Revanth Technologies

B1, 3rd

Floor, Eureka Court, Near Image Hospital, Ameerpet, Hyderabad.

Ph : 9290971883, 9247461324, Email ID : revanthads@gmail.com

www.revanthtechnologies.com

SAP Business Objects Online Training

Course Duration – 25 hrs

Data Warehouse Fundamentals

• Introduction to Data Warehousing

• Purpose of Data Warehouse

• Data Warehouse Architecture

• Operational Data Store

• OLTP Vs Warehouse Applications

• Data Marts Data marts Vs Data Warehouses

• Data Warehouse Life cycle

Introduction to Business Intelligence and BO Architecture

• What is Business Intelligence?

• Benefits of Business Intelligence

• BO Architecture

• Designer tool – Universe Designer

• Reporting tools – Desktop Intelligence, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports

• Administration tools- CMC, CMS

• Different servers with its usage/Impact

• Detailed Caching Mechanism.

• Clustering Concepts.

Universe Designer

• What is Semantic Layer/Business Layer? – 1 or more separate universes

• What is a Universe?

• Understand the role of a Designer – To prepare , analyse and plan or design the universe

• Know more about the way Business Objects generates SQL

• Universe parameters –

• Universe Connections - Types of Connection

• Creating Connections

• Creating a Universe

• Universe Schema

• Adding tables

• Defining Joins

• Cardinality

• Detecting Cardinality

• Creating Classes

• What are Universe Objects?

• Creating Objects

• Dimensions

• Details

• Measures

• Organize the universe into classes and sub-classes

• Conditions

• Loops

• Define what a loop is

• Detect and recognize loops within a universe structure

• Resolve loops in a universe

• Resolve loops using aliases – when and how to do it

• Recognize candidates for aliases from the “table tree” concept

• Resolve loops using contexts – when and how to do it

• Context? In which context they are used? Advantages and Disadvantages of the same?

• Understand when and why contexts need to be updated

• Exercise 1. Create a very simple universe

• Exercise 2. Create a domain specific universe

Universe designer advanced concepts

• Recognize situations in which manual resolution of loops is obligatory

• Traps

• List of values

• Associate or remove a list of values for an object

• Control how lists of values are refreshed

• Export a list with the universe

• Modify a list of values using a condition

• Base a list of values on a personal data file

• Cascading LOV.

• Creating Prompts in Universe

• Hierarchies

• Integrity Check

• Usage of @Functions in Designer, main focus on @ aggregate_aware. What, how and

when it is used?

• Row level security at Designer level with examples?

• Linking universes? Advantages and disadvantages. Different approaches.

• Exporting/Importing Universes

• Maintaining, managing Universes

• Testing universe with reporting tool

• Exercises

Business Objects Analytical Reporting- Desktop Intelligence

• Introduction to Business Objects Analytical Reporting

• Data Providers

• Types of Data Providers

• Inserting a Table, Chart, Cross Tab reports

• Creating different Chart reports

• Changing Chart style

• Personal Data File as Data Provider Free hand SQL as Data Provider

• Exporting documents to PDF, HTML etc.

• Grouping of Data

• Filtering Data

• Alerter

• Calculating and displaying Rank

• Variables and functions

• Creating Drill Down Reports

• Publishing, Sending a Document to User(s)/Group(s)

• Linking Data Providers

• Creating and using Prompts

• Exercises

Business Objects Analytical Reporting- Web Intelligence

• Web Intelligence Rich client

• About Infoview application

• Getting started with Infoview

• Creating and viewing WebIntelligence Documents on Web (Infoview)

• Creating and viewing Full Client/Business Objects Documents on Web (Infoview)

• Restricting data returned by a query

• Create formulas and variables

• Analyzing Data at a deeper level

• Publishing Reports/Documents

• Corporate documents, Personal documents, Inbox documents

• Sending documents to user(s)/group(s)

• Scheduling documents

• Hyperlink

• Exercises

Business Objects Security – CMC

• Business Objects Repository, Creation and Maintenance

• Business Objects Repository Domains – (Security, Universe and Document domains)

• Creating groups

• Creating users

• Setting properties of users

• Setting Privileges to users & groups

• Exercises

Other topics

• Migration

• Performance tuning

• Very brief overview of Crystal reports 1 class

• Very brief overview of Dashboard and Xcelsius 1 class