BOD210 - Dashboard Manager XI R2: Designing Dashboards

Description: 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 a Dashboard Manager's high-level architecture
Create a simple metric universe in Designer for use by Performance Management
Create metrics & analytics
Build personal & corporate dashboards
Secure corporate dashboards in BusinessObjects Enterprise
Create rules & schedule alerts for metrics
Create dimensioned metrics & analytics
Define navigation paths in dashboards by linking analytics

Duration: 3 days

Curriculum: Course topics include:

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

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