At the end of last year I did a quick improvised survey of our active BusinessObjects customers and was surprise to find that about 35% of them were also using Tableau. Most just had a few copies of Tableau desktop, but some had Tableau server too. In all cases they …
Read More »Web Intelligence – SAP’s New Golden Child in BI 4.2
SAP just announced the release of the latest update of its BusinessObjects BI suite, namely BI 4.2 SP03, following the first release BI 4.2 SP02 back in March In both announcements, Web Intelligence really stood out in terms of new features and overall significance compared to all the other tools …
Read More »Dashboards Helping Drive Healthcare data from Analysis to Action in the UAE
One of the most awe-inspiring presentations at this year’s IBIS conference was about how a government ministry is driving improved healthcare for its citizens by analyzing and visualizing data and then acting on the results. Isn’t this what Business Intelligence is all about? Analyzing and visualizing data and then taking action based …
Read More »InfoSol UK Labs Launches New Dashboard Add-Ons Site
Due to the increasing demand for new add-on components for BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius), particularly in HTML5, InfoSol UK Labs has created a new web site www.getdveloping.com where you will find many new and useful add-on components to enhance your dashboards. Some of the components are free and some have …
Read More »2016 BI Dashboard Awards Winners Highlight Reawakening of the Xcelsius Force
One of the many highlights of this year’s InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar (IBIS 2016) was the annual Dashboard awards and while the 3 winning solutions were very different solutions they shared the fact that, once again, they were all developed in Xcelsius. It never ceases to amaze me how Xcelsius …
Read More »Christmas Windows and BI Portals
Although I am originally from London, UK, it has been a long time since I checked out the Christmas window displays at the major retail stores. The world famous department stores like Harrods, Selfridges and Fortnum & Mason go all out as do the elite fashion stores on Bond Street …
Read More »AZBOCUG – November 5, 2015 at Mesa CC
You and your colleagues are invited to join us at the next information packed Arizona Business Objects and Crystal User Group (AZBOCUG) meeting Thursday, November 5th, 2015, 12:30-4:15 PM. Attendance is free; however, we do ask that you register for count purposes.
Read More »North Carolina BusinessObjects User Meeting: Friday, November 13th
You are personally invited to join us at the next action packed North Carolina BusinessObjects Users Meeting on Friday November 13th, 2015 8:30am – 4:00pm hosted by Creative Technology & Training Solutions and InfoSol Inc. Attendance is free; however, we do ask that you register for count purposes.
Read More »September 2015 and October 2015 BOUG Meetings
InfoSol will be participating in a series of regional BusinessObjects User Group Meetings. All events are free to attend and are aimed to provide both education and knowledge exchange around current BusinessObjects topics. We have meetings scheduled in Portland, San Francisco, Denver, Cleveland, and Grand Rapids. Follow the link to …
Read More »HTML5 with XDC and dCode Gives Xcelsius a Bright Future
I have noticed an interesting trend amongst SAP folks in the last few months that they are starting to call SAP BO Dashboards by its original name of Xcelsius again. While the name Xcelsius never really went away, I wondered if this new trend is due to the fact that …
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