SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio is SAP’s leading product for professionally authored dashboards and applications. Even though all these dashboards and applications are available, either browser-based or on your mobile device (iPhone or iPad), a lot of customers are...
Some of you might still remember a product called SAP BusinessObjects Explorer with the ability to use facet navigation across multiple dimensions, and quickly switch between different types of charts. In addition, the user also had the ability to leverage...
In many organizations , dashboards translate into layouts with a lot of charts and tables. We have shown a use case where Occupation Safety and Health Administration Standard (OSHA) metrics has been superimposed on a visual to make them expressive and visually...
This is part of the VBX Geo Mapping Capabilities blog series. Conditional Formatting is an interesting feature. It’s flexible and is a great way to easily visualize data within a range that meets some criteria. Maps, on the other hand, is a data...
The need to include percentage value in tooltips is that it allows us to make the visualization neat and less cluttered. Especially in mobile devices, where the size of the screen is small, the data value and corresponding percentage presented in tooltip instead of...
A typical Challenge – Making dashboards easy to consume for internal and external audience How do you transform your dashboards to make them user friendly with images? A common limitation with tables in most reporting & visualization tools is that they are...
Bullet charts are a variation of a bar chart developed by Stephen Few as a replacement for gauges and meters. The Bullet chart has the following advantages over the gauges. Space saver – require less real estate, can be oriented horizontally and vertically...
I’m sure many of you have been in a situation where you started your next dashboarding project and wanted to re-use data that you already have available in other reports. Especially when it is about re-using perhaps calculations or re-using pre-scheduled reports in...
Background Adobe Flash has been going through a long, arduous downfall ever since Apple drove the first nail in its coffin by denying flash support on iPhone & iPads. Popular gripes that are driving the demise of flash-based tools and apps, like SAP...
Reference Lines A reference line is a visual indicator used to highlight a certain threshold or key values like average, median, percentile etc. They help in creating more meaningful visualizations and are an integral part of Quality control charts where you...