In a great post last year, Timo Elliott commented on the debate around the question:
‘What is the difference between “Business Intelligence” and “Business Analytics”?’
And, his typically pithy answer was; “everyone has an opinion, but nobody knows, and you shouldn’t care”.
I would wholeheartedly agree, and in fact, I would go one step [...]
As we announced yesterday, XWIS 3.0 is now generally available. It is our biggest release to date with a host of new features, many of which help Xcelsius retain its position as the premier dashboarding tool in the face of competition from some of the niche BI vendors. In fact, we believe that [...]
Over the past week or so there has been a flurry of on-line activity following two blog posts by Steve Lucas (EVP Business Analytics, Database & Technology at SAP):
The Demise of Flash and the Battle for the End-User Experience
Putting Mobile First and the New Business Intelligence Priorities
Before [...]
In the “12 Days of XWIS” series I included a few lesser-known facts from the history of Xcelsius. If you are interested in these but not so keen to trawl through each of the 12 posts, I have summarized them altogether below for easier reading.
The History of Xcelsius – Fact 1
Xcelsius was originally [...]
Late last year we published a series of blog posts under the “The 12 Days of XWIS” theme. These posts highlighted some of the key features of Antivia’s XWIS product line and gave a few (hopefully) interesting facts from the history of Xcelsius. To make it (even) more interesting we also ran a competition where [...]
As I look back on 2011, which has been a pivotal year in Antivia’s growth, I can’t help but reflect that it’s now 10 years since my first company, Blue Edge Software, was acquired by Business Objects.
10 years ago, Business Objects and Cognos, both then standalone entities, were the giants of the [...]
12 days ago, we started the “12 days of XWIS” series, and on each day we have posted a very short video highlighting a different feature of XWIS. During the series, we’ve seen how XWIS helps boost developer productivity, extend end-user capabilities, fend off niche-BI vendors, automate dashboard distribution, and even deliver dashboards [...]
As I said in the introductory post of this series, one of the inspirations behind the 12 days of XWIS was the following tweet from Mico Yuk:
As Mico has been such a tireless champion for Xcelsius, it is great that we can help make this wish come [...]
On day nine of the 12 days of XWIS, we saw how XWIS enables Xcelsius dashboards to be taken off-line and viewed when the user is away from the corporate network. This required the user to log on to the dashboard while connected to the network and click the “take off-line” button. Today, [...]
Throughout this 12 days of XWIS series you may have noticed that all of the videos have been produced using an SAP BusinessObjects BI4 system as a back end.
Today’s video highlights this support by creating a highly-functional, interactive dashboard on top of a BI 4 WebIntelligence report.
Key things to watch out for are [...]
