This is a substantial book that explains almost every aspect of creating documents and reports with Business Objects. It is authored by Robert Schmidt, who has written several books on the subject and has trained thousand's of students to use Business Objects. This book contains over 700 screenshots and many step-by-step examples! This is a very thorough book and is great for beginners and intermediate users. Advanced users can also find some valuable advice.

After creating over a half dozen successful training manuals on Business Objects document creation, Robert Schmidt has applied his technical and teaching skills to develop Creating Universes with Designer Xl. This book is a very well thought-out reference book and training manual. The information is presented in a new format that allows for graphics to be presented on a separate page from the text. Each graphics page has a facing text page that supports the graphic. This separation of graphics and text allows for larger and clearer graphics. The new format also allows for thorough explanations and robust examples. In addition to the new format, the book also includes a CD that contains videos of the example in the book. The videos are accessible through a PDF presentation file that can be used to train others or be used as an electronic reference as you work through the examples

Learn to create powerful web intelligence reports using tables, crosstabs, and charts. Throughout the text there are well-thought-out examples on how to use these report structures to effectively transform corporate data into information that your company can use. Data can be presented many different ways, ranging from boring to exciting. Learn how to use the analysis tools to create interactive analytical reports that can rival dashboards in both analytics and performance, usually with less development time than dashboards. Web intelligence offers many powerful functions that can be used to create formulas that allow for highly effective analysis of corporate data. Discover how you can use these formulas to transform everyday numbers into useful decision-making tools. Corporate data can be very large and accessed through many different universes. Learn how to build efficient queries with custom query filters, subqueries, and database ranks. Also, learn how to create multiple query documents that take advantage of these many universes.

Creating Universes with Business Objects Designer XI V3 is a complete learning system consisting of a thorough book and a professionally designed computer-based training application. The system is completely dedicated to teaching you how to become a competent Universe Designer. Readers learn how to create a basic universe and how to tackle many of the complications that may arise when designing universes. These topics include chasm traps, fan traps, multi-keyed property tables, double-counting measures, multiple fact tables, aggregated fact tables, and more.