CSS Tips & Tricks: Default Selection in a Crosstab in SAP BusinessObjects...
Crosstabs in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio are one of the few components which can be used as a display component as well as a selector. When used as a selector, the user can interact with the...
View ArticleUsing Location Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Location Analytics or Location Intelligence or perhaps simply put – the ability to put data on a map or show data as part of a physical location like a store – becomes more and more a very hot topic in...
View ArticleSAP Lumira – Geeks Tweaks: Animating Charts in SAP Lumira
Introduction A major shortcoming that most users will find in SAP Lumira is the lack of customizable animations. While a basic application does do the job, inclusion of advanced animations can help...
View ArticleVisual BI Launches Second Release for its Design Studio EXtensions (DSX) for...
Visual BI Solutions, a leader in Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions, today announced the launch of the second release of its successful Design Studio EXtensions (DSX) for SAP®...
View ArticleTracy Kantrowitz joins Visual BI as Vice President for Marketing
Plano, TX – June 4, 2015 – Visual BI Solutions, a leader in business intelligence and analytics solutions, today announced the appointment of Tracy Kantrowitz as Vice President of Marketing, reporting...
View ArticleSAP Design Studio 1.5 – What’s New
SAP Design Studio 1.5 is now GA, and with its latest iteration, I think that the tool has a whole new host of features to offer. At the outset, it looks clear that this version offers some very nice...
View ArticleUsing Location Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – Part 2
In the first part on Location Analytics, I showed how you can quickly leverage the information you have and generate a choropleth style map or a bubble map. In our second example, we will use the...
View ArticleSAP Design Studio 1.5: Parallel Query Processing – Overview
The new SAP Design Studio 1.5 is packed with a lot of performance enhancements and new features. The most notable performance enhancement is the ability to load queries in parallel. In the earlier...
View ArticleVisual BI Extensions for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio – Feature...
Just a few days ago, we released our updated list of Extensions for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio and one of my personal favorites of the new components is the hierarchical filter. When you start...
View ArticleEnterprise Monitoring SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform with Zabbix – Part 1
Any server crashes causes disruption for your users and also costs time and money to fix. Hence, monitoring your server is important so that you can act on any issue in a proactive manner . SAP...
View ArticleEnterprise Monitoring SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform with Zabbix – Part 2
In the first part of the blog on Enterprise Monitoring SAP Business Objects BI Platform with Zabbix, we had created and configured Zabbix server agent and host groups for our SAP BusinessObjects BI...
View ArticleVisual BI Extensions – Feature Highlight: Advanced Table Component
One of the common feedback we received from our customers about the crosstab in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio was that it was “complicated” to format the standard crosstab and that they were...
View ArticleCSS Tips & Tricks: Customizing the Chart Type Picker in SAP® BusinessObjects™...
With the release of SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio 1.5, there have been many new and interesting features and components. One feature that I found particularly interesting was the Chart Type Picker....
View ArticleVisual BI Extensions – Feature Highlight: KPI Tile
In addition to the two previously discussed components – Hierarchical Filter and Advanced Table – we have also added a new KPI Tile as part of our recent release of the Visual BI Extensions for SAP...
View ArticleReal time chat component in SAP® BusinessObjects™ Design Studio with Node.js...
The enterprises are drifting fast towards Node.js, especially because of its proven performance characteristics. Here, I have tried to utilize some of its features in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio....
View ArticleWorking with BEx conditions in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
When there is a need to implement conditions or set filters on key figures in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio dashboards, it becomes a challenge to achieve this directly in the application. To...
View ArticlePrecision Drilling talks about how analytics is helping them make smarter...
During the recent SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference, in Orlando, Florida, Christopher Ames, Director of Business Systems – Precision Drilling Corporation shared their experience of how they...
View ArticleSAP BusinessObjects Design Studio SDK Development without ECLIPSE
Have you ever wondered why you have been running two Eclipse environment (Eclipse inside another Eclipse) for developing an Extension for SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio. Doing this also consumes...
View ArticleSwitch BEx Conditions on demand from SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
At Visual BI, we often get requests for dashboard requirements for switching the conditions of particular views such as TOP N , Bottom N , Less than X , Top % etc. Readers may recall that this was also...
View ArticleRethink your Big Data with SAP Lumira and RethinkDB
Big data has been the Buzz all around; more applications are being built on top of Big data platform and the whole paradigm shift takes a move towards NoSQL Databases from traditional RDBMS. When these...
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