SAP Businessobjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

Lai, David|Hacking, Xavier

ISBN 10: 1849681783 / ISBN 13: 9781849681780

Editore: Packt Publishing, 2011

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Titolo: SAP Businessobjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing

Data di pubblicazione: 2011

Legatura: Kartoniert / Broschiert

Condizione: New

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Xcelsius 2008 was recently included in SAP’s BusinessObjects 4.0 family, rebranding “Xcelsius Enterprise” as “SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0”. With features like flexible design and what-if scenarios, the powerful dashboarding software allows enterprises to make business decisions at a glance, and this book allows you to go far beyond the basics of these techniques.

This cookbook full of practical and applicable recipes will enable you to use the full latest capabilities of Dashboard Design to visually transform your business data. A wide range of recipes will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to perform tasks like configuring charts, creating drill- downs, making component colors dynamic, using alerts in maps, building pop-up screens, setting up What-If scenarios, and many more.

The recipes begin by covering best practices for using the Dashboard Design spreadsheet, the data-model, and the connection with the components on the canvas, later moving on to some from-the-trenches tricks for using Excel within Dashboard Design. The book then guides you through the exploration of various data visualization components and dashboard interactivity, as well as offering recipes on using alerts, dashboard connectivity, and making the most of the aesthetics of the dashboard. Finally, the recipes conclude by considering the most important add-ons available for Dashboard Design and enabling you to perform relevant and useful tasks straight away.

Create Dynamic Dashboards from Business Data using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (fka Xcelsius)

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David Lai David Lai is an SAP Business Objects Consultant from Toronto, Canada.He has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto.He currently specializes in SAP Business Objects and Data Warehousing work for clients which include SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (Xcelsius), Universe Design, and Web Intelligence. David has a passion for data visualization and best design practices with dashboards, which has led him to create his blog (http://www.davidlai101.com/blog) in 2008, as well as co-author http://myxcelsius.com and finally author "SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook". David also enjoys speaking at conferences about best dashboard practices and making sense out of data. In his spare time he loves to spend time on many physical activities such as working out at the gym, salsa dancing, rock climbing, basketball and volleyball. Xavier Hacking Xavier Hacking is a SAP BI consultant from Eindhoven, The Netherlands and has a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He has worked with a range of products from the SAP Business Intelligence portfolio, including SAP BW and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 (Xcelsius). He enjoys working on BI solutions that enable people to do their work in a better and more productive way. You can follow Xavier on Twitter(http://twitter.com/xjhacking) or visit his blog HackingSAP.com (http://www.hackingsap.com/).