Blogs

Ingo Hilgefort

Reporting and Analytics with BusinessObjects
Ingo Hilgefort SAP Employee Active Contributor Platinum: 2,500+ points SAP Mentor
Business Card
Company: SAP BusinessObjects
Posted on Dec. 29, 2009 09:40 AM in BI Accelerator, Enterprise Data Warehousing/Business Warehouse, Business Intelligence (BusinessObjects), SAP Crystal Reports, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, SAP NetWeaver Platform, SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Subscribe.Subscribe
Print. Print
Permalink Permalink
Share
Share

I am happy to announce the availability of my second book with SAP Press. This time I am focusing on the end user consuming and creating the BI reports and analytics with tools, such as Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, BusinessObjects Explorer, Pioneer, Dashboard Manager, and Xcelsius.

In the beginning of the book I am creating a set of requirements from different departments and then match those requirements with the tools that are the best fit, but also outline those tools that won't fit and why they won't fit.

I then go chapter by chapter into each of those tools into more details and use concrete examples, such as a Balance Sheet for Crystal Reports, a Sales Report for Web Intelligence, and a Executive dashboard for Xcelsius to provide you with step by step instructions on how to use the tools.

If you are interested to see this approach you can take a look at this preview chapter which also provides you the complete table of content.

Reporting and Analytics with BusinessObjects - Chapter 2

 

In this sample chapter I outline the requirements and match the tools from BusinessObjects to those requirements.

 

 

Ingo Hilgefort  Active Contributor Platinum: 2,500+ points SAP Mentor

is a Solution Manager with SAP BusinessObjects focusing on the topic of BI Solution Architecture. He also is the author of the SAP Press books He also is the author of the SAP Press books Integrating BusinessObjects XI 3.0 BI Tools with SAP NetWeaver , Reporting and Analytics with SAP BusinessObjects , Inside SAP BusinessObjects Explorer , and Inside SAP BusinessObjects Advanced Analysis and is also reachable on his blog Mastering SAP and BusinessObjects and on iTunes

Comment on this article
Comment on this weblog
Showing messages 1 through 12 of 12.
Titles Only Main Topics Oldest First

  • Pre-order
    2010-01-19 22:45:39 Naveen Nuney Business Card [Reply]

    Hi Mr Ingo,
    I have pre-ordered this book. It must be in shipping now, hopefully I find it as soon as I go back to home this Friday. I also bought your first book.


    You helped me out with couple of questions earlier for BOBJ implementation. Do you know any plans in place to call a BGD session in BW/ERP when a Webi/Crystal is scheduled as a job on BOBJ side? I know it calls only DIA today, but since it is so crucial for us in the near future..I want to ask.

    • Pre-order
      2010-01-20 07:14:23 Ingo Hilgefort SAP Employee Business Card [Reply]

      Hi,


      for Crystal Reports a background process is already possible. I would suggest you post the question in the SDN forum and I am sure we cna provide the details. its just easier there to reply to questions.


      Ingo

  • re: 2nd Book
    2010-01-11 23:02:55 Navin Swaminathan Business Card [Reply]

    Hi Ingo,
    Congrats on your 2nd book on BO. Does this mean that this book is aimed mainly at the Users of BO and how they can build the models in Xcelsius, WebI and Crystal. Pls clarify.


    Swami

    • re: 2nd Book
      2010-01-12 08:09:46 Ingo Hilgefort SAP Employee Business Card [Reply]

      Hi,


      the book is about the tools itself and explaining how they can be used, a set of best practices and most important about lots of details on how to select the right tool based on your requirements.


      ingo

  • Dashboard Manager????
    2010-01-11 09:59:01 John Skrabak Business Card [Reply]

    Ingo -


    Looking forward to more good material from you.


    One minor annoyance though that maybe you could help SAP clear up. I've talked to a few different SAP folks and there is a lot of confusion about the status of the Dashboard Builder among them. My understanding is that Dashboard Manager is gone with XI 3.0 or 3.1. Dashboard Builder continues, but suport for the analytics components is dropped with SP2. Dashboard Builder goes forward as a tool to combine Xcelsius, WebI, Crystal, othe rweb content, etc.


    I have been building some prototypes using the Content Linking functionality of XI 3.1 Dashboard Builder, and have been trying to promote that where I work, but I have an SAP consultant on premises that keeps telling everyone else that Dashboard Builder is going away.


    So it would be a big help if SAP to clarify Dashboard Builder's future status, and stop referring to Dashboard Manager (as in your title).


    Again. Looking forward to the book.


    John

  • Hard Copy
    2009-12-30 05:32:17 Mohammad Shoaib Ali Business Card [Reply]

    Hi Ingo,
    Seems like it's only available in hard copy without online access.
    Unlike your previous book that's available in both version, I'd look forward to when it's made available in both versions.


    Hope to see an online version soon.


    Regards.
    Mohammad

  • Thanks for sharing!
    2009-12-29 12:33:42 Tammy Powlas Business Card [Reply]

    Ingo,
    Thank you for sharing; I have pre-ordered my book at sappress.com
    Do you know if it will ship in January, as anticipated?


    Best regards,
    Tammy

Showing messages 1 through 12 of 12.