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Wednesday 25th August 2010

Location: Guildford, Surrey

Price: £299 + vat including course notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail support.

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Run this course on your own premises from £750 (+vat) per day for up to 3 people. Add just £99 for additional delegates, plus the trainer's travelling and overnight accommodation costs if necessary. Larger group discounts available.

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Duration 1 day

This course is suitable for those wishing to learn how to create queries and build ad hoc reports using Business Objects Desktop Intelligence XI or users of earlier "Full client" versions 5 and 6. It is not suitable for those who need to learn Web Intelligence versions of Business Objects. Please click here for details of Web Intelligence training courses.

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Business Objects is a database reporting tool. It allows you to prepare custom or ad hoc reports from a number of databases using a Business Objects Universe, to facilitate advanced reporting and data analysis.

Advanced Reporters are identified as those Business Objects users within an organisation who have full access to the Business Objects Universes, and who need to build queries using advanced report-writing techniques for in-depth analysis of business information. Report Writers also create flexible reports for use by “Explorers” – Business Objects users who don’t have access to the universes and so are unable to build queries, but are able to open documents created by others and manipulate, analyse and present the data in a variety of ways.

Delegates attending this course will be assumed to be familiar with the contents of the Introductory Course, or to have completed other training that establishes similar competencies – such as the Business Objects online “Personal Trainer”  module.

During this Business Objects training course you will learn about:

• Refresher Exercise on Basic Skills

• Revision of Basic Skills as required

• Editing Blocks

• Applying Filters

• Formatting Filters

• Applying Sorts

• Formatting Sorts

• Creating and Using Templates

• Page Formatting Options

• Formatting Tables

• Formatting Sections

• Adding Page Breaks

• Formatting Charts

• Aligning Cells

• Aligning Blocks

• Multi-Value Conditions

• Using the Logical Operators (AND/OR)

• Pre-Defined Conditions

• Prompted Condition Queries

• Using Wildcards in Queries

• Displaying Prompt Criteria in Reports

• Creating Subqueries

• Combine Queries (Union, Intersect and Minus)

• Understanding the concept of a Data Provider

• Multiple Queries (Data Providers) from a Single Universe

• Naming Data Providers

• Querying Multiple Universes in a Single Document

• Using Personal Data Files (Eg. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets) as Data Sources

• Synchronising Data Providers by Linking

• Numeric Data Format Issues

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• Creating Variables

• Resetting Calculations across Breaks

• If..Then…Else Variables

• The Group Function

• Creating a Variable Using the Group Function

• Understanding Calculation Contexts

Using Slice and Dice

• The Slice and Dice View

• Converting Tables to Crosstabs

• Converting Table Blocks to Charts

• Adding Breaks, Totals, Filters and other Functions

Drilling

• Understanding Hierarchies

• Setting the Scope of Analysis

• Pre-Defined Hierarchies

• Drilling on Single Hierarchies

• Drilling on Multiple Hierarchies

• Creating Custom Hierarchies

• Drilling on Charts

• Displaying the Drill Information

• Saving Snapshots

 Exporting Data for Use in Other Applications

• Exporting Data from a Block

• Exporting Data from a Data Provider

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This course is offered by PPA Education & Training, an independent training organisation which is in no way connected with the trading entity known as SAP Business Objects. No attempt is made herein to represent PPA as an agent or representative of SAP Business Objects, and the courses described on this website are not endorsed or authorised in any way by SAP Business Objects.