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Learning SAP Business Objects Dashboards

Learning SAP Business Objects Dashboards

By : Taha Mahmoud
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Learning SAP Business Objects Dashboards

Learning SAP Business Objects Dashboards

4.8 (6)
By: Taha Mahmoud
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Overview of this book

This book will help beginners to create stylish and professional looking dashboards in no time. It is also intended for BI developers who want to use SAP BO to facilitate BI in their organizations. No prior knowledge is required, however, you must have a basic knowledge of MS Excel and some analytical skills to build expressive business charts.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Why do we need dashboards?
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What is a dashboard?
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Getting Started with SAP BO Dashboards
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1. Getting Started with SAP BO Dashboards
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Introduction to SAP BO Dashboards
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Installing SAP BO Dashboards
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Exploring SAP BO Dashboards' capabilities
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Getting to know the SAP BO Dashboards interface
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Summary
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2. Understanding the Dashboard Creation Process
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2. Understanding the Dashboard Creation Process
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Phases in the project
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Determining the needs
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Dashboard creation process
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Preparing the dashboard workspace
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Summary
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3. UI Components
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3. UI Components
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Before we start
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Adding our first chart component (pie chart)
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Introducing other chart types
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Adding a single-value component to our dashboard
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Summary
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4. Using Maps and Other Components
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4. Using Maps and Other Components
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Maps
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Using maps
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Using other SAP BO Dashboard components
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Using other third-party plugins
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Summary
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5. Interactive Analysis with Dashboards
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5. Interactive Analysis with Dashboards
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Using traditional selectors
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Displaying tabular data
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Using advanced menus
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Using other selectors
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Using third-party selectors
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Summary
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6. Advanced Interactive Analysis with Dashboards
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6. Advanced Interactive Analysis with Dashboards
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Using the dynamic visibility feature
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Grouping components
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Using Containers
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Using Alerts
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Using the drill-down (Insertion) feature
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Linking a dashboard to a Webi or Crystal report document
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Summary
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7. Styling Up
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7. Styling Up
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Using text dashboard components
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Dealing with colors and themes
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Using art and background components
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Formatting the dashboard components
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Summary
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8. Exporting, Publishing, and Importing Dashboards
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8. Exporting, Publishing, and Importing Dashboards
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Exporting the dashboards file
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Publishing dashboards
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Importing dashboards
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Summary
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9. Retrieving External Data Sources
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9. Retrieving External Data Sources
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Using direct query
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Using web services
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Using Live Office
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Using XML data
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Summary
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10. Managing Dashboard Security
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10. Managing Dashboard Security
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Understanding the SAP BusinessObjects security model
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Applying object level security
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Applying application level security
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Applying row level security
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Applying security best practices
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Summary
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11. Creating Mobile Dashboards
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11. Creating Mobile Dashboards
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Creating dashboards for smart devices
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Developing a mobile SAP BO Dashboard
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Publishing mobile dashboards
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Accessing and using mobile dashboards
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Introducing the main features of the SAP BI application
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Summary
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A. References
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Supported excel functions
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List of Built-in maps
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Supported mobile components and connections
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Index
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Index

Supported excel functions

A

ABS

ACOS

ACOSH

AND

ASIN

ASINH

ASSIGN

ATAN

ATAN2

ATANH

AVEDEV

AVERAGE

AVERAGEA

AVERAGEIF

B

BETADIST

C

CEILING

CHOOSE

MODE

MONTH

N

NE

NETWORKDAYS

NORMDIST

NORMINV

NORMSINV

NOT

NOW

NPER

NPV

O

ODD

OFFSET

OR

COMBIN

CONCATENATE

COS

COSH

COUNT

COUNTA

D

DATE

DATEVALUE

DAVERAGE

DAY

DAYS360

DB

DCOUNT

DSTDEV

DSTDEVP

DSUM

DVAR

DVARP

P

PI

PMT

POWER

PPMT

PRODUCT

PV

Q

QUARTILE

QUOTIENT

R

RADIANS

RAND

RANGE_COLON

RANK

RATE

E

EDATE

EFFECT

EOMONTH

EVEN

EXACT

EXP

EXPONDIST

G

GE

GEOMEAN

GT

H

HARMEAN

HLOOKUP

HOUR

I

IF

INDEX

REPLACE

REPT

RIGHT

ROUND

ROUNDDOWN

ROUNDUP

S

SECOND

SIGN

SIN

STDEV

UM

SUMIF

SUMPRODUCT

SUMSQ

SUMX2MY2

SUMX2PY2

I

IF

INDEX

INT

IPMT

IRR

ISBLANK

ISERR

ISERROR

ISEVEN

ISLOGICAL

ISNA

ISNONTEXT

ISNUMBER

ISODD

ISTEXT

K

KURT

SSUMXMY2

SYD

T

TAN

TANH

TEXT

TIME

TIMEVALUE

TODAY

TRUE

TRUNC

TYPE

U

UPPER

V

VALUE

L

LARGE

LE

LEFT

LEN

LN

LOG

LOG10

LOOKUP

LOWER

M

MATCH

MAX

MEDIAN

MID

MIN

MINUS

MINUTE

MIRR

MOD

VAR

VDB

VLOOKUP

W

...

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