I’ve been given the opportunity to share my experiences with BI Web Services and how to build more efficient dashboards using BI Web Services in the upcoming SAP Inside Track Vancouver 2011.  Please mark your calendars for September 27, 2011 2:30pm -> 3:20pm PST!

In this presentation you’ll learn about BI Web Services and how it provides a hybrid of QaaWS and Live Office.  As well as some new powerful features that were not available before. We’ll also discuss some limitations and work arounds to prepare you for the road ahead.

For those who are attending, there will be a set of door prizes which include copies of my book SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

For those who cannot physically attend, there will be a remote access link found in the wiki link below.

For more information on the event, please visit http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/events/SAP+Inside+Track+Vancouver+2011

Hope to see everyone there!

I’ve had several comments on my “Xcelsius Dynamic Color Binding” post regarding issues where their dynamic colors were not changing.

Well I did a quick test and yes there is a bug! So I wanted to warn everyone including SAP about this new bug.

I’d like to give a big thanks for everyone who participated in the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook Tweetaway contest!
I was very impressed with the huge amount of tweets so Thanks everyone!

I’d like to congratulate the 2 lucky tweeters who have won an eBook copy of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

They are ……..

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montoyainigo

Hi everyone! Packt Publishing is having a promotion where we will be giving away 2 free eBook copies of our newly released SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook.

On Monday July 25, 2011 we will be randomly drawing 2 winners and grant them access to their free eBooks!

All you need to do to join the Tweetaway twitter contest is to send out a tweet with a link to the SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook page.

The easiest way is to tweet by clicking on this link! or you can use the share buttons from the PacktPub SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Cookbook page

Retweeting other tweets is also allowed and there are no limits to how many tweets you can tweet!

Good luck and happy tweeting!!

I hope everyone has had the chance to experiment with the new features on Xcelsius 2008 SP4 as I am already using them for my current client projects.

The following features were added

The new waterfall chart component saves developers the hassle of emulating one using the stacked bar chart and excel logic.  For those of you who haven’t upgraded to SP4 you can find a good example of completing waterfall charts @ http://www.femkekooij.nl/?p=325. To see how much easier and cleaner it is to create a waterfall chart using the waterfall component, check out the example @ http://myxcelsius.com/2011/06/15/xcelsius-2008-sp4-waterfall-chart/

The other major new feature that I consider very useful, is the ability to replace the scorecard component with spreadsheet table alerts.  Please read my post @ http://myxcelsius.com/2011/06/28/xcelsius-2008-sp4-spreadsheet-alerts/ to see how you can use the spreadsheet component to accomplish what you need from a scorecard component and more!

The combination charts having alert capabilities is also very important as we do not have to overlay multiple charts on top of each other anymore to accomplish alerting functionality.