Analyzing the historical values of business performance helps you
to understand how your business has been performing over a certain time period.
You can then highlight performance patterns. Such an analysis can help you
to predict future performance, prepare for the future, and make changes to
enhance performance.
In this tutorial, you will analyze the historical data of your business,
learn how to configure the Dimensions view, and how to tune and deepen your
analysis to arrive at answers for your performance questions. After completing
this tutorial, you will be able to:
- Configure the Dimensions view
- Set your preferences for the view
- Analyze one dimension against one measure
- Analyze one dimension against two measures
- Analyze two dimensions against one measure
For this tutorial, ensure that you have an Administrator user ID and
password to WebSphere® Portal,
to configure the Dimensions view. The tutorial should take you no longer than
45 minutes to complete. You must complete the exercises in order, starting
with Configuring the Dimensions view. As you work on the exercises, you can
experiment by adding different views to the dashboard. The goal is to familiarize
yourself with the Dimensions view and to become comfortable with
analyzing the historical data of your business performance.