A Message from our CEO

It was really a pleasure to spend so much time this past month talking with many of you about CenterView^TM 3.0!  If any of you missed my invitation in the last Newsletter, please let me repeat it here. 

I warmly invite you to a personalized tour of CenterView 3.0!  Drop me a line at jpurvis@corda.com and we'll contact you to arrange an individual demo of our breakthrough CenterView 3.0 release.  Just let us know how much time you'd like to spend--we'd love to visit with you.  In the northern hemisphere, at least, spring is here so we'll imagine talking with you on the porch.  For our friends across the equator, it really wasn't that bad a winter and you have little to worry about--in any event, nothing warms the heart like CenterView 3.0 which is a huge leap forward for data visualization, performance dashboards and business performance management.  Incorporation of Ajax technology extends the eye-popping Corda data visualization experience.  We've continued our unrelenting push for ease-of-use in dashboard design and administration, while building on more than a decade of strength in industrial strength performance, scalability and security.  With CenterView 3.0, we've also pushed deeply into the new frontier of enabling action to solve a problem once it becomes apparent through the traditional purpose of dashboard monitoring--you'll love the new alerting and collaboration features of CenterView 3.0.  You'll also love our new data snapshot capacity which facilitates trend analysis.  With CenterView 3.0, Corda enriches the philosophy of universal data access and extreme implementation speed--for example as embodied in our patented Datafunnel^TM technology--with sophisticated new portal integration capability.

Please drop me a line, wherever you may be on this spinning planet--and increasingly that could be anywhere.  Corda has enjoyed the personal experiences as much as our business successes in delivering performance dashboard solutions to companies of all sizes and kinds around the world in recent months.  In the May Newsletter, we'll feature a preview of Corda's Visual Evolution Conference coming up this autumn (or coming down this spring--let's just say October).  We really want to have representation across Corda's global user community and are working hard to make the trip to Utah very much worth your time!

Visual Evolution 2008 will be held on October 13-16 in Salt Lake City.

 Corda hits the Big Apple – BIG TIME

Corda in the News

You will see Corda in the news everywhere, even in Times Square!   

Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) Podcast

Corda recently visited with the BBBT and received valuable input from this respected group of BI experts. As part of the discussion, Claudia Imhoff spoke with Alan Winters at Corda.  Listen to this podcast at: Corda Podcasts

You can see other news articles featuring Corda products on our web site at:  Corda Articles

Corda and Cube Intelligence Announce Partnership

In a move that will deliver performance dashboards to a variety of enterprises, Corda Technologies has signed a partnership with Cube Intelligence Corporation. Cube Intelligence is a leading Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehousing consulting company that works with a variety of leading companies. Corda Technologies has led the field of data visualization and performance dashboard solutions for nearly twelve years.

"Our clients have massive amounts of data being managed through data warehouses and business intelligence applications. Many of them have come to a place where they need a way to connect with the data in a way that fosters actionable insight," said Hemant Verma, founder and CEO of Cube Intelligence Corporation. "Our partnership with Corda Technologies will allow us to fill this need with the best performance dashboard technology available."

Read the entire story at: Cube Intelligence Press Release

Case Study-

How Do You Keep Water Flowing in the Desert?

An example of a table from the FEC website, which uses Corda to create and display their dashboard views.  WWW.fec.gov

Tech Tip

One of the great new features of CenterView 3.0 is the enhancement to our tables. We have been asked how CenterView can change the color of a cell, or display an image in a cell, or change the text based on a value in that cell or adjacent cells. In CenterView 3.0 this is very easy.

First add a table to your dashboard.  You will be asked where the data is coming from.  After you have configured that, you will be able to configure a table header and footer for your data.  When you click finish your table will appear.

Now you can add an 'Apply' to the table. Name it so you know what the Apply is doing, then create a filter to apply it only to certain cells based on the value in that cell or adjacent cells. Now you can create the transform. You can apply a CSS style from the default Applies that are created when you created the table, or you can show a Corda image, or specify a drilldown or hover.

One request we get quite often is the ability to show an image when a value is within a certain range. To do this, create an Apply and name it. Then in the Row and Column specify the rows and columns (for example rows from 2-1000 and only column 2). Then place a check beside the if statement and make sure that %_DS:CELL_VALUE_% is selected.  Configure the range of values you want to apply to it. At the bottom of the Style tab make sure the Literal Value radio button is checked and then enter the image path you want to show. For example:

< img xsrc="http://mydomain.com/image.bmp" />

If you have several ranges with different images you can follow the same steps for those other ranges. Very quickly you will see how easy it is to apply different transforms to your table to develop a powerful easy to understand table.