This section is not intended to be an extensive User Guide for the BusinessObjects Web Intelligence tool; instead, it is intended as a supplement to Business Objects’ documentation.This section is not intended to be an extensive User Guide for the BusinessObjects Web Intelligence tool; instead, it is intended as a supplement to Business Objects’ documentation.
Web Intelligence, or Webi, is the third-party reporting tool from BusinessObjects that integrates with Data Analyzer and Personify360, which gives you the ability to create and view custom, or on-the-fly, reports. It must be installed independently of the Personify360 installation as a part of the BusinessObjects installation by a system administrator.
As a business user, you can create a customized report in just a few mouse clicks and then view it on the fly in several formats. This feature is helpful for users, with appropriate access, to create reports and queries without having to rely on IT staff or administrators to do it. Personify360 also offers a number of sample reports, which are pre-loaded reports that you can view.
Webi is a Web-based query and analysis tool that acts as the front end for analysis of stored data. It works around a central repository called a universe. As you will learn in greater detail in this section, the universe is the business presentation layer that hides the complexity of the underlying database schema.
Data Analyzer provides a number of default universes for you to use; however, you can customize a universe or create a new one. Once your universe is in place, you use objects and filters to create reports. Your system administrator will define security settings for each user that dictates whether or not certain users can access a given universe.
Please note that Data Analyzer is a different product than Personify360 Analytics Advantage. The latter is the business intelligence/data warehouse solution offered by Personify.
This chapter illustrates how to get started using Data Analyzer once your organization has installed BusinessObjects Enterprise Business Intelligence.
This chapter details how to accomplish the following tasks:
· Access Data Analyzer in the Personify application
· Setting your Data Analyzer Preferences
· Understand the Data Analyzer folder structure
· Find and organize Data Analyzer reports
· Add reports and dashboards to your Favorites
· Searching for Universe Objects in Data Analyzer
· Manage security with Data Analyzer