Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the Author
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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Part I Getting Ready for BusinessObjects
- 1 Introduction to Business Intelligence
- 2 Goals of Deploying BusinessObjects XI
- 3 Understanding Your Users
- 4 Marketing BusinessObjects XI
- 5 Under the Covers: Migrating to a New Architecture
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Part II A Better Universe
- 6 Universe Design Principles
- 7 Using Designer to Build a Basic Universe
- 8 Universe Joins
- 9 Classes and Objects
- 10 List of Values
- 11 Advanced Objects
- 12 Multidimensional Analysis
- 13 Securing the System
- 14 Design Principles: Where to Put the Intelligence
- 15 Minimizing Universe Maintenance
- 16 Getting Ready for Production
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Part III Reporting and Analysis
- 17 Navigating InfoView
- 18 Working with Documents
- 19 Analyzing the Data
- 20 Creating a New Query
- 21 Advanced Report and Chart Formatting
- 22 Formulas and Variables
- 23 Complex Queries
- 24 Desktop Intelligence
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: BusinessObjects XI (Release 2): The Complete Reference
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2005
- Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
- ISBN: 9780071491280
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