Welcome to the first of many posts on Everything Xcelsius that will cover Crystal Reports. The goal for this post is to introduce myself and explain the series of posts that you will be seeing over the coming months. So let’s get straight to the first of these topics. My name is Coy Yonce and [...]
by Coy Yonce 
12 Comments » Posted on: Sep 20 
Ryan Goodman’s last post, Understanding BI4 Dashboards and XWIS, drew a couple of comments (here and there) expressing frustration that capabilities of third party extensions ought to be delivered as a native part of the SAP Business Objects product. To my mind this is a glass-half-empty view of things. Although the BI4/XI3 platforms come with [...]
by Donald MacCormick 6 Comments » Posted on: Aug 24 
If you’re using Xcelsius (now SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards) for your enterprise dashboard projects, by not looking beyond what comes “in the box,” you may well miss out on capabilities which could make a critical difference to your project; even with the advent of BI4. What you get with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is one of the [...]
by Ryan Goodman 6 Comments » Posted on: Aug 11 
As a follow up to my blog on BIWS, I created two videos to show you the concepts of creating and consuming BI Web Services. The demonstrations were done using BI 4.0. In this first video, I create a web service and demonstrate how to validate it from an already developed Web Intelligence report. In this [...]
by Scott Strool 9 Comments » Posted on: Jul 12 
Over the past several years, in my time at SAP BusinessObjects and more recently with Antivia, I’ve been privileged to witness many dashboard projects at many different organizations around the world. Looking back on these, I realized that aside from the mainstream Business Intelligence principles which most people talk about (e.g. involve the business users, [...]
by Donald MacCormick 5 Comments » Posted on: Jun 15 
Hi Everyone, Last week on Twitter we saw an annoucment that Xcelsius 2008 Service Pack 4 (SP4) with support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 (32-bit) was available from the Service Marketplace. Today we were notified that SAP has officially announced its availability on the general download site (see the official announcement from Matt Lloyd). This [...]
by Soo Tang Yuk 20 Comments » Posted on: Jun 13 
During everyday development with the Xcelsius SDK there are quite a few things that can be taken for granted once you get comfortable with the technology and process. These “for-granteds” can often be points overlooked by developers getting started with the SDK and can cause considerable pain if they’re not properly evaluated and accounted for [...]
by Evan DeLodder 1 Comment » Posted on: Jun 8 
Hi Everyone, With less than 3 days left for the SAPPHIRENOW / ASUG2011 Conference in Orlando, FL, I just wanted to do a quick check-in. Before I get to my schedule, I wanted to share my interview from 2 weeks ago with Liz Brenner: “Follow the Leader: Living Her Dream- the Brave Mico Yuk“, for [...]
by Mico Yuk 5 Comments » Posted on: May 12 
Dashboards are for Action, Not Information! Given how much has been said about Business Intelligence over the years, it is hard to imagine that someone could, within the 140 character constraint, use a single post on Twitter (I still can’t quite bring myself to say “tweet”) to impart real wisdom about BI, but a few [...]
by Donald MacCormick 9 Comments » Posted on: Apr 28 
Calling all Xcelsius fans! It’s that time again!! The SAP Dashboards (Xcelsius) product team will be conducting usability tests on-site again at SAP ASUG Annual Conference in Orlando (May 16-18, 2011). Don’t miss out on this great chance for you to test out and provide feedback on the latest enhancements and features under development for a [...]
by Soo Tang Yuk No Comments » Posted on: Apr 26 
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