QlikSense Menus – They are all greek to me

We found an interesting issue with QlikSense 2.0 the other day, where the menu options all looked like Hieroglyphics or Greek characters rather than the english characters. A close up of the right hand menu shows the problem:     The problem ended up being...

ODE – Just ship it!

Just Ship It Already! Steve Jobs said “Real Artists Ship” . Ma.tt has a great blog about shipping One point oh. And there is a loverly comment at the end of the blog that goes: “A great entrepreneur once told me that “an idea without execution is...

BI Problems – Data Requirements

BUSINESS USER BUSINESS ANALYST The Scenario? An analyst asks business users what they require to be delivered.  The business user articulates what they require and the analyst documents this in a standard requirements document template. But when the solution is...

ODE & 3CPO – Talking multiple languages

Everybody talks a different language When we decided to start building ODE we knew a few things already.  One of those things was that most of our customers already had data warehousing technology. They had already invested in Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAS, Teradata,...