Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 770 pages
- Published by: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
- Edition: 1st Edition May 2, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0072226811
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072226812
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Product Description
If your objective in business intelligence reporting is Business Objects success, this is the resource for you. Gives a thorough run-down of the software, plus coverage of Web intelligence, complex queries, multidimensional analysis, and more. Author Cindi Howson has plenty of hands-on experience with the product.
Back Cover Copy
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 easy to use 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
Reader ReviewsBased on the first section alone, Getting Ready for Business Objects, I would recommend this book to anyone just starting out in the Business Intelligence space! Finally someone has come out with a workable model for BI implementation. It is obvious Ms. Howson actually operates in the real world and understands that sometimes you have to OLTP before you STAR and OLAP. In addition to this lagniappe, there are solid explanations of Universe Design and Report Creation principles. I actually prefer the WROX line of books, but this compares nicely in terms of technical depth. The book provides perspective from both the IT professional and the end user. However, it provides no explanation of how to install or tune Business Objects servers. Basically, it assumes that Business Objects is up and running. I would say that the book is primarily for Business Objects Administrators who use Designer, Supervisor, Full Client and WebI to meet the reporting needs of their end user community. However, if you just need to learn how to create reports and talk to your IT shop it is an excellent tool as well. If you are looking for the best Business Objects book written to date...then you have found it....don't waste your money on the other books. One downfall of the book is that no CD was included. You must download the reporting database, sample universe and reports from the web. Also, it would have been nice if the book was available in electronic format as well.
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