Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Ruby on Rails

  • Creating Graphics for BI Reports in Ruby on Rails

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    So your manager wants reports with sexy graphs – what are your options and what are the pros and cons I have found eight usable packages with different considerations OpenFlashChart This is a series of libraries including one for Ruby that allow the generation of great looking charts that are very dynamic (see the demo…

  • Agile Development of a BI application

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    Wandering around the web I found a presentation by Soren Burkhart of Hawaii Business Consulting, LLC given at the Rails Conference in Portland, Oregon (May 2007) that describes a classic agile approach to developing a Business Intelligence application for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the US Department of the Treasury. It demonstrates the collecting of…