Tag Archives: Universe

The dilemma of the expanding and shrinking universe

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Ron Keler

One of the most fundamental questions you will need to answer as you begin designing your meta data strategy can be borrowed from astrophysics. In much the same way that our cosmos adhere to great expending forces that stem from … Continue reading →

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Handle semi aggregate measures in universes

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Ron Keler

While relatively simple data marts can be designed as true simple stars, more often than we like, our reporting data models contains snowflakes. Whatever you want to call these entities, they represent one basic problem for your reporting tools: Cartesian products. … Continue reading →

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Localize your global Xcelsius dashboard

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Ron Keler

If your dashboard is intended for a global audience, you may need to be able to localize it. By localization, most people refer to the ability to translate at minimum the labels and headers of the dashboard, based on the … Continue reading →

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QaaWS vs LiveOffice

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Ron Keler

One of the first major decisions you will face when starting to design your SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius dashboard is which connectivity option to choose. Xcelsius supports a myriad of connectivity options, and two of the most popular connections for BusinessObjects … Continue reading →

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Google style search on your Xcelsius dashboard

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Ron Keler

Dashboard designers have long been concerned with design and usability, concepts typically foreign to IT development. Leveraging all types of selectors in the forms of combo boxes, list selectors, radio buttons and check boxes, they try to make information finding … Continue reading →

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Handling the ALL level in Xcelsius selectors

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Ron Keler

Handling the ALL level in Xcelsius selectors is always a problematic proposition. If you tried using a selector to pass a value to your BusinessInteligence prompt, in order to retrieve filtered data from the database, you must have run into … Continue reading →

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