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If your objective in business intelligence reporting is Business Objects success, this is the resource for you. Gives a thorough run-down of the software, plus coverage of Web intelligence, complex queries, multidimensional analysis, and more. Author Cindi Howson has plenty of hands-on experience with the product.
Table of contents
Part I: Getting Ready for BusinessObjects 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence 2: Goals of Deploying BusinessObjects 3: Segmenting Your Users 4: Marketing BusinessObjects Part II: A Better Universe 5: Universe Design Principles 6: Using Designer to Build a Basic Universe 7: Universe Joins 8: Classes and Objects 9: List of Values 10: Advanced Objects 11: Multidimensional Analysis 12: Incorporating Supervisor Settings into the Universe Design 13: Design Principles: Where to Put the Intelligence 14: Minimizing Universe Maintenance 15: Almost There Part III: Reporting with BusinessObjects 16: Introduction to Reporting 17: Report and Chart Formatting 18: Analyzing the Data: the Slice and Dice Panel 19: Exploring the Data: Multidimensional Analysis 20: Accessing New Data 21: Creating a New Query 22: Complex Queries 23: WebIntelligence 24: WebIntelligence Version 6.0 Bibliography
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The Definitive Resource on BusinessObjects
Covers BusinessObjects administrator and end-user tools for query, reporting, and analysis
Improve profitability and operations in your company by leveraging BusinessObjects with help from this comprehensive guidebook. Divided into three digestible sections, Business Objects: The Complete Reference will help you get fully acquainted with this sophisticated tool set, design and build a user-friendly interface, then reap the rewards of reporting and analysis. Learn how to align your implementation with business goals, define user segments, devise the best deployment strategy, and design and build your universe to ensure success. Finally, create reports that will help you explore and analyze data, make complex queries, and improve business decision-making and execution based on one of the leading business intelligence tools.
- Determine your goals and implement a BusinessObjects deployment strategy
- Use marketing techniques to boost BusinessObjects usage
- Create the appropriate business representation of your data warehouse or transaction database
- Enhance your universe with custom hierarchies and drill through to detail
- Design insightful reports using tables, charts, breaks, and formulas
- Access, analyze, and explore huge amounts of data to improve profitability and manage costs
- Translate a business question into an efficient query
- Customize the portal to create a simple Web-based dashboard
