Dashboarding with SAP Crystal Dashboard Design + Training PDF Download

Author: Inc. Report Writing Services, Inc.
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ISBN: 9781480179820
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Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Book Description
Based on Microsoft Office Excel, SAP Crystal Dashboard (Xcelsius) allows you to convert your old spreadsheets into exciting visually interactive dashboards. Numbers in Excel are brought to life with dynamic graphs, which allow the user to customize and visualize data in real time. While spreadsheet data is static and needs to be updated from reports using cut-and-paste, dashboards automatically query databases or reports for the most current data. This book by Report Writing Services is a 3 day course that includes 10 hours of one-on-one personal training with a dashboard instructor from Information Analytics Institute. The student learns by building dashboards (not by reading theory) and is exposed to a comprehensive collection of components and shown a wide range of design concepts and practical spreadsheet programming techniques. Breadth of knowledge is emphasized over repetitious exercises while dashboard standards and best practices are taught throughout the course. The book consists of nine chapters written in an easy to follow step-by-step format. All the instructions are accompanied by detailed color illustrations to help create the dashboards quickly and easily. A new and increasingly challenging dashboard, which introduces and teaches new concepts, is built in each chapter. Student files provided by Information Analytics Institute include a rich set of pre-constructed and mid construction dashboards available to be previewed and examined prior to purchase. These are worked on throughout the course. The chapters are knit together by an entertaining story about Candy Cane Enterprises and how Annie Heartland and Abel Goodman struggle to overcome corporate politics to build dashboards that reveal the truth about the company's finances, sales, production, client relations and human resources. While learning to build dashboards the student is carried on a journey from the skyscrapers of New York to the islands of the South Pacific and hills of Montana. Complete with cartoon images, intrigue and a little romance, the story provides context and meaning to the tasks the student must perform. Learning was never so entertaining. Includes: 10 hours of one-on-one personal training with a dashboard instructor from Information Analytics Institute course book dashboards & student files (available from Information Analytics Institute to be previewed and examined prior to purchase) Training: study from your home or office over the Internet according to your schedule meet one-on-one with an expert instructor for a one hour introduction and overview of the course complete the nine Crystal Dashboard step-by-step self-study chapters (approximately 9 hours are required) After completing each chapter, meet one-on-one with your instructor to discuss a series of questions and perform "hands on" exercises to ensure an understanding of the material. Each meeting will last approximately an hour 10 hours total instructor time is provided During the course you will: get acquainted with the program window, menus and toolbars discover the variety of components you can choose from to create dashboards learn how to use properties and settings of different objects study how to link objects to spreadsheet data find out how to set up connections between objects and make them influence each other learn to organize objects on the canvas by aligning and grouping them see how to organize data in the spreadsheet by distributing it among different sheets and tables write different Excel formulas to get the data you need learn many facets of effective dashboard design study and apply standards and best practices