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

《Business Objects: The Complete Reference》是一本全面指南，涵蓋了BusinessObjects的管理員和終端用戶工具，包括查詢、報告和分析。通過利用這個全面的指南，您可以提高公司的盈利能力和運營效率。本書分為三個部分，幫助您全面了解這個複雜的工具集，設計和構建用戶友好的界面，並從報告和分析中獲得回報。學習如何將實施與業務目標對齊，定義用戶分段，制定最佳部署策略，並設計和構建您的宇宙以確保成功。最後，創建報告，幫助您探索和分析數據，進行複雜的查詢，並基於領先的商業智能工具改進業務決策和執行。

• 確定您的目標並實施BusinessObjects部署策略
  
  


• 使用營銷技巧提高BusinessObjects的使用率
  
  


• 創建適當的業務數據倉庫或交易數據庫的業務表示
  
  


• 通過自定義層次結構和詳細信息進行宇宙增強
  
  


• 使用表格、圖表、分段和公式設計有洞察力的報告
  
  


• 訪問、分析和探索大量數據以提高盈利能力和成本管理
  
  


• 將業務問題轉化為高效的查詢
  
  


• 自定義門戶以創建簡單的基於Web的儀表板
  
  

目錄       

   第一部分：準備使用BusinessObjects
      1：商業智能簡介
      2：部署BusinessObjects的目標
      3：用戶分段
      4：營銷BusinessObjects

   第二部分：更好的宇宙
      5：宇宙設計原則
      6：使用Designer構建基本宇宙
      7：宇宙連接
      8：類別和對象
      9：值列表
     10：高級對象
     11：多維分析
     12：將監督者設置納入宇宙設計
     13：設計原則：智能放在哪裡
     14：最小化宇宙維護
     15：即將完成

   第三部分：使用BusinessObjects進行報告
     16：報告簡介
     17：報告和圖表格式化
     18：數據分析：切片和切塊面板
     19：數據探索：多維分析
     20：訪問新數據
     21：創建新查詢
     22：複雜查詢
     23：WebIntelligence
     24：WebIntelligence版本6.0

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