BusinessObjects XI (Release 2): The Complete Reference

by Cindi Howson

This book is a must read for anyone deploying BusinessObjects. It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. This book covers the most frequently used features for the full BI suite, in one comprehensive book. There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence. It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. Transition notes are interspersed for version 5 and 6 customers to understand the biggest changes in XI Release 2. If you drive BI requirements in your company or are a data warehouse program manager, Business Objects administrator, report author or consumer, this book is for you.

Genres: Reference

1102 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 15, 2005

Reviews

[Nancy Schober · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doesn't Cindi Howson have the coolest job ever? This is the commercial book I would have liked to have written except I dropped out to raise my infant son.[return][return]It's been ten years since I could consider myself an 'expert' on all facets of Business Objects so I picked this up to help refresh my knowledge. I'm surprised how much things have stayed the same. Yes of course a lot of bells and whistles been added but the basic 'bone structure' appears to have not changed.[return][return]There are some annoying typos.[return][return]I just had to laugh at the 'clumsy work arounds' we were forced into in the past. Now there are elegant solutions if the data is properly organized.[return][return]I'm itching to work with this software again.

[Colin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bought for the kindle app on my phone so I can refer to it when I need guidance for my current project.