BusinessQ Report Example In-memory filtering

Posted by Hrvoje Smolic in BusinessQ Report Images

Secrets of good and valid report design

Posted by Hrvoje Smolic in Business Intelligence, Data Visualization

Creating a nice looking, but valid report in the sense that it communicate business information with elegance and accuracy is not always an easy task. The most important stuff is, of course, the data. It should be represented with the help of several visual design principles. They should present information to the readers in a manner that highlights what is most important. Every set of numbers has a message buried within, and it is task of report designer to present that message. But in this...

[CRO] Zašto je Excel opasan kao BI (izvještajni) alat?

Posted by Hrvoje Smolic in Business Intelligence

Iako znam da će i sam naslov naići na otpor nekih ljudi, ovo su moji argumenti: Prije svega, sasvim je jasno da je Excel najpopularnija baza i najpopularniji BI alat (alat za poslovnu inteligenciju, odnosno izvještavanje i analizu). No, sama ta činjenica nikako ne znači i da je to i ispravno. Smatram da je vrlo važno razmotriti ograničenja i troškove koje donosi upotreba Excela za reporting u tvrtkama, osobito zbog onih tvrtki i pojedinaca koje upravo sada shvaćaju da ne mogu nastaviti...

Our YouTube channel

Posted by Hrvoje Smolic in BusinessQ

Today we started new youtube channel where we’ll upload news about BusinessQ, our data visualization, reporting and dashboarding business intelligence software. Channel link is here. Our first video is demonstration of how to build a fully functional report with company logo, Title and Subtitle, with one business dimension (Customer City) showing sum of Sales and Sum of Costs, sorted ascending by Sales – with only 20 mouse clicks! If you don’t believe it, see  for yourself ...

LinkedIn Data Visualization Challenge

Posted by Hrvoje Smolic in Business Intelligence, BusinessQ, Data Visualization, Graphs

On Visual Analytics Group on LinkedIn there is an interesting discussion going on: “Based on the popularity of the Brian Bedrick’s “Looking for a Better Way to Display This Graph” post I thought it would be interesting to post another small data set and see what people come up with. I’ve found what I think might be an interesting data set here: http://www.calvin.edu/~stob/data/television.csv” We took the data and make some graphical representations on basic...