As promised, we are letting you know first that the Xcelsius Fix Pack 3.1 (FP3.1) Documentation is available to explore. There are two different documents available:
We will follow up with another post, once we finalize our evaluation!! Have a great weekend!
Hi Everyone,
We want to welcome the much anticipated release of Fix Pack 3.1 or FP3.1 as it is officially called! We were the first to announce its release on twitter yesterday and wanted to follow up with an official post. The Fix Pack must be applied to Xcelsius 2008 SP3 (version: 5.3.0.0). If you don’t already have it installed, please click here.
You can download FP3.1 by clicking here, but please be aware, that there are two different versions available to download:
After the FP 3.1 is applied, the version number should change to version: 5.3.1.0
According to our trusted guys at SAP, the documentation will be available shortly. They were too anxious to release the Fix Pack and didn’t want to wait for the documentation to be ready. Hey, we’re not complaining, Thanks!! Since we will be first to know when the documentation is ready, You will be first to know as well. Stay Tuned!
Hi Everyone,
We would like to officially announce that Michael Patton, of BMW Manufacturing, is the winner of the free seat to the Xcelsius Advanced Developer Workshop in Dallas, TX, on March 24-25. We apologize for the delay in announcing the winner, but we wanted to confirm that he would be able to attend.
For those of you who attended the webinar and received the discount code, we have decided to extend it out until 12AM PST, due to the delay on our behalf. For those of you who registered, but was not able to attend, you should have received an email with the discount code, if not, please send an email to soo@everythingxcelsius.com and I will send you the code directly.
There is less than 3 weeks left for the workshop on March 24-25 in Dallas, TX, and the seats are filling up fast. We encourage anyone interested in attending, to register today. If you are having trouble with reserving a room at the hotel or have any other questions please feel free to send me an email directly.
We hope to conduct another webinar soon and welcome any emails with topic suggestions.
Thanks,
Soo Tang Yuk
soo@everythingxcelsius.com
Join the Xcelsius Gurus Mico Yuk and Mike Alexander, Author, Crystal Xcelsius for Dummies, for a FREE 30 minutes webinar on advanced Xcelsius data management and visualization tips and tricks on Thursday, March 4, 2010, from 1-1:30pm. We only have 100 seats available, so please register today!
Below is the webinar agenda for your reference:
This webinar is a preview to our Advanced Xcelsius Developer Workshop on March 24-25, 2010, in Dallas, TX. During the webinar we will be offering the following:
For more information on the workshop on March 24-25, 2010, please visit http://xcelsiustraining.com
We only have 100 spaces available for this FREE webinar, so please reserve yours today! Click here to register!
Hi Everyone,
If you are anywhere online, you are probably starting to hear the buzz about the upcoming Xcelsius Advanced Developer Workshop, being held in Dallas, TX. I will be conducting the training along side, Mike Alexander, author of the popular book, Crystal Xcelsius for Dummies. Last year the training sold out early, so we encourage everyone to register early. Register before 2/15 and receive the early bird special $200 discount! This year, the training is filled with tons of surprises and prizes, along with breakfast and lunch with the us.
On the 1st day, the training will cover, Advanced Dashboarding Techniques. Mike and I will be giving techniques on how to design your Xcelsius dashboard. On the 2nd day we will cover Advanced Data Connectivity Techniques. For more information about the training agenda, please visit http://xcelsiustraining.com. You can also follow our FaceBook FanPage or the My Xcelsius Blog to see what others are buzzing about.
Remember, catch the early bird special by registering before 2/15. We look forward to seeing everyone there!!
Mico Yuk is the founder of the Xcelsius Guru Network and the Everything Xcelsius blog. To learn more about her, please visit our About Us page.
BusinessObjects’ release of Xcelsius 2008 SP3 is a great step forward for customers to benefit from new charting, performance enhancements, and other capabilities that make dashboard development easier. For fellow Xcelsius customers and developers who have been patiently waiting for new functionality, this release is the one we have been waiting for.
Here are my top 10 features to help you jumpstart your exploration of new Xcelsius SP3 enhancements:
With a commitment to improve performance, there is a new option to optimize Excel performance in addition to promises of improvements to other previous performance concerns both inside of the Xcelsius design environment and runtime SWF files.
A Steven Few inspired component set, the Bullet chart provides a new visualization tool for Xcelsius developers who want to maximize screen real estate while communicating more data.
