BusinessObjects XI (Release 2): The Complete Reference

BusinessObjects XI (Release 2): The Complete Reference
| 2006-06-27 00:00:00 | | 0 | Programming


This book is a must read for anyone deploying BusinessObjects. It covers everything from planning your upgrade to the latest release, to best practices in universe design, and powerful report creation that maximizes business insight. This book covers the most frequently used features for the full BI suite, in one comprehensive book. There's in depth coverage of Designer, security via the Central Management Console, InfoView, Web Intelligence, and Desktop Intelligence. It goes beyond step-by-step instructions to cover how and why in a business context. Transition notes are interspersed for version 5 and 6 customers to understand the biggest changes in XI Release 2. If you drive BI requirements in your company or are a data warehouse program manager, Business Objects administrator, report author or consumer, this book is for you.

User review
Puts SAP to Shame
The distribute Help files with the BO Web Intelligence product are horrible. Almost any search yields the complete index to the thin help files that are provided. Maybe something was lost in the translation into English, but this book make the product learnable and usable.

User review
Poor Chose for End User Information
This book's contents is very misleading. At first glance it appears to be a very comprehensive book for BO XI, however, once received it became apparent the audience is strickly for someone who is configuring BO for Enterprise deployment. It is not the best resource for a BO end user.

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did not receive my book yet
did not receive my book (Business Objects XI Release 2) yet. I want my money back,,.

User review
Realy a complete reference
I am new to BO, so sometimes I am lost in the hoge numbe of possibitities, with this book I get on the road again. It helped me a lot in designing universes and reports. It is easy to find the right solution.

User review
The Completely Useless as a Reference That is Really a Primer
I can see that a lot of work went into this book and it does a pretty good job of explaining Business Objects at a high level. This is a good book for you if you are tentative about working with computers and don't expect to do intermediate or advanced work with Business Objects.


The notion that this book is a 'reference' or can replace a manual is completely off base. This book is a 'primer' not a reference. Any topic that is easily addressable through discussing the GUI is handled, but only for obvious cases. The function reference is incomplete and poorly documented. Insightful examples that make you think, `Oh, that's how you do X (where X is anything nontrivial)` are not found in this book. The kind of situations you will likely encounter if you want to create reports for a real business, are not handled. In these cases you are left to your own devices.