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Centigon Solutions GMaps Plugin Coverage on Google Enterprise Blog

2010-03-24T20:15:00.000-07:00

Enterprise organizations that utilize Business Intelligence dashboard technologies require flexible mapping solutions to meet a range of geo-analysis requirements for performance management dashboards. With numerous potential use cases for bringing maps into dashboards, customers have long struggled between static graphics or traditional GIS solutions.... read more at the official Google Enterprise Blog

Centigon Solutions April Webinars

2010-03-21T13:32:00.001-07:00

Centigon Solutions has announced two webinars for April 2010 to educate Xcelsius developers and business intelligence dashboard stakeholders how to maximize existing and new investments in technology.

Streamline Xcelsius Development with Essentials Plugin Bundle
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Webinar Registration

Is your organization struggling to build robust analysis with Xcelsius? Join Ryan Goodman from Centigon Solutions and learn how to streamline complex logic while improving performance and maintenance using Essentials Plugin Bundle.Learn from an Xcelsius guru how to shorten the learning curve for implementing the most commonly requested dashboard features.

Google Maps Premier Meets Business Intelligence Dashboards
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Webinar Registration

Is your organization looking for an interactive geographic analysis application for business intelligence? Join Centigon Solutions, creators of GMaps Plugin, to learn how Google Maps Premier coupled with Xcelsius creates a powerful geographic analysis tool for business users.

This is your first opportunity to view Centigon Solutions next generation of GMaps Plugin that will revolutionize how businesses approach maps for business intelligence dashboards.

Essentials Plugin Bundle 2.0 for Xcelsius 2008 is Now Available

2010-03-01T17:08:00.000-08:00

Centigon Solutions is excited to announce Essentials Plugin Bundle 2.0 for Xcelsius 2008. With our newly enhanced components for Xcelsius, your organization can streamline dashboard development, improve performance, and introduce powerful capabilities previously un-attainable with Xcelsius. We would like to invite you back to download a free trial and provide us with the opportunity to improve your dashboard devlopment process immediately.
NEW ESSENTIALS 2.0 FEATURES:
New Background Designs Background Builder now includes over 40 styles housed in the new browser to create stunning layout designs. Bindable properties and a streamlined appearance tab make Background Builder a powerful graphic design tool. LEARN MORE

Advanced Filtering Capabilities Filtered Summary is now equipped with new filtering and summarization options making it the most powerful logic component essential to Xcelsius development. LEARN MORE

Improved Multi-Column Sorting Dynamic Sort now supports multi-column sorting, dynamic sort order, and bindable sort types. Sort in place or into a destination range to fulfill any dashboard sorting requirements. LEARN MORE

Centigon Solutions Featured in Xcelsius Success Video

2010-02-06T18:57:00.001-08:00

Centigon Solutions was recently featured in an SAP BusinessObjects video illustrating the growing success of the Xcelsius community, specifically partners who create add-on components. As one of the top "innovation factories" for producing robust complimentary solutions for Xcelsius, Centigon Solutions continues to push the envelope with products like GMaps Plugin and an Essentials Plugin Bundle.

Centigon Solutions founder, Ryan Goodman, provides one of the many customer success stories driven by an ever expanding collection of add-on solutions for Xcelsius.

For more customer success stories, visit Centigon Solutions' new customer success page.

Centigon solutions at SRC User Conference

2010-01-14T15:24:00.000-08:00

On Feb 23rd 2010 Ryan Goodman will be co-presenting at the SRC User Conference at the Palazzo-Venetian Congress Center in Las Vegas. The session, Dashboards and KPI Reporting, will highlight an executive dashboard solution used by Arizona State Credit Union, which leverages CSV Connector for Xcelsius. Used to bridge the gap between SRC's reporting solution and Xcelsius, CSV Connector played an integral role to enable rapid development of a connected solution.

Visitors will learn how they can leverage their existing SRC investment to create robust dashboards without significant investments in technology or development resources.

View 2010 SRC User Group Conference Information

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15 Minute Xcelsius Visualization with GMaps Plugin

2010-01-13T09:34:00.001-08:00

Combine a live XML Data feed with GMaps Plugin to enable a powerful Google Maps driven visualization. Ryan Goodman explains on his blog how an earthquake data feed was effortlessly connected to Google Maps within an Xcelsius dashboard.

