Category Archives: Maxima Information Group

Business Objects – Best Practice – Report Design

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Ross (Admin)

Business Objects – Best Practice – Report Design The purpose of this document is to provide a description of what I consider to be best practice when designing a business intelligence report. I will also try to describe the reasoning … Continue reading →

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Business Objects – Best Practice – Universe Design

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ross (Admin)

Business Objects – Best Practice – Universe Design The purpose of this document is to provide a description of what I consider to be best practice when designing a Business Objects Universe. We will also describe the reasoning behind the … Continue reading →

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Protected: Security – TrueCrypt – Encrypt Your Files

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

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Protected: Oracle Design Tool – SQL Developer Data Modelling

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

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Crystal Xcelsius – Filtered Rows From A Filter Component

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

This is really obvious with hindsight but it took me ages before “the penny dropped”. Most of the time I find myself using the “Filtered Rows” option on my selectors. The main selector that I want to use is the … Continue reading →

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MS Excel – Convert Percentage To Number

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

I have spent most of today throwing data around in MS Excel. One of the things that I have had to do is to convert percentages into real numbers. In excel percentages are stored as fractions, for example 50% is … Continue reading →

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Latest ETL Tool – MS Excel

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

I have spent all day in MS Excel. I receive excel spreadsheets in a “fairly” fixed format. I need to get this data into Business Objects Xcelsius via another spreadsheet that stores historical records and keeps the data in a … Continue reading →

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Protected: XI 3.0 – New Features – Publisher

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

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Protected: Lessons Learned

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

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Protected: Concatenate Two Fields And Get A Smaller Answer !?!?

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Ross (Admin)

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