Businessobjects Xi (Release 2): the Complete Reference  (English, Paperback, Howson Cindi)

This book is a must read for anyone deploying BusinessObjects. It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. This book covers the most frequently used features for the full BI suite, in one comprehensive book. There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence. It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. Transition notes are interspersed for version 5 and 6 customers to understand the biggest changes in XI Release 2. If you drive BI requirements in your company or are a data warehouse program manager, Business Objects administrator, report author or consumer, this book is for you.

Salient Features

• 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