Your quarterly dose of business intelligence tips & tricks. Issue 3 - 2006
   

Welcome to the third edition of the ClearPeaks BI Tips & Tricks eZine. We hope you will enjoy reading this edition.

In this eZine you will find different how-to articles and tutorials about Business Objects, Siebel Analytics and Business Intelligence.

A new topic in this edition is the 'jobs' page. Here you can find our open job positions for our office in Barcelona or Tarragona. And in the Customer Success Stories you will be able to read about the sucessful projects that were done by ClearPeaks.

We really appreciate suggestions or comments so if you think there might be something missing or if you have a good suggestion for a how-to article, please let us know. Simply click here to share your thoughts or ideas with our editor.

Happy reading!
The ClearPeaks Team

Contact ClearPeaks:
ClearPeaks (headquarters)
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Tel +34 93 272 1546

ClearPeaks Tarragona
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Tel +34 97 725 0035


Editor

Anoek Aukema

Contributors
Lluís Aspachs
Víctor Castellá
Victor Cutilla
Moïse Kameni
Gianluca Nacci


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Business ObjectsView all Business Objects tips

Desktop intelligence: Designing a winning Excel report
Microsoft® Excel® is a tool that is always present throughout the various reporting layers in an organization. This article aims to outline some tips and tricks to help you design an effective yet simple reporting environment using Desktop Intelligence technology from BO XI R2.

Take your Business Objects reports to the next level with HTML drill-down
Although drilling down is easy to do with BusinessObjects web intelligence, there are times when this is almost a mission impossible. This article explains the process of easily building drill down BO reports with BO full client and publish them either in a web environment or in a local machine.
Is secure data access a concern? Applying visibility rules in BusinessObjects XI Release 2
Your organization wants to roll out a Business Objects XI reporting environment, but you need security so that your users will only access data they have the rights to view? In this article we will demonstrate how this is being done with the new release of BusinessObjects XI R2.
 
Siebel AnalyticsView all Siebel Analytics tips
CRM User Adoption Information Made Easy: Siebel Usage Accelerator!
How can a manager know if his subordinates enter the right information in the right places, and even if they use the system at all? If you are a business analyst or a CRM manager and your CRM tool choice is Siebel, then Usage Accelerator is the answer to retrieve information about System Usage.
Security in Siebel Analytics – an update from the Experts
Configuring database authentication in Siebel Analytics’ integrated solution
Siebel Analytics (SA) allows basically three alternatives to configure user authentication to access the SA Web application. Which authentication option you choose for your implementation will largely depend on your final requirements and existing infrastructure.This article will highlight the different options and demonstrate one of the methods – database validation.
 
Customer Success Stories Read our Success Story

A cure for better customer insight
Find out how Picis unleashed their vital CRM data with the implementation of FastTrack BItm to achieve a more comprehensive view of their customers.

“With ClearPeaks’ FastTrack BI solution we are now able to better analyze our data, segment our customers, measure the ROI of our marketing initiatives and provide an automated and rolled-up sales forecast.” Kevin P., Picis

ClearPeaks jobs View our job positions
Business Intelligence experts
Are you ready for your next career challenge? We are looking for customer-focused BI experts, team players with international work experience and highly motivated problem solvers with strong English skills, both spoken and written.
 
 

ClearPeaks starts project at STA
ClearPeaks just signed a contract with STA (Servei de Telecomunicacions d'Andorra), the telecom provider in Andorra, with more than 66.000 mobile users, 46.000 fixed phone clients and more and more ADSL connections. ClearPeaks will implement and maintain their BI infrastructure and provide reporting and analysis.




Emilio Arias from TodoBI wins the iPod Shuffle
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Access the rich data in your Siebel CRM with FastTrack BItm

FastTrack BI empowers your executives, managers, and frontline employees to access the rich data available in your Siebel CRM to make better tactical and strategic decisions that yield greater business results.




BOCP certification for 2 ClearPeaks' consultants
We would like to congratulate
Moïse Kameni and Victor Cutilla for passing the BO XI R2 exam. They are Business Objects Certified Professionals now. Well done!