Business Objects XI (Release 2): The Complete Reference

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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

# Business Objects CEO, Bernard Liautaud, to write Foreword
# Readers will learn to use the sophisticated BusinessObjects toolset to align the implementation with business goals, define user segments, devise a deployment strategy, and design and build the BusinesObjects universe to ensure success using the following: Learn to create appropriate business representation of data warehouse or transaction database; Create custom hierarchies and drill through details; Translate business questions into efficient queries; Customize portals to create Web-based dashboards
# All code and samples will be made available online

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