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Presenter: Mico Yuk, BI Dashboard Formula

Intended Audience:

This non-technical, three hour hands-on workshop will provide attendees with the foundation needed to make their analytics more impactful! Whether you are a beginner or a dashboard veteran, this fun filled workshop will take you through the fundamentals of dashboard design and then all the way into real world applications.

Prerequisites:

Attendees should have been exposed to, hosted, or participated in at least one full BI project before attending course. Newbies are welcome, but are warned to keep their seat belts on.

Synopsis:

Taught by Mico Yuk, Author of Data Visualization for Dummies and Founder of the BIDashboardFormula.com, the course has been described as ‘eye opening!’ You should expect to leave with a razor sharp vision for proper BI dashboard design and a clear understanding of how to create or modify data visualizations to make them more ‘intelligent.’ By working in teams with your peers in hands-on exercises, you will then be asked to identify those principles in various dashboards.

Module Synopses and Major Topics include:

• Fundamentals of Dashboard Design – Review of basic and advanced design principles
• Data Viz Do’s and Don’ts – A clear look at the do’s and don’ts of dashboard design
• Real World Applications – How to apply the principles of design to real world dashboards
• Add Intelligence to your Dashboards – Tips and tricks to make your data visualizations more intelligence and impactful
• Team Exercise: Do you see it? – Each team will be assigned a set of dashboards and asked to identify areas where improvements can be made to make it more intelligent and impactful.
• Team Exercise: Can you apply it? – Each team is asked to then take their recommendations and apply it to one of the dashboards presented.
• Open Q&A

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Presenter: Jeremy Champe, InfoSol Inc.

Intended Audience:

This hands-on workshop is intended for individuals who are new to InfoBurst and would like to learn the basics of the tool.  We will cover some of the easy to intermediate workflows used in BI report bursting, publishing, and delivery.

Prerequisites:

None.  However, being familiar with BI reporting software (SAP Business Objects, in particular) and basic SQL is helpful.

Synopsis:

This course is intended to provide attendees with hands-on, guided learning focused on report bursting, publishing and delivery.  We will demonstrate various workflows in the tool then encourage attendees to go into InfoBurst and do them as well.

Module Synopses and Major Topics Include:

• Introduction to InfoBurst
• Cataloging Documents
• Basic Publishing and Delivery – available formats and destinations
• Multi-Pass Bursting
• Single Pass Bursting
• Intelligent Email Delivery
• Parameter Aliases and Delivery Templates
• Using the InfoBurst Scheduler

 

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Any successful BI solution/story stands on the strong foundation of reliable data. The backbone of BI visualization and reporting is sourcing the right data, transforming it appropriately and load into the reporting environment as needed by the tools for optimization and efficiency. This makes doing the ETL (Extraction, Transform, Load) part of the whole process right extremely key to success of BI project.

Presenters: Simon Boxall and Doug Evans, InfoSol Inc.

Intended Audience:

This boot camp is intended for ETL designers who wish to learn the SAP BusinessObjects Data Services toolset

Prerequisites:

Attendees should have basic concepts of ETL and good understanding of database design and SQL.

Synopsis:

This immersion hands-on workshop will provide a guided approach to understanding and building ETL projects using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services.

While the concepts and process of ETL will be the focal point of the course, this Iron Chef boot camp will also include Data Quality and Text Analysis transforms, data profiling and the newest feature from SAP Data Services – Information Steward to equip you with the latest and greatest tools available with the product. This will cover all the core functionalities of traditional Data Integrator and Data Services including using all types of objects, transforms, functions and more.

Module Synopses and Major Topics include:

1.   Introduction, concept of data warehouse, role of ETL

2.   Core Functionality – Architecture, Objects, hierarchy

3.   Building Projects, ETL jobs, Datastore, Workflow, Dataflow

4.   Using Functions, Scripts, Variables

5.   Concepts of Change Data Capture and implementing with Data Services transform

6.   Error handling, Auditing, Debugging, Recovery

7.   Administrator Role

8.   Data Quality

9.   Data Profiling

10. Text Data Processing – Process unstructured survey data using Unstructured File Format and Entity Extraction transform.

11. Information Steward – Scorecards, Metadata Management

 

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