Business Objects: The Complete Reference (Paperback)

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
  

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