Imagine you’re a sales rep and you’re out on the road a lot. It’s the Eighties and the way you do business is processional between the office, meeting your clients, returning to the office to input the various paperwork and data manually and repeat: you’re back on the road. Now imagine having the first Carphone, before anyone else. You can suddenly call ahead to your appointments; you can do your phone deals while you…

After the buzz around “Big Data” being the future of the BI in the enterprise gradually dying down, the focus has moved towards the world of data visualization. While Big Data of course holds considerable value – allowing companies to glean new insights and make more informed decisions – it needs a standardized framework in order for us to gain a real understanding of it, especially on a large scale. Data visualizations…

ReportPlus Desktop Version 1.0.1231.0 is here with the following enhancements and fixes:

Enhancements

• Exporting dashboard as .rplus file now prompts the user to include their local data files into .rplus file

Fixed issues

• Widget cannot be maximized after flipped to grid
• The selected theme in the themes chooser is not correct
• MySQL® data source editor suggests wrong default port 1433 as the correct one is 3306…

It’s now the norm for every college student to be connected to the Internet via their smartphones, tablets or laptops. With Wi-Fi accessible across campus, students can be connected all hours of the day. But, while the students themselves are using up-to-date technology many other parts of the university (and higher education establishments in general) are struggling to keep up.

“Ask any student ‘how has technology…

Hot off the heels of our release of the first version of ReportPlus desktop, we are excited to announce that ReportPlus now supports connecting to Box and OneDrive to visualize your excel spreadsheets on ReportPlus Desktop and Mobile(iOS and Android). We currently support connecting to spreadsheets on DropBox, Google Drive, and SharePoint and with the addition of Box and OneDrive, we now support all of the most popular…

ReportPlus Desktop Version 1.0.1210 is here with the following enhancements and fixes:

Enhancements:

• Box and OneDrive® data sources support
• In-memory data source support (CTP)
• CSV data source performance improvements
• Custom dashboard themes support

Fixed Issues:

• The Submit Request button on Settings -> Feedback & Support -> Get Support tab leads to an incorrect page
• Incomplete list of values returned…

Do you ever get a little tired of office jargon?

Maybe you have begun to think in paragraphs like this: To enable your Blue Sky Thinking, and to futureproof moving forward, you need to be constantly reaching out to the right stakeholders. As a business you aim to synergize in the right ways to leverage your mental real estate and create an uplift in your target verticals. Obviously. You do it by valuing your employee…

Extracting a report from Microsoft Analysis Services can be a cumbersome experience: not only do you need to configure your server, but you must also configure a folder in Report Manager and configure the model you’ll be using. If you’re using Report Builder through a browser, you are stuck with an .RDL file, which you can only open using Report Builder. Try opening it with anything else, and you’re out of luck.…