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| business intelligence business objects: Business Analysis for Business Intelligence Bert Brijs, 2016-04-19 Aligning business intelligence (BI) infrastructure with strategy processes not only improves your organization's ability to respond to change, but also adds significant value to your BI infrastructure and development investments. Until now, there has been a need for a comprehensive book on business analysis for BI that starts with a macro view and |
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| business intelligence business objects: SAP Businessobjects Web Intelligence Jim Brogden, Heather Sinkwitz, Dallas Marks, Gabriel Orthous, 2014 Sharpen your data presentations with this comprehensive guide to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. From creating a report, to displaying data via charts, to sharing reports with others, get everything from the basics to the actionable details that inform your work. This third edition of our best-selling book on WebI includes UI and functionality changes for SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 and expanded coverage of new topics like SAP HANA and mobility. Make your reporting and analysis intelligent Web Intelligence 4.1Flex your sales analysis and reporting muscles with usability improvements, new language support, and enhanced workflows for SAP HANA and BW data sources with the newest version of WebI. From Creation to PublicationGet the complete picture of working with WebI. From the first steps to the last, learn how to design reports that make an impact. Mobile IntegrationExplore the new features of SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 5.x and learn how you can provide advanced analytics on mobile devices. Highlights: Release 4.1 HTML and Java viewers SAP HANA variable support Report creation Report Panel Data filters Drill-down Query Panel functionality BI Launch Pad Enhanced BI Mobile features Web Intelligence Rich Client |
| business intelligence business objects: Learning SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Taha M. Mahmoud, 2015-06-29 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. |
| business intelligence business objects: Video Analytics for Business Intelligence Caifeng Shan, Fatih Porikli, Tao Xiang, Shaogang Gong, 2012-04-07 Closed Circuit TeleVision (CCTV) cameras have been increasingly deployed pervasively in public spaces including retail centres and shopping malls. Intelligent video analytics aims to automatically analyze content of massive amount of public space video data and has been one of the most active areas of computer vision research in the last two decades. Current focus of video analytics research has been largely on detecting alarm events and abnormal behaviours for public safety and security applications. However, increasingly CCTV installations have also been exploited for gathering and analyzing business intelligence information, in order to enhance marketing and operational efficiency. For example, in retail environments, surveillance cameras can be utilised to collect statistical information about shopping behaviour and preference for marketing (e.g., how many people entered a shop; how many females/males or which age groups of people showed interests to a particular product; how long did they stay in the shop; and what are the frequent paths), and to measure operational efficiency for improving customer experience. Video analytics has the enormous potential for non-security oriented commercial applications. This book presents the latest developments on video analytics for business intelligence applications. It provides both academic and commercial practitioners an understanding of the state-of-the-art and a resource for potential applications and successful practice. |
| business intelligence business objects: SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook David Lai, Xavier Hacking, 2015-03-30 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. |
| business intelligence business objects: Decision Support, Analytics, and Business Intelligence, Third Edition Daniel J. Power, Ciara Heavin, 2017-06-08 Rapid technology change is impacting organizations large and small. Mobile and Cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and “Big Data” are driving forces in organizational digital transformation. Decision support and analytics are available to many people in a business or organization. Business professionals need to learn about and understand computerized decision support for organizations to succeed. This text is targeted to busy managers and students who need to grasp the basics of computerized decision support, including: What is analytics? What is a decision support system? What is “Big Data”? What are “Big Data” business use cases? Overall, it addresses 61 fundamental questions. In a short period of time, readers can “get up to speed” on decision support, analytics, and business intelligence. The book then provides a quick reference to important recurring questions. |
| business intelligence business objects: Business Objects Designer XI V3 Robert D. Schmidt, 2009 Creating Universes with Business Objects Designer XI V3 is a complete learning system consisting of a thorough book and a professionally designed computer-based training application. The system is completely dedicated to teaching you how to become a competent Universe Designer. Readers learn how to create a basic universe and how to tackle many of the complications that may arise when designing universes. These topics include chasm traps, fan traps, multi-keyed property tables, double-counting measures, multiple fact tables, aggregated fact tables, and more. |
