Posted by lm on December 14, 2008 under Corvu | 
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As promised, here is a short note on the use of the token function in corvu formula.
Lets say you wanted to break the address out of a delimited string. For example, turn..
4258970|Juniper House|Mount Avenue|London|W5 1QA
into..
Juniper House Mount Avenue London W5 1QA.
The Corvu formula guide tells us that the token function is token(s,d[n]). What this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by lm on October 25, 2008 under Corvu | Be the First to Comment
Getting Help!
I just wanted to clarify how to get help with your CorVu Installation, and below have outlined the main ways of doing this.
1. Get a Consultant in. Yes I know it’s expensive, but they really do know the best way to help. Ensure you know exactly what needs to be achieved and supply CorVu [...]
Posted by lm on October 22, 2008 under Corvu 5.2 | Be the First to Comment
Latest on Corvu 5.2 is:
CorBusiness 5.20.495 is expected to be assessed for Production release at the end of this week. The installer, documentation, menus, graph templates and portal are either already available or scheduled to be completed by Friday.
Blogging:
By the way I will be adding a new blog next Monday which is the 27th of October..
Posted by lm on October 19, 2008 under Forecasting | Be the First to Comment
Sales Forecasting
When Corvu 5.2 gets released I want to do a more in depth analysis of the forecasting module. In the meantime, I thought I would start with an introduction to the subject of forecasting in general…
Overview
A sales forecast is a prediction based on past performance and an analysis of expected internal and external expected [...]