BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager XI R1/R2: Designing Dashboards

Duration 3 Days

AudienceThe audience for this course may consist of BusinessObjects XI Release 1 and BusinessObjects XI Release 2 customers.

PrerequisitesWhile not required for this course, experience with these products or technologies will be helpful:

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

SynopsisDashboard Manager enables the deployment of powerful dashboards to provide visibility, alignment, and insight across the enterprise. This 3-day instructor-led course provides hands-on activities that take the learner 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—learners will know exactly what needs to be in place before they can perform tasks, and if not, who they should talk to.


BusinessObjects XI R1 and BusinessObjects XI R2
The target audience for this course is Performance Management designers who need to create metrics and analytics for display in corporate dashboards for business user consumption.

Features that are specific to BusinessObjects XI Release 2 include:

  • Ability to view certain analytics (IMT, gauges and Map) in Macromedia Flash format.

  • Improved appearance and interactivity of Alert, gauge, Interactive Metric Trends (IMT) and Metric List analytics.

  • New gauge analytics: barometer and thermometer.

  • New support for universes with multiple SQL statements.

Objectives

TopicsLesson #1 - Understanding Dashboard Manager
• What is Dashboard Manager?
• Performance Management architecture

Lesson #2 - Setting Up Dashboard Manager
• Setting up Performance Management
• Creating the metric universe

Lesson #3 - Creating Metrics
• What is a metric?
• Creating metrics
• Refreshing metrics

Lesson #4 - Creating Analytics
• Creating interactive analytics
• Using the analytics catalog
• Using statistical transformations

Lesson #5 - Creating Personal Dashboards
• Creating personal dashboards
• Adding analytics
• Creating compound analytics

Lesson #6 - Creating Corporate Dashboards
• Building corporate dashboards
• Securing dashboards

Lesson #7 - Automating Dashboards with Rules
• Creating rules
• Scheduling metric / analytic refreshes

Lesson #8 - Creating Dimensioned Analytics
• Creating dimensioned metrics
• Creating dimensioned analytics from metrics and a query
• Securing dimensioned analytics
• Personalizing dashboard data

Lesson #9 - Guiding Dashboard Navigation
• Guiding navigation between analytics
• Guiding navigation with metric trees