I've been spending a lot of time of late getting myself familiar with the new interface of Xcelsius 2008 and I like it so much better than the older Xcelsius 4.5 interface. The embedded Excel spreadsheet is real dream and the new Data Manager, which manages all the external connections make it easy to keep [...]
Upgrading to Xcelsius 2008 Tips & Tricks
I recently starting moving my BusinessObjects Enterprise Xcelsius models from XIr2 to XI 3.0. I have found that you may need to modify some of the elements after your model has been upgraded. Namely you will need to: Modify the URL of the web services Modify the URL of the embedded opendocument calls Modify the [...]
The whole world reduced to 100 people…
Here's a different time on "the numbers" - some we look at all the time in the world of Business Intelligence. A good friend of mine send me an email that explains our world in numbers. It's fascinating and I recommend you check it out. You'll be grateful you did! The whole world reduced to [...]
What You’ll Notice When Installing XI 3.0
Here are a few things I noticed when installing XI 3.0 that I thought I would pass along. #1 - Time Remaining The system no longer tells you the time remember. It was always fun to explain the end of the install when it was deploying the web applications and it would jump around from [...]
Let Me Change My Installation Location!
It always been a pet peeve of mine that when software installation programs assumes that you want to install it on the C:Program Files directory. How hard is it to create one more screen to allow the users to change the installation location? Over that last two days I've been installing the new BusinessObjects XI [...]