We have waited a long time, but now it’s available in English on demand: the book about visualization of management information by Rolf Hichert. No click instructions for generating a stacked bar chart in Excel, no poster or website with…
Dashboards offer great business value, as long as they are properly designed and used. Careful planning is as well a part of this process as experience in how the recipients use the dashboard. In an interview with Anja Kaup from…
We look back on an eventful year, full of fun and a lot of new developments. This summer, SAP Lumira 2.0 appeared with a new coat of paint and two "finishes": Designer and Discovery. Early in September, new versions of…
Mid of this year SAP will release it’s new product for data analytics, reporting and dashboarding called Lumira 2.0. I already wrote an article about the details couple of months ago. Convergence of Lumira 1.x and DesignStudio 1.x into one…
SAP caused quite a stir with the announcement to fuse SAP Design Studio and SAP Lumira. This is my view on things - the usual disclaimer applies ;-) ... The most important thing in advance: nothing changes for our SAP…
Some time ago, we presented the graphomate bullet graphs extension for SAP Design Studio. Bullet graphs – originally designed by Stephen Few – are a more comprehensive alternative to gauges when it comes to visualizing data. In early March this year, Rolf Hichert and Jürgen Faisst suggested a few improvements, of which we naturally took the opportunity to incorporate into our extension…
Christmas and its legends are right around the corner. A good time to give away our new legends: the graphomate legends. Among others, Christmas legends revolve around immaculate conception, the road to Bethlehem, angels, and three kings. But there are…
Christmas is coming and we do look forward to a peaceful time, family and the Christmas tree. Gifts play a certain role and we do not want to come second: during Christmas season, our graphomate treemaps for SAP Business Objects…
Speedometer or gauges are still often used in dashboards to display Key Performance Indicators (KPI). But gauges use lots of space and are not very informative. The graphomate bullet graphs therefore offer an alternative for SAP Business Objects Design Studio. Especially…
Finally: After the graphomate charts I am looking forward to present our next add-on for Design Studio: the graphomate tables. Yet another table component for Design Studio? Yes: From an analytical perspective, the standard crosstab does offer everything your heart…