{"id":12141,"date":"2010-07-22T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2010-07-22T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T13:38:51","slug":"antivia-xcelsius-business-intelligence-dashboard-with-web-intelligence-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/antivia-xcelsius-business-intelligence-dashboard-with-web-intelligence-drill.html","title":{"rendered":"Antivia Xcelsius Business Intelligence Dashboard with Web Intelligence Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an earlier post<\/a>, I showed you can use BusinessObjects products like Xcelsius, Explorer on a mobile phone, and drill through to Web Intelligence running on the bi.ondemand.com BI-in-the-cloud platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This post takes things one step further, with the help of SAP BusinessObjects partner Antivia. They have a great add-on solution called XWIS that makes it easier to access real-time Web Intelligence (soon to be called \u201cInteractive Analysis\u201d) directly from an Xcelsius dashboard.<\/p>\n

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The XWIS solution makes it easier to create dashboards containing live Web Intelligence data, complete with the ability to create new Web Intelligence queries without leaving the dashboard interface.<\/p>\n

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You can see various demonstrations of their product on their web site:<\/p>\n

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Mark Hudson, the founder of Antivia<\/a>, provided me with a sample file formatted for a mobile device, and I can confirm that it\u2019s a also great solution for mobile dashboards. Here\u2019s a short video demonstration of the XWIS interface in action, on a Google Nexus One mobile phone running the latest version of Android, which supports Adobe Flash technology.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a more in-depth demonstration, showing off some of the key Antivia features (which also work, of course, on any regular PC that runs Adobe Flash). On the home page, I set up a browser bookmark (NOT an application) that calls a standard web page containing \u00a0the Antivia Xcelsius dashboard:<\/p>\n

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The dashboard is an Adobe Flash file, so I hold my finger on the screen for a few seconds to get the option to open it in full screen mode. The result: an intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard, with live data from a BusinessObjects Web Intelligence server:<\/p>\n

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Antivia makes it easy to set up interactions such as drill down to the next level:<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what you get if you click on the \u201cproduct analysis\u201d button \u2013 you can of course use all the different Xcelsius graphical representations: pie charts, sparklines, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

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Clicking on a slice of the pie chart to get more details works perfectly on the mobile device:<\/p>\n

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In this section, I can drill down two levels and the rest of the model automatically updates:<\/p>\n

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The really powerful part is the ability to create complete new queries on the fly. I simply click on the \u201cMy Analysis\u201d button, and create a new view:<\/p>\n

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The Antivia Xcelsius plugin makes it easy to provide a fully-fledged Web Intelligence query panel, directly within my Xcelsius Dashboard:<\/p>\n

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I can create any new question I want against the data warehouse, dragging and dropping my business terms that I want to see:<\/p>\n

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I can highlight objects and change their properties (aggregate as sum, average, etc.)<\/p>\n

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I can add new conditions and filters:<\/p>\n

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And I can add sorts:<\/p>\n

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To get the results, I simply click on the \u201cview\u201d button in the top right, to send it to the server, where it is converted to the SQL required to query the database, using the BusinessObjects semantic layer technology. The results are then brought back and displayed within the dashboard:<\/p>\n

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At any time, I can go back to the query definition — for example, in order to make it a crosstab (there\u2019s also a \u201ctree\u201d option available, but this was the only Antivia feature I could find that didn\u2019t seem to work correctly with the (beta) mobile version of Flash)<\/p>\n

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And here are the results in cross-tab format:<\/p>\n

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So, there you have it: a great solution that leverages any investment you\u2019ve already made in Web Intelligence, and already works extremely well in mobile environments. Please contact Antivia if you\u2019d like more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking mobile Xcelsius to the next level, with the help of Antivia, who provide a plugin that makes it easy to access live Web Intelligence data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,100,105,107,160,197,198,204,213,321,324,506,627,743,745,911,1138,1151],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi-20","tag-2-2","tag-analytics","tag-android","tag-antivia","tag-bi","tag-business","tag-business-analytics","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects","tag-dashboard-design","tag-dashboards","tag-froyo","tag-interactive-analysis","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-bi","tag-sap","tag-web-intelligence","tag-xcelsius"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/antiviamobiledemo11-1.jpg?fit=690%2C357&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-39P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}