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

• Getting ready for business objects XI
  • Introduction to Business Intelligence
  • Goals of Deploying Business Objects XI
  • Understanding your Users
  • Marketing Your BusinessObjects XI
  • Under the Covers: Migrating to a New Architecture
• A better universe
  • Universe Design Principles
  • Using Designer to Build a Basic Universe
  • Universe Joins
  • Classes and Objects
  • List of Values
  • Advanced Objects
  • Multidimensional Analysis
  • Securing the System
  • Design Principles: Where to Put the Intelligence
  • Minimizing Universe Maintenance
  • Getting Ready for Production
• Reporting and analysis
  • Navigating InfoView
  • Working with Documents
  • Analyzing the Data
  • Creating a New Query
  • Advanced Report and Chart Formatting
  • Formulas and Variables
  • Complex Queries
  • Desktop Intelligence