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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (26 chapters)
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.1 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

SUCCESS with graphomate charts


The charts in the graphomate add-on are based on the SUCCESS rules for data visualization and business communication, compiled by Rolf Hichert. A known pitfall when developing dashboards is that a dashboard can consist of colorful and shiny pie charts that are nice to look at but not always that effective to use. A dashboard should present data in such a way that the users can perform effective analysis, compare values, and quickly see what is good or bad. For more information on the SUCCESS principle by Hichert, check http://www.hichert.com/en/success.

The graphomate add-on charts include six charts: Bar & Column, Needle, Deviation, Line, Stacked, and Waterfall. Compared to the standard charts in SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, these charts tend to look a bit minimalistic and clean with no axes and little color, but they can help you to create really useful dashboards.

Getting ready

Go to the graphomate website and request a trial at http://www.graphomate...