We have discussed pivot grids in the past, but today I’d like to let you see how to create a simple pivot grid. If you are familiar with pivot tables in Excel, you will understand the functionality this reporting feature provides. By the end of the video, you should be able to create your own
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Read More...While many of my blogs are about PeopleSoft and Business Intelligence, a personal passion of mine is support of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). At age 6, my youngest daughter Lauren was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, as soon as I realized, I started to research on how to reverse diabetes. It was a life
Read More...Being a combination business intelligence and PeopleSoft guy, I am always looking for enhancements to improve the end user experience and capability of embedding business intelligence into the business process. Here are some of the favorite enhancements I am most looking forward to evaluating in PeopleTools 8.53. Related Actions/Related Content Enhancement: The Related Actions Framework
Read More...Let me start this post with an adjunct: I am NOT an iPhone user – yet. I’ve been hanging on to my Blackberry 8130 since, oh, I don’t know – all the way back to 2009? It’s the phone that my customers and prospects reach me on every day. Now, just to make you all
Read More...An astonishing 37% of hiring managers are using social networking sites to research applicants, with over 65% of the group using Facebook as their primary source. The days of doing a routine background check using CRB Direct on your criminal past or even credit history have been widened to include voyeurism into your daily life
Read More...A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to present at PeopleSoft RECONNECT in Hartford, Connecticut. In the midst of hectic schedules and a vibrant crowd, I had a great time catching up with old clients and friends and meeting new people and sharing ideas. It was a great forum for open discussions and a
Read More...Time for some off the cuff riffing here. ABC News with Diane Sawyer has had several segments on finding products that are made in America. I am all for it. This idea is something about which I feel passionate. We do not have to buy everything buy in America, just more. And not much more,
Read More...I do a lot of thinking about Amazon, because I feel it’s on the verge of massively disrupting Google and, on a much, much larger scale, retail as a whole. Today, let’s talk about retail. Here I mean retail across the board, save specialty stores (Apple, Bose, etc.) and emergency sundry retailers (pharmacies, some grocery
Read More...A Parable of Recommendations and Decisions So, how often do you really change the oil in your car, truck, or SUV? Do you follow manufacturers’ recommendations? You know, the last three cars I owned had completely different advice: one owner’s manual said every 6,000 miles, one said every 7,500 miles, and one has a snazzy
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