Download Template Source Files
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Upcoming Webinar: Inject Google Maps into Business Intelligence Dashboards

2010-01-12T09:27:00.000-08:00

Geographic analysis plays a critical role for information consumers to understand location-based business performance. Join Ryan Goodman from Centigon Solutions for a one hour webinar, and learn how to inject Google Maps into business intelligence dashboards without writing a single line of code. Weather you consume information at a global or street level your organization can instantly benefit from geographic intelligence using Xcelsius and GMaps Plugin.

To ensure that you do not miss out on the opportunity, please join us on February 3rd , 2010 at 8:00 am Pacific Time.

Click here to attend the Webcast
Please provide your S User Id to get registered for the session.

View SAP's webinar landing page

View previous Centigon Solutions Webinars

We will cover the following points and demonstrate some of the select capabilities:
1. IntroductionDashboards and Maps
2. End user experience
3. Live demonstration
4. Google Maps Premier information
5. Bundling and licensing
6. Question & Answers

We look forward to your joining in the conversation on February 3rd , 2010 and appreciate your participation and feedback.

SAP TV Coverage of 505 World Championship Dashboard

2009-10-15T17:09:00.000-07:00

SAP TV provided additional coverage of a SAP 505 World Championship dashboard created by Centigon Solutions and powered by GMaps Plugin for Xcelsius.

A collaborative effort between multiple vendors drove the development of a powerful mash-up of real-time race data presented within a Google Map. The integration of GMaps Plugin was critical to displaying real-time analysis of course conditions, (wind, current, and race marks) boat positions, and laylines for planning race strategy, all visualized within GMaps Plugin.

View Video at SAP TV

Coverage of 505 World Championship Dashboard

Centigon Solutions' Ryan Goodman speaking at BusinessObjects user Conference

2009-10-06T14:14:00.000-07:00

Ryan Goodman, founder of Centigon Solutions Inc. will be speaking at GBN BusinessObjects user conference on October 19th in a breakout session titled: "Next Generation of Dashboards Using Xcelsius."

With recognized thought leadership in dashboard development, data visualization, and technical integration of Xceslsius with complimentary technologies, Centigon Solutions' founder will illustrate how to optimize Xceslsius with BusinessObjects and third party solutions.

Centigon Solutions will also be participating in other sponsored activities and meetings during the GBN event. Visit Centigon Solutions GBN 2009 web page to learn more about presentations, activities, and news for the 2009 SAP BusinessObjects user conference.

CSV Connector for Xcelsius now Available

2009-09-28T20:52:00.000-07:00

Centigon Solutions today announced the general availability of CSV Connector for Xcelsius. This new innovative add-on will enable you to load data into Xcelsius dashboards easier than ever using csv files.

Providing maximum flexibility in deployment options, CSV connector alleviates a dependency of XML and web services, while providing lightning fast response time. For Xcelsius deployment on the desktop of server, CSV connector can facilitate simple connectivity specifically optimized for Xcelsius.

For a limited time, you can purchase CSV Connector with Essentials Bundle and save $100 instantly
Click here to save now!

Visit CentigonSolutions.com and download a free trial

Centigon Solutions wins runner in up Xcelsius-Flex SDK Challenge

2009-08-30T18:52:00.000-07:00

Centigon Solutions, Inc. recently won runner up in the Xcelsius Flex Your SDK Muscles Challenge for SAP, BOE, and 3rd party product integration. Centigon Solutions teamed up with Wall Street Images to transform their innovative data visualization tools for navigating Wall Street into an interactive map for use with Xcelsius. The result is a innovative application for analyzing the complex Wall Street landscape within condensed screen real estate of an Xcelsius dashboard.

Wall Street Images @ Yahoo! Video

About Wall Street Images Plugin:
Wall Street Images provides a visual mapping of sectors, industries and companies in the competitive landscape of Wall Street. Now available for Xcelsius, Wall Street Images Plugin enables a user to navigate 125 visual maps for 11 sectors, 125 industries and 5500 companies with point and click simplicity. Coupling Wall Street Images plugin with connectivity to financial data web services and graphical components within Xcelsius presents an innovative way for any user to navigate Wall Street with ease!