| business intelligence business objects: Discover SAP BusinessObjects Chris Dinkel, Thierry Audas, J. C. Raveneau, 2011 Learn the SAP BusinessObjects strategy Explore the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio of solutions Understand the value of the solutions and prepare to use them Discover what SAP BusinessObjects is all about and learn how the new products and solutions can improve your business processes. In this book, you ll find what you need to really understand where SAP BusinessObjects can fit into your operations. Whether you re a decision-maker, consultant, or new SAP professional, this reader-friendly reference will take you on a complete journey from the history of Business Objects to a look at each SAP BusinessObjects portfolio solution. You ll find everything from On Demand, EPM, GRC, and Enterprise Information Management solutions to customer scenarios and the SAP BusinessObjects roadmap. Discover the SAP Businessobjects Strategy Investigate the history of Business Objects and see how it has evolved. Explore the SAP Businessobjects Applications Learn about the different applications and see how they can be applied to your business. Find the Tools You Need Find all the details you need to understand business intelligence with SAP and the technology that enables it.Learn About SAP BusinessObjects in the real World Explore in-depth case studies for various topics to find out how other companies have improved business processes and enhanced efficiency. Navigate as You Like Go directly to the chapter that interests you, or read from cover to cover, and be sure to make use of the glossary and list of resources. |
| business intelligence business objects: Performance Dashboards Wayne W. Eckerson, 2005-10-27 Tips, techniques, and trends on how to use dashboard technology to optimize business performance Business performance management is a hot new management discipline that delivers tremendous value when supported by information technology. Through case studies and industry research, this book shows how leading companies are using performance dashboards to execute strategy, optimize business processes, and improve performance. Wayne W. Eckerson (Hingham, MA) is the Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), the leading association of business intelligence and data warehousing professionals worldwide that provide high-quality, in-depth education, training, and research. He is a columnist for SearchCIO.com, DM Review, Application Development Trends, the Business Intelligence Journal, and TDWI Case Studies & Solution. |
| business intelligence business objects: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10 Sangeeta Gautam, 2013 Maximize the Value of Business Intelligence with IBM Cognos v10 -- Hands-on, from Start to Finish This easy-to-use, hands-on guide brings together all the information and insight you need to drive maximum business value from IBM Cognos v10. Long-time IBM Cognos expert and product designer Sangeeta Gautam thoroughly illuminates Cognos BI v10's key capabilities: analysis, query, reporting, and dashboards. Gautam shows how to take full advantage of each key IBM Cognos feature, including brand-new innovations such as Active Reports and the new IBM Cognos Workspace report consumption environment. She concludes by walking you through successfully planning and implementing an integrated business intelligence solution using IBM's best-practice methodologies. The first and only guide of its kind, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10 offers expert insights for BI designers, architects, developers, administrators, project managers, nontechnical end-users, and partners throughout all areas of the business--from sales and marketing to operations and lines of business. If you're pursuing official IBM Cognos certification, you'll also find Cognos certification sample questions and information to help you with the certification process. Coverage Includes * Understanding IBM Cognos BI's components and open, extensible architecture * Working with IBM Cognos key studio tools: Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Report Studio, and Event Studio * Developing and managing powerful reports that draw on the rich capabilities of IBM Cognos Workspace and Workspace Advanced * Designing Star Schema databases and metadata models to answer the questions your organization cares about most * Efficiently maintaining and systematically securing IBM Cognos BI environments and their objects * Using IBM Cognos Connection as your single point of entry to all corporate data * Building interactive, easy-to-manage Active Reports for casual business users * Using new IBM Cognos BI v10.1 Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) to improve performance with complex heterogeneous data * Identifying, exploring, and exploiting hidden data relationships * Creating quick ad hoc queries that deliver fast answers * Establishing user and administrator roles |
| business intelligence business objects: Introduction to R for Business Intelligence Jay Gendron, 2016-08-26 Learn how to leverage the power of R for Business Intelligence About This Book Use this easy-to-follow guide to leverage the power of R analytics and make your business data more insightful. This highly practical guide teaches you how to develop dashboards that help you make informed decisions using R. Learn the A to Z of working with data for Business Intelligence with the help of this comprehensive guide. Who This Book Is For This book is for data analysts, business analysts, data science professionals or anyone who wants to learn analytic approaches to business problems. Basic familiarity with R is expected. What You Will Learn Extract, clean, and transform data Validate the quality of the data and variables in datasets Learn exploratory data analysis Build regression models Implement popular data-mining algorithms Visualize results using popular graphs Publish the results as a dashboard through Interactive Web Application frameworks In Detail Explore the world of Business Intelligence through the eyes of an analyst working in a successful and growing company. Learn R through use cases supporting different functions within that company. This book provides data-driven and analytically focused approaches to help you answer questions in operations, marketing, and finance. In Part 1, you will learn about extracting data from different sources, cleaning that data, and exploring its structure. In Part 2, you will explore predictive models and cluster analysis for Business Intelligence and analyze financial times series. Finally, in Part 3, you will learn to communicate results with sharp visualizations and interactive, web-based dashboards. After completing the use cases, you will be able to work with business data in the R programming environment and realize how data science helps make informed decisions and develops business strategy. Along the way, you will find helpful tips about R and Business Intelligence. Style and approach This book will take a step-by-step approach and instruct you in how you can achieve Business Intelligence from scratch using R. We will start with extracting data and then move towards exploring, analyzing, and visualizing it. Eventually, you will learn how to create insightful dashboards that help you make informed decisions—and all of this with the help of real-life examples. |
