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97740-5 The Business Objects guide you've been waiting for! Data modeling: A practical introduction. Interface design, reporting, data mining, administration & more. Great for IT pros using Business Objects with SAP, Baan or PeopleSoft! With Business Objects software, thousands of companies are transforming their databases into powerful end-user resources for competitive advantage. Now, there's a hands-on guide to deploying, managing and optimizing Business Objects for maximum impact: Business Objects Companion. Expert Business Objects administrator David Jackson begins with a practical overview of data modeling concepts such as contexts, hierarchies and aggregation, demonstrating how Business Objects implements these concepts. Next, he walks through each component of the Business Objects environment, showing how to: *Model data with the Business Objects Designer Module. *Create friendly, intuitive interfaces that help end users get results. *Design for interactive queries, hierarchies, slice-and-dice and drill-down. *Use tables, crosstabs, charts, pivoting, filtering, sorting, master/detail, breaks and other reporting features.* Leverage Business Objects' powerful data mining tools. Whether you're using Business Objects as a standalone DSS tool, or along with SAP, Baan or PeopleSoft, you'll find this book invaluable. You'll discover administration techniques that maximize control while giving your users all the flexibility they need. You'll learn how to integrate Business Objects with your Excel worksheets, querying databases directly from Excel and incorporating the results automatically. From start-to-finish, from strategies to tactics, one book delivers all the insight you need to succeed: Business Objects Companion.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction. 2. Overview of Relational Data Modeling. Aggregating and Removing Duplicate Records. Joins. Group Functions. Aliases. Views. Cartesian Products. 3. Data Modeling for Business Objects. Contexts. Merging Results. Hierarchies. Aggregating. 4. The Business Objects Designer Module. Creating Business Objects Data Models. Creating Objects (the End-User Interface). 5. User Tools - Reporting. Database Queries. Reports. 6. User Tools - Slice & Dice and Drill-down. Slice & Dice. Drill-Down. 7. User Tools -Fine Tuning the Appearance of Reports. 8. Data Mining. Expand Selection With. Expand Selection One Level. Expand Tree One Level. Expand Selection with Next. Expand Selection. Mining. Alerters. Discovering Rules. What If Analysis. 9. User Administration. Creating a Repository. Arranging Users into User Groups. Assigning Access Rights. 10. Business Query. Introduction. Building and Running Queries. Managing Queries. General Options.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780139774065
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Weight: 443 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0139774068
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jun 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 180 mm


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