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Xcelsius flyout menu

One of the most important aspects of dashboard design is navigation. Just like any other application, a dashboard is made out of content, functionality and navigation. The drilling, slicing, dicing, and data exploration are all part of your BI application … Continue reading

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Defuse the tension between designers and technologists – educate on your BI tools capabilities upfront

When working with designers, or users who are interested in designing their dashboards, you will undoubtedly run into tensions between what “should be” and what “can be”. While you can argue that with software there are really no limitations, and … Continue reading

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Good to Great Dashboard

In his famous book “Good to Great”, Jim Collins describes his research into eleven great companies that presented consistent outstanding results, compared to other companies that were in seemingly similar situation, but failed to achieve sustainable greatness. Collins describes the … Continue reading

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The two prerequisites for any BI project: It has to be right. It has to be pretty.

Business Intelligence is an agent of change. It’s a tool to examine existing processes, highlight which aspects of them work, which do not, and point the way towards improvement. It is disruptive technology and can have major impact on individuals’ … Continue reading

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Embed LinkedIn search in your BI application!

I recently got to listen to a presentation about using LinkedIn in the context of sales and marketing. LinkedIn is a wonderfully successful and rich professional/social network, where you can find co-workers, past colleagues, old school mates etc. The difference … Continue reading

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Roll your BI Project on two tracks

One of the most challenging aspects of any BI project lies in the tension between the “behind the scenes” data work, and the “high visibility” BI application. Everyone will see the new marketing and sales dashboard you are tasked to … Continue reading

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Designing BusinessObjects reports for mobile devices

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…

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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Introduction

Welcome to my Business Intelligence Happiness blog! I hope you will find useful information here related to business intelligence and data integration technologies, tools, trends, thoughts, wishes, vendors, directions, and everything or anything BI. I wanted to start by sharing … Continue reading

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