Creating reports using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards/Xcelsius

Dashboard is a visualization tool. In this recipe, we are going to create a simple dashboard report on top of SAP HANA.

Getting ready

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard is a visualization tool. This is an interactive reporting tool where reports can be generated in the form of graphs, charts, maps, and other objects. Originally this tool was called Xcelsius. This tool is intended for business users/decision makers at a very high level such as measuring KPIs. This tool helps in What-If Analysis of the data, which helps in analyzing different sets of values in one or more formulae. The only limitation of this tool is that we cannot handle very large amounts of data using this tool. But the ...

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