Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Create professional, stunning, and interactive visual dashboards for both desktop and mobile devices

About This Book

• Connect to your data and create business-driven interactive dashboards using SAP BusienssObjects Dashboards 4.1
• Make better business decisions, analyze information, and maximize the value of data with the help of these eye-catching dashboards
• A step-by-step guide that will help you to master dashboard creation using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards

Who This Book Is For

This book will help beginners to create stylish and professional looking dashboards in no time. It is also intended for BI developers who want to use SAP BO to facilitate BI in their organizations. No prior knowledge is required, however, you must have a basic knowledge of MS Excel and some analytical skills to build expressive business charts.

What You Will Learn

• Create interactive dashboards for both desktop and mobile users
• Add charts, single-value components, and maps to your dashboard
• Use selectors to control your dashboard
• Use advanced features such as dynamic visibility, insertion, and alerts
• Style your dashboard by adding images and control a dashboard component’s appearance
• Export, publish, and import a dashboard
• Connect your dashboard with real dynamic data using the connection manger
• Find ways to secure your dashboard

In Detail

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with SAP BO Dashboards
Chapter 2. Understanding the Dashboard Creation Process
Chapter 3. UI Components
Chapter 4. Using Maps and Other Components
Chapter 5. Interactive Analysis with Dashboards
Chapter 6. Advanced Interactive Analysis with Dashboards
Chapter 7. Styling Up
Chapter 8. Exporting, Publishing, and Importing Dashboards
Chapter 9. Retrieving External Data Sources
Chapter 10. Managing Dashboard Security
Chapter 11. Creating Mobile Dashboards