Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

by Taha M. Mahmoud
Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards
Author: Taha M. Mahmoud
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2015-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1785282816
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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards is a leading Business Intelligence and reporting tool that provides you with a real-time understanding of your business with agile visualizations. Starting with an introduction to Dashboards and its benefits, the book slowly moves on to explain the dashboard creation process. After this, you will learn how to add charts, single-value components, maps, selectors, and other third-party plugins to the existing dashboards. Furthermore, it shares many best practices and will also help you to connect your dashboard to real data by establishing a data connection to a data source. You can also explore more about mobile BI and learn how to create dashboards for mobile devices. By the end of the book, you will be able to prepare, plan, and design interactive dashboards based on your business requirements using this cutting-edge BI tool.

Creating Dashboards with Xcelsius

by Ray Li
Creating Dashboards with Xcelsius
Author: Ray Li
Publisher: SAP PRESS
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2011
Genre: Dashboards (Management information systems)
ISBN: 9781592293353
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Explains how to use all of the features in Xcelsius Teaches you how to build and customize interactive dash-boards to effectively visualize your key business data Provides guidance on using Xcelsius in an SAP environment Learn how to build your own Xcelsius dashboards, with this practical book. It explains how to use Xcelsius in an end-to-end, linear common usage manner, while highlighting typical scenarios where each feature can be used to solve business problems. It also gives you detailed, step-by-step guidance and best-practices for each feature, along with hands-on exercises that will help you begin creating dashboards and visualizations quickly. And if you re more advanced, you ll learn how to customize the Xcelsius components, themes, and data connections so you can use Xcelsius to the fullest extent.

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 The Complete Reference 3/E

by Cindi Howson
SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 The Complete Reference 3/E
Author: Cindi Howson
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0071773118
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The definitive reference for building actionable business intelligence—completely revised for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0. Unleash the full potential of business intelligence with fact-based decisions, aligned to business goals, using reports and dashboards that lead from insight to action. SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: The Complete Reference offers completely updated coverage of the latest BI platform. Find out how to work with the new Information Design Tool to create universes that access multiple data sources and SAP BW. See how to translate complex business questions into highly efficient Web Intelligence queries and publish your results to the BI Launchpad. Learn how to create dashboards from data sourced through a universe or spreadsheet. The most important concepts for universe designers, report and dashboard authors, and business analysts are fully explained and illustrated by screenshots, diagrams, and step-by-step instructions. Establish and evolve BI goals Maximize your BI investments by offering the right module to the right user Create robust universes with the Information Design Tool, leveraging multiple data sources, derived tables, aggregate awareness, and parameters Develop a security plan that is scalable and flexible Design Web Intelligence reports from basic to advanced Create sophisticated calculations and advanced formatting to highlight critical business trends Build powerful dashboards to embed in PowerPoint or the BI Launchpad Use Explorer to visually navigate large data sets and uncover patterns

Designing Dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud

by Erik Bertram
Designing Dashboards with SAP Analytics Cloud
Author: Erik Bertram
Publisher: SAP Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781493220601
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SAP Analytics Cloud is overflowing with visualization options. Charts, tables, drilldowns, geomaps--if you can dream it, you can design and build it. Learn how to create a dashboard for any use case, from acquired data dashboards and responsive mobile dashboards to HR dashboards using SAP SuccessFactors data. Follow step-by-step instructions to structure your data, choose the relevant features, and then implement them. Contains custom-designed dashboards for each chapter! Highlights include: 1) Dashboard design 2) Live data connections 3) Acquired data dashboards 4) Planning dashboards 5) Responsive mobile dashboards 6) SAP SuccessFactors dashboards 7) Qualtrics dashboards 8) R visualizations 9) Analytics designer 10) SAP Digital Boardroom

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

by David Lai
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook
Author: David Lai
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1849681791
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Over 90 simple and incredibly effective recipes for transforming your business data into exciting dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Xcelsius with this book and eBook.

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

by David Lai
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook
Author: David Lai
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 178439064X
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If you are a developer with a good command and knowledge of creating dashboards, but are not yet an advanced user of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, then this is the perfect book for you. Prerequisites include a good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel as well as knowledge of basic dashboard practices.