Sparklines are the second new charting edition to Xcelsius that also provide significant value for organizations who want to leverage the popular data visualization control within Xcelsius. Previously only attained with add-on components, this functionality comes packaged with Xcelsius.
In Xcelsius, staging data for visualization has long contributed to the learning curve required for building excellent dashboards. As a step forward to make selector configuration easier, the Xcelsius team has exposed new global properties for selectors. Hopefully this is only the first step to seeing significant improvements to selectors since this is the most powerful yet difficult concept to learn in Xcelsius.
To fill in IMT time slider capabilities previously available in BusinessObjects performance manager, developers can extend flexibility for end users to focus on a specific range within a time series using a dual slider. Built directly into the Xcelsius chart components, you can easily enable this functionality in the behavior tab.
As one of my personal favorites, you can now bind any color to the spreadsheet using a simple color binding option.
For any existing Xcelsius developers who have struggled aligning icons or hidden selectors, a real scorecard component will be a breath of fresh air, making it a relatively simple process for configuring alert indicators within a vertical table. I can instantly see a lot of opportunities to expand on this component, so I am interested to hear the community use cases for this new component.
This is a nice component for new Xcelsius developers who want to group components without learning dynamic visibility. This component is available with the other container components.
Gauges have long been criticized for consuming a large volume of screen real estate without displaying enough information within the control. For customers who insist on using these controls, Xcelsius offers additional capabilities previously available in BusinessObjects performance manager. Bind multiple values to a single gauge and track them as marker indicators or additional needles. From the second you open the gauge property sheet, you can easily take advantage of these new features using the same paradigm you have always used.
Please download SP3 directly from SAP Software Download Site.
Ryan Goodman is the Founder of Centigon Solutions, an SAP® software solution partner that is strategically focused on developing add-on products for use with Xcelsius®. To learn more about him, please visit our new Gurus page
It’s official!! Many sources have been pre-announcing it, but we are the first to confirm with SAP that the Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 2, Fix Pack 2.1 is ready for download.
You can access the download, Release Notes and Fixed Issues doc at the following link (please bookmark) – https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm
Note: If you originally downloaded it you have now have the ‘old version (build 12,2,1,66)’, and you will have to uninstall that version and re-install the current download. In Windows you can go to Add/Remove Programs, check Show Updates and then you can uninstall just the Fix Pack.
It was also just announced on SDN:
http://forumsa.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1518318&tstart=0
Hi Everyone,
I know that I have been announcing this on twitter and my Linkedin status for some time, but it seems like the invites finally went out on 10/9 for the exclusive ‘Bringing the Xcelsius Community to Life Event’ this year at the GBN Conference in Dallas Texas. It is being sponsored by SAP and hosted by the Xcelsius Gurus.
Below are some details:
What: ‘Bringing the Xcelsius Community to Life Event’
When: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 5:30 – 7pm EST
Where: Manchester Room, Hilton Anatole (you must RSVP to attend as it is by invitation only)
Attire: It’s a party!
How: Invitation Only (if you did not receive one and want to attend keep reading)
The event is by invitation only, and it went out to all ‘registered’ GBN members who indicated they were interested in ‘Dashboarding’. YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THE CONFERENCE TO ATTEND!
See the PDF invite for instructions on how to RSVP.
Because it is sponsored event we do have very limited seats which are filling up quickly, so we hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Mico Yuk
Founder, Xcelsius Gurus Network
Hi Everyone,
As you’ve probably noticed we have been very slow in posting over the summer. I personally had a serious case of writer’s block that stemmed from social media overload, from which I am now happily recovered. 
For those who don’t know, you can now follow us on Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. The Xcelsius Gurus network / communities have grown to over a 1000+ members combined over the summer due to your ‘word of mouth’. We appreciate your support!
As fall eases in, and we say goodbye to our summer vacations I wanted to kick off this Fall by recapping some important events that took place over the summer in the Xcelsius world.
We want to be first to let you know that Centigon will be opening its doors in June to accept BETA users, but as one of our readers you can sign up now to test their newest component, the ‘CSV Connector’! For those who don’t know what CSV stands for it means ‘comma separated value’. Seats are limited, the BETA is not yet public so get in now.
Guru Honest Review – This is by far one of the easiest ‘live data connectors’ in Xcelsius we have ever used, which makes sense since the owners of this company were developers themselves. No rigid formats, special headers or customized scripts! Signing up on the page below takes on 2 minutes so do it now.
Interested in hiring one of our Gurus? Need help training your staff? Not sure where to start building your dashboard? We can help. Contact us to find out more!
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