Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
This article looks at how to use a local data source in a Web Intelligence report and then combine that data with data retrieved from a data warehouse.
Business Scenario
The worked example described here is to create a simple dashboard style report of sales data. We then highlight the sales figures ...
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
This article looks at an approach to developing SAP BusinessObjects solutions where rather than just writing reports and universes we instead build a BI Application. The main benefit of this approach is a more efficient, streamlined and organised delivery process.
A BI Application is viewed as a complete project where the ...
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
A geometric mean is an average that is useful for sets of numbers that are interpreted according to their product and not their sum as is the case with the more commonly known arithmetic mean. An example of where you would use a geometric mean is in financial reporting when ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Summary
This article looks at a reporting requirement where we need to restrict data to the latest data, for example, to only show the latest account balance or the latest action item for work streams in a project.
Our solution is to implement a series of predefined conditions one for each dimension ...
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
In the previous article we looked at setting up Eclipse for developing Java web applications. In this article we'll look at the additional configuration required for the development of Java web applications that use the BusinessObjects SDK.
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