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.

Contents

• Introduction to Business Intelligence
• Goals of Deploying BusinessObjects
• Segmenting your Users
• Marketing and BusinessObjects

• Basic Universe Design Principles
• Universe Parameters
• Joins
• Objects
• List of Values
• Incorporating Supervisor Settings into your Universe Design
• Multidimensional Analysis
• Advanced Objects
• Design Principles: Where to put the
• Intelligence
• Minimizing Universe Maintenance
• Almost There

• Introduction to Reporting
• Report Formatting
• Analyzing the Data: Slice and Dice Panel
• Exploring the Data
• Accessing New Data
• Creating a New Query
• Complex Queries
• Web Intelligence