SAP ERP

SAP BO COURSE OUTLINE

Data warehousing/Dimensional modeling Practical Concepts

• OLTP vs. OLAP
• Types of OLAP
• Dimensional modeling
• Data mart/Data warehouse Life cycle
• Star/Snow/Extended Star schema design

Database Concepts needed for Data warehousing

• Joins & Cardinality
• Views/Materialized Views
• Date/Time Functions
• Conversion functions
• Derived table & Stored Procedure

Architectural overview

• Client tier components
• Application tier components
• Intelligence tier
• Processing tier
• Data tier
• Security management
• Information flow

Administration

• Understand the Business Objects
• Enterprise interface & architecture
• Manage Business Objects Enterprise content
• Secure Business Objects Enterprise content
• Secure application security
• Schedule content
• Publish reports
• Identify Business Objects Enterprise architecture
• Perform common server management tasks
• Manage the Business Objects Enterprise servers

Universe Design (UDT)

• Understanding Business Objects Universes
• Creating the Course Universe
• Building the Universe Structure
• Creating Dimension Objects
• Creating Measure Objects
• Resolving Loops in a Universe
• Resolving SQL Traps
• Using List of Values
• Applying Restrictions on Objects
• Using @Functions with Objects
• Using Hierarchies
• Deriving Tables & Indexes
• Working with Aggregate Awareness
• Designing Advanced Objects
• Creating Predefined Condition
• LOVs & Joins
• Securing Universes
• Implementing Universe Life Cycle Mgmt
• Maintaining & Optimizing Universes
• Creating Universe from Other Data sources

Information Design Tool (IDT)

• Understanding Business Objects Universes
• Creating the Course Universe
• Building the Universe Structure
• Creating Dimension Objects
• Creating Measure Objects
• Resolving Loops in a Universe
  
• Resolving SQL Traps
• Using List of Values
• Applying Restrictions on Objects
• Using @Functions with Objects
• Using Hierarchies
• Deriving Tables & Indexes
• Working with Aggregate Awareness
• Designing Advanced Objects
• Creating Predefined Condition
• LOVs & Joins
• Securing Universes
• Implementing Universe Life Cycle Mgmt
• Maintaining & Optimizing Universes
• Creating Universe from Other Data sources
• Designing Universes on SAP HANA tables and views
• Designing Universes on SAP HANA for COPA scenario, Sales Scenario, Procurement Scenarios

Web intelligence

• Understand concepts of Web intelligence
• Create Web Intelligence documents with Queries
• Restrict data returned by a query
• Design a report
• Enhance the presentation of data in reports
• Format a report
• Calculate data with formulas and variables
• Use multiple data sources
• Analyze data
• Manage and share Web Intelligence documents
• Work with Advanced Query techniques
• Work with calculation contexts
• Create formulas with character & date string functions
• Use "If" logic
• Work with additional reporting techniques
• Create hyperlinks

Crystal Reports

• Planning a Report
• Selecting Records
• Formatting a Report
• Representing Data Visually
• Distributing Reports
• Creating Basic Formulas
• Organizing Data on a Report
• Applying Section Formatting
• Applying Conditional Reporting
• Using the Repository
• Using Report Templates
• Creating Formulas
• Building Parameterized Reports
• Summarizing Data with Cross-Tabs
• Using Report Sections
• Managing Reports
• Presenting Data Visually
• Add hyperlinks to a report

Dashboard Builder

• Understanding Dashboard Manager
• Setting Up Dashboard Manager
• Creating Metrics
• Automating Dashboards with Rules
• Creating Analytics
• Creating Personal Dashboards
• Creating Corporate Dashboards
• Guiding Dashboard Navigation
• Connectivity with SAP Net weaver BI
• Query as a Web Service

Widgets

• Installing BI Widgets
• Using BI Widgets to Access BI Content
• working with widgets
• BI Widgets Content Authoring Guidelines
• Auto refresh of Widgets

Query as Web service

• Configuring the QWS with BO System
• Creating Web service report from Universes
• Creating WSDL reports
• Using WSDL reports in external application

Import Wizard\Publishing Wizard

• Using Import wizard
• Creation of BIAR
• Migrating the BO objects
• From one CMS TO ANOTHER CMS
• Migrating the objects from one
• domain to another (dev/stage/Prod)
• Backup & Maintenance Deployment

Live Office Reporting

• Describe the benefits of using Live Office
• Connect to the repository
• Navigate the Live Office menu
• Insert charts, crosstabs, and fields from a Crystal report
• Insert report parts from a Web Intelligence document
• Insert a new query based on a Universe
• Insert Live Office objects into an email
• Navigate and refresh Live Office objects
• Enable consolidated prompts
• Set refresh settings for objects
• Set parameter binding
• Take a snapshot
• Save Live Office documents to the repository
• Open and view Live Office documents from the repository