Category Archives: business intelligence

another attempt at creating slopegraphs in crystal reports

In my previous post, I presented the slopegraph which Edward Tufte wrote about in his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. In that post, I was having some trouble representing a slopegraph using SAP Crystal Reports 2011; however, I think that I have been successful and creating a reasonable representation using SAP Crystal Reports [...]

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my adventure in creating slopegraphs with crystal reports

Since seeing Edward Tufte’s post regarding Slopegraphs, I’ve been attempting to create one using SAP Crystal Reports. The benefits of a slopegraph is that they let you compare the relative positioning of one dimension against all others in the same set while also letting you track the performance of an individual dimension from that set [...]

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online demos of business intelligence software

As part my role at SAP, I am responsible for researching the activities of competitors when it comes to new product releases, exciting features, and their place in the market versus ours.  As such, I’m constantly on the lookout for any online demos or tours of software that is offered by our competitors.  I have [...]

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