| business intelligence business objects: The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence Steve Williams, Nancy Williams, 2010-07-27 The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence presents an A-to-Z approach for getting the most business intelligence (BI) from a company's data assets or data warehouse. BI is not just a technology or methodology, it is a powerful new management approach that – when done right – can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it. When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver. The missing element was the business-centric focus explained in this book. It shows how you can achieve the promise of BI by connecting it to your organization's strategic goals, culture, and strengths while correcting your BI weaknesses. It provides a practical, process-oriented guide to achieve the full promise of BI; shows how world-class companies used BI to become leaders in their industries; helps senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can ensure a strong payoff from their BI investments; and identifies the most common mistakes organizations make in implementing BI. The book also includes a helpful glossary of BI terms; a BI readiness assessment for your organization; and Web links and extensive references for more information. - A practical, process-oriented book that will help organizations realize the promise of BI - Written by Nancy and Steve Williams, veteran consultants and instructors with hands-on, in the trenches experience in government and corporate business intelligence applications - Will help senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can help ensure a strong payoff on BI investments |
| business intelligence business objects: Implementing SAP HANA Jonathan Haun, Don Loden, Chris Hickman, Roy Wells, 2013 Implement SAP HANA as a standalone data warehouse Integrate SAP Data Services and the SAP BusinessObjects BI tools with SAP HANA Benefit from step-by-step instructions, technical details, and downloadable data for every step In the new SAP HANA era, processes that once took weeks now take days, hours, or even minutes. Truly take advantage of this bold jump forward with this resource for a standalone SAP HANA implementation. Master data loading with SAP Data Services, data modeling in SAP HANA, and then SAP HANA integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI for reporting and analytics. From general concepts to specific implementation steps and a real-world case study, this book offers the practical details about implementing SAP HANA that will shift your system into high gear. Data Storage See how SAP HANA has fundamentally changed data storage with column store tables that improve compression and, consequently, performance. SAP Data Services Avoid fast trash. Preprovision your data using source system analysis, profiling tools, and mapping to load high-quality data into SAP HANA.SAP HANA Studio Dive into SAP HANA-specific data modelling components like the attribute, analytic, and calculation views that produce quality multidimensional models. Connecting SAP HANA with BI Deliver sophisticated data visualization and analysis by integrating SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio, SAP Lumira, SAP Predictive Analysis, and more with SAP HANA. Hands-On Case Study Take SAP HANA for a test drive. Download the data for the fictitious AdventureWorks Cycle Company s implementation and follow along every step of the way. Highlights Source system analysis SAP Data Services Analytic, attribute, and calculation views SAP HANA Studio Columnar database technology Denormalization Information Design Tool SAP Information Steward SAP Predictive Analysis SAP BusinessObjects BI toolset SAP Lumira |
| business intelligence business objects: Universe Design with SAP BusinessObjects BI Christian Ah-Soon, Didier Mazoué, Pierpaolo Vezzosi, 2013-11-30 Are you the master of your UNX universes? Written for design novices and experts alike, this comprehensive resource spans universe creation to universe publication. Youll learn to build single- and multisource data foundations and business layers and to convert UNV to UNX using the new Information Design Tool (as well as explore its important features and functionalities). Up to date for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.1, this book offers the step-by-step instructions and guiding screenshots you need to design universes for the world. |
| business intelligence business objects: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Simplified Arshad Khan, 2012 This book targets business and IT professionals who need an introduction to business intelligence and data warehousing fundamentals through a simple question / answer format. Topics include evolution and fundamentals, characteristics and process, architecture and objects, metadata, data conversion, ETL, data storage, infrastructure, data access, data marts, implementation approaches, planning, design, Inmon vs. Kimball, multi-dimensionality, OLAP, facts and dimensions, common mistakes and tips, trends, etc. |
