OVERVIEW DSCallards SAP Crystal Dashboard Design (formerly Xcelsius) courses are designed to meet the needs of all users from designer to decision maker. The delegate will learn all facets of effective dashboard creation from its architecture and basic components, to complex multi-dimensional dashboards. In addition, the course contains a short Microsoft Excel module which helps you to prepare your data to maximise the usage of the features and functionality available within SAP Crystal Dashboard Design.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is ideal for anyone who wants to create interactive and visually engaging data presentations from Board level right across the internal organisation as well as externally to clients.

To be able to understand the content and complete the activities successfully, delegates must already understand Windows conventions and an advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel would be helpful.

TOPICS COVERED

1. Getting to know SAP Crystal Dashboard Design and the basic architecture.
2. Adding components and changing their behaviour.
3. Making components work together and building professional presentations.
4. Excel tips and tricks.

CORE TOPICS

• Understanding SAP Crystal Dashboard Design: The architecture, Microsoft Excel, setup options.

• Basic Dashboard Design: Creating a dashboard, editing the canvas, adding components, using preview mode.

• Single Values: Adding single value components, dynamic naming, assigning a value, changing component behaviour..

• Using Charts: Understanding chart types, choosing a data range, using data series, drill-down charts.

• Selectors: Understanding selector types, navigating a dashboard.

• Alerts: Creating alerts, setting targets, traffic lighting, interactive alerts.

• Interacting Components: Understanding how components interact, using multiple components, using drill-down.

• Dynamic Visibility, Layering and Grouping: Understanding dynamic visibility, creating dashboard layers, hiding and viewing components in design mode, applying dynamic visibility.

• Advanced Dashboard Formatting: Using backgrounds, adding logos, dynamic text objects.

• Exporting Dashboards: Understanding SWF (Flash) files, exporting to PDF documents, exporting to Microsoft Office, using Business Objects Enterprise.

• Live Data Connectivity: Live data architecture, brief overview of creating live dashboards.

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