BusinessObjects XI (Release 2): The Complete Reference

by Cindi Howson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071491280
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/05/2005
Series:	Osborne Complete Reference Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	650
File size:	41 MB
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About the Author

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 TDWI, and writes for Intelligence Enterprise. You can contact her at [e-mail].

Table of Contents

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