David Lai's Business Intelligence Blog

BEWARE OF FREDERICK CARTER (Pathway Technologies Inc)

This is a warning to all consultants and anyone who has professional contact with Frederick Carter. I’ve worked with many clients in the BI and BOBJ industry and unfortunately this is the first customer that I have provided services for who ran away without paying. Apparently Frederick needed some work accomplished in a short period of time and I was generous enough to complete a week’s...

Simulating Excel Conditional Formatting in Xcelsius

Conditional formatting in Excel is a feature that is very commonly used and very useful in displaying how well a set of values in a table are doing. Unfortunately we can not transfer the dynamic nature of conditional formatting from Excel to Xcelsius if we were to just insert the table selector object. Basically if the initial binding color of a cell was “Green”, it would stay green even...