Business Objects: The Complete Reference

Cindi Howson is the President of ASK, a BI Consultancy. She has worked with Business Objects since 1994, helping customers around the world implement and optimize their deployments. As an industry analyst, she authors the BIScorecard(tm) product reviews, teaches for The Data Warehouse InstituteI, and writes for Intelligence Enterprise. Cindi is the author of Business Objects XI: The Complete Reference as well as Successful Business Intelligence, by McGraw-Hill.

Part I: Getting Ready for BusinessObjects 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence 2: Goals of Deploying BusinessObjects 3: Segmenting Your Users 4: Marketing BusinessObjects Part II: A Better Universe 5: Universe Design Principles 6: Using Designer to Build a Basic Universe 7: Universe Joins 8: Classes and Objects 9: List of Values 10: Advanced Objects 11: Multidimensional Analysis 12: Incorporating Supervisor Settings into the Universe Design 13: Design Principles: Where to Put the Intelligence 14: Minimizing Universe Maintenance 15: Almost There Part III: Reporting with BusinessObjects 16: Introduction to Reporting 17: Report and Chart Formatting 18: Analyzing the Data: the Slice and Dice Panel 19: Exploring the Data: Multidimensional Analysis 20: Accessing New Data 21: Creating a New Query 22: Complex Queries 23: WebIntelligence 24: WebIntelligence Version 6.0 Bibliography