Intended for those deploying BusinessObjects, this book covers the frequently used features for the full BI suite. It includes coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence.
This book is a must read for anyone deploying BusinessObjects. It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. This book covers the most frequently used features for the full BI suite, in one comprehensive book. There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence. It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. Transition notes are interspersed for version 5 and 6 customers to understand the biggest changes in XI Release 2. If you drive BI requirements in your company or are a data warehouse program manager, Business Objects administrator, report author or consumer, this book is for you.
PART I: GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS XI Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence Chapter 2: Goals of Deploying Business Objects XI Chapter 3: Understanding your Users Chapter 4: Marketing Your BusinessObjects XI Chapter 5: Under the Covers: Migrating to a New Architecture PART II: A BETTER UNIVERSE Chapter 6: Universe Design Principles Chapter 7: Using Designer to Build a Basic Universe Chapter 8: Universe Joins Chapter 9: Classes and Objects Chapter 10: List of Values Chapter 11: Advanced Objects Chapter 12: Multidimensional Analysis Chapter 13: Securing the System Chapter 14: Design Principles: Where to Put the Intelligence Chapter 15: Minimizing Universe Maintenance Chapter 16: Getting Ready for Production PART III: REPORTING AND ANALYSIS Chapter 17: Navigating InfoView Chapter 18: Working with Documents Chapter 19: Analyzing the Data Chapter 20: Creating a New Query Chapter 21: Advanced Report and Chart Formatting Chapter 22: Formulas and Variables Chapter 23: Complex Queries Chapter 24: Desktop Intelligence BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
Cindi Howson is the President of ASK, a BI Consultancy. She has worked with Business Objects since 1994, helping customers around the world implement and optimize their deployments. As an industry analyst, she authors the BIScorecard(tm) product reviews, teaches for The Data Warehouse InstituteI, and writes for Intelligence Enterprise. Cindi is the author of Business Objects XI: The Complete Reference as well as Successful Business Intelligence, by McGraw-Hill.
Über den Autor
Cindi Howson is the President of ASK, a BI Consultancy. She has worked with Business Objects since 1994, helping customers around the world implement and optimize their deployments. As an industry analyst, she authors the BIScorecard(tm) product reviews, teaches for The Data Warehouse InstituteI, and writes for Intelligence Enterprise. Cindi is the author of Business Objects XI: The Complete Reference as well as Successful Business Intelligence, by McGraw-Hill.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I: GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS XI
Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence
Chapter 2: Goals of Deploying Business Objects XI
Chapter 3: Understanding your Users
Chapter 4: Marketing Your BusinessObjects XI
Chapter 5: Under the Covers: Migrating to a New Architecture
PART II: A BETTER UNIVERSE
Chapter 6: Universe Design Principles
Chapter 7: Using Designer to Build a Basic Universe
Chapter 8: Universe Joins
Chapter 9: Classes and Objects
Chapter 10: List of Values
Chapter 11: Advanced Objects
Chapter 12: Multidimensional Analysis
Chapter 13: Securing the System
Chapter 14: Design Principles: Where to Put the Intelligence
Chapter 15: Minimizing Universe Maintenance
Chapter 16: Getting Ready for Production
PART III: REPORTING AND ANALYSIS
Chapter 17: Navigating InfoView
Chapter 18: Working with Documents
Chapter 19: Analyzing the Data
Chapter 20: Creating a New Query
Chapter 21: Advanced Report and Chart Formatting
Chapter 22: Formulas and Variables
Chapter 23: Complex Queries
Chapter 24: Desktop Intelligence
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Klappentext
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This book is a must read for anyone deploying Business Objects
It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. This book covers the most frequently used features for the full BI suite, in one comprehensive book. There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence. It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. Transition notes are interspersed for version 5 and 6 customers to understand the biggest changes in XI Release 2. If you drive BI requirements in your company or are a data warehouse program manager, Business Objects administrator, report author or consumer, this book is for you.
