Summary

We started the chapter with a general introduction to SAP BO BI platform 4.x and SAP BO Dashboards (formerly known as Xcelsius). Then, we walked through the process of downloading, installing, and configuring the tool, and finally, we worked on capabilities and features by accessing Dashboards samples and templates. We concluded the chapter with a discussion on toolbars, menus, and quick views.

In the next chapter, we will create a business use case to be used throughout the book as a project. Our focus will be to learn the process and best practice. After that we will go through the dashboard creation phases, and we will learn how to create dashboard prototypes in analysis phase. After that, we will prepare our environment to start building the eFashion dashboard (the project of the book).