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Course Description
Dashboard Manager XI:
Designing Dashboards
Abstract: Dashboard Manager enables the deployment
of powerful dashboards to provide visibility, alignment, and insight across
the enterprise. This course provides hands-on activities that take you
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.
Student Profile: This course is designed primarily
for performance management designers who need to create metrics and analytics
for display in corporate dashboards for business user consumption.
Prerequisites: While not required for this course,
experience with these products will be helpful:
- BusinessObjects Designer
- BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
- BusinessObjects Enterprise
Objectives: After completing the course, learners
will be able to:
- Describe Dashboard Manager’s role in Performance Management
- Describe Dashboard Manager’ high-level architecture
- Create a simple metric universe in Designer for use by Performance
Management.
- Create metrics and analytics
- Build personal and corporate dashboards
- Secure corporate dashboards in BusinessObjects Enterprise
- Create rules and schedule alerts for metrics
- Create dimensioned metrics and analytics
- Define navigation paths in dashboards by linking analytics
Duration: 3 days
Course Content:
| Understanding Dashboard Manager
- Understand Dashboard Manager
- Understand Performance Management architecture
Setting Up Dashboard Manager
- Set up Performance Management
- Create the metric universe
Creating Metrics
- Understand metrics
- Create metrics
- Refresh metrics
- Understand what happens when metrics are refreshed
- Verify a metric has data
- Purge metrics
- Understand external metrics
Automating Dashboards with Rules
- Create rules
- Schedule rules
Creating Dimensioned Analytics
- Create dimensioned metrics
- Create dimensioned analytics from metrics
- Create dimensioned analytics from a query
- Secure dimensioned analytics
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Creating Analytics
- Create interactive analytics
- Use the analytics catalog
- Use statistical transformations
Creating Personal Dashboards
- Understand personal & corporate dashboards
- Create personal dashboards
- Add analytics
- Create compound analytics
Creating Corporate Dashboards
- Build corporate dashboards
- Secure corporate dashboards
Guiding Dashboard Navigation
- Guide navigation between analytics
- Guide navigation with metric trees
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