Tutorial: Analyzing historical business performance

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:

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.


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