It was dashboarding week, pretty much everywhere. Dallas and Tom provide some great recaps (with tons of links), so we'll relax with a cocktail while they guide you through the highlights.
Our shizzle
- Congrats, Josh.
- Hurt feelings and questions abound in our recap of the future of Xcelsius.
- Hurt feelings and questions abound in Jamie's recap of the future of Xcelsius.
- And now, a word from our sponsors.
How-to Corner
- Webi in BI4, thoughtfully deconstructed by DSLayer alum Michael Welter.
- Andrew reminds us that you need more than technical skills to deliver a dashboard.
- Nothing fires up the crowd like formatting changes.
- Want to install Data Services in a distributed environment?
BI Talk
- To summarize, one really sucks.
- Actual BusinessObjects in the cloud?
- XComponents has entered Ramp Up.
- Mostly including this link for the Wildebeest.
- We'd be willing to bet that the biggest winner in the mobile Xcelsius roadmap is Antivia.
Enterprise What-Not
- Congrats to our buddy, Matthias Steiner. Hopefully he can bring the silver lining to SAP's cloud.
- Are we seeing the dawn of a newer, nimbler SAP?
- At this point, the only thing holding back WorkDay is it's "too HR-ish" name.
- Apparently you must do your job to have your job.
- Cindy Jutras recaps database/mobile day for the business person.
- SAP, still maintaining an abusive/co-dependent relationship with its developers?
Finally, check Eric and Greg going Canadian.
