Antivia Adds Xcelsius on the iPad

Are you ready to move your Xcelsius (SAP Dashboards) to the iPad yet? There’s nothing stopping you! No, not even the fact that iOS doesn’t support flash. Antivia’s new XWIS Anywhere bring a new product to their already popular suite of BusinessObjects extensions. Antivia XWIS Anywhere Antivia’s XWIS Anywhere is going to overcome a technology […]

Installing BusinessObjects v4.0 – CMS Database

I’ve installed BusinessObjects about a hundred times and there is very little that’s changed about the installation wizard from a user interface perspective since Crystal Enterprise 10.  BusinessObjects has always included “in the box” all the components necessary to successfully install BusinessObjects for a single server configuration. That said, there is ONE change I make every […]

SAP Runs Crystal Reports

Say it loud, Say it proud With the latest development of SAP Business Suite Enhancement Pak 5, SAP users can now enjoy the rich, flexible formatting functionality right from within the application. ALVs Get An Upgrade For many years, users have been limited in their ability to provide formatted reporting from an SAP ALV (ABAP […]

Information You Can Trust

I’ve finally made the switch… I’ve moved from www.trustedbi.com to trustedbi.com First of all I’d like to thank so many of you for following my blog over these last 4+ years.  I’ve seen a lot of changes in the Business Intelligence space and we’ve continue to see BusinessObjects grow up… yet for me, at it’s […]

Histograms in WebIntelligence

Every once and a while I run across a reporting technique that makes me say:  Wow – that was really clever. In going through the new charting in BusinessObjects v4.0, I noticed that there was no histogram available.  After doing a Google search I found a great article by Alastair Gulland. Alastair uses  a combination […]