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Playing with HyperVu..

Posted by lm on November 30, 2008 under Corvu | Be the First to Comment

Below I have outlined a couple of nice html headers to use in your quick reports.  Use of HTML in your Quick Reports greatly adds to and compliments CorVu functionality in HyperVu.  Just put them the header of a Quick Report.
1.This first example allows you to have a button at the top of a [...]

Some Morsels from CorVu 5.2..

Posted by lm on November 22, 2008 under Corvu 5.2 | Be the First to Comment

 
Working my way through the release documentation for 5.2.495, the first main release of 5.2, I have picked out some of the bits that initially caught my eye and I thought may be of interest…
1.      Expanded Dynamart sizes
For those of you with large amounts of data (no boasting now) you will be pleased to hear [...]

Delimited information in data sources

Posted by sw on November 17, 2008 under Corvu | 3 Comments to Read

 
Well this is something pretty much every analyst in every organisation comes to face, where a lot of information is saved within one field separated by a special character. That’s probably adequate from a programming perspective when building an application (even though it shouldn’t be) or perhaps a custom field which is used by end [...]

Running Corvu Remotely

Posted by lm on November 10, 2008 under Corvu | Read the First Comment

On occasions you may want to run a CorVu scheduler only after another event.  In this case, having it started automatically at a specific time may not be a viable option.  Obviously the CorVu administrator can connect to the server and execute the batch file or kick off the CorVu scheduler directly.  It becomes [...]

The 44th..

Posted by lm on November 5, 2008 under Personal | Be the First to Comment

In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. The racists were present throughout [...]

So what makes for a good Business Intelligence Site…?

Posted by lm on November 2, 2008 under Consulting | Be the First to Comment

As a contractor, I have worked in a vast array of different sites - from small one office setups, to councils to multinationals.  All have different ways of approaching their CorVu installation and all have variations on success.  What I’d like to do is to examine what I believe are some of the factors [...]