| business intelligence business objects: SAP BW: Administration and Performance Optimization Joe Darlak, Jesper Christensen, 2014 As an administrator, your ongoing to-do list dominates your desk. Let us help: With this book, learn the daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly administration tasks you should be performing, and how to perform them. This comprehensive guide will walk you through system setup and configuration to lay a sound foundation for effective data storage, and then teach you to employ performance tuning techniques to optimize system performance. Consult detailed best practices to learn how to create BW objects and run reports, as well as to effectively use jobs and skills profiles for system support. Advance your SAP BW system from a B-movie to a blockbuster. |
| business intelligence business objects: Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence Frank Hecker, David Nissan-Arami, Cosmin Novac, 2019-04-08 This training manual is meant for self-study in SAP® BusinessObjects Web Intelligence. It can also be used as a support for a guided introductory training. The reader will be systematically and successively learn how to use the software based on examples and exercises. Starting with elementary functionalities, he will get an ever-increasing insight into the possibilities of reporting. It does not aim at explaining each and every single menu item, but focuses on the most commonly used range of functions. The chapters each begin with a practical question from everyday reporting, the solution to which is explained by detailed and well-illustrated click-through instructions. Following the click-through instructions, short summaries as well as further in-depth background knowledge are offered, to facilitate the conceptual classification of the topics. |
| business intelligence business objects: SAP HANA 2.0 Denys Van Kempen, 2019 Enter the fast-paced world of SAP HANA 2.0 with this introductory guide. Begin with an exploration of the technological backbone of SAP HANA as a database and platform. Then, step into key SAP HANA user roles and discover core capabilities for administration, application development, advanced analytics, security, data integration, and more. No matter how SAP HANA 2.0 fits into your business, this book is your starting point. In this book, you'll learn about: a. Technology Discover what makes an in-memory database platform. Learn about SAP HANA's journey from version 1.0 to 2.0, take a tour of your technology options, and walk through deployment scenarios and implementation requirements. b. Tools Unpack your SAP HANA toolkit. See essential tools in action, from SAP HANA cockpit and SAP HANA studio, to the SAP HANA Predictive Analytics Library and SAP HANA smart data integration. c. Key Roles Understand how to use SAP HANA as a developer, administrator, data scientist, data center architect, and more. Explore key tasks like backend programming with SQLScript, security setup with roles and authorizations, data integration with the SAP HANA Data Management Suite, and more. Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Administration 3) Application development 4) Analytics 5) Security 6) Data integration 7) Data architecture 8) Data center |
| business intelligence business objects: Business Intelligence Rajiv Sabherwal, Irma Becerra-Fernandez, 2013-02-19 Business professionals who want to advance their careers need to have a strong understanding of how to utilize business intelligence. This new book provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic business and technical concepts they’ll need to know. It integrates case studies that demonstrate how to apply the material. Business professionals will also find suggested further readings that will develop their knowledge and help them succeed. |
| business intelligence business objects: SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics Jürgen Butsmann, Thomas Fleckenstein, Anirban Kundu, 2021 Meet your BI needs with SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Explore the system architecture and data model and learn how to perform analytics on live transactional data. Business user? Walk step-by-step through SAP Smart Business KPIs, dashboards, and multidimensional reporting. Analytics specialist? Master the virtual data model and report creation. Jack of all trades? Create CDS views, apply custom fields and logic, and learn to integrate SAP S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud. This is your complete guide to SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics! Highlights include: 1) Architecture 2) Virtual data model (VDM) 3) CDS views 4) SAP Fiori apps 5) SAP Smart Business 6) Key performance indicators (KPIs) 7) Dashboards 8) Reporting 9) Data warehousing 10) SAP Analytics Cloud 11) Machine learning |
| business intelligence business objects: Reporting and Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects Ingo Hilgefort, 2010 One of the most valuable resources a company has (and often the most misused or under-used) is the massive amount of company data sitting in a database, including everything from sales figures and shipping expenses, to other key performance indicators and metrics. By using the SAP BusinessObjects suite of business intelligence (BI) tools, companies have the power to transform their data into a powerful strategic and tactical tool to manage and grow their businesses. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the reporting, analysis, and visualization tools available from SAP BusinessObjects. Introduction to all the SAP BusinessObjects Reporting and Analytics Tools Learn about the various tools, the different users of each tool, and the major functions for each of the tools. Enterprise Reporting with Crystal Reports Explore pixel perfect reporting with Crystal Reports and understand who this powerful tool is for and what it can do. Ad Hoc Reporting and Queries with Web Intelligence Discover how to enable users to create queries from scratch, format retrieved information, and easily analyze underlying trends and root causes. Integrating into Microsoft with Live Office Find out how to leverage content from your BusinessObjects Enterprise system in Microsoft(r) Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Creating Dashboards and Visualizations with Xcelsius Discover how to present complex business data clearly and provide decision makers the ability to interact with the information and manage their businesses proactively. |
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