Business intelligence professionals will get key information on how to leverage
BusinessObjects to improve profitability and operations in their organizations. The book
explains how to use the latest release of this sophisticated toolset, design and build a
user-friendly interface, then reap the rewards of reporting and analysis. Readers will
learn to create reports that will help explore and analyze data, make complex queries, and
improve business decision-making and execution based on one of the leading business
intelligence tools.
Covers all the new and improved features
Foreword by Bernard Liautaud, CEO, Business Objects
All code and samples will be available for free online
Cindi Howson (Sparta, NJ) has worked with Business Objects since 1994 and has helped
multiple clients select and implement the tool. Since writing Business Objects: The
Complete Reference, Cindi has published more widely and frequently in Intelligent
Enterprise. She teaches regularly at The Data Warehouse Institute, and authored the
booklet Top 10 Mistakes When Selecting and Deploying BI Tools.
Table of Contents
PART I: GETTING READY FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS XI
Chapter 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence
Chapter 2: Goals of Deploying Business Objects
Chapter 3: Segmenting your Users
Chapter 4: Marketing Your BI Application
PART II: A BETTER UNIVERSE
Chapter 5: Universe Design Principles
Chapter 6: Using Designer to Build a Basic Universe
Chapter 7: Joins
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: List of Values
Chapter 10: Advanced Objects
Chapter 11: Multidimensional Analysis
Chapter 12: Securing the Data Design Principles: where to put the intelligence
Chapter 13: Universe maintenance
Chapter 14: Almost There
PART III: REPORTING & ANALYSIS WITH WEB INTELLIGENCE
Chapter 15: Navigating the Portal
Chapter 16: Interacting with Documents
Chapter 17: Analyzing the Data from InfoView
Chapter 18: Creating a New Query
Chapter 19: Report and Chart Formatting
Chapter 20: Variables
Chapter 21: Complex Queries