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 
8 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 
Hi Everyone, We are happy to announce the release of Xcelsius 2008 Fix Pack 3.5 (FP3.5). The Fix Pack must be applied to Xcelsius 2008 SP3 (version: 5.3.0.0) or any of the previous fix packs. If you don’t already have it installed, please click here. You can Download FP3.5 now by clicking here. Please be aware…there are two different [...]
by Soo Tang Yuk No Comments » Posted on: Apr 22 
With the limited availability of scalable data connectivity options for Xcelsius, are you constantly seeking to improve your dashboard performance? If your answer is ‘YES’, then this post is for you. Easily connecting to an ‘Enterprise database’ is a well known problem when using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly known as Xcelsius). Let’s refer to it [...]
by Scott Strool 34 Comments » Posted on: Apr 21 
Being the first to deliver all news, we heard recently that having left SAP BusinessObjects 2 years ago, Donald MacCormick, the former CTO of BusinessObjects who played an instrumental role in the acquisition of Xcelsius by BusienssObjects in 2003, is heading back to the world of BI to become the Chief Product and Marketing Officer [...]
by Soo Tang Yuk 7 Comments » Posted on: Apr 12 
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