Creating Dashboards with SAP Businessobjects: The Comprehensive Guide to Xcelsius

Impress your audience with eye-catching, informative, and easy-to-navigate dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly known as Xcelsius)! In this book, you’ll quickly learn the basics of building your own business intelligence dashboard and move on to customize your creations with themes, data connections, and other essential features.

1. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Basics
Build a strong foundation by understanding the features, options, themes, and commands at your disposal, and benefit from comprehensive examples and practical exercises.

2. Visualize the Process
Benefit from numerous screenshots that show how different features will look in a dashboard (and view them in color in the online version!).

3. Custom Options
Tailor and enhance your dashboard by using SDK tools, data connectivity with options like SAP Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Live Office, and both SAP and non-SAP tools.

4. Bonus Online Information
Download source code from all examples and find color figure downloads at www.sap-press.com.

5. Updated and Revised for Release 4.0
Find all changes in the move to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0, from small menu changes and what they mean, to new developments in location intelligence and more.

Highlights:

- Buttons, tools, and menus

- UI components

- Data connectivity

- Drill-down

- Dynamic visibility

- Location Intelligence

- SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards SDK

- Custom components