Reporting and Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects
1st Edition
Published on 28. December 2009
Book
Hardback
655 pages
978-1-59229-310-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides comprehensive coverage of the major business intelligence tools in the SAP/BO toolset with a practical focus on the user experience and integration with SAP. Coverage includes detailed application features and functionality, as well as practical, how-to content geared toward end users hoping to maximize the benefits their BI investment by creating actionable, easy to read and disseminate reports, analytics and other business process metrics. The author will use robust, real world case studies to place into context and present the content in an easy to read, step-by-step fashion.
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Ingo Hilgefort started with Crystal Decisions in Frankfurt, Germany in the year 1999 as a Trainer and Consultant for Crystal Reports and Crystal Enterprise. With the acquisition of Crystal Decisions by BusinessObjects he moved into the Product Management role for the integration between the BusinessObjects product portfolio and SAP.
Content
... Foreword ... 15
... Introduction ... 17
1 ... Introduction to the SAP BusinessObjects Reporting and Analysis Tools ... 23
... 1.1 ... Overview of the SAP BusinessObjects Tools ... 23
... 1.2 ... Summary ... 35
2 ... Reporting and Analysis -- Customer Case Study ... 37
... 2.1 ... Motivation ... 37
... 2.2 ... Customer Requirements and Usage Scenarios ... 38
... 2.3 ... Mapping SAP BusinessObjects Tools to Customer Requirements ... 42
... 2.4 ... Mapping SAP BusinessObjects Tools to User Types ... 46
... 2.5 ... Decision Path for SAP BusinessObjects Tools ... 51
... 2.6 ... Summary ... 54
3 ... Enterprise Reporting with Crystal Reports ... 55
... 3.1 ... Installation and Deployment Overview ... 55
... 3.2 ... SAP Data Connectivity for Crystal Reports ... 61
... 3.3 ... Customer Case Study -- Enterprise Reporting Requirements ... 64
... 3.4 ... Crystal Reports Designer -- Quick Basics ... 66
... 3.5 ... Customer Requirements -- Financial Reporting with Crystal Reports ... 88
... 3.6 ... Customer Requirements --HR Reporting with Crystal Reports ... 112
... 3.7 ... Summary ... 130
4 ... Ad Hoc Query and Analysis ... 131
... 4.1 ... Installation and Deployment Overview ... 131
... 4.2 ... SAP Data Connectivity for Web Intelligence and Universes ... 134
... 4.3 ... Metadata Management with Universes ... 136
... 4.4 ... Customer Case Study -- Ad Hoc Query and Analysis Requirements ... 194
... 4.5 ... Web Intelligence -- Quick Basics ... 197
... 4.6 ... Customer Case Study -- Sales Reporting with Web Intelligence ... 221
... 4.7 ... Customer Case Study -- Financial Reporting with Web Intelligence ... 242
... 4.8 ... Summary ... 257
5 ... Dashboarding and Data Visualization ... 259
... 5.1 ... Installation and Deployment Overview ... 259
... 5.2 ... SAP Data Connectivity for Xcelsius ... 261
... 5.3 ... Xcelsius and SAP NetWeaver BI -- Connectivity Details ... 264
... 5.4 ... Customer Case Study -- Dashboarding Requirements ... 282
... 5.5 ... Xcelsius Designer -- Quick Basics ... 284
... 5.6 ... Customer Case Study -- Sales Management Dashboard with Xcelsius ... 314
... 5.7 ... Customer Case Study -- Sales Planning Dashboard with Xcelsius ... 329
6 ... Integration with Microsoft Office ... 351
... 6.1 ... Installation and Deployment Overview ... 351
... 6.2 ... BusinessObjects Content and Microsoft Office ... 355
... 6.3 ... Customer Case Study -- Requirements for an Integration with Microsoft Office ... 356
... 6.4 ... Live Office -- Quick Basics ... 357
... 6.5 ... Customer Case Study -- Using Live Office for Reporting ... 374
... 6.6 ... Summary ... 384
7 ... Data Exploration and Searching ... 385
... 7.1 ... Installation and Deployment Overview ... 385
... 7.2 ... SAP Data Connectivity for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer ... 415
... 7.3 ... Customer Case Study -- Requirements for Search and Exploration ... 416
... 7.4 ... SAP BusinessObjects Explorer -- Quick Basics ... 419
... 7.5 ... Customer Case Study -- Sales Analysis ... 438
... 7.6 ... Customer Case Study -- Financial Analysis ... 450
... 7.7 ... Summary ... 460
8 ... Advanced Analysis with Pioneer ... 461
... 8.1 ... Deployment Overview ... 461
... 8.2 ... SAP Data Connectivity for Pioneer ... 464
... 8.3 ... Customer Case Study -- Requirements for Advanced Analysis ... 465
... 8.4 ... Pioneer -- Quick Basics ... 468
... 8.5 ... Customer Case Study -- Financial Analysis ... 484
... 8.6 ... Summary ... 495
9 ... Combining Content into Dashboards ... 497
... 9.1 ... Installation and Deployment Overview ... 497
... 9.2 ... Customer Case Study -- Requirements for Dashboards ... 500
... 9.3 ... Dashboard Builder -- Quick Basics ... 501
... 9.4 ... Customer Case Study -- Execute Information Dashboard ... 528
... 9.5 ... Summary ... 555
10 ... Using BusinessObjects InfoView ... 557
... 10.1 ... InfoView -- Introduction ... 557
... 10.2 ... InfoView -- User Authentication ... 557
... 10.3 ... InfoView -- Web Desktop Overview ... 560
... 10.4 ... InfoView -- Folders and Categories ... 563
... 10.5 ... InfoView -- Setting User Preferences ... 565
... 10.6 ... InfoView -- Using Objects ... 572
... 10.7 ... InfoView -- Search ... 574
... 10.8 ... InfoView -- Integration for SAP Solutions ... 577
... 10.9 ... InfoView -- My InfoView ... 579
... 10.10 ... InfoView -- Using Discussions ... 581
... 10.11 ... InfoView -- Using Encyclopedia ... 582
... 10.12 ... Summary ... 586
11 ... Best Practices for SAP BusinessObjects BI Tools ... 587
... 11.1 ... Selecting the Right Tool ... 587
... 11.2 ... SAP NetWeaver BW Query Design ... 588
... 11.3 ... Data Connectivity and Metadata Management ... 593
... 11.4 ... User Security ... 595
... 11.5 ... Performance Considerations ... 596
... 11.6 ... Known Limitations ... 599
... 11.7 ... Report Design--Relevant Topics ... 603
... 11.8 ... Tracing and Troubleshooting ... 604
... 11.9 ... Summary ... 605
12 ... Product Integration Outlook ... 607
... 12.1 ... SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Tools ... 607
... 12.2 ... SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Tools Integrated into SAP Applications ... 611
... 12.3 ... Two Platforms -- SAP BusinessObjects and SAP NetWeaver ... 614
... 12.4 ... Summary ... 615
... Appendices ... 617
... A ... Installation and Configuration of the Data Federator Connectivity ... 617
... B ... The Author ... 641
... Index ... 643