SAP Business Intelligence Business Objects

SAP BI-BO Training Agenda PPT: Anticipated Time: 90 minutes SAP BIBO Learning Series Presenter

Mr. Mishra

Unit 1 SAP BI Overview 3 hours

SAP Net Weaver and BI: Overview, Positioning and Fundamentals

Fundamentals of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.

SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence (BI) Overview SAP NetWeaver Solution Delivery: IT Practices, Scenarios, and Usage Types SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence: Data Warehousing Overview

Unit 2 - Modelling 4 Hours

Objects in the BI Data Warehouse Layer Data Warehousing Workbench. InfoProviders: Business Purpose

InfoObjects: Characteristics (Attribute,Text,Hier)

InfoObjects: Key Figures The BI InfoCube: An Extended Star Schema Creating InfoCubes (Fact, Dimension, SID Tables) Exercise

Unit 3 - Data Acquisition 4 Hours

Data Acquisition and Transformation from SAP Source Systems Data Flow: Overview - Data Source, Info Source.. Loading Master Data from an SAP Source System

Loading Transaction Data from an SAP Source System

ETL Processes and Loading Hierarchies

Exercise

Unit 4 - Data Acquisition from Other Systems 2 Hours

Extraction from Non-SAP Systems: Overview Flat File Loading Exercise

1. Creation of Data Source

2.Loading through Info Package to PSA 3. Loading through DTP to Info Cube

Unit 5 BI Content 2Hours

BI Content Discovery (Metadata Repository) BI Content Activation Meta Data Repository

Transport Concepts

Unit 6: Other InfoProviders 3 Hours

DataStore Objects Types: Standard, Write Optimised, Dire Update VirtualProviders and Real-Time Data Acquisition MultiProviders and BI InfoSets

Unit 7: SAP BI Front End Solutions : BEX

BEx

Query Designer
Central tool for creation of queries Design queries once reuse many times (in Web templates, Bex Analyzer Workbook, Report Designer) Publish queries directly to the Web Two different versions exist: BW 3.5 and BI 7.0 BEx Query Designer

Defining

BEx

Analyzer
Full-featured OLAP analysis in MS Excel Operational, tabular reporting Workbooks can integrate several queries Ad hoc reporting based on InfoProvider (as of BI 7.X) Leverage native Excel features (i.e. office integration) Two different versions exist: BW 3.5 and BI 7.0 BEx Analyzer

Excel Reporting

BEx

Web Applications
Execute Web Templates (created with BEx Web Application Designer), Web Ad-hoc Analysis, Reports created with Report Designer, Formatted Reporting (Crystal Reports) Designed for building targeted web applications One step publishing BEx (Web Application Designer, Report Designer Two different versions exist: BW 3.5 (ABAP based Web Reporting) and BI 7.0 (Java based Web Reporting) BEx Web Application Designer

Web Reporting

Unit 7 - Query Designer

Designing a Simple Query with Free Characteristics and Prompts(Variable) Calculated Key Figure, Restricted Key Figure Query Properties on Formatting and Publishing to Business Object Tools

Variables (Text, Hierarchy Node)

Processing Types (Manual Input, SAP Exit, Customer Exit, Replacement Path) Exceptions, Conditions Information Broadcasting Web Application Designer Integration with Enterprise Portal

Definition of a query
Queries are created: Using the BW 3.5 or the BI 7.0 BEx Query Designer Are the basis for WEB Templates, BEx Analyzer Workbooks, Formatted Reporting (Report Designer) Queries can be created for different InfoProviders: InfoCubes Operational Data Store objects / Data Store Objects InfoSets InfoObjects Virtual Providers Aggregation Layers MultiProviders

InfoObjects of the InfoProvider: Key Figures and Dimensions (Characteristics)

The concept of a MultiProvider is explained on the next slide

Unit 7: Administration of Data Targets 2 Hours

System Administration Tasks in BI: Overview Administration of InfoCubes Roll Up, Compression, Chang Run

Administration of DataStore Objects

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Unit 8 - Process Chains 2 Hours

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Unit 9: Introduction to Query Performance Optimization 2 Hours

Introduction to Query Performance Optimization in BI BI Aggregates BI Accelerator

Statistics Overview

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Unit 10: Business Objects Overview 2 Hours

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform

Universe Designer SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (Xcelsius)

SAP Crystal Reports Live Office and Query As Web Service

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New Names with Product Descriptions

