28 articles in this selection
| 2010/12/17 Consistent dimension colors in QlikView
A short tip today on how to ensure that dimensions in different charts get assigned the same color, regardless of how the data is sorted or if dimensions are missing.
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| 2010/11/29 How to custom format table cells in QlikView
A short tip today about something that actually took me quite some time to figure out: how to easily format table cells. Where in Excel you can just right-click on a cell and choose “Format Cells”, that option seems to be missing in QlikView … or is it?...
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| 2010/10/24 Moving a QlikView object, one pixel at a time.
The alignment toolbar offers some excellent options to lay out the QlikView objects on your sheet. However, sometimes you may want to position your objects in a manner that cannot be done with the standard alignment options. Positioning the objects just right with the mouse is very hard, so consider this alternative....
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| 2009/08/24 Modeling the Blueprint for MDM
Several practitioners have contributed to this complex subject and have done a good job at describing the critical elements. There is one more element that's often overlooked however, and it remains a key differentiator and all too often, it's the difference between success and failure among the major initiatives I've had the opportunity to witness - modeling the blueprint for MDM....
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| 2009/07/21 6 BI Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
Dashboards and scorecards provide organizations with the ability to monitor performance in relation to goals, obtain status information and identify trends using straightforward metrics or key performance indicators. Business intelligence the skills, technologies, applications and practices that are used to help an organization acquire a more thorough understanding of its commercial context - can provide a historical and a current and predictive view of business operations. When BI implementations fail to convey or inform a decision-maker because the information presented is unclear, it leads to additional time spent getting insight into performance - or even to an incorrect decision made because of an inaccurate interpretation of data....
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| 2009/07/15 Universe Design Best Practices
I recently had to provide a list of best practices in Universe Design - partly compiled from the SAP BusinessObjects training material, as well as my own experiences. I believe that the universe is the foundation of the BusinessObjects system. With poor universe design, required reports are often difficult or even impossible in some cases. Poor universe design can also lead to wrong data, non-optimal SQL generation, incompatible objects and/or Cartesian products (or very wrong data). I've categorised the best practices into two groups, End-User and Cosmetic methods, as well as Functional or Optimisation methods....
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| 2009/07/08 Power*Architect Data Modeling Tool
The Power*Architect is a user-friendly data modeling tool created by data warehouse designers, and has many unique features geared specifically for the data warehouse architect. It allows users to reverse-engineer existing databases, perform data profiling on source databases, and auto-generate ETL metadata....
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| 2009/06/18 Royksopp - Remind Me
Royksopp's very stylish music video for their song "Remind Me", consisting entirely out of infographics.
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| 2008/10/21 Improving Process Model Quality to Drive BPM Project Success
In recent years, use of BPM systems as a platform for custom business application development has accelerated. Many organizations have achieved significant benefits in efficiency, consistency and transparency of their business operations. Unfortunately, other organizations have achieved less than expected. In some respects this is not surprising. Developing applications on a BPM platform is a new development paradigm, and in some aspects it requires a new mindset to ensure a successful outcome. A key element is re-thinking the approach to initial process design....
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| 2008/10/21 Business Process Management (BPM) - Dashboard Design
This article provides tips on ways to display information in a way that is content rich. These methods display information in a way that enhances understanding, highlights important elements, and minimizes distractions.
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| 2008/09/30 MEGA is First to Unite Application Design with Business Requirements
MEGA, a pioneer in enterprise architecture (EA) solutions, introduced MEGA System Blueprint, the first software tool on the market that links application design directly with business requirements for the development of modern IT systems, especially highly complex applications, very large IT projects, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions....
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| 2008/04/29 Sparkline PHP Graphing Library
We aim to increase the adoption of sparklines on the web by providing a high-quality PHP sparkline library with the following properties: Flexible, Elegant, Free.
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| 2008/02/29 Better Data Model, Business Modeling of Information
On this site we discuss the business sides of data modeling, how information can be modeled in different formats - the pros and cons of each modeling technique, the limitations of the modeling techniques, and what impacts they have on business. We discus...
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| 2008/01/23 Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We're thrilled to be sharing patterns and code with the web design and development community, hope it's useful, and look forward to your feedback.
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| 2008/01/07 Information Aesthetics - data visualization & visual design
This weblog is based on the assertion that information visualization can be enriched with the principles of creative design and art, to develop valuable data representations that address the emotional experience of users, instead of solely focusing on typ...
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| 2008/01/07 Perceptual Edge
Perceptual Edge focuses on the tools and techniques of visual business intelligence to help you make better use of your valuable information assets.
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