With the release of ReportPlus version 3.0 the ability to link dashboards was introduced for Enterprise users. This means users can establish navigation paths across dashboards. For instance you are able to create one dashboard with a high level view of your business, and allow users to drill down across dashboards with greater levels of detail whenever the user taps on a widget, grid row, or chart column.

The Company…

ReportPlus version 3.0 added several options when it comes to exporting a dashboard. Previously it was only possible to generate a PowerPoint file, while now it´s possible to choose between PDF, Word, and CSV files as well. For each widget in a dashboard a new document page, or slide in the case of a PowerPoint is generated. In the case of CSV files, for each widget a new csv file is created and they are all packed in…

ReportPlus allows you to connect to enterprise data sources, from your mobile device and visualize data. It provides more than 20 different options for visualizing data. Among them: grid view, text view, map view and several data charts, such as: column, pie, scatter, bubble, candlestick, etc. But there are times when may need another option, not available in the out of the box selection. It’s with these scenarios in…

As I mentioned in the release blog post of ReportPlus v3.0, we have invested in improving the overall experience of working with Analysis Services cubes from mobile devices, to define queries, and author dashboards with the result of those queries.

Specifically in version 3.0 of ReportPlus support for Analysis Services connections has been improved in the following ways:

New Tree Editor for Hierarchies and Measures

The…

After months of wait we are proud to announce that ReportPlus v3.0 is available for download in the app store.  Version 3.0 represents a major release for the team; it ships several new features as well as introduces enhancements to the overall user experience of the app.

With this release the app switches business model. ReportPlus going forward becomes a subscription based app, free to download, but requires a subscription…

ReportPlus version 2.5 adds two highly requested features by our user base to the Pro version in the app store, and introduces multi-platform support for the Enterprise version. It definitely represents a big step forward for the product and a major milestone for the team. 

Among the new features made available in the Pro version in the app store are:

Oracle Databases connectivity from your iPad or iPhone

Over the past…

I'm happy to announce that we've released v2.1. This release shipped the following new features:

Calculated fields post aggregation

A new type of calculated field is introduced, which enables computing expressions after the pivot table summarization has taken place. This new type of calculated field is created by tapping the button with the +fx icon, on top of the values placeholder, in the pivot table section…

Collaboration on business intelligence assets it's not only about sharing business insight. That's, no doubt, a big part of it. Once you come across a performance indicator that's out of range, or you identify a trend that's not going according to plan you will want to share that with others. It's only natural. But that's not all there is to collaboration on business intelligence. 

True collaboration…

Hi, my name is Gabriel, and I'm a data junkie (everyone claps in imaginary support group). I like to measure processes by analyzing data logs, and check for trends. I do this as part of my job, but also do it with my personal data, such as my email inbox. The feature that I use the most in Microsoft Excel is Pivot Tables. So when I started using my iPad I could not believe there were no good apps to do pivot tables on…

So you’ve designed your first ReportPlus dashboard, congratulations!! Now you want to share it, right? Well, you have a number of options with ReportPlus:

• Save the dashboard in a shared location, for other ReportPlus users to open it. This shared location can be a SharePoint document library, a Dropbox account, or a Google Drive folder.
• Email the dashboard. For other ReportPlus users to open.
• Email a screen capture.…

The arrival of the iPad has had a huge impact on sales forces, we know for a fact that some Fortune 2000 companies have switched the hardware they would provide to sales reps from laptops to iPads. One typical activity for sales representatives on the go is to showcase product catalogs to potential customers, ideally in a snappy way, regardless of what the network connectivity is like. The iPad has proven to be ideal…

I threw a wish in the well,
looking for ways how to tell,
business insight from (data)hell,
and now R+ is in my way

SharePoint is a well of corporate data that comes in different formats, such as: tasks, issues, contacts, excel files, document libraries, calendars, and of course custom lists.

There is precious business insight waiting to be mined in all these SharePoint libraries. For instance Task lists can answers questions…

I'm very pleased to announce that a brand new release of ReportPlus is available for download in the app store. It's the second major release, ReportPlus v2.0, and It shipped with some amazing features such as:

• iPhone support, 
• Dashboard styling & branding, 
• Dashboard Templates
• Localization
• Open & Save from repositories in the Cloud
• Password locked dashboards
• Plus a host of new data source connectors

Check out this blog post from Christopher Finlan, about the power of ReportPlus when used in conjunction with Microsoft's LightSwitch. In case you don't know Microsoft LightSwitch is described by Microsoft as a self-service development tool for non professional programmers who want to build data-centric, line of business applications. (sounds a lot like Microsoft Access, right? )

Well, the thing is LightSwitch…

When we built SharePlus, we saw an opportunity in bridging one massively used server side technology such as Microsoft SharePoint, with a new family of technologies, such as the iPad and iPhone.

We saw a similar opportunity with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, a platform that it’s among the most widely adopted business intelligence OLAP technologies in the corporate world. Our goal was simple, to allow anyone…

There are lots of small businesses out there that rely on email accounts for mission critical processes, I know because I used to run one. This is particularly true for lead capture, and issue & feedback management.  Emails like: sales@mycompany.com, or contact@mycompany.com are everywhere.  In some cases it is applied even to areas like expense tracking. It goes like this… one partner tells the other: “Expense tracking…

There are ways to view Reporting Services reports from the iPad, no novelty there. One of the good things about ReportPlus is that not only allows viewing SSRS reports on the iPad, online and offline, but it also enables you to compose reports visually in dashboards, and it allows to use reports as a data source for further analysis. We'll begin by covering these two features of ReportsPlus, and from there we'll move…

Every now and then we get users asking: what do I have to do to use my own excel spreadsheets to create dashboards with ReportPlus? The answer to this question is that there are a number of ways to do it, and we will cover them all in this article.

Send the file from another application

The first option I’d like to describe is that which allows you to import data without leaving the device. The iOS platform allows…

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away we set out to build a solution that would challenge in some way the current status quo in the mobile business intelligence segment that treats the iPad pretty much as a one-way, consuming only experience, as a second class citizen.

In a time where mobile devices are becoming more and more capable we tried to envision how any power user could generate business intelligence insights…