Creating Dashboards With Sap Businessobjects: The Comprehensive Guide

Impress your audience with eye-catching, informative, and easy-to-navigate dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly known as Xcelsius)! In this book, you’ll quickly learn the basics of building your own business intelligence dashboard and move on to customize your creations with themes, data connections, and other essential features.1. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards BasicsBuild a strong foundation by understanding the features, options, themes, and commands at your disposal, and benefit from comprehensive examples and practical exercises.2. Visualize the ProcessBenefit from numerous screenshots that show how different features will look in a dashboard (and view them in color in the online version!).3. Custom OptionsTailor and enhance your dashboard by using SDK tools, data connectivity with options like SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Live Office, and both SAP and non-SAP tools.4. Bonus Online InformationDownload source code from all examples and find color figure downloads at www.sap-press.com.5. Updated and Revised for Release 4.0Find all changes in the move to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0, from small menu changes and what they mean, to new developments in location intelligence and more.Highlights:

• Buttons, tools, and menus
• UI components
• Data connectivity
• Drill-down
• Dynamic visibility
• Location Intelligence
• SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SDK
• Custom components

Ray Li is a passionate business intelligence professional currently working for Lodestone Management Consultants, providing BI consulting services in the retail, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and insurance industries. He previously worked for SAP BusinessObjects as a software engineer where he developed the integration kit for SAP Solutions and designed and delivered dashboards in several projects. In his spare time he enjoys music and badminton.

Evan DeLodder is a software engineer focused on applying cutting-edge technologies in the business intelligence and data visualization space. Evan has led the development and implementation of numerous business intelligence software products and applications and continues to innovate and apply new ideas that compliment the SAP Business Intelligence platform. Evan is an SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SDK guru on the popular website EverythingXcelsius.com, an SAP author, and a frequent contributor to the growing SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards development community.