BOD210 - SAP BusinessObjectsDashboard Manager:Designing Dashboards

3 day instructor-led course

Course Description

This three-day instructor-led classroom course provides hands-on activities that take you step-by-step from setting up the metric universe and Performance Management repository to guiding navigation through a corporate dashboard.

As a business benefit, by understanding not only Dashboard Manager functionality, but also the workflow involved among the different roles in a dashboard deployment-system administrator, universe designer, performance management designer-you will know exactly what needs to be in place before you can perform tasks, and if not, who you should talk to.

Course Audience

The audience for this course may consist of BusinessObjects XI 3.0/3.1 customers.

Prerequisite

Prerequisite Knowledge/Experience

  • BusinessObjects Universe Designer
  • BusinessObjects Web Intelligence® XI
  • BusinessObjects Enterprise XI

Course Topics

Understanding Dashboard Manager

  • What is Dashboard Manager?
  • Performance Management architecture
Setting Up Dashboard Manager
  • Setting up Performance Management
  • Creating the metric universe
Creating Metrics
  • What is a metric?
  • Creating metrics
  • Refreshing metrics
Creating Analytics
  • Creating interactive analytics
  • Using the analytics catalog
  • Using statistical transformations
Creating Personal Dashboards
  • Creating personal dashboards
  • Adding analytics
  • Creating compound analytics
Creating Corporate Dashboards
  • Building corporate dashboards
  • Securing dashboards
Automating Dashboards with Rules
  • Creating rules
  • Scheduling metric/analytic refreshes
Creating Dimensioned Analytics
  • Creating dimensioned metrics
  • Creating dimensioned analytics from metrics and a query
  • Securing dimensioned analytics
  • Personalizing dashboard data
Guiding Dashboard Navigation
  • Guiding navigation between analytics
  • Guiding navigation with metric trees