BusinessObjects Reporting

After taking this course the student should be able to:

• Understand the role of BusinessObjects for accessing corporate data.
• Illustrate the critical path for developing and executing BusnessObjects queries.
• Define the capabilities of filters for defining conditional selection properties via; conditional IF's, relational operators, string searching and range testing.
• Incorporating sort functions to manipulate report sequences
• Insertion of calculations and aggregate functions into queries to generate derived data columns.
• Illustrate the role of the grouping and sorting operations in report formation, additionally recognize the impact on query performance.
• Ability to customize and modify the report layout to add headers, footers and others customized information to the report template
• Use the drill down function to provide in-depth analysis of report information
• Illustrate techniques for report distribution and sharing
• Use of the Slice & Dice panel to provide further delineation of corporate data

People working in the client community that access information from a corporate warehouse and have a need to utilize BusinessObjects' interactive abilities to create, view, save and print customized reports.

This class is taught by lecture with hands-on workshops.