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform provides flexible systems management for an enterprise BI standard that allows administrators to confidently deploy and standardize their BI implementations on a proven, scalable, and adaptive service-oriented architecture. SAP Crystal Reports software is a powerful reporting tool that helps developers and IT professionals rapidly create flexible, feature-rich reports and tightly integrate them into Web and Windows applications. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards software provides secure, interactive visualizations with live, refreshable data from SAP BusinessObjects sources, Excel spreadsheets, or corporate databases. These dashboards and visual models enable effective decision making while providing a live view into your business. SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software allows users self-service access to data, reporting and analysis. Web Intelligence is an ad hoc query, reporting, and analysis tool designed to empower users with its intuitive interface allowing users to turn information into actionable insight and make better decisions in less time. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer software offers users an intuitive path to quickly search and explore data for instant insight into your business. They can get quick, easy answers to on-the-fly questions without training or IT involvement by simply entering a few keywords to search for relevant information and then intuitively exploring large volumes of data

New Names with Product Descriptions (Cont)

SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for OLAP, is a Web-based client for business analysts to run multidimensional analysis of OLAP sources, and create workspaces for private or shared use. The OLAP edition replaces SAP BusinessObjects Voyager (Voyager). SAP recommends it for premium webbased analysis, since the SAP Business Explorer tool (SAP BEx Web analyzer) delivered with SAP NetWeaver Runtime is no longer a strategic direction for SAP. The long-term product direction for the OLAP edition is to converge with the SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software and evolve into a unified analysis tool regardless of data type. SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, is a set of add-ins for Microsoft Office (MS Office). It enables multidimensional analyses of OLAP sources in Excel, Excel workbook-based BI application design, and the creation of interactive PowerPoint presentations from OLAP sources. SAP recommends the edition for Microsoft Office for premium MS Office-based analysis, since the SAP BEx tool (SAP BEx analyzer) delivered with SAP NetWeaver Runtime is no longer a strategic direction for SAP. The long-term product direction for the edition for Microsoft Office is to converge with the SAP BusinessObjects Live Office software and evolve into a suite of BI solution for the complete MS Office suite.

Unit 11: Universe Designer

2 Hours

Overview of a universe What is the purpose of a universe? What is a universe? What is in a universe? BW / Universe terminology mapping Where can a universe be used? Universe Development Cycle Exploring Universe Designer Main components of the interface Searching within the universe Steps for creating a universe Process of Importing/Exporting a Universe OLAP Universes Business Warehouse (BW) data sources Infocube / BW Query Comparisons BW Query / Universe Considerations What is supported in an OLAP universe? What is not supported in an OLAP universe?

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Unit 12: Web Intelligence 2 Hours

Key message about of WEBI What is BusinessObjects Enterprise? Connecting WebI to BW: Architecture Layers BO Enterprise Server Overview BW-BO Connectivity Required Objects for WEBI report

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Required Objects for WEBI report

DBMS
BW OLAP BEX Query

Universe
CH1Customer

WEBI

Star Schema
Product Dimension

Basic InfoCube

With Data

CH2Product CH3P. group

Master Data

KF1Net sales KF2Revenue

Key figures
ODS Object Time Dimension Customer Dimension

MultiProvider

No Data

Virtual InfoCube

InfoSet

Unit 13: Xcelsius Aka Dashboards 3 Hours

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

About SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius SAP BW Integration with Xcelsius - Architecture SAP BW Integration with Xcelsius - Functionalities SAP BW Integration with Xcelsius - Limitations SAP BW Integration with Xcelsius Demo Live Office and Query As Web Service (QAWS) Q&A

Xcelsius Designer (local installation)

Architechture Designtime - Runtime

Design

Xcelsius Designer (local installation) .xlf files contain excel spreadsheet and xml for layout and connectivity

Compile

Run
Flash file

Unit 14: Crystal Reports 2 Hours

Overview of Crystal Reports

What is Crystal Reports? What is the SAP Integration Kit? How does Crystal Reports connect to BW Data? Which driver should I use? Crystal Reports / BW Mappings SAP Toolbar Overview Report publishing process

Demo - Exploring Crystal Reports; Creating Crystal Report from BW Query

Xcelsius, dashboarding tool Accessing BW data from Xcelsius

Without BICS (BI Consumer Services) No BEx direct connection to Xcelsius Requires: a Crystal, Webi Report or Universe accessed via a LiveOffice document or a Universe accessed via a Query as a Web Service (QaaWS) With BICS CRYSTAL REPORTS Live access to BW data No BusinessObjects Enterprises required No Crystal or Webi Report required No Universe required No LiveOffice document required Xcelsius Dashboard

UNIVERSE

WEB INTELLIGENCE

No QaaWS required Consumes BEx queries and views directly

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BICS API OLAP ODS BAPI

BW

What is Crystal Reports?

Crystal Reports 2008 is a reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications.
Requires a user to be familiar with application interface opposed to Web Intelligence File with a (.RPT) extension

Some features included:

Xcelsius Integration Parameter Panel Powerful Crosstabs Flexible Pagination Built-In Barcode Support Reduced install footprint Multilingual reporting Control Sorting SDK (Java, .NET)