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Blog posts by user: Peter De Rop

A Waterfall Chart in Business Objects

Posted by Peter De Rop on 16/03/2012.

I found an article on the web where they show how to create a waterfall chart in Excel after a student asked me about it. Here is how you use that technique in Business Objects.

Playing with PerformancePoint

Posted by Peter De Rop on 15/12/2011.

A walkthrough for creating a KPI in PerformancePoint.

Business Objects: Logarithmic Trendlines

Posted by Peter De Rop on 24/11/2011.

Right, looks like I overestimated this one. After doing the previous one, Logarithmic just sounded a bit more scary. It really isn’t. In fact, it was the Microsoft site that got me a bit going. They mentioned something called “Linear Regression”. I looked up the math and it looked impressive. I had no idea, that was what I had already done in the previous article.

That has been my experience so far. A series of terms is unknown to me. This makes it fun to figure out how this stuff works because I really have to figure it out for myself.

Closing gaps in Charts in Business Objects

Posted by Peter De Rop on 24/11/2011.

This is a classic.When you’ve been creating charts in Business Objects, you know about this one. You want to present data for an entire year, but for one month, you don't have any data available.

Logarithmic Scales

Posted by Peter De Rop on 24/11/2011.

This is an underused feature, as far as I’m concerned. Every time when I mention these things, people’s eyes go all glazy, but it is a pretty cool feature of charts.