Season’s Greetings with Xcelsius!

Here is a season’s greetings dashboard that shows off some of the latest features of Xcelsius 2008 SP3. Tweet the color you’d like to see in the garland. The dashboard updates every 30 seconds. How long Twitter search takes to recognize the tweet can be pretty variable – but most of the time, it’s less than a minute. How it works: I set up an Excel XML Connection that grabs a feed from Twitter using the search term “#twitterlights”. The... [Read More...]

Real Real-Time Analytics

Here’s a great video from this weeks SAP Influencer Summit featuring the advantages of real-time, in-memory analytics. You can see the full list of recorded keynote sessions here (registration required). If you’re interested in business intelligence and analytics, you’ll find it mentioned in the presentations by Jim Snabe, Vishal Sikka, Marge Breya and John Wookey. The sessions featured interaction with Twitter very heavily, using the... [Read More...]

Integrating Live Twitter Streams into PowerPoint Using Xcelsius

As a frequent presenter, I’ve been wanting to add some more interaction to presentations for a long time. A couple of years ago, I used some .php code I found on the web and an early version of Xcelsius to display a ticker bar during the presentation that contained the subject lines of emails sent to a particular address. And after some frustration, I even managed to put together a simple voting-by-email service that was adapted by the BusinessObjects... [Read More...]

BusinessObjects TweetCloud

Go here to see who’s tweeting about BusinessObjects, and the key terms they’re talking about: http://tweetcloud.com/search/term/businessobjects. My twitter handle, timoelliott, made it into the cloud – oops, I guess I talk about work too much… Thanks to Ricardo Polo-Malouvier for the link! Was this interesting? Share with others on Twitter with automatic URL shortening!   Read More →

If You’re Interested in BI, Should You Be Interested in Twitter?

Twitter use among business intelligence practitioners and analysts has been growing by leaps and bounds. Here’s a selection of blog postings and quotes about using twitter as a business intelligence resource. The bottom line: it’s more interesting and useful than you might think — give it a try! If you’re interested in following me, it’s twitter.com/timoelliott Darren Cunningham of LucidEra, Business Intelligence a Twitter "While... [Read More...]