Learning SAP Analytics Cloud

by Riaz Ahmed
Learning SAP Analytics Cloud
Author: Riaz Ahmed
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2017-07-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788291840
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Start making better business decisions backed by data About This Book Predict new opportunities and risks in a few mouse clicks Eliminate complexity with tools that let you plan, analyze, and collaborate in context—in real time Discover, visualize, plan, and predict in a single product with agile BI tools Who This Book Is For This book targets IT professionals, business analysts, BI developers, managers, newcomers to SAP Analytics Cloud, and ultimately anyone who wants to learn from self-paced, professional guidance and needs a solid foundation in SAP Analytics Cloud. What You Will Learn A clear understanding of SAP Analytics Cloud platform Create data models using different data sources, including Excel and text files . Present professional analyses using different types of charts, tables, geo maps, and more Using stories, drill up and down instantly to analyze data from various angles Share completed stories with other team members or compile them in SAP Digital Boardroom agendas for presentation to major stakeholders Export the results of a story to a PDF file Save time by planning, analyzing, predicting, and collaborating in context Discover, visualize, plan, and predict in one product as opposed to separate solutions In Detail The book starts with the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud (formerly known as SAP BusinessObjects Cloud) and exposes almost every significant feature a beginner needs to master. Packed with illustrations and short, essential, to-the-point descriptions, the book provides a unique learning experience. Your journey of exploration starts with a basic introduction to the SAP Analytics Cloud platform. You will then learn about different segments of the product, such as Models, Stories, Digital Boardroom, and so on. Then, you are introduced to the product's interface: the Home screen, the main menu, and more. Then comes the hands-on aspect of the book, which starts with model creation. Next, you learn how to utilize a model to prepare different types of stories(reports) with the help of charts, tables, Geo Maps, and more. In the final chapters of this book, you will learn about Digital Boardroom, Collaboration, and Administration. Style and approach The easy-to-follow visual instructions provided in this book help business users and report developers create simple and complex stories (reports) quickly

Learning Hunk

by Dmitry Anoshin
Learning Hunk
Author: Dmitry Anoshin
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1785283022
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Visualize and analyze your Hadoop data using Hunk About This Book Explore your data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores Create and optimize your reporting experience with advanced data visualizations and data analytics A comprehensive developer's guide that helps you create outstanding analytical solutions efficiently Who This Book Is For If you are Hadoop developers who want to build efficient real-time Operation Intelligence Solutions based on Hadoop deployments or various NoSQL data stores using Hunk, this book is for you. Some familiarity with Splunk is assumed. What You Will Learn Deploy and configure Hunk on top of Cloudera Hadoop Create and configure Virtual Indexes for datasets Make your data presentable using the wide variety of data visualization components and knowledge objects Design a data model using Hunk best practices Add more flexibility to your analytics solution via extended SDK and custom visualizations Discover data using MongoDB as a data source Integrate Hunk with AWS Elastic MapReduce to improve scalability In Detail Hunk is the big data analytics platform that lets you rapidly explore, analyse, and visualize data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. It provides a single, fluid user experience, designed to show you insights from your big data without the need for specialized skills, fixed schemas, or months of development. Hunk goes beyond typical data analysis methods and gives you the power to rapidly detect patterns and find anomalies across petabytes of raw data. This book focuses on exploring, analysing, and visualizing big data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores with this powerful full-featured big data analytics platform. You will begin by learning the Hunk architecture and Hunk Virtual Index before moving on to how to easily analyze and visualize data using Splunk Search Language (SPL). Next you will meet Hunk Apps which can easy integrate with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB or Sqqrl. You will also discover Hunk knowledge objects, build a semantic layer on top of Hadoop, and explore data using the friendly user-interface of Hunk Pivot. You will connect MongoDB and explore data in the data store. Finally, you will go through report acceleration techniques and analyze data in the AWS Cloud. Style and approach A step-by-step guide starting right from the basics and deep diving into the more advanced and technical aspects of Hunk.