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SAP BusinessObjects
Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook
Over 90 simple and incredibly effective recipes
for transforming your business data into exciting
dashboards with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Xcelsius
Xavier Hacking
David Lai
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0
Cookbook
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First published: May 2011
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Credits
Authors
Xavier Hacking
David Lai
Proofreader
Reviewers
Charles Davies
Joshua Fletcher
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Acquisition Editor
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Development Editor
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Foreword
The original (and key) innovation of Dashboard Design was to bring together the flexibility,
power and ubiquity of Excel with the visualization of Flash. This meant that a whole
new group of people (basically anyone who understood Excel formulas) could produce
sophisticated Flash animations. Over the years, this has led to an incredible array of
Dashboard Design models being produced, many of which, I suspect, go well beyond
what the creators of Dashboard Design intended (or even dreamed of). Indeed there
is one model (you can find it at
http://www.antivia.com/confoundingmodel/
)
which has been doing the rounds for a number of years that, so rumor has it, left even
the original Dashboard Design development team scratching their heads as to how it
was constructed.
As with any tool that has the flexibility and power to be stretched in this way, it is hard for
the core product documentation to comprehensively cover everything users need to know
to be successful, and it is books such as this one that fill the gap and allow knowledge
that has been distilled through the hands of many individuals to be passed on to the
community in general.
I am a particular fan of the recipe format; it allows you to dip in and out of the material
for learning in short bursts and also allows you to quickly and easily answer specific
questions. In addition, the overall structure provides a smooth flow through all the areas
of the product providing a comprehensive review of its capabilities.
In this book, Xavier and David have found something for everyone. For those who are just
starting out with Dashboard Design, there are recipes that give advice and guidance to
help you start on a solid foundation. For those who are more experienced with Dashboard
Design, there are advanced recipes covering inter-dashboard communication and
connectivity to external systems. For everyone, there will be something in these pages
which is new and will help you take your Dashboard Design knowledge to the next level.
My favorite recipes are in the third-party chapter, not just because I work for one of
the vendors featured, but because they advertise the possibilities opened up by the
Dashboard Design SDK. Although the initial innovation of Dashboard Design was bringing
together the Excel and Flash visualizations, the introduction of the SDK paved the way
for a second wave of innovations from third parties, which further widened the bounds of
what was possible with this amazing product.

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