As usual, before getting started I want to provide a quick recap of where we are with the Reportapalooza competition. This is the last week of voting before the final winner is announced on Nov 22th! Challenge #1 (Done) – Winner , Mico Yuk (Check out my Coffee Consumption Calculator) Challenge #2 (Done) – Winner, [...]
Before getting started, I want to provide a quick update on the Reportapalooza competition: Challenge #1 (Done) – Winner , Mico Yuk (Check out my Coffee Consumption Calculator) Challenge #2 (Done) – Winner, Mico Yuk (based on traffic sent to Report a Hero Page) Challenge #3 (Done) – Winner, Brian Durning (voted best Crystal Reports [...]
Ok people. Get ready to get excited. As of November, I will be offering free webinars on a variety of topics. Yes…I said Free! Here are some of the Xcelsius Topics you can register for: Xcelsius 101: This session is a Beginner’s look at Xcelsius. If you or someone on your team is just getting started with Xcelsius, this [...]
At the recent ASUG conference in Orlando, it was clear to everyone that the majority of the excitement and buzz at the conference was centered on the Business Intelligence side of SAP’s business- and most of that excitement was focused on Xcelsius, which is mainly due to its devoted community. Antivia’s founder, Mark Hudson, gave [...]
We are following up to our post earlier this week with documentation for Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008 with support for Windows 7) Fix Pack 3.3 (FP3.3).
Hi Everyone, Last week we announced the release of Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design (Xcelsius 2008) Fix Pack 3.3 (FP3.3) on twitter and wanted to follow up with an official post. (See the official post by Matt Lloyd here on the SCN Forums) The Fix Pack must be applied to Crystal Dashboard and Presentation Design [...]
Hi Folks, Quick blog post, live from Orlando, while we’re getting ready for the ASUG BusinessObjects conference, which starts tomorrow! I finally got the chance to put my agenda together and below are a list of sessions (sorted by day) that are must attend for all fellow Xcelsius gazelles. (NOTE: Items highlighted in BLUE are [...]
As a SAP BusinessObjects “legacy customer” why should I pay to join ASUG, a predominantly SAP organization? This is perhaps the million dollar question and one that many SAP BusinessObjects folks have been asking themselves for the last 2 years, post the SAP acquisition. I was also in the same boat, but instead of speculating, [...]
Hi Everyone, We are excited to formally announce the SAP Xcelsius Community Party, hosted by the Xcelsius Gurus, at the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference in Orlando, FL, on October 5th at 7pm in the Oceanic 3, Lobby Level. This invitation-only event promises to be much bigger and better than last year, with a chance to [...]
Last week we showed you how to share data between swf files in an SCDD dashboard. One limitation was that the shared data was not coming back up through the SCDD Excel model in a manner that native SCDD components could consume. This week, that problem has been eliminated as the example below illustrates. By [...]