This book provides comprehensive coverage of the major business intelligence tools in the SAP/BO toolset with a practical focus on the user experience and integration with SAP. Coverage includes detailed application features and functionality, as well as practical, how-to content geared toward end users hoping to maximize the benefits their BI investment by creating actionable, easy to read and disseminate reports, analytics and other business process metrics. The author will use robust, real world case studies to place into context and present the content in an easy to read, step-by-step fashion.
This book is your implementation guide for BusinessObjects XI 3.1 Tools within SAP NetWeaver 7.0. After introducing you to the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise platform and important SAP BusinessObjects BI client tools, you’ll work through easy-to-use but still technically detailed information on how to set up these tools. In addition, you’ll find step-by-step instructions and a chapter on troubleshooting issues to round off this convenient guide. Readers will quickly uncover the SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise components and the purpose of each of the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions client tools. Then, learn how best to install and configure the SAP BusinessObjects server and client components, and create your first report, ad-hoc analysis, or dashboard on top of your SAP data. You'll understand how the metadata from the underlying SAP system is being mapped to Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, Query as a Web Service, Live Office, Xcelsius, or InfoView and benefit from proven troubleshooting techniques as well as tips to help improve the performance of your solutions. With highly-detailed, step-by-step tutorials featuring numerous screenshots, and best practices to guide you through integrating BusinessObjects with SAP NetWeaver, this book is guaranteed to be an invaluable resource.
