OBIEE Report and Dashboard development best practice

Hi All,
Is there any best practice available on OBIEE report and dashboard development? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
RK

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=2718365
this might help you
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I am trying to put together a list of best practice on how to create reports and dashboards using OBIEE presentation service. I know a lot of those dos and donts are just corporate words that don't apply consistantly in real world environment, but still I'd like to know if Oracle has any officially defined best practice or not.
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Read this book to understand what a Dashboard is, what it should do and look like to be used by the end users. Very enlightentning.
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few (There are a couple of other books by Stephen and although I haven't read them yet, I anticipate them to be equally helpful.
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http://www.amazon.com/Performance-Dashboards-Measuring-Monitoring-Managing/dp/0471724173
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