by Visual BI | Mar 30, 2017 | Business Intelligence, Power BI
One of the features that comes with the Power BI suite of analytics tools is DAX (Data Analysis Expression). DAX provides a wide range of functionalities for Trend Analysis such as YTD, MTD, QTD etc. Yet, there is no option to restrict the trend analysis to a certain... 
by Visual BI | Mar 28, 2017 | Dashboards, Extensions, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
It is a well-established best practice for dashboards and analytical applications to have consistent colors across components and views to identify specific measures (eg. Sales Amount is always Blue, Sales Quantity is always Gray) or specific dimension values (eg.... 
by Bhupinder Singh | Mar 24, 2017 | Business Intelligence, Extensions, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, Tips and Tricks, VBX Advanced Table, VBX Product Extensions
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... 
by Visual BI | Mar 22, 2017 | Dashboards, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio
Do your Design Studio dashboards look picture perfect on screen but end up like a bad jigsaw puzzle when printed? Printing is a common feature request for dashboards and it is expected that a dashboard prints the same way it renders. Here we discuss how format... 
by Govindarajan Devarajan | Mar 21, 2017 | Custom Add-Ons, Custom Component, SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, Tips and Tricks, VBX Product Extensions
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...
