SAP Business Objects Online Training

SAP Business Objects Course Content :

Tools Covered:

Query As A Web Services
Universe Designer
Live Office
Xcelsius 2008 SP3
Web Rich Client (Web Intelligence)
SAP BusinessObjects – Voyager
SAP BusinessObjects – Widgets
SAP BusinessObjects – Dashboard Builder

1. Query as Web service (QaaWS) : – Allows you to quickly create queries and publish them as Web services and allows secure delivery of BI information to any application that can consume Web services

* Usage of Query as web service
* How to configure and use
* Viewing the Universe and Webi reports using web service
* Viewing the Crystal XCelsius reports using web service

2. Universe Designer :- Acts as a graphical design tool used to create the rich semantic layer (metadata) that makes SAP BusinessObjects products intuitive for non-technical users

This BusinessObjects XI 3.0: Universe Design training session will enable you to learn how to translate end-user reporting requirements into an optimal universe design to ensure your business needs are met. This training session provides all the skills you need to efficiently create and maintain universes for Web Intelligence, allowing users to easily build, access and run reports. You will also learn how to create, distribute, maintain and optimize universes for Web Intelligence deployments.

* Understanding how universes allow users to query databases using their everyday business terms
* Creating an ODBC connection to the course database
* Creating a universe
* Populating the universe structure
* Defining joins in a universe

3. SAP BusinessObjects Live Office : The SAP BusinessObjects Live Office application integrates with Microsoft Office, embedding up-to-the-minute corporate data in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents. This releases companies from your dependency on IT and provides self-service access to your trusted business intelligence (BI) within your familiar business tools.

* Introduction
* How Data can be extracted using Live office
* Extracting data in Xcelcius using Live Office

4. SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise is a point-and-click data visualization tool designed specifically to create interactive analytics and dashboards with secure, live connections to SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise & SAP BusinessObjectsEdge BI.

You can share these meaningful visualizations live via Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, the Web, Crystal Reports, or the SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) portal.

* Introducing Crystal Xcelcius with SAP implementation options.
* Create a Crystal Xcelsius Dashboard from SAP data stored in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
* sourced through Crystal Reports or Web Intelligence
* Create a Crystal Xcelsius Dashboard from SAP data stored in a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
* Created through the use of live Office
* Create a Crystal Xcelsius Dashboard from SAP data stored in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
* Created through the use of query as a Web Service (QaaWS)
* Crystal Xcelsius Dashboards Using Analytics as part of Dashboard Manager
* Create an Analytic Dashboard from SAP data through a Universe

5. Web Rich Client (Web Intelligence) : A Web-based query, reporting, and analysis tool designed to empower the maximum number of users via an easy-to-use interface running on top of a highly scalable, trusted, BI platform. With Web Intelligence, you
can do better decisions in less time, by turning information into actionable insight at the speed of thought.

* Introduction to desktop intelligence
* Report Creation
* Publishing the report
* Understanding how universes allow you to query database using everyday business terms
* Understanding Web Intelligence core functionalities
* Creating a document in the Web Intelligence Rich Client
* Viewing a Web Intelligence document in Info View
* Building a simple query
* Modifying a document query
* Working with query properties
* Restricting data with query filters
* Modifying a query with a predefined query filter
* Applying a single-value query filter
* Using prompts to restrict data
* Using complex filters
* Working in the Report Panel
* Displaying data in tables and charts
* Using breaks and cross tabs
* Formatting break, calculations, and report filters
* Formatting breaks and cross tabs
* Using default and custom sorts
* Ranking data to see top or bottom values
* Using alerter to highlight information
* Organizing a report into sections
* Copying data to other applications
* Preparing document for PDF and print
* Document formatting
* Exporting documents from the Rich Client
* Accessing Info View

6. SAP BusinessObjects Voyager : With SAP BusinessObjects Voyager, business analysts can explore online analytical processing (OLAP) data using a tool designed specifically for them – one that delivers a full range of functions for the analysis of multidimensional data sets. Analysts can quickly answer business questions and then share their analysis and workspace with others, spreading knowledge beyond the confines of a single department or group.

* Getting started with Business Objects Voyager
* Using Queries to Analyze Cube Data
* Highlighting Exceptions in Data
* Using Voyager with SAP
* Logging on to SAP
* Member Selector with SAP data
* Using Variables
* Mandatory and optional variables
* Variable types
* More about variables
* Free Characteristics
* Key figures and formatted values
* Formatting with no key figures
* Display Attributes
* Compounded characteristics
* Mutually exclusive Hierarchies
* Unbalanced and Ragged Hierarchies
* SAP display attributes

7. SAPBI- BO widgets – Delivers at-a-glance business intelligence to a desktop in the form of widgets; Using the software’s simple drag-and-drop interface, you can organize, customize, and access BI content that matters to you – right from your desktop.

* Installing BI Widgets
* Using BI Widgets to Access BI content 19
* Login to BI Widgets
* Locating content BI content on one or more XI R3 servers
* Using BI Widgets explorer to view content
* Using BI Widgets with Xcelsius documents
* Importing an Xcelsuis document as a widget
* Selecting and opening a Web Intelligence Report
* Viewing a Web Intelligence Document
* Creating a Report Part Widget from a Report

8. SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder software provides visibility across your organization to drive better decision making. The drag-and-drop framework allows you to display your SAP BusinessObjects reports and Xcelsius models in a unified dashboard view.

With SAP BusinessObjects Dashboard Builder, you can:

* Getting started with Dashboard Builder
* Creating Corporate Dashboards using Dashboard Builder
* Creating Personal Dashboards using Dashboard Builder
* Analyzing Dashboard Content
* Setting Dashboard preferences in Info View
* Customizing Dashboards

9. Project

* Complete End to end development of Report Using SAP BO with the help of Xcelcius 2008 SP3.