Wall Street Images plugin will soon be available at Centigon Solutions Labs for free limited beta. To learn more or learn more about the labs release, go to Centigon Solutions Labs site.

Visualizing Strategy-Execution with GMaps Plugin at SAP 505 World Championship

2009-08-27T10:48:00.000-07:00

For the first time, sailors can use an interactive dashboard and mapping system to create a model of the best possible route for each day's race. Their strategy is based on an SAP-created mash-up of Xcelsius(R), the SAP data visualization software, combined with Google maps, GPS data, information on winds and currents and a sailing-planning application from third-party providers. By pulling together these data sources and applications via Web services - and adding a layer of data visualization, reporting and analytics - Xcelsius will return a visual, interactive model that shows the most efficient way to reach each turn point under a given set of wind and current conditions. Xcelsius connectivity to Google maps, live GPS racing data, real-time wind and current conditions, as well as navigational software, is provided respectively by software vendors Centigon Solutions, TracTrac and Local Knowledge.

View Press Release

Coverage from SAP TV

Other articles about this dashboard:

SAP 505 World Championship Xcelsius Dashboard

Competitive sailors use SAP dashboard, BI to plot better race strategy

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Custom Components & the Xcelsius SDK: Facts, Myths and Tremendous Potential

2009-08-21T22:25:00.000-07:00

Xcelsius has become a powerful platform for creating powerful business intelligence dashboards. The availability of the Xcelsius SDK provides an opportunitiy for organizations to integrate new visualization, logic and connectivity.

Join us for a webinar sponsored by Global BusinessObjects Network and learn from one of the premier experts in Flex/Xcelsius integration. Evan DeLodder, Sr flex developer and Xcelsius expert, will guide you through the facts, myths and potential for you to create Xcelsius add on components that will imrpove your organization's ability to navigate and consume information quickly.

August 27, 2009 - 12 p.m.
Evan DeLodder, Centigon Solutions

Sign Up Here
http://ws.asug.com/ss/wsb.dll/5/082709GBNWebcast.htm

New GMaps Plugin 1.1 for Xcelsius released with new bundled pricing

2009-07-28T23:40:00.000-07:00

Centigon Solutions, Inc. leader in add-on components for Xcelsius 2008, today released GMaps Plugin V1.1. The latest version of GMaps Plugin provides significant performance improvements allowing your organization to inject geographic analysis into your business intelligence dashboards with Google Maps Premier. In addition to point and click configuration, GMaps Plugin 1.1 provides:

10-20X performance boost for Long/Lat region definitions
Geocode conversion behavior controls
Better Data Point Management
Icon caching for faster refresh rates
Additional Icon Styles
New selector functionality
New bundled pricing

NEW BUNDLED PRICING AVAILABLE

In addition to software enhancements, Centigon Solutions new GMaps Plugin release new pricing and licensing bundles make GMaps Plugin and Google Maps Premier more affordable than ever before.

Learn More about exclusive GMaps Plugin/Google Maps Premier bundles

Take Centigon Solutions' plugin component survey and save instantly

2009-07-27T23:54:00.003-07:00

Take Centigon Solutions' plugin component survey and provide valuable feedback to how Xcelsius add-ons impact your dashboard projects. Upon finishing the short survey, save $20 instantly on any Centigon Solutions plugin component for Xcelsius. Centigon Solutions will utilize your experiences and requests to influence product road map and meet community demands.

Take the survey and save $20

GMaps Plugin featured in BusinessObjects Edge success story

2009-07-13T14:20:00.000-07:00

Available on the BusinessObjects website, you can now view how FreshDirect, the largest online Grocer serving the New York marketplace, uses Geographic analysis with GMaps Plugin to streamline operations. This success story illustrates how BusinessObjects Edge provides real business intelligence to solve real business problems. A big part of this success is providing dashboards that business users can quickly use to make decisions. GMaps Plugin coupled with Xcelsius provides street level intelligence for identifying at-risk deliveries.

