David Lai's Business Intelligence Blog

Help make Xcelsius a better tool!

With your input and ideas we can all help Xcelsius become a better Dashboarding tool. Please take some time and visit the link below to submit your ideas that you think will make Xcelsius a better Dashboarding product. Thanks! https://ideas.sap.com/community/products_and_solutions/sbodashboards

Planned SAP name changes for Business Objects 4.0

Below is a great article on planned SAP named changes for the Business Objects 4.0 release. It looks like Xcelsius Enterprise will be changed to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards.   In my opinion it’s still better than SAP Crystal Dashboard Design, as that name is Soooo long! Bad thing is that the new change will add some more confusion.  Can’t we just keep the same name to make things...

Xcelisius Dashboards outside of Infoview with the help of CELogonToken

Not all corporations want their employees to access dashboards through Infoview as some may want to access dashboards through a 3rd party website or portal such as Sharepoint. On top of that, users generally don’t want a login pop-up to appear whenever dashboard data is first refreshed. So we’ll need some sort of hidden login mechanism that bypasses the pop-up and allows data to be refreshed on...