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IT-988 | Business Objects (Design) - Basic

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Course Introduction

This training course is designed to provide participants with the essential concepts and knowledge on creating SAP BusinessObjects universes using the SAP BusinessObjects Information Design Tool. 

 

Course objective

  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of the skills needed to work with the Information Design Tool.
  • Extract, define, and manipulate metadata from relational and OLAP sources to create and deploy SAP BusinessObjects universes.
  • Resolve loops using aliases and contexts.
  • Managing a Universe using the Data Foundation View and Business Layer View.
  • Use data from different source systems (SAP and non-SAP) with the SAP BusinessObjects BI client tools.

Course Outline | Day 01

BASIC SAP BUSINESSOBJECTS UNIVERSE DESIGN

 

  • Describing Universes
  • Defining the Components of a Universe

DATA CONNECTIONS

 

 

  • Defining connections

 

 DATA FOUNDATIONS

 

 

  • Creating Data Foundations
  • Using Joins

 

 BUSINESS LAYERS

 

 

  • Accessing Data through the Business Layer
  • Integrating the Business Layer Components
  • Validating Objects
  • Creating Measure Objects
  • Creating Shortcut Joins

Course Outline | Day 02

LOOPS IN A DATA FOUNDATION

 

  • Resolving Loops with Joined Tables
  • Resolving Loops Using Aliases
  • Resolving Loops Using Contexts
  • Detecting Contexts
  • Editing Contexts
  • Testing Contexts
  • Resolving Recursive Loops

 

 

DATA RESTRICTIONS

 

  • Defining Data Restrictions
  • Applying Mandatory Data Restrictions
  • Applying Optional Data Restrictions

 

 

LISTS OF VALUES (LOV)

 

  • Providing a List of Values

 

 

PARAMETERS

 

  • Illustrating Runtime Parameters

 

 

OBJECT @FUNCTIONS

 

  • Using Object @functions in Queries
  • Applying the Aggregate Awareness Optimization Method
  • Using Other @ Functions

Course Outline | Day 03

NAVIGATION PATHS

 

  • Defining Drill Down Navigation Paths

 

 

DERIVED TABLES

 

  • Creating Derived Tables

 

 

KEY AWARENESS

 

  • Defining Numeric Keys

 

 

UNIVERSE MANAGEMENT WITH DATA FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS LAYER VIEWS

 

  • Managing a Universe using the Data Foundation View
  • Managing a Universe using the Business Layer View

 

 

UNIVERSE OPTIMIZATION

 

 

  • Optimizing Universes Using Parameters

Course Outline | Day 04

UNIVERSE DEPLOYMENT AND SECURITY

 

  • Deploying a Universe
  • Securing a Published Universe
  • Creating Data Security Profiles
  • Creating Business Security Profiles
  • Assigning Security Profiles to Users
  • Identifying the Priority of Security Settings
  • Updating a Published Universe

 

 

SQL CLAUSE PROCESSING PROBLEMS

 

  • Determining How the Order of SQL Clauses Affects Data Returned
  • Detecting Ambiguity Caused by SQL Requests Run Against Joined Tables
  • Resolving Ambiguity Caused by SQL Requests Run Against Joined Tables
  • Identifying Fan Traps
  • Resolving Ambiguity Caused by SQL Requests Run Against Joined Tables

 

 

OUTER JOIN PROBLEM RESOLUTION

 

 

  • Resolving an Ambiguous Outer Join Using @AggregateAware

Course Outline | Day 05

UNIVERSE CREATION FROM DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES

 

  • Identifying the Different Data Sources
  • Creating an OLAP Universe
  • Creating a Multi-source Universe

 

 

SHARED PROJECTS

 

  • Using Shared Projects
  • Manipulating Other Designers' Resources

 

 

UNIVERSE CONVERSION

 

  • Converting Existing .unv Universes

 

 

TRANSLATION

 

  • Deploying Universes in Different Languages
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