To view the video, click on the following link:
http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/edgeseries/index.epx

and then click on the top banner "FreshDirect: Better BI, Deeper Visibility"

GMaps Plugin Best Practices

2009-07-09T12:03:00.000-07:00

Written by Xcelsius expert, Ryan Goodman, GMaps Best practices provides simple tips for maximizing Gmaps Plugin for Xcelsius. From custom HTML labels to dynamic alert configuration, GMaps Plugin best practices will continue to grow with more methods for integrating Google Maps with your Xcelsius generated BI dashboards.

View GMaps Plugin Best Practices

View other Centigon Solutions tutorials, videos, and documentation.

Save $250 on Dashboard Essentials Bundle Including Xcelsius 2008 Engage

2009-06-26T07:50:00.001-07:00

Four more days to take advantage of Centigon Solutions summer kickoff sale. Get Xcelsius 2008 + Essentials Bundle and save $250 instantly. Centigon Solutions has coupled Xcelsius with essential plugin components that make dashboard development easier than ever.

Take advantage and save today!

Google IO Developer Conference Interview

2009-06-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

Centigon Solutions founder Ryan Goodman and Flex Architect Evan Delodder provided an interview at the recent Google IO User conference about GMaps Plugin for Xcelsius. Featured at the developer sandbox, GMaps Plugin provides point and click integration of Google Maps for business intelligence dashboards.

Click here to view the interview, as Evan and Ryan explain the development process and benefits in working with Google Maps Flash API. (http://code.google.com/events/io/sandbox/centigon.html)

Centigon Solutions sponsors new community, MobileDataVisualization .com

2009-06-03T09:47:00.000-07:00

Centigon Solutions today, has officially announced its sponsorship of a new web site called MobileDataVisualization.com. This new site will feature technology and design best practices for implementing interactive data visualization for the iPhone, using RoamBi.

InteractiveDataVisualization.com will also focus on implementation strategy, empowering organizations to take full advantage of RoamBi's powerful platform and interactive views.

As the premier sponsor and RoamBi partner, Centigon Solutions will continue to support the rising demand for mobile data visualization using RoamBi as the technology of choice.

Click here to visit MobileDataVisualization.com

For more information about RoamBi, click here.

New add-on bundle including Xcelsius Engage

2009-05-31T23:25:00.000-07:00

Centigon Solutions, premier provider of add-on solutions for Xcelsius, announced the general availability of Dashboard Essentials Bundle. Bundling Xcelsius 2008 Engage with essential plugin components will enable your organization to develop dashboards and interactive presentations with additional capabilities for improved aesthetics and intelligence. For one low price, you can develop dashboards faster and cheaper than ever before.

Dashboard Essentials Bundle with Xcelsius Engage is currently available at Centigon Solutions' web site or through direct purchase at 1 (800)570-6806.

GMaps Plugin Webinar On Demand

2009-05-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

Learn today how your organization can implement Google Maps within enterprise dashboards with point and click simplicity. GMaps Plugin Enterprise webinar is now available for viewing online. From regional metrics, to street level performance management, learn how to leverage geographic analysis to its full potential within the powerful Xcelsius dashboard development environment.

View the webinar now

CSV Beta Announced

2009-05-22T12:05:00.000-07:00

In June 2009, Centigon Solutions will release launch a public beta of the new CSV connector component. This new component will enable organizations to connect directly to CSV files which can be loaded directly into Xcelsius.

"Any database or reporting solution can export to CSV", said Ryan Goodman, founder of Centigon Solutions. "We want to make it easy for everyone to access data without relying on web services and XML mapping when it is not required."

Intended for use with web applications, CSV Connector BETA will enable developers to connect directly to CSV files that reside on an application server.

To sign up for the free beta today!

Consulting Partner Program Available

2009-04-22T08:08:00.000-07:00

Centigon Solutions consulting partner program is now available for organizations and proprietors who provide Xcelsius development services. Centigon Solutons add-on components for Xcelsius save valuable development time while introducing better aesthetics and improved performance to dashboards.

View a recorded webinar on-demand to learn more about Centigon Solutions new consulting partner program.

Visit the consulting partner web page.

Join Centigon Solutions consulting partner program for free today