teams, and working across the corporate silos to bring together information that does … Continue reading →

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Google Charts – the elephant has entered the room..

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Ron Keler

As a developer I always had a knack for open source. So, when I started working with Business Intelligence I naturally began looking for opportunities to leverage open source software. Of course, MySQL was a great RDBMS choice (i used … Continue reading →

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