Reviews for Business Objects: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)

1. It's Not A Training Manual

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, September 12st, 2008

   This book is good to give you the fundamental principles in Business Intelligence. But it's not a book on how to use BusinessObjects itself. Check out the books by Robert D Schmidt if that's what you really need to know.

2. BusinessObjects: The Complete Reference

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, May 12th, 2006

   For anyone starting out, working through a development or supporting Business Objects in version 6 this is the book for you. it is easy to understand, follow and find examples of what you need. If the follow up XI book is as good as this one then users of Xi are on to a winner.

3. Disappointing

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, March 12rd, 2004

   As with previous user found book to be sadly lacking in depth. Automation is an essential feature of Business Objects. If you're not automating elements of your reports then you are not using BO to its full potential. This book completely neglects automation and I found its lightning forays into the world of star schemas and data warehousing dangerous for anybody approaching this area for the first time.

   The level the book was pitched at varied between extremely high level and extremely low-level. There never seemed to be any happy ground inbetween. There was no mention of performance tuning as such and the Webi section was virtually non-existent.
   Verison 6 is not covered.

4. Business Objects Complete Refernce?

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, January 12th, 2004

   Once again dissapointed by Osbornes Complete Reference series. I dont know why I continue to buy this range. As with the VB6 complete reference, this is not actually a complete reference. A fact that is not outlined clearly is the VBA factor behind B/O. I wish to create and deploy Universes and automate a collection of reporting requirements - No mention here. Manual instruction in this book is OK, but, it does not even mention VBA, or any kind of automation. I do find these books annoying when they say "COMPLETE REFERENCE" because they are not. Still, for the new user trying to get a handle on general functionality then this book would suit as there are no others. However, if you are looking at large universe and report deployment with automated procedures and programming into any microsoft products then I would suggest you give this a miss.