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Jim Bytes linked on “Toward The Intelligent Enterprise”

Posted in Blogging, Blogroll, Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Balanced Scorecards, I.T., Performance Management, Personal, Xcelsius on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A couple of days ago I had a blog visit from John Santic, Corporate Account Manager at Business Objects, and he’s now added me to his very prestigious blogroll on “Toward the Intelligent Enterprise“. The company includes author and BI & CRM veteran Claudia Imhoff of Intelligent Solutions!
John liked the ongoing sample Xcelsius dashboard [...]

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Sample Xcelsius Dashboard Take 4 – Sales Management KPIs

Posted in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Balanced Scorecards, I.T., Performance Management, Software, Xcelsius on August 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I promised you a Sales Management related dashboard earlier this week, and here it is!

As it’s sales related, in producing this I’ve strived to introduce a new level of clarity and adopted what should be a best practice going forward of dedicating the most screen real estate to the metrics that matter most to the [...]

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Sample Xcelsius Dashboards – Take 3 – Executive KPIs

Posted in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Balanced Scorecards, I.T., Performance Management, Software on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Here’s another dashboard I finished a couple of weeks ago and have had good some good feedback on. It’s an executive level dashboard showing the main KPIs that drive a client’s business, with drillable views of the underlying metrics that make up the overall result for any chosen period.

This dashboard has also been done using [...]

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Sample Xcelsius Dashboards – Take 2

Posted in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Balanced Scorecards, Google, Performance Management, SEO on August 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Here’s another sample Xcelsius dashboard I just finished off today (thanks Gareth!). Unlike the first sample which used XSQL to directly query the database, this one has been built with Live Office connectivity. Just one crystal report held on a Crystal Vision XIR2 server populates all the gadgets on the right hand panels.

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Hopefully it [...]

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$100 off REFURB iPhones already?

Posted in Apple, Blogging, Product Management, iPhone, iPod, iTunes on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Well shit me, less than two months into retail life and Apple have kicked off selling refurbished handsets! Has there really been that many burnt out sensors and factory rejects to refurbish? Man I’d be pissed if I shelled out $600 on June 29th.

Get the full story and comments at Engadget.
Are these factories infested with [...]

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