Overview:

This course will integrate a combination of instructor-led discussions and interactive workshops to illustrate the use of BusinesObjects XI Voyager product. It is designed to give you the comprehensive skills and knowledge needed to analyze trends and patterns in your data, answer business questions, and share your results by using BusinessObjects™ Voyager. It will focus on the role of OLAP, creating workspaces, building queries, using charts and graphs, role of crosstabs, sorting and filtering, building calculations, creating sub-totals and report breaks, slicing and dicing data, use of dimensions and drill operations.

The business benefit of this course is that you will be able to efficiently and effectively analyze your corporate data to make informed business decisions.

Audience:

The target audience is analysts and business users who need to analyze data to discover trends and solve business questions.

Objectives

• Understand the use of OLAP concepts
• Illustrate use of multi-dimensional structures
• Define Voyager workspaces
• Creating queries using Voyager
• Use of complex conditionals
• Understand usage of charts and graphs
• Illustrate the different types of chars
• Demonstrate use of crosstabs
• Use of sorts, filters and ranking operations
• Illustrate the use of different calculations
• Define commonly used visual totals: aggregate, sum, average and count
• Creating visual totals on filtered data
• Define the use of nested dimensions
• Illustrate the swapping of dimensions in reports
• Define the usage of drill operations for moving through relational data