Insights & Information Design

arcplan is the first software tool for business intelligence (BI) which received the renowned quality seal  HICHERT®IBCS by BARC and HICHERT+FAISST. The high degree of flexibility of the tool 'arcplan Enterprise' made it possible to fully meet all requirements regarding graphics, tables, structures and comments. Since then, arcplan has invested further development efforts in order to simplify the creation of "IBCS compliant" -reports for the user (report developer) and thus save a lot of time and resources in the course of report development.

arcplan 8.5 offers a portfolio of completed and 100% IBCS compliant graphics which can be integrated into the application by a few clicks. Of course, 'Quick Steps' also offers the full arcplan flexibility and can be modified, extended and tailored to the specific requirements.

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The arcplan library is a very useful tool for coordinating the layout of reports. All objects which are extracted from a library behave equally on the reports with regard to the selection of the subsequently described properties.

As in MS Word 2010, older versions than arcplan Enterprise 5 required shutting down via the menu, comparable to MS Word 2010 via “File” and “Exit”, in order to fully terminate the connections to the data base. If this is not done, objects may be locked in SAP or be unnecessarily blocked in other resources.

Since, however, this is no longer necessary as from arcplan Enterprise 5 and more recent, it is only a cosmetic process now.

Step 1: Installing and Configuring IIS

Check whether IIS7 is installed

• Go to URL: http://localhost.de/
• The result should look as follows:

It's been ten years since SQL Server 2012 was brought out. Ten years, and soon it will be over again – at least as far as extended support is concerned. Before we talk about what this means and what our options are, I would like to take this opportunity to look back on these ten years: On aspects whose foundations were laid back then, and which are now standard in the database landscape, especially in the BI context.

When preparing reports, we repeatedly face the challenge of processing large quantities or complex information in a way which is clear and comprehensible for the report's consumers. Visualizations in the form of diagrams and charts can serve as an effective means here.

In this article, I would like to point out some important aspects which need to be taken into consideration when creating visualizations in reports, so as to achieve meaningful communication.

Long waiting periods are an irritation and a cause of much frustration when working with Tableau. In this case study, we look at how to get the performance of your Tableau data source back under control - even if you're using a live connection or a complex data model.

In case of arcplan applications, it is quite common that the relational data source from which the framework data for navigation, user administration, comments etc. are extracted are located on one server for the development, test and/or production version. This complicates the switch between these databases, as almost all metadata apart from the server connection is placed in the arcplan repository. In particular, this includes the database name, which now complicates the simple switch between various databases on the same server.

In arcplan, the individual selection constitutes a fixed list of elements which were selected by the developer. Up to arcplan Enterprise 6, a database query for an individual selection did not take place. Thus, this could be used for performance optimizations or for a pre-selection. However, customers frequently requested an add-on for updating the displayed texts.  As a database query did not take place, there was no update here, either. For example, a typo corrected in the database was not updated in a performance indicator as it was not screened against the database. From a performance perspective, this was optimal, as well.